The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in

Fiber optic drones can’t be electronically disrupted—because they’re connected by a long, unspooling wire, there’s no signal to hack—but I wondered what all that activity was leaving behind.

The answer is so much cable strewn about near the front line it’s visible from the air.

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error.

President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did:

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

The thing is Stancil Thought is so unbelievably bleak I can’t believe it, because I’d just give up. Truly, if elections are swayed only by memes and not by actually doing anything that helps people, what’s the point of.., anything really? So I just need to decide it’s bs

Double.

one insane thing about schumer's statements about khalil is that trump has been perfectly clear that he has not suspected of a crime. schumer nonetheless provided trump with an opportunity to confabulate a crime both trump and rubio have denied occurred. just lying to defend the president.