2016: Could the GOP nominating a twice-divorced NYC celeb who’s friendly with gay people mark the end of the culture wars?

2026: Donald Trump, somehow still president, harangues McDonald’s delivery driver about trans people in sports hours after depicting himself as the second coming of Christ

Congress and Other US Officials Must Act to Counter Trump’s Genocidal Threats against the Iranian People - CIP April 7, 2026 – Center for International Policy President & CEO Nancy Okail issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s escalating threats against the Iranian people: “President Tr...

"Congress should immediately reconvene to pass a War Powers Resolution disengaging U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities against Iran. Lawmakers should also make clear that they will not support any supplemental appropriation whatsoever to fund this unauthorized war."

same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen

This doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and would have been dangerous in October. Also the sources don't say four days. It was more than 2 weeks between the battles and he could have covered the distance on horse with some retainers and assembled a different army in the south.

Howard is absolutely right.

An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

Gettysburg (I grew up in Gettysburg, so cheap field trip).

An e-card that reads, "People are losing the spirit of the Ides of March. It's not about just stabbing. It's about coming together to stab in groups."

Happy tyrant assassination day!

Definitely. I know lots of people are trying to figure that out! I doubt there's enough data yet to come to a firm conclusion, but maybe it'll further encourage the Chadian turn away from the RSF.

The Iran War: Establishment Voices Criticize the Strategy But Accept the Premise It's better to reject the war root and branch.

This is a really compelling statement from Alex Thurston on the grotesque amorality of Democratic Party "natsec" circle criticisms of the Iran War. They are laser-focused on strategy and legality rather than the monstrousness criminality of the act itself.
alexthurston.substack.com/p/the-iran-w...

This is big.

The Netherlands and Iceland have both joined the case brought by South Africa against Israel over breaches of the Genocide Convention in Gaza 👇

I know this one. Flabby Road, right?

This is key, as long as the tools are there (presidential war powers framework, network of overseas bases and logistics emplacements, institutionally powerful Pentagon and national security state, etc), they will be used to ill purpose. The only morally coherent position is to dismantle them.

The war on Iran & the war on immigrants aren’t different stories— wars justify investments in technologies of violence, create a foreign threat that manufactures consent for the abrogation of domestic rights.

See: “War on Terror” that killed millions & in whose shadow DHS was formed.

Liberation in focus: Rare Guinea-Bissau photos added to NAI Library online archive - The Nordic Africa Institute Historic photographs from Guinea-Bissau’s liberation struggle, taken in 1970 by Knut Andreassen, are now accessible through the NAI Library’s Liberation Africa archive.

Digitized photographs from Guinea-Bissau's struggle for independence...

A foreign policy for the working class is one where states collaborate to discipline capital instead of working with capital to discipline our democracies.

Kitchen table conversation about anti-fascist economics with the one and only @aoc.bsky.social in Berlin.

La France reconstruit sa stratégie de défense en Afrique Alors que Paris a perdu du terrain, ces dernières années, dans son ancien pré carré ouest-africain, les autorités françaises s’apprêtent à ratifier un accord avec le Kenya, lequel illustre leur volont...

I'm quoted in this Le Monde article on Macron's efforts to reconfigure France's security policy in Africa. As we've seen recently in Benin and Madagascar, la Françafrique isn't dead, and there's more continuity here than a break with the past. www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

I simply couldn't keep quiet about some people's reaction to @davidolusoga.bsky.social's Empire episode dedicated to Mau Mau.

Read my two cents in my latest article for @africasacountry.bsky.social.

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Well to be fair he's rather on the opposite side of the war from the Chadian government, especially after Déby executed his brother to eliminate him from the presidential election.

Honestly probably one of the least surprising ones in my mind.

Lew, like McGurk, Sullivan, Blinken: more than complicit. Meaningfully responsible.

A clip from my interview with Nikhil Pal Singh - on his recent essay in @equatormag.bsky.social

Lol. Lmao.

I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

Ist Statement On Venezuela <figure class="image image-style-side"><img src="https://internationalsocialists.org/storage/images/fZmIDzdCzANpT5VG5XR4fKGcheByfopgMJKEtjZs.jpg"><figcaption>President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro. Pho...

IS Tendency statement on Venezuela internationalsocialists.org/announcement...

Found my old pog collection. Some pretty sick slammers in there. Rocking the holiday season like it's 1994.

A few excerpts from Darmok's Christmas Story:

Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole.

Randy, his arms down.

The Old Man, when the lamp broke.

Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.

This is all about militarist aesthetics and nothing to do with actually countering these groups. One can only hope that the Nigerian government can manage US posturing in a way that limits potential negative consequences.

HARPERS WEEKLY. JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION Vor. VII.-No. 314.] NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1863. GELCOM SANTA CLAUS SANTA CLAUS IN CAMP.-[SEE PAGE 6]

Nast's image was published in the 1862 Christmas issue of Harper’s Weekly, during days filled with both trials for the Union and rising hope. Santa Claus has arrived by sleigh in a Union army camp to distribute gifts. This was the moment that Nast conceived and introduced our modern image of Santa Claus. Combining European traditions of St. Nicholas with folk images of elves from his native Germany, he created the jolly gift-giver now associated with Christmas that here offers cheer to soldiers far from home. He distributes boxes of necessities such as warm socks, copies of Harper's Weekly, and entertains the crowd with a jumping jack dangling from a noose, its chest lettered "Jeff" in reference to the Confederate President Jefferson Davis. In the background, soldiers chase an escaped hog, roast meat on a spit and play fairground games such as climbing a greased pole. This image on the title page of the journal was supported by a two-page spread within the journal that shows Santa visiting sleeping children in New York (see 33.35.26 and 29.88.4(8)).

One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.

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