New in PN: The worst cabinet in history
"Even having one or two cabinet members as disastrous as Noem, Hegseth, Kennedy, or Bondi would be a stain on any administration; putting them all in one govt has created a kind of Bizarro World 1927 Yankees, an all-star team of incompetence and malevolence."
Als je iedereen mag bombarderen die zich niet aan het internationale recht houdt, waarom bestaan Israël en Amerika dan nog?
The script never changes, part V
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The biggest war criminals of our time . . .
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It is THE fundamental problem. To survive and prosper we must make billionaires history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
Het CDA is blijkbaar zo trots op dit staaltje zelfgenoegzame arrogantie dat ze het ook nog als reclamespotje rondpompen.
Na de 'bezorgde burger' krijgen we nu de 'bezorgde boer' die meer voor- dan nadelen ziet in fascisme.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... "A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections."
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The fact that Donald Trump is going to try to subvert the 2026 elections doesn't mean he will be successful. We have shown before that we can fight back in court and win. The key is that we must educate everyone about what is going to happen and what they can do as well to defend democracy.
"Whether all is really lost
or not depends entirely on
whether or not I am lost."
-- Václav Havel
We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.
Kristi Noem generated more scandals over the past year than a typical administration would muster in four—but what reportedly got her fired was “pointing the finger at her boss,” Jonathan Chait argues.
The Rot in American diplomacy, the armed forces and the government generally. America is falling apart because it is run so very, very badly.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
This is a fucking travesty.
“In just three days of fighting in the Middle East, more than 800 Patriot missiles were used — more than Ukraine has received throughout the entire Russian full-scale invasion.”
(A year’s worth of production or more, btw)
kyivindependent.com/over-800-pat...
Voor #ja21 geen #GR2026 in Rotterdam #cafekockelmann Eerdmans en Coenradie kregen er fiks van langs met hun "bijna fascistoïde" opvattingen. Eerdmans wil "jongeren preventief opwachten met honden." Coenradie wil "groepsgericht preventief fouilleren." Aboutaleb: dat doen we niet.
Gaat Ingrid Coenradie vanavond bij #cafekockelmann vertellen over haar vooroordelen, complottheorieën en andere standpunten die naadloos aansluiten bij extreemrechtse, nationalistische partijen? (dit filmpje is verwijderd).
The strongest society is the one that makes life easier for the weakest.
Read @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social on the "intellectually insecure reactionaries" around Epstein. Much here that I did not know
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
President Trump ousts Kristi Noem as Homeland Security chief and names Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin as her replacement https://cnn.it/4ubHabn
"It is fraud" -- Neguse nails Kristi Noem for lying during her testimony yesterday when she told the Senate that DHS's $220m ad campaign starring her "went out to a competitive bid" (it did not), and tells her "I think there's gonna be accountability" (1/2)
Neguse demolishes Noem (2/2)
Spiegeltjes en kraaltjes.
Daar doet GroenLinks-PvdA het niet voor.
constructief meewerken aan destructie🤔⁉️
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Just a matter of time before one of our more putinized Trumpers calls this a "special military operation"
I’m still waiting on an answer if Donald is using drones in Iran from the American company where Don Jr. sits on the board that has Pentagon contracts, or the Israeli drone company that Eric just invested in.
Any reporter have enough stones to ask this question?
Leestip: de bijdrage van @timothysnyder.bsky.social in de @groene.nl
Om zijn fascistische systeem te voltooien, moet Trump een oorlog beginnen die het land niet wil www.groene.nl/artikel/de-s...
You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.
And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.
