I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
6/In many ways the US invented this game i.e. using hubs for coercion. That makes it all the more surprising that it seems utterly unprepared to respond to Iranian moves.
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This administration, and this man specifically, has no idea how to exercise real power for real ends.
Yep, it’s a new kind of dumb.
"No stupid rules of engagement" means no Geneva Conventions or other international humanitarian laws, which the U.S. signed and supported for more than a century.
Hegseth and Trump are pro-war crimes.
Process?
Something broke in him, didn’t it?
The Revolution is not over!
Ok then.
Let’s fight tyranny.
This has gone full Nuremberg Rally.
I’m sorry. Voting is not a privilege. It’s a right.
Nice, short, insightful piece that may explain a lot about current US foreign policy, including, just maybe, snatching Maduro.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
A group including Catholic organizations announced Jan. 21 a new partnership — The Catholic Immigrant Prophetic Action Project — that aims to assist the Catholic Church in the U.S. in organizing a robust response on behalf of migrants and refugees in the country.
"Rather than waiting for the hegemon to restore an order it’s busy dismantling, create your own institutions and agreements that function as intended. Countries earn the right to principled stands by reducing their vulnerability to retaliation.” Important piece by @seva.bsky.social.
Read this.
I wrote yesterday that Miller is a shitty realist. But Drezner is a very good one and the people he cites are excellent International Relations theorists. So, read the piece, it helps to explain where we were, where we are going, and how Trump is so very different even from unilateralist, dim Bush
"Defunded by Congress and fearing the Trump administration might pervert the organization to further undermine free media, the board members agreed it was better to salt the earth than leave behind a place for Trump to plant his poisonous, choking weeds." — @lizdye.bsky.social
"What we are witnessing, day after day, is an utter outrage. It continues to amaze me that so many of our fellow Americans can respond with indifference or a willful commitment to ignore all this."
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It’s not a question of finding reasons. The problem is deciding which of the dozens of grounds for impeachment to vote on.
1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism.
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"By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors."
NYT Editorial Board
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
This has all happened before. It will all happen again.
🧵Here's a research-backed answer: No.
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It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
“The real evils in war,” Augustine said, “are love of violence, revengeful cruelty, fierce and implacable enmity, wild resistance, and the lust of power.” We’d be fools not to suspect that such lusts drive some of us today and cause us moral injury.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
"Starting in the spring and then escalating over the summer, President Donald Trump sent federal troops or 'called up' National Guard units to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Memphis, Portland, and Chicago...The Founders would be appalled."
www.thebulwark.com/p/founders-t...
In 1920s, Pius XI explained how he had approached negotiations with Mussolini: "When it comes to saving souls, we feel the courage to negotiate even with the devil." In later years, Pius XI understood the cost of those negotiations. Some US bishops seems to have learned nothing.
Pope Leo weighs in on Chicago's ICE detention center where Communion has been denied to detainees. He said church leaders should be allowed to provide pastoral care to those inside who have often lived peacefully for years. www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...
🧵New piece from me @goodauth.bsky.social on risks of striking Venezuela, focused on the added risk from Trump team of loyalists. Hint: it has to do with centralized role of Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, and the incompetence of advisers like SecDef Hegseth. 1/
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Among all the things wrong with this, maybe it is not in the U.S. national interest for the president to make dramatic foreign policy changes in response to a TV ad?
