This should worry everyone.

“US officials contacted by Reuters were surprised by Trump's announcement and unaware of any ongoing military operations to enforce a closure of Venezuelan airspace.”

Trump’s failing faculties could walk the US into war.

More accurately, that is probably @superstarm.bsky.social happy dance. As a cat, my happy dance is more like this (steal your chair)

This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.

Like here's a cat thinking he's sneaky in the closet

It is a sign of democratic collapse because explicit white racism appears to be the policy of the US Government. Non white citizens no longer have the same protection under the law as white ones. We are all potentially identifiable as members of "disruptive populations"

It is a sign of epistemic collapse because the whole concept is based on pseudo-scientific notions of racial or genetic propensity for crime or violence, and has come up through the consppiratorial milieu of European Identitarianism ...

Also, Hegseth is coming for Sen. Mark Kelly because he reminded troops that they have a duty not to commit crimes *like this one*

Making an appropriately big deal out of this blunts that attack and demonstrates the need for what Kelly and company did.

It's not often that "simple morality" and "effective politics" line up so perfectly, but we have to hope DC's Democrats are smart enough to seize the moment with both hands