You may have noticed: American politicians are really old. You, and everyone else who follows American politics.
But you may not know that American politicians are exceptionally old compared to other democracies.
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We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.
This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.
and how about where they stick the table of contents? Tout à fait pervers
Last week I joined a spicy panel asking whether/how AVs fit into NYC. Here's a summary.
Me: "It’s just too inefficient to have individuals inside a big box of a car. I don’t care how it’s operated. That’s just not how what you scale to make New York City a faster, more-efficient and safer place."
A compelling piece of evidence but most Republicans would sooner disavow Jesus than let go of their bullshit about voter fraud
*actually pronounced mə-DAR
Thank you for your attention to Chase Madar (center)
Scene of destruction in southern Lebanon, with two Israeli tanks in the foreground moving along demolished homes and buildings. Text Block: THE LRB PODCAST The War in Lebanon With Adam Shatz, Joelle Abi-Rached and Mohamad Bazzi
“The Lebanese army has been kept weak and ineffective on purpose. That’s part of the Israeli-US strategy” — my conversation on Lebanon with Adam Shatz and Joelle Abi-Rached for @lrb.co.uk podcast | www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
A bit of casual war-criming to manipulate the markets before tomorrow morning’s opening. Like every other weekend. Has any war ever been so gruesome and yet at the same time so tedious?
kash patel and pete hegseth are DUI hires.
Biden, Blinken and Sullivan were not “duped” by Netanyahu. They are true believers in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine for Zionist settlement. Just ask them who should have a “right of return” and who shouldn’t! That is their choice and nobody tricked them into it.
Unpleasant but it’s the truth
The reason the US right wants us talking about "mysterious conspiracy theories" is because they don't want us talking about matters of public policy and how to use political power to improve the lives of ordinary people. Every day we're talking about conspiracies is a day they're winning.
You can expect any head of state to lie, directly or not, to advance their national interests. Netanyahu is not remotely unique in that respect. What is unique is that a dominant bipartisan faction in the U.S. has invited Israel into our own situation room as a matter of course. That needs to end!
Gotcha.
Yeah seriously. Or Trump jabbering about “taking Iran’s oil” to Barbara Walters in 1987. Look, Israel’s influence in Washington is dire but it is very much an American pathology to grant that small country so much access and influence and to do these idiot things
What propelled her (not “pulled”; I’m fussy about this) is a militaristic political culture and a domestic lobby which has close ties to Israel but is still _American_ and part of our internal politics. Israel would have very little influence in the U.S. without this _American_ faction.
But for Kamala to even acknowledge (let alone combat) the power of the Israel Lobby and its dug-in, bipartisan domestic faction, or our country’s rich native tradition of conquest & empire, is not something she’s capable of – and that inability is suddenly a net liability for Democratic pols
It serves interest of both Kamala and Tucker to cast their respective presidents as chump victims but that is nonsense. As a matter of simple physics a small country is incapable of pulling a large & powerful country into war unless the latter is eager and willing
The Hegseth sabbath. 🙏☠️
What are good vernacular translations (brief and broadly intelligible) for the two highlighted pieces of cant?
It’s not the case that Trump “got pulled into” attacking Iran any more than Netanyahu “tricked” or “played” Biden. To put it this way denies that most of our Beltway foreign policy actors, both parties, have deeply internalized Israel’s perspective and interests. That’s an American pathology, on us.
Josh Shapiro should run for president, touting his prior volunteer work for the IDF and rock-solid support for Israel.
So should Rahm.
Kamala should also run, on her record of silent loyalty to Biden, and all he did to deserve it.
All of them, run! The primary results will be clarifying
What a mensch, for the message in French and for the Anishinaabe custom patch. Acts not just of decency but of great style. Things like this are why I generally like Canadians. (This is the first Artemis report that has moved me in any way.) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
This is incredible.
Also. Fuck RFK Jr.
OPINION | The Four Lessons Conservatives Should Consider After Kamala Harris’ Defeat | guest columnists Angela Davis and Noam Chomsky
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👇🎯 Yes but it needs to go further:
- No shadow docket
- No clerks
- No building
- Riding the circuit
We can debate necessary structural reforms like more seats & such. But first, immediately, the next Congress needs to strip these Wizards In Robes of every perk & power not explicitly in Art. III.
