The US government is totally audience-captured by a tiny faction of internet fascists, and spends huge amounts of time trying to impress them, dedicating official communications channels to barely-concealed in-group references, and making horrific, murderous policy decisions to thrill this group

You have to wonder if the strikes on the "drug boats" were just a way to test which generals would follow illegal orders wrt an undeclared war with Venezuela and weed out those who wouldn't.

"she delights in being mean" is a hell of a clapback for a dude who murdered on the order of a million people by cutting USAID, in the name of fighting back against "suicidal empathy"

I found lots of useful details in that Nature piece, but I'm struggling with what seems like a clear contradiction

Franklin is somehow both

- working alone, excluded from the world of informal exchanges

- an equal member of a group of four scientists

[squints trying to resolve a complex image]

I get that Vance is a recent convert but someone needs to tell him it’s not normal to have the Pope question your specific behavior this frequently

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.