The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

The Horrifying Totality of Trump
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...Such leaders will speak fluently of capabilities, timelines and kill chains. They will have no language for resentment, dishonor, loyalty or grief — and they will discover, too late, that wars are made of these as much as of steel and fire.”

Yonaton Youval in the NYT: “The more technologically sophisticated war becomes, the more dangerous it is to place it in the hands of people untrained in irony, contingency and the darker constants of human nature...

The new White House App the Trump admin just rolled out got a Community Note.

Whether this is Patel or some other dancer, there's nothing wrong with it. I can't stomach Kash Patel, but I don't have any objection to his dancing at home and would just as soon no one's private videos were used this way.

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.”

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

Instead of trying to resign himself to fascism, maybe he should just try resigning.

Trump has a 15-point peace plan for Iran, but no journalist I can find knows what those points are, only that Iran has rejected them all. And Trump has said a ban on Iran's developing nuclear weapons is "point 1, or really points 1, 2, and 3." More bullshitty gibberish from the idiot king.

Aging is the source of enough pressure and loss. I'm not interested in adding sexual competitiveness to the mix.

Why are so many media outlets failing to make this point while ostensibly covering the shutdown? I’m looking at you PBS Evening News.

Bishop Marianne Budde reminds us that "we do well to remember the richer and more accurate understanding of politics: our collective moral and civic responsibility for tending to our common life for the common good."

Oh no! May your vacation be blessed from here on out.

Oh no! May your be blessed from here on out.

ABSOLUTELY BRUTAL: Thom Tillis Tells Kristi Noem To Her Face Why He Is Calling For Her Resignation YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

Here's Thom Tillis' whole 10-minute rant against Kristi Noem at a hearing today. A classic.

Eisenhower

The crews survived. Each F-15 cost $97 Million.

Send him back to Gayle and Nate for morning celebrations of fluff and superficiality.

You've earned that hug! He's probably boasting about your affection for him.

Every station with a news department covered the whole damn thing. TCM, however (and with beautiful irony), showed "Gaslight." I watched a little of that before going to bed, where I read some Toni Morrison until I fell asleep. I think I handled the evening well.

Of course it was. Hardly seems worth mentioning—much less watching.

No, Chuck. He *has* to make the case to Congress, for only they can declare war. He's also free to make the case to the American people. Of course, he won't make any real case at all.

This too…

I couldn't play this game b/c I know too few idiot law professors (so I guessed Turley) but, when I found out who Blackman is, I discovered he calls himself "a national thought leader." That pompous & empty phrase is enough to make me distrust whatever else he has to say.

He's merely been neutralized. So there's nothing particularly positive or negative about the situation.

I follow that logic. I wonder MAGA has come to accept Rubio as a true Trump henchman. I really have no way of knowing.

These stories may be important. They may truly wrench at our hearts. But our nation is under attack from within, and no priority is greater than reporting on the undoing of our constitution and our decency. Will no one with real power and influence fight to save us all?

See a news program cover the Guthrie kidnapping? Ask yourself how quickly the story could have been updated. Ask yourself what neglected stories could have been at least touched on in those 4 minutes. Then ask how many other covered stories don't deserve their priority status.

You're right about who and what Marco is. But I don't think that's a reason to ignore him—not after the standing ovation. He's not merely a prostitute. He's a prostitute in power. He is, I think (and no matter what J.D. may believe), Trump's heir apparent.