i expected one of those digits. not the other

Tired: the cia is an agent of covert regime change abroad and that’s bad

Wired: the cia is an agent of covert regime change abroad and that’s not only good but essential to democracy

And, I’m sorry, but you don’t get to play the “American imperialism bad” card when $country is actively engaged in trying to destroy the American form of government.

The United States has not only the right but the obligation to defend itself and her people, kinetically, against hybrid warfare.

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

i'm just saying, kinda like

chill, lady, their point was fine

It's wine and fruit! (and some other stuff). Very hard to go bad when you start from that point!

i cannot get over how quickly this is happening. the decline of the other two branches/ascent of the lawless executive is outpacing actual democratic decline, which is usually what precipitates executive consolidation. but in our case, the other two branches are collaborators

i see your point, but idk, I think using those techniques for propaganda is still pretty novel and the narrative she is able to push is all the more effective for it

i think there is merit in it as a groundbreaking work, though not an artistic masterpiece or anything

when I studied abroad in Nanjing there were exactly two foreign restaurants within convenient distance of the university. One was owned by belgians, the other by a spanish couple

and that was the story of how I came to love both Hoegaarden beer and sangria

damn this is way too fucking aggro for responding to a pretty anodyne point

who pissed in your wheaties

Israel-Hamas peace deal signed in a ceremony by leaders of the US, Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, but not Israel or Hamas, nor any other Palestinians.
Has that ever happened before? The famous US-Japan peace signing ceremony featured US and Japanese leaders. Sadat and Begin signed the Camp David Accords.

The mid 2010s "Dirtbag Left" is just

such a fucking failure

Republicans have been saying some genuinely ridiculous and dangerous things about #NoKings.

@eggerdc.bsky.social breaks it down in Morning Shots.

tolkien was an obsessive worldbuilder who kind of stumbled onto a great story in the process of it

Red Scare show why leftism can't just be "anti": Anti-capitalism, anti-US, whatever

Leftism must be a modernist humanist project: People are valuable, truth is real, everyone deserves dignity

With no moral core of human flourishing, edgy contrarianism can take you anywhere

I mean I think we also have to take into account that Riefenstahl was kind of inventing tons of this shit as she went

What is rote in 2025 was revolutionary in 1935, no?

the obvious solution to the naming question is Columbo Day, a celebration of a genuinely great American.

There isn’t another side to the argument. Every actor in the system—from defense attorneys to Justices on the Supreme Court—recognizes what is happening. The only question is how the criminal justice system should respond.”

open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

I’ve been sitting with this the last few hours. It’s really hitting me just how fucking depraved you have to be to respond to an inquiry about an abducted child with a screenshot of a post on elon musk’s hellsite smearing this kid who has no ability to defend himself. It’s unfathomable.

if there was someone worth a shit on HAC or SAC they'd be screaming about this, but unfortunately we've got the crank from Oklahoma and Susan fucking Collins

The first school to volunteer for this will be making an unambiguous statement: we would be the first to resegregate our university if we could. Sure would hate to see any school I’ve been affiliated with go down in history as that kind of scum

“dressing up as animals is insulting, this is war” is kind of a particularly bad complaint for Portland because they’ve been doing black bloc streetfighting shit for like, years at this point and the feds clearly aren’t scared to come back. might as well give “embarrass them” a shot.

It is tacky for really famous people to be in TV commercials for products. Their gambling debts/boat repairs are not my problem, those roles should belong to actors like the Time To Make The Donuts guy and the actress who said "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker" in that Orbit ad.

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies