So, sending troops to Chicago or Baltimore would be much more complicated than either LA or DC. π§΅
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So, sending troops to Chicago or Baltimore would be much more complicated than either LA or DC. π§΅
This is the most banal, obvious point imaginable and yet no national leaders of any kind - political, media, business, entertainment, none of it - is willing to say the I word.
Sir this is a St Hubert
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
For folks who claim to be an ally and want to do the work, there is no better time to serve as a hedge of protection for folks celebrating.
Like I've said before, Montreal is if New York City didn't suck
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."
The 2002 AUMF.
If you ever find someone asking βhas there ever been any situation in history where the student protesters were the bad guys and the armed government soldiers were the good guys?β The answer is yes
Two things can be β and are β true here: Bowser is not the champion DC needs in this moment, and The Washington Post has become a Trump rag. A newspaper that actually cared about the city in its name would not publish such an inflammatory, bullshit headline.
Tip of the hat to everyone who insisted that Trump was a pacifist
There's speculation at the Pentagon and elsewhere that President Trump this afternoon will announce that the Department of Defense is going to revert back to being the Department of War (created in 1789 and dissolved in 1947).
Literally
I also don't think anyone will want to die for J.D. Vance
I don't know what's going on with Donald Trump's health and neither do you, but I at least know that I don't like the idea of a movement that loves guns and thrives on conspiracy theories seeing their paramount leader die at the peak of his authority
Stepping down as coach of UNC
Glad that a national audience now gets to see what Patriots fans had experienced for the last years of his tenure
This is why I think/I hope that SCOTUS doesn't fully approve the IEEPA tariffs...if they affirm that a president can infer any authority they want and use that inference to do whatever they want then they set a precedent for a kingship and I think even the Roberts court would balk at that
The logic is simple. Emergencies allow rule by fiat instead of the frustrations of checks and balances
Damnit
As a Patriots fan I'm really sad to be missing this (because I think it'll be funny)
Look, Bridge Colby is probably somewhere fuming right now and I think that's beautiful
I would *love* to hear the Trump apologist China hawks rationalize this one
So pivot. Much containment.
Gonna have to take him much more seriously at work now
This is the correct take...there is no such thing as wholly native cuisine anywhere at any time. Stuff is mixed and adapted and developed and that's awesome and we should do it more often.
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Completely agree, which is why it's so grim IMO
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Did you think I was just complaining? Yes of course I was complaining this crap is awful and there's no end to it
Yup...big difference between foreign ownership of golf courses vs foreign ownership of residential properties
Michael Cucek at Temple University pointed this out at a recent talk...the increase in investment has been dramatic and is having some difficult economic implications. Could be Sanseito is "right for the wrong reasons", though that's not to apologize for their platform
Ok I'm never going to Australia
To be fair, that's what I'd say about bears
Huge thanks to Bloomberg News for having me as a guest this morning to discuss the geopolitical implications of Narendra Modi's visit to Japan (video starts ~37:00 mark)
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That's exactly what that is
I know, I know
That might do the trick actually
Don't do it Paul...don't do it...
"Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is creating a way for investors to bet that President Donald Trumpβs signature tariffs will be struck down in court."
You know how many times I've gone through that thing with a toothpick
So maybe I just have a bad dish brush
Ok but _how do you clean that thing_
Might finally explain why Evangelicals support him
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldnβt go along with the lie. (Seriously, thatβs the answer)
Really important thread
Adding a parochial note here, but there were questions in Japan as to why Ishiba wasn't taking a more personalist/chummy approach to Trump like Abe had or like Modi was doing, and the reason is that a personalist approach doesn't work either because nothing "works" with Trump
Morning from Bremen.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says βCan I help you find something?β βIβm looking for the obituaries.β βThe obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.β βNot the one Iβm looking for.β
"Liberty Universityβs motto is βKnowledge Aflame,β and that sounds about right." I love this man
Japanese netizens should be calling this period of time γζ»γγ©
I'll concede that's pretty out of character, but also I'd prefer not to defer to the frenzied cope mind of social media
Anyway, maybe I'll go watch Swan Lake
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Wait what the hell is going on now
Congress can also impeach civil officials. They could do that whenever that want.
