I'm skeptical of that report, given the source … but also, "invoke nuclear codes" is a very mealy-mouthed way of phrasing what they're talking about.

That's the opposite of understanding it.

In my hyper conservative churches growing up, I was always warned about liberalism but never far right authoritarianism. I was always warned about socialism but never predatory capitalism. I was always warned about feminism but never misogyny. I was always warned about homosexuality but never about abuse in the church. I was always warned about Islamic extremists, but never Christian nationalism. Imagine what American Christianity would look like today if it had focused on its own sins.

I'm with you, but we don't have to go as far as banning all computers. Just LLMs. That way we could still have efficient calculations without Mentats.

Tweet from Tim Alberta, which reads: “My conviction remains: God did not ordain Donald Trump to rescue the American church, or revive the American church, or redeem the American church. God ordained Donald Trump to test the American church. And the American church has failed.”

I’ve said this same thing since 2016.

Sure. I'm sure Klein doesn't think *everyone* will do that, and I doubt he thinks even most will … but I'm pretty sure he's right that at least some will, and who knows how many? As you say … many people can't think clearly. (And many simply feel rather than think.)

Amazing. Thanks for reposting that!

because they cannot support Israel, they must be antisemitic (and then lean into that).

4. So Klein is warning the manipulators from point 1 that equating the two can work both ways. In the past it has *mostly* convinced people to support Israel so as not to be antisemitic. But if supporting Israel becomes odious enough, it might also convince some to conclude that …

2. Klein knows that anti-Zionism is *not* the same as antisemitism. (In other words, yes, anti-Zionism is OK.)

3. He notes that, as a result of Israel's current and recent actions, anti-Zionism is increasing. (He doesn't say this, but that's especially true among younger people.)

I'm going to try to actually answer your question … forgive me if some of this is obvious.

1. Some Israel supporters manipulate people into unconditionally supporting Israel by (falsely) saying that if you're anti-Zionist, you are antisemitic.

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Anti-Zionism is rising as a response to what Israel is doing. It will simply not be possible to treat it as a marginal viewpoint that can be shamed or shunned into invisibility. Yes, antisemitism often cloaks itself in anti-Zionism. So don't do the antisemites' work for them. If you keep telling people that if they oppose the Jewish state then they must hate the Jewish people, eventually, they will believe you.

I don’t often find myself agreeing with Ezra Klein, but this is completely correct — and frankly, shows some guts for a mainstream liberal columnist to say. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...

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To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

We saw one (a little younger than 7) at the next table at the restaurant where we ate Friday night, watching the reentry with *extreme* interest and a lot of questions right with us.

I wish I could stop thinking about that.

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the crew of the artemis mission on the uss john p murtha

there’s an alien in the window

a view of the alien from the other side

lol they put a blow up alien in the window of the recovery ship to greet the astronauts

Gov. Pritzker: "I know the Republicans say Democrats aren't patriotic. We're more patriotic. We believe in this country more than they do. They're tearing down the laws. They're operating in an unconstitutional fashion. They elected somebody who is ruining our democracy."

I say this as a Christian Priest & Theologian:

Any Christianity that threatens to kill an entire civilization needs to be ripped up, shredded & incinerated.

Burn it so from its ashes a more ancient, love-oriented Christianity that looks, tastes & smells like Jesus may rise.

And at least two "Bloody"s.

I once taught a class at <a 3-letter agency I can't name>. The car in front of me at the entrance gate had the license plate "SPOOK". I mentioned it to a student in my class who had done actual field work, and he scoffed: "I guarantee that guy is an accountant or a middle manager."

This will take longer than one term, and the payoffs will not be immediate. So the priority should be destroying the ways Republicans rig elections. That includes the Supreme Court. If we start doing all the other things and then get voted out after one term, it's all for nought.

Move over, Baghdad Bob. Here comes Tehran Tim

A coward should not be president. A weakling should not be president. A man who shames his country so spectacularly should not be president.

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER.

The City of Pittsburgh just passed legislation banning cooperation with ICE.

The vote was unanimous.

🎉🎉🎉

Our best-case scenario, ATM, is that our autocratic president is a bellicose liar who threatens genocide and war crimes to obtain totally undecipherable objectives.

Best case.