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Add Citizens United, Vieth, Rucho, Shelby County, Loper Bright, Snyder, Corner Post, Fischer. NRSC is on the docket. And far be it for anyone to forget: Bush v Gore. The absolutely most disastrous court.
And then there is the political problem, Xi is still purging high ranking military officials, even tho he hand selected most of them, how can you trust a military to execute arguably the most complex military operation in history if you donāt trust them?
i think it is worth considering who "white moderates" were in 1963
Iāve been waiting for this one for a while, given it hits me where I live. And another very good & thoughtful article. But one which makes an argument I do not agree with. We already have the kind of discipline SODRock proposes. Itās history. We need to reintegrate history into larger NatSec.
Stop kissing Newsom's sorry transphobic ass when Pritzker is right there people! Dude is a 1000x better than Newsom's sorry ass.
Lot of people talking about how they would fight the fash in the streets who can't even be bothered to vote against them if the candiate isn't a 100% perfect. I'm supposed to trust you will hit the streets for violence when you can't even be bothered to fill out a ballot and mail it in?
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
Back in MY day, I had to take one million screenshots and sometimes guess about some of the details on a cosplay so I CANNOT BELIEVE THERE IS AN OFFICIAL GUIDE AND IT INCLUDES MY EYEBROW CUT šā„ļø
Iāll never understand how āyou get the post-1945 international political economy of the entire world rigged in your favor and I get to wear a dress sometimes without being murderedā was seen as an arrangement unfairly rigged in my favor by like half of American elites.
Happening now at NatCon: āOVERTURN OBERGEFELLā Theyāre coming for the right to same-sex marriage, as we knew they would.
This is something Iāve been thinking through for another piece Iām working on, is it easier to: a) stop an amphibious assault on the beach (dieppe) b) contain the amphibious assault, prevent a breakout, and attrition the attackers over a period of time (Gallipoli)
Yes, but the PLA is being asked to execute the most complex amphibious assault in military history with zero experience. The Allies got 5 kicks at the can before having to execute the big one; they learned a lot of lessons, the PLA doesnāt get the opportunity
regime consolidation is a lot less effective if your opposition loves voting 20x more than your base
as I read the history of AI, it is apparent to me that the sector was a lot less horrifying when it was just a bunch of academics with government funding (yes, with a sprinkle of IBM and the like) people were making money but not planet-distorting money everything is income inequality in the end
i know axiosā whole thing is āgo dumberā, but for context: - zuckerberg can never be fired even if heās wrong - musk can never be fired even if heās wrong - altman cannot be fired unless nadella thinks heās wrong - nadella gets the milk for free over 50% of those 7 are compromised
āDonald Trump has figured out the cheat code for authoritarianism: Fake emergencies bring real power." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The current risks a Trump administration poses to peace and stability across the Western Hemisphere were already visible before the November 2024 elections. All predictable to anyone paying attention since the mid-2010s
personally I don't think it's a wise decision to occupy every major city involved in the arts and media but the GOP are simply built different
Genuinely impressed to which this government is committed to alienating every constituency in America while also remaining laser focused on increasing the cost of living
this is the basic model for understanding modern UK politics - two informal 'blocks' voters different between parties *within* the blocks, but not between the blocks themselves
Epstein survivor Lisa Phillips speaks out.
My aunt married a dairy farmer whose family had a small farm for 100+ years and they kept it going until my uncle's retirement at like 70 something. They ALWAYS pasteurized/boiled their milk. Like it wasn't even discussed. This was a generational farmer, not a hobbyist.
(The real point Iād like to make here is that thereās not really a correlation between morality and money, until you hit the mega billions/wealth on par with nations, which you can only grow and sustain with exploitation while also tending to bring out the control freak in anyone who gets there)
For what itās worth, thereās a grain of truth to it. There are many kind people who are secure in themselves and they also separately happen to have means, money, etc etc and conversely plenty of nouveau riche types who are in debt up to their eyeballs *cough*Trump went bankrupt *unconvincing cough*
firefighters, you say? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Thereās a YouTuber who popped up on my algorithm, it was shorts all about how thereās bad, rude rich people (who arenāt actually all *that* rich) and good ārealā rich people who would happily and freely give a door to door salesman a bottle of water and free book of advice. Itās a common fantasy
I think this is hugely untrue. The birth and subsequent failure of the Occupy Wall Street movement shows that. If you asked a million poor people, they would be thrilled to have their children become "megarich" or "the next Bill Gates." Only individuals like Musk or Zuckerberg are unpopular.
