Having an official sadistically obsessed with "lethality" quoting the Bible would be blasphemous. Far better for him to quote a crude, violent movie.

A bit late with that question, don't you think?

Turkeys are certainly welcome at law schools. Numerous subjects at which they excel.

True. But it's also coupled with fierce attacks on viewpoints beyond conservative ones. Various left views are described as too far outside the mainstream to be serious. What makes some conservative viewpoints "serious" is not their rigor or popular support but self-interested money pushing them.

TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo:
“weak on crime”
“terrible for foreign policy”
“catering to the Radical Left”
“owes his position to me”
“sit down and mind your own business”

POPE LEO, unbothered:
“We are called to love.”

“The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet often a lifetime is not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of $$ are spent on killing+devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education+restoration are nowhere to be found”

You cannot call yourself anti-imperialist and yet think Ukraine shouldn't have tried to leave the Ru "sphere of influence" for its own good and the West should've endlessly rather than partially accommodated Ru's self-asserted "sphere of influence". I can't believe this needs to be said. Again.

You can't simultaneously lament the fall of the USSR and be a minimally credible anti-imperialist. You just can't. The USSR was an empire and it was brought down by anti-imperialist, local liberation movements and mobilization. In addition,...

It can hardly be about negotiations if the U.S. has neither a coherent negotiating position nor competent negotiators -- nor the patience to last more than two days in negotiations nor any self-awareness about how badly the war has gone so far.

Hungary is an inspiring but limited lesson. This valuable 🧵 shows it limits in more completely corrupted places like Georgia. It also may not apply to the U.S. because too many progressives think President Trump is a transitory problem to ally with pro-democracy conservatives like Magyar. And no EU.

Lukashenko! Lukashenko! President Trump can always find common ground with the Belarusian dictator. His true friend in Europe.

Will the Majority Leader announce each time that "If the distinguished creep from Texas were present, he would vote 'aye'" while the Minority Leader states that "the distinguished creep from California is unavoidably absent but, if present, would vote 'no'"?

I kinda doubt that high rent is a problem in Houghton.

Some voters tend to tune out critics' warnings about President Trump's distorted worldview, but I have trouble imagining any Christian denomination that would not find this picture horrendously offensive, especially in the season that commemorates Jesus's extreme sacrifices. Truly jaw-dropping.

I see a similar failure to understand negotiation on the left. If it was as simple as "just say 'no'" until you get what you want, why would not the other side do the same? It requires a cool-headed assessment of the alternatives to a deal, careful listening to the other side and lots of persistence

Making deals where both sides can get what they want, or deals at a 3d party's expense (e.g., taxpayers), or deals you don't plan to keep, can be easy. But anyone who has ever negotiated legislation or settled a lawsuit knows you rarely can tell if a deal is possible until after several rounds. 2/3

Iran War Live Updates: Top Iranian Negotiator Suggests Further Peace Talks Are Possible

For all its bluster about bringing business skills to government, I increasingly believe these people don't know the first thing about real negotiations. If talks ended when one side rejected the other's demands, almost no deals would ever be made. It takes creativity
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

"Under God"! Someone is making an all-in bet against divine thunderbolts. I, for one, would rather get my theology from thoughtful, prayerful scholars than masked thugs toting weapons of war in densely populated cities.

a criminal conviction isn’t required to say someone does not have the moral character to run for office and i don’t understand why this needs to be said over and over and over again.

Any story of national greatness must include both the raw capacity to do good and a governance system that supports rather than obstructing that capacity. We are in the process of demonstrating how to make America less great again. This should cause serious introspection.

Orban has conducted master classes in gerrymandering and voter suppression so the opposition needs far more than majority support to win. They appear to have that, but both Hungarian and Russian security forces are quite capable of cheating. The last Belarusian election is a cautionary tale.

Trump's Cabinet Asked To Invoke 25th Amendment Against President - Newsweek share.google/P5SbigxbLGt3...
Talking about the 25th Amendment is a formal way to say that the President is not all there and to hold Vance accountable, but given this ghastly cabinet has zero chance of success. Distraction?

But but but President Trump specifically said that Iran already had regime change. So why does Hegseth still want the Iranian people to rise up?!?

Striking revelation here is not that the Administration's leadership has no moral standards - we knew that - but rather that they have no conception of people who do. If the Pope became even a fraction as transactional as they demand, he would cease to be the Pope.

Pretty remarkable: not one of the countries they name is a success story for the U.S. We provided many of the arms to install the Taliban in Afghanistan (twice). Nicaragua has the same president now as then. Angola has the same Marxist party in charge. Honduras is still a big problem for the U.S.

He truly is omnivorous in his embrace of international law violations. And it says something that blocking freedom of navigation appeals both to him and to Iran.

They might have better success conquering the Moon than they have Ukraine. At least it wouldn't require a general motivation. And, with no atmosphere, the Moon is one of the few places Ukrainian drones cannot find them.

The 'Nexus' Plot: Trump Has Seized Congress's 'Most Compleat and Effectual Weapon' New memos claim the presidential power to use the Treasury at will.

I could not have written this explanation of how Congress is letting Trump seize its power without the help of @davidasuper.bsky.social

(I could have written something, but it would have had many more mistakes!)

The analysis in this 🧵 is excellent. But I deeply wish Americans would stop using the TACO dig. This is a deeply insecure, prideful man without internal or external constraints. If we goad him into resuming attacks on civilians, we will not be the primary ones to suffer. Analysis, yes; mockery, no.

Very true. Like it or not, we live in a world where malign actors can put their puppets in charge of whole nations. Pretending it is not so only encourages more meddling and makes the problem worse.

Of course that ought to be Russia: no country has done more for Iran.

And of course it will not be Russia: no country has done more for President Trump.