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new column: wrote about the irony of the fact that the same administration that is asserting a radical expansion of executive power is also the one that has given the united states its first co-president.

submitted 20 hours ago • 72 comments

Assuming the end of US global hegemony will result in more stability and less death is a failure of imagination and history. World Wars happened. China and Russia's model can be seen now. It shouldn't be hard to grasp that the world isn't great v. awful, it's relatively better v. relatively worse.

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

Hackman wasn't even nominated for an Oscar for The Conversation. Unbelievable. One of the greatest screen performances of all time.

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

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Qanon basically came true. a cabal of pedophile sex traffickers has seized control of the state news.sky.com/story/andrew...

submitted 21 hours ago • 160 comments

For @deciderdotcom.bsky.social , some thoughts on, who else, the great Gene Hackman: decider.com/2025/02/27/g...

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

In reality the fascism is not funny but this is an Arrested Development bit

submitted 1 day ago • 194 comments

Chairman Musk rent-sought his fortune out of the American government, then used it to buy the American government.

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This man is barely even a formal government employee, let alone elected or Senate-confirmed. A total failure of the Constitutional order, just broadcast & normalized by every major media outlet.

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

they think russia is big and powerful because it occupies a lot of space on a map

submitted 1 day ago • 246 comments

Bo Burnham's INSIDE (it's a movie) is the defining work of art of our age.

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Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence. That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received. The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

If The Post actually ends up supporting personal liberties and free markets, it will spend everyday attacking the Administration. But of course, what he means is only the in-quotes variety of those words, i.e., meaningless buzzwords signaling the paper's allegiance to Chairman Musk and Puppet Trump.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I suspect this is the kind of "free market" Bezos wants his newspaper to support in its Opinion pages, because the only market that seems to matter in the US right now is the market for sucking up to Chairman Musk and his puppet.

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This is profoundly stupid.

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Trump: "Russia was attacked. Russia attacked. But there was no reason for them to attack. You could've talked him out ... Every time I say, 'Oh, it's not Russia's fault,' I always get slammed by the fake news. But I'm telling you. Biden said the wrong things. Zelenskyy said the wrong things."

submitted 6 days ago • 304 comments

The AfD wanted and expected better results than this. They must have. This is not a euphoric, cathartic breakthrough, welcoming in a new dawn of ultra-racist chaos. The thing about exit polls is that you can’t fake your reaction to them and my initial reaction was “phew, I’ll take that”.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

submitted 4 days ago • 256 comments

Most likely explanation is that the militia wing of the President's supporters, whom the President praised and pardoned for previous attacks on democracy, harassed citizens seeking to express dissent. This is the story of many authoritarian states - is it the American story now?

submitted 4 days ago • 70 comments

I started following the news on the Zizians a few weeks ago, and this is the best explainer of the whole phenomenon i've read.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is a new level of madness. I don't know how it can be stopped

submitted 7 days ago • 654 comments

Worse than Munich 1938. When Chamberlain appeased Hitler, Germany had the strongest military on the continent and hadn’t launched a big attack. Now, US has the strongest military on the continent, and Russia is weakened from 3 years of war. This isn’t from fear and hope, it’s helping the aggressor.

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

A year ago, I wrote, financed, shot and directed a short on Super 8 film (about two spies who know they are characters in a spy movie). In a few months, there will be another one (NOT about two spies who know they are characters in a spy movie), but for now, you can watch (or rewatch) this one here.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry but it is truly fucking crazy what is happening in geopolitics right now and I feel like I'm losing my mind every time I read an article about how we've completely reversed 100+ years of allies and enemies overnight.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

The thing is, the Broccoli family prevented people from doing potentially interesting stuff with Bond (the Tarantino CASINO ROYALE, the Danny Boyle script, the more Le Carré style script someone else wanted to make), but

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Washington is giving away more and more leverage over Moscow. What a great time Putin and his guys must have. Like all their birthdays and Christmas rolled into one.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

The Trump administration is now bringing the postwar era to an end. No one should be surprised: this is what they said they would do. America's European and Asian allies need to adjust, quickly. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 7 days ago • 63 comments

Come ON

submitted 8 days ago • 171 comments

Time for the CIA to live up to its reputation in certain circles.

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At this stage no one would be surprised if Donald pasted the original Russian text into his tweets.

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

People who don't follow rightwing media are not aware, but Trump supporters have been inundated with, and eagerly sharing, Russian propaganda lies and disinformation about Zelensky for the past five years; first because Trump was impeached for trying to strong-arm him, then as a way to smear Biden

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Amazing. Ukraine resisted a Russian takeover for three years. The United States didn't last a month.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Vance calls Zelenskyy "disgraceful" for pushing back on Trump's claim that Ukraine started the war. If Trump tells you that night is day, you'd better echo him or you will pay. America is now a predator nation. thenationalpulse.com/2025/02/19/e...

submitted 8 days ago • 236 comments

Trump is simply repeating a Putin talking point here. Russia has insisted on intervening in basic issues of Ukrainian sovereignty for more than a decade. Now Trump is doing Putin’s PR work, making unsustainable arguments for an unjustifiable invasion. www.axios.com/2025/02/18/t...

submitted 9 days ago • 157 comments

I personally love the 1756 version of THE ILIAD, directed by the great Stiffwood Johnson, Esq.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Leading expert on democratic collapse says most authoritarian regimes start by seizing control of government agencies with power to regulate and prosecute. Trump is already, right now, closely following the path to entrenching an authoritarian regime.

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

This weasel actually insists it’s a “longstanding norm” that only the president or his attorney general can say “what the law is” which is, of course, absolute garbage.

submitted 9 days ago • 225 comments

"In less than a month’s time, Rubio has presided over America’s willing abdication as leader of the free world. It’s a shameful legacy that cuts against everything he once proclaimed to stand for."

submitted 9 days ago • 990 comments

SWAN: DOGE and SpaceX employees are now working directly at the FAA and DoD, agencies that have billions of dollars of contracts with Musk's companies or regulate them. How is that not a conflict of interest? TRUMP: Well I mean, I'm just hearing about it

submitted 9 days ago • 1332 comments

Blaming Ukraine for being brutally invaded by Russia. Putin is really getting his money’s worth.

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