Not sure who is more pathetic: Those who voted for Trump because they believed he'd be anti-war or pro-market! But Veronique de Rugy tells me @theunpopulist.net that he proved worse for the free market cause than the worst projections:
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Trump slapping himself on gov buildings and programs isn't just a vulgar display of vanity but deeply corrosive to America's founding republicanism. Brilliant read by @andycraig.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net
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Libertarians these days: "Make access to psychedelics easier and to vaccines harder." RFK! RFK! RFK :)
Vance serves a profane, godless administration and lectures the Pope on how to lead. He is a disgrace to the ideals of his country and his faith:
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LOL! But the patient he's tending to so tenderly looks like Epstein.
One of the best things about the Orban route is that Vance has given us delicious footage that can be run endlessly of him standing with an utter looser and shilling for him. This might finish Vance too!
As solid a case as you'll hear to impeach Trump even if it doesn't result conviction. "Authoritarian movements get more radicalized, not less, as they move forward. Someone like Trump gets more unhinged as it all goes to his head...And it’s foolish to accept that we’re stuck with him for 4 years."
In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.
A superb piece by @timothysnyder.bsky.social. Vance went to Hungary and peddled vile lies about the Ukrainian threat to Western civ to sell Orban to his own people. Sunday elections are a test of whether such tactics wok.
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Reminder that people lost their jobs for saying Trump and his administration were racist
We cannot minimize and normalize genocidal rhetoric as "some colorful language." It'll numb and inure us, undermining our capacity to make proper moral distinctions, engage in moral reasoning itself. @mattjj89.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net
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Thank you!
A U.S. Army staff sergeant is attempting to stop his wife from being deported after she was detained Thursday at a Louisiana military base where the couple planned to live together.
If Vance and Rubio fail to stop Trump, they should resign or face war crimes charges.
Let's indulge the fancy that Trump will get successfully impeached if he carries through his threat to obliterate Iran. It'll still be too little too late. The annihilation of another country should not be the price for holding your tyrant accountable.
Iranians are forming human chains around their infrastructure. Iranians are some of the most patriotic people I've ever met They aren't going to be bullied and they won't be turned
Iranians are feeling sheer terror today. Americans are feeling sheer helplessness that their mad ruler is terrorizing them and they are powerless to stop him. Those who voted for him despite being warned that he would generate crisis after crisis and bring the world to a brink, are you happy now?
What's striking about this clip is the creeping moral relativism among Trump apologists. "Trump does things his own way." Other presidents have done it their way. There are no objective moral truths. A president promising war crimes is the same as one pained about loss of innocent lives. Depraved.
If u r going to read one thing this Easter Sun, make it this piece by @tomgpalmer.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net
about the analytic blindspots of Mearsheimer's realist school of thought that leads him to his hideous defense of Putin's aggression against Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
At 6 pm, @theunpopulist.net will hold its first ever live chat on Substack when legal correspondent @andycraig.bsky.social will dissect yesterday's oral arguments on the birthright citizenship case with @gowder.io. You will need to subscribe to listen. You can do so for free or pay. Either way, join
Apparently, in the oral arguments today the guvmint lawyer was ranting that there are 500 companies helping Chinese with birth tourism. If so they must be operating at a massive loss. I wrote in 2011 about the infinitesimal numbers of such tourists when last time there was a panic about this:
Yet another example of Trump's rampant illegality!
It's your one-stop shop for every aspect of the argument you need to understand about this case. So do read.
Liberal intellectuals are competing to see who can apologize hardest for liberalism. Jonathan Rauch says that's exactly what liberalism's enemies want.
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The anti-Muslim rhetoric is getting especially vicious, even by today’s abysmal standards. Such demonization and dehumanization is a prelude to an official denial of rights. And that is exactly what Texas Repubs are doing to Muslim citizens. At @theunpopulist.net . open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
I was in the audience and it was an interesting panel.
A DOGE contractor expected a presidential pardon for stealing Social Security data. The Pentagon banned photographers for unflattering photos. Courts struck down six illegal appointments. One week, five abuses, one roundup. www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-dep...
Check out this @ismapolicy.bsky.social panel from LibCon2025 on the rise of extremist subcultures on the right.
Trump & the DOD’s war on Anthropic makes clear — “the age of AI-powered warfare is here, and we have no adequate laws to govern it.” More from CAP's @adamconner.bsky.social for @theunpopulist.net: https://tinyurl.com/5csv9uy7
