Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

One thing in The Power Broker that blew me away: induced demand was very well understood in the 1930s.

Former Biden administration senior advisor Amos Hochstein says he supported last summer's Operation Midnight Hammer, in which the Trump administration struck Iran's nuclear facilities, because "we had thought internally in the Biden administration we may have to take [strikes] if there was a second term." "We did war games. We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into it, because that may have had to happen under

Biden's point man on Lebanon and one of his overall most important advisor for MENA said yesterday morning that he agreed with Trump's strikes on Iran last year lol.

Democrats really need to reassess how people like this were (and still are) allowed to be at the top of their foreign policy echelon.

this has been really clear for many years and centrist pundits have been willing marks

Yes - frustration with them being hard to use (all the gripes about how hard it was to send an attachment!) No one said smart phones didn't work; they wanted them to work better.

Were there early PC or Internet users saying they didn't work? I mostly remember opinions ranging from evangelism to "meh".

More Bourtange pics!

Oh yeah. I think there are dudes at the Pentagon/Bragg/Tampa/Langley who still harbor a personal grudge over losing Cuba to the commies, too. Some of them were born after the end of the Cold War.

This.

This is what truly angry fed judges have to do. Undermine the protection these thugs have from a Redeemer DOJ that revels in their cruelty.

Will appellate courts reverse? Maybe. But some cases will get thru, and if they do in a place with a reformer DA, charges Trump can't pardon can follow.

I agree with the general sentiment, but this is apples and oranges. These photos never show a 20yo F250 next to a new F250.

Everyone on here acts like Fetterman didn't spend ten+ years as mayor and Lt gov before running for Senate

I hadn't checked the Senate race. Fingers crossed for Booker again - def has a shot this year. Dems will lose if they nominate McGrath.

And Beshear's not doing that, which is why the donors like him. He barely wins in Kentucky with his daddy's name: that doesn't play in WV, Arkansas, Missouri, Pa.

I grew up in a rural area in SC that has some similar vibes to Ky. (Also lived in Louisville.) I think middle/lower-middle class Kentucky voters could get fired up for someone promising to go full-throttle against big firms, rich people, and corruption. Absent that, they vote for the racist guy.

(And it doesn't address those issues)

I say "apparently" because it's just my assumption from a summer road trip visit. It looks cool, but it obviously impacts building costs. (Plus, it's in the middle of nowhere: building supplies and contractors are mostly coming from Cortez/Montrose, both over an hour away.)

I read that whole thing just to see if they'd mention the apparently very onerous design standards in Telluride. They have now-normal wildfire flammability and insulation/sealing (very frigid winters) standards, but everything built in Telluride has to mimic ramshackle old mining-town buildings.

Dude's never had a job that he didn't get through his dad

bsky.app/profile/kja....

His career, according to Wikipedia, is amazing: Vandy, UVA law, two years at daddy's old law firm, then back to Kentucky to daddy's then-current firm, then runs for state AG the year that daddy's two terms as governor ended.

Pretending your lesbian friend from high school who's always worked for non-profits is somehow a prominent Democratic elected official

Folks keep talking like Fetterman didn't have ten years as a mayor and a stint as lt. gov. It wasn't in elected roles, but even Sinema had more of a public record than Platner.

Sinema was a green partyer before she won her election and sold out and Fetterman was already an unreliable asshole before the stroke, it just made him a lot worse very quickly.

Platner might vote better than either of them, but he's cut from the same cloth.

Sarah Isgur QTing the NYT shadow docket story: In 2014 and 2015, the Court used the “shadow docket” to stop Texas’ anti-abortion restrictions from going into effect while the case was pending. The left was thrilled with the shadow docket at that point—years before this case even existed…

Isgur is such a fucking hack. the case she’s referring to is one where the 5th Circuit entered a stay and it was appealed to SCOTUS. the case in the Times story involved the Court intervening to stay an EPA rule while a lower court was still adjudicating the issue.

Dude's governor because half his voters thought they were voting for his daddy

Jeez, I still remember Gideon's godawful announcement video. Tried to humanize her by shooting in her kitchen, but it's a kitchen with like a Viking range or something in the background.

"He must be good if he can win in Kentucky!"

Yeah, he squeaked by repulsive Matt Bevin the first time and an even worse candidate last time. And half of Andy's voters think they're voting for his daddy.

I'm not saying he's the worst nepo baby in Dem politics.

Beshear wins in Kentucky because the GOP nominates ridiculously bad opponents and because half his voters think they're voting for his daddy.

I didn't pay that much attention to Kentucky politics anymore, but I know enough to comfortably say he does not have the rizz

I'm gonna go full disenchanted former officer here and say those guys volunteered for this after Vietnam and after Iraq.