Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

Yessssss www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

yashar, what's the best estimate we have/source/s you'd recommend?

honestly i am constantly thinking things like "where are the fathers" these days

notification sounds ON????

Point to where I said that. Conventional deterrence = carrier strike groups in the Pacific, nuclear submarines, NATO's eastern flank — the architecture that has prevented great power war for 80 yrs. reading is instructive.

The beauty of "making us LESS safe" is that it requires you to believe that American conventional deterrence has contributed nothing to the absence of great power war for 80 years — a thing you can only believe if you've never thought about it for longer than it takes to type a Bluesky "post"

My latest at Liberal Currents on why Democrats need to learn how to talk about defense:

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

I want you all to guess how much Graham Platner’s grandpa’s chair costs

People are underestimating how good AI is now. What if I were to tell you this whole account is run by AI?...Oh, so you hate me even more?

wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'

I do think we should probably make Jamelle Bouie be president tbh

I think you should all be more normal about Jamelle Bouie.

I am once again asking people to be Normal about Jamelle Bouie.

People don’t really understand the nature of the problem. It’s not lots of little random ankle-biter tweets. That’s annoying but whatever. It’s when hating you becomes this communal pursuit that exists separately from yourself. Like there’s an entire group of people working together to target you.

It kind of gives away the “politics as posting” problem when signing a bill is meaningless, but hosting a podcast is the epitome of reality

and look, it's fine if you're not super familiar with frederick douglass, most people know less about this stuff than they're willing to admit, it's good to go "whoops! I was wrong!"... but MAYBE YOU SHOULD CONSIDER WHETHER THAT IGNORANCE AFFECTS YOUR ESTIMATION OF WHO IS A RACIST GENOCIDE DENIER

being called a racist genocide denier because I referred to "Indian" tribes, by someone who turns around and claims Frederick Douglass is an illiterate who didn't understand slavery, is such an incredible bit that I'm not sure it would work as fiction. it could only be real. it could only be bluesky

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

The number of people on the left who will not only argue that Epstein was obviously an Israeli agent, but who will treat you as somehow part of the conspiracy if you criticize that view, is, uh, not great

If you suspect random prominent Jewish people of being agents for Israel, that is literally antisemitism. How is this not obvious

Denaturalization as criminal punishment is not a thing in American law, it's unconstitutional under any circumstances. It can only be done in the narrow case of somebody who fraudulently obtained the naturalization itself. Otherwise they are no different from natural-born citizens who commit crimes.

If I die, I want my remains to be scattered at the US Capitol. Do not cremate me.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

It’s one thing to get pushed back. It’s another to attempt a charge right into the heart of the enemy. If it peters out halfway, you’re not just losing, you’re going to be annihilated. Trump is fast arriving at that moment

Now what? They can’t regather their momentum. They’re much weaker than before and even their strongest wasn’t strong enough. Their leaders are detested, their cult of personality is built around a rotting human mound, they cannot regain the initial shock. The ship is sinking; who will board it now?