@antisabotage
Working hypotheses: Orban, Fico, Le Pen, Wagenknect, Yanukovitch, Trump, etc, are Russian saboteurs, not just spies. Putin can only win his global war against democracy in the capitols of free societies. Political proxies are his main weapons. #NAFO
“A republic, not a democracy” was a line made up by the right-wing media as an easy hit to say that voting for the Democratic Party was fundamentally illegitimate and now we also get to have it from the left as well because the left takes its every cue from the right
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Bigotry is the hubris of identity, capital punishment is the hubris of absolutism.
Among the very many bad things here, one that jumps out to me is the casual acceptance of the death penalty, and even further, the death penalty totally divorced from due process. Those grounds alone shift these people out of any coalition of egalitarian humanism into something very different.
Because Ukraine is now helping the U.S. military, the Gulf States and Israel defend themselves from Russian-Iranian aerial attacks, the head of Iran’s National Security Commission, Ibrahim Azizi, threatened to attack Ukraine with missiles.
It is a virtual certainty that the USN *had* a plan, even if just war game conclusions filed somewhere--but every command-level officer who could advocate for that plan has either been ignored, silenced, or has already been forced out of the service. It's yes-men only in the Dept of Stupid Wars.
that horse bolted with Luigi fandom. everybody now believes that you can murder someone willy nilly as long as you're cute and ur rationale partly partly overlaps with vague populist enthusiasm. there was a responsibility to think there that nearly everyone purposefully flouted.
For the only Iranian American in Congress, the war brings mixed feelings: "It can be true that it is illegal and potentially reckless ... but it can also be true that Iranians are desperate for regime change." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
The Regime’s policies are continuing to cause serious harm to farmers.
In addition to destroying the Chinese market for soybeans and kidnapping the workforce, we now have fertilizer shortages from the war in Iran.
Folks, president pedophile is touching the inflation numbers
Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions.
If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.
After President Zelenskyy thanked Trump many times, JD Vance asked: “Have you ever said ‘thank you’ once?”
Now that Ukraine is helping the U.S. with drone defence, President Zelenskyy said today: “I would like someone to say ‘thank you’ for Ukraine's help in the Middle East.”
Conservatives are ideologically incapable of nation building because conservative ideology is anti-governance...
So, in Afghanistan and Iraq, nation building was an afterthought. The Bush admin only started trying it after realizing they had to.
In contrast, Dems prioritized it, so Kosovo worked.
Conservatives are ideologically incapable of nation building because conservative ideology is anti-governance...
So, in Afghanistan and Iraq, nation building was an afterthought. The Bush admin only started trying it after realizing they had to.
In contrast, Dems prioritized it, so Kosovo worked.
Ian Dunt describes Hegseth:
If the White House and Pentagon understood the risk that Iran would close Hormuz and discussed options to deal with that, then why are they not executing those options now?
What went wrong?
My favorite* event from last year’s No Kings demonstrations was when two absolute goddamned morons brought their guns so they could play pretend as badass cowboy heroes and then one mistook the other for a prospective shooter and killed a bystander about it
Absolutely. Discussed here.
I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader
generally speaking, the general embrace of hate and violence—ramifying with smaller stuff like bullying—spreads through society and makes ppl arrogant, stupid, and opposed to democratic processes and thought. again, this is what the authoritarians want. they want to punch us in the face, not talk.
there's always enthusiasm behind early iterations of terrorism, but the worse it makes things, the more ppl jump ship, and the more ppl jump ship, the weirder and more oppressive the terrorists become. if ppl don't leave fast enough, they just get oppressed by the ppl they thought fought for them.
the symbolic "acting out" of mass murder to punish a population for mass murder is obviously ethically problematic, but it also only fortifies the forces one is pretending to fight—so obviously so that groups like the Red Brigades ultimately accepted Making Things Worse as part of their strategy.
incidentally, McVeigh targeted Murrough building bc it represented "ZOG," but it coulda been a metro station, or a town square. anyone in the US can be targeted as "supporting mass murder" according to the formula, bc the target is abstracted to the ideological level rather than the material.
I wonder if Egypt would prevent them from sending a ship into the Suez directly or if they'd need to sneak some guys on to a container ship. A fully scuttled ship would be much harder to remove than the evergiven was, especially if you could break the keel
What are the administration’s China hawks up to these days?
RFK Jr acts like a man driven by compulsion to intentionally create disease reservoirs.
Maybe someone should get him to talk at length about what formative psychological events of his have led him to crave responsbility for people's deaths.
To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines.
The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback.
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
(Published Nov. 2025)
Epstein’s Zorro Ranch was vast, remote and central to his abuse.
NBC News reviewed court testimony, lawsuits and records to understand how the ranch escaped scrutiny for years.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Funny how the russians are trying to paint Ukraine simultaneously as a voiceless proxy/colony/vassal and as a cruel colonizing suzerain.
I'm telling you, boring old lawyers are now going to ABA panels to applaud hostile retorts to MAGA panelists and yell "you're a clown" at them.
A whole lot of people who merely furrowed their brows at Trump I are now seething with rage, and the Dem consultant class needs to wake up to that.