Guilty as charged
05.03.2026 03:48
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Guilty as charged
Hey Democrats:
(1) Trump is ignorant, idiotic, and malign
(2) war is bad
(3) US military adventures in the Middle East have been uniformly catastrophic
ergo
(4) a Middle East war started by Trump is presumptively disastrous.
That easy enough for you?
7 out of 10 Americans did not support attacking Iran. Are you seeing their voices reflected in the news coverage much?
"The FBI interviewed this woman — who claimed that Trump forced her to give him oral sex when she was in her early teens, then punched her in the head after she bit his penis and kicked her out — at least four times." - @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social
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Always remember that this is the leader of the Republican Party who owes his power exclusively to Republican Party voters and Republican officials.
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Project 2028:
1. Undoing the damage.
2. Undoing the causes of the damage.
Number 2 might be doable faster.
The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.
In case you needed more evidence that billionaires tend to be idiotic degenerates...
Horrific comments by Ratcliffe today right when United appeared to making a charge. His comments stand against everything Manchester is about & its fanbase across the world. It’s also a disgraceful insult to our players and everything the United DNA stands for. I am appalled as a #mufc shareholder.
Yep. It's bad news for everyone who wants to believe or sell the idea that elections reward policy arguments, but presidential mass appeal is about brand. Brand strength implicates policy, sure, but especially for swing voters it's mostly about identity, looks, authenticity, charisma.
Resign, retire, repent.
NEW: There are 2,400+ elections for DA & sheriff this year.
These matter hugely to criminal justice & policing—including: *these are often officials who decide ICE collaboration.*
So I took a dive into these 2,400+ races to identify early hotspots and battlegrounds.
Read, & check out our maps:
I don't think it would be a complex heist. It would be announcing a state of emergency (after summer riots, say) and "postponing" elections in the name of national security. Still tricky to pull off, but entirely within the capacity of the Republican government, including SCOTUS.
Wrote to @josephoneill.bsky.social to talk about authoritarianism, the horrors in Minneapolis, and what to do about useless Democrats
Unclear why Elon Musk isn't wanted by Interpol for sexual crimes against children.
I'll be in Hartford, CT, on February 12, talking with Omar Acevedo. Could be interesting.
Holy smokes - he opened with a reference to Vaclav Havel's "The Power of the Powerless," among the all-time greats of underground revolutionary literature (Havel spent years in jail for it, then became Czech's president after his release).
Momentous speech. Read the whole thing.
Clearly there's no shortage of horrors to choose from of late but for some reason this one in particular has really chilled me to the fucking bone. Last week a group of pigs had lunch at a Mexican restaurant called El Tapatio in Willmar, Minnesota. "Staff at the restaurant were frightened," an eye witness told the Star Tribune. You can surely imagine that they were. You can picture exactly how it must have felt in there. Four fucking Nazis with their shit-eating grins squeezing their fat asses into a booth at a family-owned Mexican place poisoning the entire room with their smug impunity. Desecrating a place of community. There's one like it where you live too. In almost every town in the country. We love Mexican food here so much. They forced these people to prepare their food and to serve them all the while knowing that they were going to ruin their lives after. With full bellies. The threat hanging in the air. Of course they did ruin them. They arrested a dishwasher and the two owners a few hours later after the restaurant closed. Can you imagine being made to wash the dishes used to feed the men who are waiting to kidnap you or worse? Cooking and plating their meals? I wonder if they put the same care they usually do into it or if their shaking hands made the work suffer?
You can picture how it must have felt in there. Four fucking Nazis with their shit-eating grins squeezing their fat asses into a booth at a family-owned Mexican place poisoning the entire room with their smug impunity. Desecrating a place of community www.welcometohellworld.com/we-must-love...
“Who knows. Who cares. Human society suddenly feels overwhelmingly trivial and stupid and not worth the trouble,” Joseph O’Neill writes in his short story “Light Secrets.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Clearly the US, indeed the planet, may not survive three more years of an insane Republican president + nihilistic Republican Party + Vichy Democratic leadership. We in the opposition cannot do much, yet, about the first two elements. We can do something about the last element.
This is what’s so stupefying about Congressional leaders: Republicans, Schumer, Durbin, Jeffries.
My brothers and sisters. You are leading the U.S. Congress at a moment of INDESCRIBABLE world historic import.
Your faces and names will be plastered all over history books. How do you think you
Why are Senate Dems embarking on a *bipartisan* mission????
Why can’t journalists at least say this out loud: “Many experts, commentators & political leaders are saying that Trump is clearly spiraling into madness & needs to be removed.”
Stephen Miller • @StephenM X.com Only federal officers are upholding the law. Local and state police have been ordered to stand down and surrender.
Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.”
What?
The president of the United States is insane, in the medical sense. It's beyond argument.
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
I have a new story in the New Yorker.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
For EU officials wondering what they can do: they can actively (if informally) align their countries with the Democratic Party in opposition to the Republican Party. Inform, incentivize, influence. It could make a real difference in the electoral-cultural war now unfolding in the US.