Listen, they are building concentration camps and threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people. There is not a single remotely legal tactic that is impermissible when it comes to stopping them.
This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
one of the defining traits of the conservative movement is how ready they are to destroy the lives of completely random nobodies if it helps serve their lies and propaganda.
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
Trump's "art of the deal" has always been about "negotiating for the right to save face after losing catastrophically on a dumb gamble, followed by furiously jumping into another investment so as to erase the memory of the last loss". That's his career. Nothing has changed.
Point 11 from the article. The limits of soft power.
No it's very much the limits of hard power that have been exposed *this week*.
There are three revolutionary areas of technology right now: biotech, energy tech, and AI.
Our shithole regime is deliberately maiming our edge in two of these fields and giving a helping hand to corrupt rent-seekers trying to monopolize the other.
At this point I want the court packed out of spite
The TL;DR is that recently-leaked internal memos from 2016 reveal that John Roberts and the court's conservatives invented the shadow docket because of nakedly ideological opposition to Obama's Clean Power Plan.
This both makes me a little sad and giggle.
Trump six weeks ago:
I demand UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.
Trump today:
I basically surrender on regime change, the nuclear program being gone once and for all, missiles, proxies, sanctions, and paying off the Iranian regime.
But memo to my followers: Let’s pretend it’s all good!
Always amused by:
“Escargot, my car go, one sixty, swiftly”
Ted Cruz quote tweet says: "Tucker Carlson has turned into a deranged, Leftist psycho. Who loves sharia." original Tucker Carlson Network tweet: "The people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus. Islam reveres Him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth go defeat the Antichrist. that's why Donald Trump's painting..."
imagine trying to sustain a serious intellectual culture in the midst of this
For the people who frequent Starbucks all the time, I’m not sure that it’s not.
Has anyone calculated the chance of a J6er being convicted of sex crimes vs the general population? It's gotta be like 10,000% higher
Love seeing conservatives argue for separation between church and state but only when religious doctrine conflicts with blowing people up
everyone involved in the dismantling of USAID should be forced to spend their lives watching graphic videos of what they have subjected people to in their callousness, clockwork orange style
generation lead never fails
>He faced opposition from allies of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his strong support for vaccines and medical science.
What a sentence.
The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.
Not just that he went to Yale, but that he went to Yale and he grew up in a way they can’t fundamentally understand…he’s their imagined white working-class whisperer.
sort of hard to convey the sheer joy, scale and absurdity of it but Budapest's streets are currently so full, past midnight on a Sunday, that it feels like I'm personally walking back to my room, accompanied by my eight to twelve thousand best friends
this is a boring take but if we want this from a Dem President in 2029 we need to deliver the type of huge legislative majority Magyar just achieved and not the razor-thin one that Biden was forced to work with.
Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.
to be replaced by an *American* Pope who *hates* him
Love big-ass truck that can’t fit into parking spots at youth soccer game where space is at a premium.
i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”
