Butterflyminder, keeper of fluttery thoughts

There’s something doubly grating about the pious invocation of “Western civilization” by the sort of incurious dolt who wouldn’t know a Titian canvas, a Beethoven quartet, or a Socratic dialogue if whapped them upside the head.

Completely. Wrapped. Around. Her. Paw.

I really want to know the full story behind this epic hack, and yet I also hope it is never solved.

Pour one out for the civ-mil experts today

So, thinking maybe there won't be loyalty oaths or mass purges or a Day of the Long Teaspoons or anything else.

“I’ve met a lot of admirals and generals in my time, and I’m not sure that a dressing-down from Pete Hegseth is going to be all that effective in either exciting them or scaring them.”

I haven’t met as many admirals & generals as @radiofreetom.bsky.social, but I’ve met a few & this take tracks.

This ignores the repeated situations in which Hegseth has blindsided the administration. I think this was very much his idea, and Trump was brought in at the last minute because DOD heard the rumbles from GO/FOs who wondered why they had to haul ass to Quantico to listen to a TV show host.

I'm sorry but I refuse point blank to believe that Philip Faircloth-Mutton is a real person.

The Ezra Klein style of caring about political “strategy” over consistent moral principles and values of your own reminds me of how a lot of pop culture consumers obsessively track box office and chart performance rather than just evaluating based on whether things are good or if they like them

yeah i think he fell for ai lol

It's the ultimate photo-op. Of course Trump couldn't resist.

I'll say this once more:

@kairyssdal.bsky.social, of public radio (APM vs NPR), giving daily lessons on putting things clearly and honestly.

Enough of this "falsely" and "without evidence" and "departure from norms" wiggle talk.

The man lies. Is deluded. Steals. And constantly breaks the law

And also: don’t mention the war!

And if that doesn't get everyone to stop talking about the Epstein files, inflation, and bad job numbers, there's always the option of starting a war with Venezuela

This joke was just okay the first four million times

Awww, but it's so much fun when you produce torrents of irrational anger! ...OK, maybe not for you exactly.

Yeah, given the guy in charge of the nation's health just told people not to trust the experts...

Really good considering the neighbourhood tbh.

Of all the "sold my soul" guys in the Trump administration, Rubio might be the guy who did it the soldiest.

Trump's behavior is perfectly explicable if you think of him as a narcissist who is basically stuck at a child's level of development, who fears powerful people and is a walking bundle of insecurities.

The insistence here that Moscow has horrifying blackmail on Trump is just as nutty as MAGA world's dismissal of it.
Do the Russians know bad stuff about Trump? Of course they do.
Is it the weird stuff you guys think it is? Almost certainly not, and it's likely about money. /1

Another possibility is that Russia has things that Trump worries about not on *him*, but on his family.
Not exactly a family of geniuses (except for Uncle John at MIT). But again, simple explanation is best: Trump's weak and Putin is tough.

Butterfly_and_luna. It's a bit of a crazy joint, but it's the most comfortable thus far.

Hello! Very nice to see you. 😊 I'm spending more time over on Threads these days but I do make periodic attempts to get the hang of this place.

One of the reasons that I push back so hard on people fixated on the Fairness Doctrine (aside from the fact that history matters) is that many liberals still think that such measures are magical solutions to the crisis of democracy.

It constantly blows my mind that we have elected someone so gobsmackingly uncomprehending of the gravity and responsibility of his office that he does not grasp how insanely dangerous it is to fire off comments like this on a whim.

Prayers for an “allergic reaction.”

But mockery and hateful conspiracies for murder victims who aren’t in your tribe.

With no apology or remorse.

Fake Christian, small man.

Finally watched Sinners, whose main message seems to be that Irish people appreciate good music but are not always sensitive to local norms in their desire to join a rollicking party

Tucker Carlson is an odious piece of shit.

And if this odious piece of shit can somehow rally MAGA to turn on Trump and back off from supporting Netanyahu and Israel's war with Iran then so be it.