My only real familiarity of him is when he coached Washington and that didn't go great
Maneuvering that damn mine cart in the dark was the only time I turned to online guides in the whole game, I almost quit because of that level
I owe you an apology, Steve Spurrier, I was not familiar with your game
regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: β virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing β against increasing the minimum wage β buys foreign imports because they're cheap
I've got a soft spot for Auburn since I've had a couple friends who were fans but man Hugh Freeze suuuuuuuuuuuuucks
Anyway here's how things are going in Japan (don't need to translate purple temperature maps)
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
Ah, the colonialism strategy
i really think jd vance is the fakest politician i've seen in my lifetime. there is nothing sincere about him.
By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trumpβs tariffs exceed his statutory authority. The ruling wonβt go into effect until October 14, thoughβwhich gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:
They think *that's* embarrassing? Oh boy ok
Might be why I do Total War games more often...they're definitely imperfect, but at least they're honest about how they want you to play
One of the reasons that I'm pretty cold on games like Civ or Paradox games (that, and I consume them like narcotics once I start)
Did you know that well before RFK Jr., there was this other guy a few centuries ago who warned against trusting experts and their motives, and HE TOO got caught up in a Diet of Worms???
(incidentally the tree elevator specifically)
I remember solutions would come to me in my dreams
Former Senate staffer and 1000% agree with the VEEP pick. I can't even watch it because the dialogue and cadences are so similar it that it makes me feel like I'm back there
Alls Iβm saying isβ¦ β¦vampires have to wait to be invited inβ¦
note also that with the AFAIK lone exception of Rubio all confirmed nominees have taken ~full clock time, with minor asterisks. Dem votes for confirmation do not affect the clock.
Once I learned urban vs rural conflict has been around since at least Late Antiquity I stopped bothering trying to think of how one might "solve" it
There's a tactical problem that assumes that the '26 and '28 elections will be held as usual and positions on this may make a difference when in fact ICE will probably be patrolling polling places And there's a strategic problem where simply being a liberal means defending trans rights, period
Yellen not at all pulling her punches in this op-ed for the FT www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
I don't post much any more, but for everyone poring over the manifesto, scrawlings, and footprint following the Minneapolis shooting, here's a timesaver. The aim is to be remembered, discussed, to turn oneself into content that then becomes the next reference on a gun.
To really get into bad 90's scifi territory: "an associate of the cult of Satanic Nazis was later installed by the richest man on the planet as an all-powerful government official who played a key role in wiping out all US famine relief efforts in Africa and also stole everyone's data."
Once again I am begging, pleading with political science to incorporate online culture into its research in ways beyond polling or campaign messaging. Things like this aren't anomalies, they're fundamental to how people understand and interact with the world
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
Globalization was good and the liberal international order worked even though it had significant issues
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"The Times, the Post, and just about every other major outlet havenβt chosen to make one singular story the dominant framing device of the past six months: The Trump administration is teeming with despicable gutter racists and President Trump and his cabinet are having them call the shots."
Even as we speak, White House lawyers are investigating whether it's possible to tariff an international organization
Hereβs a clip of marines refusing to shoot at Taliban using women and children as human shields if you think itβs really difficult to follow LOAC (which Lew seems to be implying)
Horse race coverage, but the horses are democracy and authoritarianism
Isaac Chotiner interviewed Biden's close friend and last ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, and in the interview Jack Lew explicitly defends Israel killing children. Lew's defense of this is so offensive that Isaac Chotiner interrupts him twice and then says outright that he's wrong.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
I have a personal rule not to complain about the music or tastes of the youngs, but...I could really go without hearing "Golden" one more time
This is, more or less, what I was thinking about earlier today. The slide into authoritarianism is greased by a relentless refusal to treat each action as part of a broader context. We see this with politicians, journalists, and even SCOTUS. The motives differ, but the pathology is the same.
Yep, differing abilities, both linguistic and foundational, make calibrating teaching so that I can reach all those different levels a real challenge
Because can't let onions & garlic frying in olive oil or onions frying in lard have a monopoly on perfection
I feel this. Given the unusual nature of my school, roughly half- to two-thirds of my students are non-native English speakers, which means I either grind too hard with the reading on the non-native speakers or go too slow for the native speakers and leave them bored
We're due for a Strange Brew reboot
The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure