Excited that InfoWars has switched sides in the infowars

This is actually the normal and legal functioning of a blockade. Blockading ships can order ships running the blockade to stop for inspection - a ship that refuses to stop can be fired upon to make it stop.

Ships with contraband or running the blockade can be seized.

Thank you! I didn't know about that

Palantir put plans for techno-fascism in a document. Like a techno-fascist manifesto with themselves at the center. Features fascistic distortions of language and declarations of inherent superiority that should be acknowledged and made permanent, but driven by and with a more central role for tech.

Oh, they want viewpoint diversity? I'm excited to see which Marxist economists the business school hires, then

Also, publishers pay to get books displayed on those tables. It's a whole 'nother revenue stream for bookstores. So I don't think it's Waterstones he should be mad at

(as if his complaint were honest)

To understand why the USA is where it is today, all you need to do is see that Trump cannot tolerate even the mildest, insightful criticism from the Pope, but Trump will allow Putin to humiliate him deeply and constantly, while still craving Putin’s approval.

It begins. An unholy army of cats and raccoons.

By this I mean that the Iranians have realized that if Trump can make outlandish market-moving claims with no evidence, they can too. And given how savvy they are about evading sanctions, it would not surprise me if some regime insiders aren't getting in on the insider trading action.

"We tried to fight a war we thought would be very easy and instead gave one of the countries in the world most hostile to America the greatest hostage they could possibly imagine" is such a perfect MAGA-style foreign policy disaster, in that its idiocy is only rivaled by its absurdity

Being mad that the Pope won't endorse your war is like being mad that your doctor won't endorse your cocaine habit.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

We are so far beyond even Teapot Dome levels of "government captured by private industry" in this country, and Democrats genuinely seem to believe their unpopularity is driven by being too nice to trans people, instead of being driven by their screamingly obvious hypocrisy about this.

Nations don't have to be afraid of their own past.

I left the Catholic Church, the church I was raised in, after a decade-long struggle that started with the cover-up of sexual abuse and then extended to reproductive rights and LGBT issues but sure, TradCath adult converts, get mad at the Pope for saying "you shouldn't wage war for no reason".

In the end, everything about the Constitution & the Republic was just norms & duct tape, because our Representatives, Senators, & Supreme Court Justices turned out to be oath-violating cowards when it mattered.

that folks who are targets of white supremacy voted for white supremacists will always, always flummox me.

This shit was and is existential, not just a mild inconvenience yet folks sold out their families for what? Resentment politics.

Great situation when the Iranians are far more credible than the US President.

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I could be wrong, but Trump’s war in Iraq has ended more times than every American war in history combined.

Exactly one year ago today:

Just remember that the GOP hasn't even started working on this guy.

This is the critical point regarding Eastman. Trump's allies tried to replicate the alternate electors process of the 1876 presidential election. But they couldn't get states to certify them. Eastman advised abandoning the law and resorting to pure power. That's why he should be disbarred.

Wall Street’s entire response to the Iran War has been a strong indication that it does not indeed represent a perfect synthesis of known information.

Three bookshelves, each seven feet tall and three feet wide, totally packed with books

Screenshot of a tweet by The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) quoting Ambassador Pressman (@AmbPressman) explaining how Hungarian opposition leader Magyar defeated Viktor Orbán by framing Orbán and his Fidesz party as a criminal organization and connecting that message to rural Hungarians' lived experiences. The embedded video shows a man speaking in front of a bookshelf.

We should take the same lesson and apply it to the criminal enterprise being run by Trump and his family. Then boot them from power just like voters just did to Orbán.

Free-riding in NATO is a feature not a bug. If we provide your national security, we decide your foreign policy. It's not like the US pays for their security out of charity—we are buying political power from our allies.

The fundamental insanity in all the "Europe should take care of its own without any help from us" stuff is the anger when then in return the Euros do not completely align with whatever strategy thing you cook up.