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One of the reasons AOC is so effective as a communicator is because she presents being in Congress as a calling, not a job.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

“western civilization is saved” i say, while i smash its high cultural artifacts, abandon its ideological mandate, and dismantle its institutional entrenchments

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Possibly the Murdochs are beginning to be spooked by the Tiger they created and have been riding.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I’m genuinely enjoying everybody’s historical analogues. Third Reich? Vichy? SDF? Let’s hear it. Nobody loves the rhyme of crisis more than me. But I’m still not convinced the model isn’t just America’s good ole Jacksonian era apartheid-based spoils system.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 4 days ago • 764 comments

There’s always a tweet.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Remember, if you see anyone *else* reporting from the Oval Office or Air Force One, that person is a spineless scab.

submitted 8 days ago • 60 comments

The fate of freedom and democracy in Europe will now rest entirely in the hands of Europeans. So far they have not been up to the challenge of defending it. The question is whether they will be now--or whether European freedoms will go gently into that good night.

submitted 9 days ago • 88 comments

Hofnarren ist ein ziemlich treffender Begriff für Redaktionen, die lieber endlos über Abschiebemackertum und durchsichtige Wahlkampfstunts berichten als über das, was gerade um uns herum zusammenbricht (NATO, Ukraine, Klima, Privatsphäre, demokratische Institutionen, soziale Sicherheitssysteme &c.)

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Those pesky Ukrainians were wrong to go into that war by being invaded by Russia, what’s not to understand here?

submitted 9 days ago • 82 comments

This is Moscow and Beijing’s Christmas list. And it’s only February.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I hope center left parties around the white world are ready to run hard on a message that ‘a vote for the far right is a vote for Elon Musk to run your country from behind the curtain’. I think that would reduce far right attractiveness quite a bit

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 17 days ago • 807 comments