Shutdown. Delayed restart.
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Shutdown. Delayed restart.
Really hope at least some people learn from this experience that despite opportunistic rhetoric about peace, fascism does in fact mean war.
We used to get more mind vacations and be able to choose when to work and engage with what’s going on.
I have to fill up my gas tank again, and it reminds me how terrible and irresponsible a person Trump is.
I was just disinvited from the Air War College where I’d been asked to lecture on my book, which is a history of U.S. civil-military relations.
* TRUMP: HOPEFULLY CHINA, FRANCE, JAPAN, S.KOREA, WILL SEND SHIPS
@bloomberg.com
His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.
To be clear this thread is satirizing the flippant mentality of sending people to die in war, a mentality very much dominating the federal govt right now. I am not endorsing this or being personally flip about it. I’m pretty mad
Watching these guys learn basic geopolitics in real time is incredible. Ah so that's why you need allies. I see
Everyone else in the room when a former DOGE employee was deposed.
2/ CRISIS ONE: Trump believed Iran would not close the Strait of Hormuz. He was wrong. And now oil prices are spiking.
If the Strait stays closed, a global recession will result. It actually may already be too late. Gas prices are the first to spike, but food prices are next.
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire.
1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
Snow covered trees and deck
Two years ago today 🌿
This is how it’s supposed to look here now. It does not. We are in the most severe drought and record breaking heat for this time of year.
TIL that international waterways are not just DEI for losers without private jets
The alarming fact is that we’re not even close to the bottom with this madman.
Every pronatalist argument I’ve encountered seems like it could be solved by a robust immigration system that allowed more people to move here. The reluctance to entertain that solution tells you what the real concern is.
Black kidney patients were delayed or blocked from transplants by a race-based medical formula that made their kidneys appear healthier. Now, thousands are regaining lost wait-list time through restorative justice efforts. We must keep speaking truth to power until health care equity is real.
The Iran War features tactical successes for the US but is, overall, a strategic failure because it was initiated based on a strategy within which profound miscalculations were integrated.
Blinded by its tactical successes, the US is likely to proceed under the sunk cost fallacy.
I'm sorry that your sworn testimony is causing you reputational damage.
The government in part pointed to 404 Media's and others reporting showing how widespread the depositions have been seen and covered. Also referenced viewing numbers from X.
www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
This is, to put it mildly, a double standard. This guy was part of a government that encouraged online social media figures to engage in routine harassment of government employees to the point that many were fired or went into hiding. Some of it was done by Elon Musk, this guy's boss.
It's hard to get people to understand that loads of conservatives thought Ronald Reagan was going to transform America very quickly into the hellhole of their dreams, and when he only did the destruction he did versus the total destruction they wanted, they were very bitter at being let down.
On the Right, Obama’s presidency was widely perceived as an affront to America’s “natural order,” it supercharged the perception of a loss of cultural dominance. Donald Trump, risen to political prominence as the leading proponent of birtherism, was supposed to restore “order.”
The “paleo-conservatives” behind Buchanan had emerged frustrated from 12 years of GOP rule, convinced that controlling the executive was insufficient. Politics, they believed, was ultimately downstream from culture. So the Right needed to wage and win the “culture war.”
Immediately after the end of the Cold War, ethno-nationalist forces inside the Republican Party believed their time had come to stage a revolt against the GOP establishment. Uniting behind Pat Buchanan as their standard bearer, they challenged incumbent President George H. W. Bush.
How the Hell Did We End Up Here?
From the failed ethno-nationalist revolt in the early 1990s to the triumph of MAGA extremism - A history of the Republican Party, Part II.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
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I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
