This is an absurd argument and Foreign Affairs should be embarrassed to publish it.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Trump is demonstrating the importance of credibility in international relations.

He is not credible. He’s shown that others can’t trust what he says, and can’t act as if his stance will be the same tomorrow. He can’t communicate demands or make reliable offers. He made America’s word is worthless.

Lafayette’s new poet laureate is Michele Battiste

Lafayette’s new poet laureate is Michele Battiste

Exactly right. And an ideological loyalty to internal combustion engines that clouds how they see new developments

I also don’t think it will play out this way, but he was right about virtually everything else, every day, for the past six weeks.

Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.

Dylan Williams @dylanotes This meets the threshold for intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group as set forth in 18 US Code § 1091 prohibiting the crime of genocide. It any Iranians are killed pursuant to this threat, President Trump will be guilty of genocide, as will those assisting him. Rapid Respo... @RapidRespo... • 4h Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

Called my Senators and Representative, urging them to cut their recess short, show up in DC, and prepare articles of impeachment against Trump for violating "18 US Code § 1091 prohibiting the crime of genocide," as so clearly explained by my @cipolicy.bsky.social colleague @dylanwilliams.bsky.social

Did Trump Just Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons in Iran? If such an order comes to pass, the military can and must refuse.

If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order.

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Donald Trump is openly threatening war crimes against the entirety of Iranian civilization.

25th Amendment proceedings must begin immediately, but if the Cabinet is too cowardly, the House should begin the impeachment process now.

okay hear me out

The bafflement I feel towards the information ecosystem in which streamers and their audience engage really gives me a lot more empathy to previous generations’ confusion around social media.

I read somewhere that it’s because they like him and want him to rule us forever

Fascinating. Didn’t realize that DSA had similarly weak party control as Ds and Rs.

Missing Airman Raises Concerns That Iran Could Gain Leverage Over the U.S.

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

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Happy NATO founding day to all who celebrate! If you think the alliance isn’t worthwhile, know that everything the U.S. tries to do in the world will be harder and more expensive without allied help. Trade them for better allies if you can find any. I can’t.

I suspect DSA would be more effective if they carved out/split with the communist cosplayers. Folks like Mamdani & AOC offer a path forward for DSA. The Leninist/Maoist fanboys are stale jokes and undercut the appeal of an assertive progressive left. Do you have a sense why they haven’t done that?

Incredibly excited by the prospect of ranked choice voting in Lafayette!

What in the actual fuck was that

Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest?

Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything."

A short 🧵:

thoughts on today:

1) the protests are good, actually

2) you should go to one of you can

3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy

4) you might meet people who you can organize with

5) there are more of us than there are of them

6) we are going to win

Oh man this one takes me back. Didn’t McChrystal quip “When we figure this slide out we’ll have won the war” ?

Iran’s post-attack strategy is endurance and the (imbalanced) strangulation of global economy is well underway. Agree with your earlier point that a lot can still happen… but with attacker revising aims yet again & clearly looking for exit, if regime survives this onslaught that’s gotta be a W

if a country endures leadership decapitation (tho familial succession) & mass destruction of civ/mil targets & regime remains & that state exerts its will on the global economy and yet the attacker is unable to achieve any of its pre-war aims… that’s a tacit acceptance the attacking state failed

Astonishing. The goal of our war is now to undo the effect of the war we started.

Gosh, if only we could rewind to, say, four weeks ago when the Strait of Hormuz was open and normal!

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This is partly the “I would have joined, but” guy phenomenon.

Jason Kander brilliantly took it down www.instagram.com/reel/DVesFwS...

I’d be fascinated to learn how the race would have looked with ranked choice voting / instant runoff. But agreed, huge kudos for her guts and bravery

This resignation is to preserve political capital for Kent’s next move. That’s always been his MO and reputation in the CT community.

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The sounds my house is making in this windstorm tonight are unholy.