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jeetheer.bsky.social
Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
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Where things stand now. Trump's approval numbers are underwater because his policies are unpopular (and Musk in particularly is wildly unpopular). But because Dem leaders are do-nothing, their popularity is sinking even faster. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

I've often insisted that we need to keep our eyes on Trump's actions more than his words (because so many of the words are bluster & lies). Now we have a genuinely dangerous action: a purge at the Pentagon, notably a purge of the top figures who can decide if Trump's commands are unconstitutional.

submitted 22 hours ago • 21 comments

Trump is quickly losing popularity, his programs even moreso but the most unpopular thing in American politics right now is the do-nothing Democratic party leadership. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

"To marry a Jew was just dumb," -- William F. Buckley Jr., explaining why he and his family broke up the relationship of his sister Jane with a man she was passionately in love with, Tom Guinzburg (Buckley's roommate at Yale).

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Trump is running NATO like a mafia protection racket -- so the question is, why don't Europeans take control of their own security? www.thenation.com/article/worl...

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

"liberalism in England...had become inseparable from imperialism as a political force uniting overt warmongers & ostensible pacifists in what proved a common suicide, as they plunged into the slaughter that would destroy the party whose hold on power they thought they were saving in 1914" P Anderson

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

RFK Jr., Kennedy Center, Kennedy assassination files. T•••• trying to grab Camelot like faking up a coat of arms

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Trump is trying to take over the Kennedy brand. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

If Democrats are going to fight Trump/Musk plutocracy, they have to also take on their own billionaire donors. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Far and away the smartest review f A Complete Unknown, but also, a brilliant telling of Dylan's evolution from a young aspiring folk singer & cultural sponge, the avant garde education he received from Suze Rotolo, his repurposing of Brechtian bitterness towards break-ups songs,

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I liked the Timothee Chalamet movie where he plays the hoped for messiah who wields the strange power of The Voice & ends up betraying his ardent supporters & the women in life. (A Complete Unknown, 2024).

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

With growing alarm at the realization that Musk and his DOGE team now have the Social Security numbers, addresses, emails, incomes and details of every American, we speak with @jeetheer.bsky.social about his article at @thenation.com, “Who Will Stop Elon Musk’s Coup?” soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

1. Trump's goal of taking over Gaza (after Palestinians have been ethnically cleansed) is evil and deranged. It's also not going to happen, along with many other similarly crackpot, criminal goals: annexing Canada, Greenland, Panama Canal etc. These absurd goals are evidence of imperial decline

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Critical reading even/especially for those of us feeling benumbed by all this

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

A huge indictment of how pathetic the Democratic response has been: even Doug Ford, a pea-brained rightwing lummox hoser who had to be shown how to use a laptop three years into his first term as Premier of Ontario, is doing a better job standing up to Trump (who is his hero!)

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

Genuinely good move on congressional Dems -- highlights that this is a coup, an attack on congressional power of the purse.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

The biggest threat right now is Musk taking over Treasury data & IT with an aim to usurp congressional power of the purse. This is a real constitutional crisis, a coup happening before our eyes. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

1. Wall Street only slightly down: rightly assessing Trump's trade wars as bluster. Trump wants headlines showing he's fighting foreign foes and its been easy for target nations to diffuse situation with a few symbolic (even non-existent) concessions: Colombia, Panama, Mexico. x.com/GillianMorle...

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Plenty of good reasons to reject Tulsi Gabbard -- too bad Senate hearing is focused on bad reasons. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments