The Liquor Cabinet?

If Trump intends to attempt a coup, here are five ways he could do it Despite the debacle in Iran, a president at war has several pressure points at his disposal to postpone, restrict and ultimately cancel democracy, writes the historian

You need to read this.

@timothysnyder.bsky.social has been warning us since 2016 about Trump. He knows: he’s one of world’s leading experts on authoritarianism & always ahead of the game.

V proud to publish him in @thenerve.news. He’s an essential voice.

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After writing this piece, I’m wondering where our American islands might be…

Obverse of a Roman aureus: Bust of Caracalla, laureate, draped, cuirassed, left.

Reverse of a Roman aureus: Isis, draped, standing right, holding sistrum in right hand and presenting two corn-ears to Caracalla, in military attire, standing left, holding spear in right hand and trampling on crocodile.

#OnThisDay - 8 April - in AD 217, according to Cassius Dio (79.5), the Emperor Caracalla was assassinated by the roadside in Parthia, en route from Edessa to Carrhae, aged 29 years & 4 days. #AncientHistory 🏺

Image: RIC IV Caracalla 257B; Münzkabinett Berlin. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

The Age of American Humiliation is Here We're waking up today in a new and stupider world.

Iran defeated and exposed us. They made apparent that the American Empire is weak and vulnerable and the fake ceasefire is a disguised surrender.

Welcome to the Age of American Humiliation. It’s going to get worse if we don’t learn our lessons.

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„Gott mit uns“ is a rallying cry with a long and storied tradition of accompanying the march towards pinacles of human civilisation.

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

Complete with « Gott mit uns ».

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So much winning.

Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

just plainly evil.

Nambia and Ajerderbidjohn are also on their way.

Yeah, well… this inane and totally avoidable clustershmuck will cause misery to Europeans and the rest of the world. People are going to starve due to a shortage in fertiliser. We now all are stuck with a stake in solving this criminal mess.

Content creators are struggling with mental health, study finds | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Digital content creators experience high rates of mental health struggles such as anxiety, depression, and burnout, according to a new study.

The job of "influencer" has always struck me as the very deepest circle of hell. It's basically a *recipe* for burnout & mental illness. It's just so dystopian that young people see it as one of the few viable remaining careers.

There is someone who is working hard to push back the boundaries of the preposterous.

People will die. It’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make.

Lurid Looneys are some of the embodiments of the morbid symptoms that Antonio Gramsci had discerned at a time when an old system is in its final thralls while new one has yet to be born.

the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.

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Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio meets with Secretary Rubio

Enrique Tarrio and other Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy. Trump pardoned them.

Tarrio and his men planned the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Tarrio even claimed credit for it, messaging others: “Make no mistake…We did this…”

Now he’s meeting with Sec. Rubio.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

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Dunno… I hear that very special guests will be handed a golden commemorative plaque.

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No but he knows what he wants the middle of the country to be fed on.

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Dans les affaires humaines, les considérations de justice n’entrent en ligne de compte que lorsque les forces des deux côtés sont égales; sinon, les forts exercent leur pouvoir et les faibles doivent s’incliner."

Thucydide, dialogue Mélien.

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