Firefighters, famously, have a house they all live in, where they wait for people to call them, actually.
I thought the whole premise of the occupation was supposed to be that something was, in fact, on fire
Pseudoscience is so cruel to autistic children.
this is ISI in 2025, in case you were wondering
Also, even the idea of a single national identity for most European countries is relatively new, despite the claim of these "ancient nations." As of 1794, only 11% of people in France spoke French as a first language, and nearly half didn't speak French or spoke it poorly.
My ancestor came here on the FIRST Mayflower and Eric Schmitt can shut his Nazi ass up with that bullsh--
Oh good. I was getting worried these guys were getting BETTER advice than our guys. Turns out, no - *everyone* in charge is an mentally-melting Boomer going mad looking for magic age cures. ...super š
i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this
Nobody is āgroomingā your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
meme authoritarianism in action!
Why didnāt some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? āI thought someone was going to kill me,ā one explained. As another asked, āWhy did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?ā
The Hurt Locker lady made a movie about NC3 and application of deterrence theory written by the NBC News guy that covered for Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer
Pretty intereting! bsky.app/profile/aexi...
makes you think! bsky.app/profile/leah...
i think it's painful to come to the realization that a lot of powerful people - including many who say they're on the side of truth and democracy - were willing to affirmatively endorse child rape because it meant that racist and anti-worker policies they approve of would be implemented
the connections trump had to multiple "modeling agencies" that were actually fronts for human trafficking is pretty interesting! i mean, maybe not AS interesting as the question of whether tim walz visited china in may or june of 1989, but like, at least moderately newsworthy imho
maybe there really was a big undercovered scandal about a us president that wasn't "joe biden is old and stutters" bsky.app/profile/jfal...
it's pretty fucked up when you see the evidence all presented in a row tbh bsky.app/profile/chri...
these people need to log off. seriously. bluesky this, bluesky that, how about you look at some actual blue skies and get off the internet for ten minutes
the two americas
The ātheyāre not testing for it anymore so we donāt know how many really are dying of covidā people are explicitly arguing that bodies are showing up in the morgue and the coroner is like ādamn thatās crazy, no way to figure this one outā and issuing an incomplete death certificate
these people are fucking morons and the mainstream ālets just hear them outā bull shit is going to get so many people killed
trailer dropped lol
Yāall this is absolutely wild. You need to read this article. Coordinated targeting of firefighters on a 10% contained wildfire for immigration enforcement under the pretense of *padding their time cards*. This is insane.
Love too pay a 50% premium on a purchase made 3 days before arbitrary tariffs were put into place because laws aren't real anymore
Howās that saying go, āwhen a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measureā?
kinda peanuts compared to [gestures everywhere] but it really sucks having a president who is utterly incapable of doing basic office of the presidency stuff like this
"We often treat our pale blue spaceship. that we call Earth. as if we have somewhere else that we can go. If you can't breathe the air, or drink the water, nothing else that you plan to do really matters. Don't sit this one out. Get up and do something!" -Carl Sagan
Once more, the Tom Clancy universe is your best guide to understanding the one we're currently living in
*sigh* āThe Democrats occupy every part of the political spectrum save the far right as evidenced by the fact the communist party and Bill Kristol both endorsed Kamala while JD Vance openly and explicitly noted the AFD, not the Christian Democrats, are the GOPās sister party.
Pretty much. My version of this is, "we can debate what kind of republic we will have, once we settle on still having a republic."
Everyone with a Hitler Particle concentration under 85% is either a Democrat or a Democrat in denial at this point, honestly
So cool that these guys are now openly discussing living forever, taking away the one comfort we could cling to
Florida road crews in St. Pete were out at 3 a.m. just to do this
Even before the start of President Trump's surge, D.C. had the most police per-capita of any U.S. city. By a quite a bit. And that's just counting the city's force, not the huge array of other police agencies here. The Capitol Police, also in D.C., is bigger than Baltimore's police department.
The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers
The Picture of Dorian Gray, but it's a 90 year old autocrat staring in the mirror at his decrepit reflection and deluding himself into believing his dyed hair makes him look 50.
Trump is doing everything he can to hide the truth about Epsteināand GOP leadership is letting him. That's why I just signed the bipartisan discharge petition to release the entirety of the Epstein files. The victims deserve justice. The American people deserve the truth.
It's really been downplayed how much it's true that these two are very stable in their hold on totalitarian power but also they're total nutjobs.
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Thread, on how LA and MS are sending NatGuard troops to DC even as homicide rates are higher in many of their own cities, and even as Trump guts federal funding for any and all programs that reduce crime but don't use a gun. Social control, not safety. Over and over and over and over.
personally i would not traumatize or alienate the quarter of zoomers who ID as LGBTQ+ www.axios.com/2024/03/13/l...
My kingdom for a single fact-checker at the nation's most prestigious opinion page www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
To have federal military forces on the streets in a state without its consent is extraordinary, deeply worrying, a dire situation. But it is something which, under some narrower legitimate circumstances, can be done lawfully. To have *Texas* troops in Illinois without its consent is an invasion.
āGood thing they didnāt get their way, too. Imagine American history without Italians and Irish and Jews. Imagine invading the beaches of Normandy with just the pilgrimsā kids.ā www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...
oh i forgot about hochman. that's probably the nazi who wrote this www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
to this point, i can definitely trace my ancestry in this country to at least the very early 19th century.
Pretty funny bit to be an Anti YIMBY and proclaim that the market will simply sort out supply shortages without structural land use, financing or hard cost reforms.
Putinās summer offensive has failed: no breakthroughs, no buffer zone, and no cities captured despite huge losses. This should be a wake-up call for anyone who still believes a Russian military victory in Ukraine is inevitable www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...
āThe Russian army has been unable to secure any front line breakthroughs or capture a single major city, with overall Russian advances during the three summer months limited to an estimated 0.3 percent of Ukrainian territory.ā But I was told that Russia was an unstoppable juggernaut?
Douthat's latest piece is half about how Disney movies aren't trad enough for him. His complaint starts with the Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast lol. Well at least he's honest about the conditions under which women should have kids.
"All Americans have equal rights" is a concept so foreign to today's Republican Party that they think a Democrat saying as much is a major gaffe.
The left has this false sense that if Dems offered everything to rural America, they would become left-wing. Rural America has received more money than cities by a wide margin. Obama's ACA gave many healthcare for the first time. Trump said he would cut it. They voted for him in record numbers.
Democrats and the left have never *not* been in favor of helping rural areas. The rural areas don't want things to get better, they want LGBT people to go away and women to be subservient to men and brown people to not be in the country. We gave them expanded Medicaid and broadband and they did this
My one regret with this piece is that I focused far more on the policy implications and not the aesthetics allure of war driving all of this
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
look i'm not saying we can meme Pritzker, a man of Ukrainian Jewish decent, into our Poroshenko/Zelenskyy but what if
Transgender lesbians.
One of which being the minor detail that deploying them off federal property in the territory of one state under another state's authority without the permission of the government of the first state is quite literally an invasion
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
this is such a toxic freaking notion, that those of us who end up arguing with consensus a lot are doing it for attention. man, I want to post about Star Wars on here, I post about important things that affect all of our lives instead, and I care about the truth so I say what I believe
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Everything about this is bad
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
it's cool that the future of politics is this
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
They demand women have more kids but don't want to contribute any effort to help raise them. Look at the way Musk drags his kids around as props but shows no actual interest in them as human beings.
no i don't understand why a bunch of people on there thought the gay indian anglican lady was poly either
Itās like how the current Western ideal of the middle-class SAHM was the result of Victorian families having live-in servants, then dropping the servants and expecting the wife to do everything herself once having servants became unattainable for all but the richest people.