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The europeans continue to interfere in their own internal affairs.

I'll save you the trouble of watching... 1) Most racist bile yet on Somalia 2) 40 minute aside on Husted's ass 4) Giraffe, whale, snake, monkey. None of you could do it. I never get credit for it 5) Economy is great. Ignore prices. Better indicator is phony Venezuelan plunder

John Oliver's latest on The Republican Party's Nazi problem is must-watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnsB...

I’ve learned over the last decade that there’s nothing at all I like more than a fascist losing.

Domestically, this government will form a National Investigation Commision for Oct 7, manage the country and reduce corruption. They will battle a system that's been heavily skewed in favor of the current power structure (isn't competitive authoritarianism nice?).

But the same pressure might at the same time, at least in the near term, make Israeli politicians less likely to declare major policy changes so as not to appear to cave in to pressure. Instead they will go back to cooperating with the PA, and try to implement the 20p plan in Gaza.

The Palestinian issue is where you should expect the least anmount of explicit policy changes. A different government will likely try to curtail Jewish terrorism, and will face violence and criticism for doing so. Pressure will make it more determined.

Very good primer on the Israeli elections and the state of play of Israeli politics.

Today was the best day for global democracy in quite a while.

The next 10 days will be monumental, with elections in Serbia, Brazil, Israel and the US. This one was a victory for democracy.

Mmm hmmm

Elon Musk is a subhuman, he is incapable of morals, empathy or even understanding the concept of civic duty He is a father who's abandoned his child, this is the only fact about him you'll ever need to decide whether his moral, ideologic or political statements are genuine and worth listening to

I always find it interesting when BlueSky angrily says "X group of people isn't stupid!" If only because every group of people has stupid people in it. Stupid people do, in fact, exist. It is difficult for BlueSky, the retirement home for former gifted kids, to come to terms with this.

Because Bari Weiss knows that science is a fraud if it contradicts the interests of the Ellisons and her other masters. www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...

Wait wait! In addition to all this: Real Clear isn’t some spontaneous thing, it’s a rightwing site funded by the same far-right billionaires - Koch, Uihlein, Bradley, etc - that want to tear down the govt, incl to destroy US cancer research. Real Clear is part of the Project 2025 effort.

I'm old enough to remember when it was first reported that he said this and Congressional Republicans and his other lackeys vehemently denied it. He admit it dot gif.

Zelenskyy: The most important thing today is that Starlink and Starshield operations have been restored to the speeds we had before the restrictions.

Dems need to make sure Musk spends all his time answering subpoenas from January on. And when we retake the White House there need to be DoJ investigations to go along with the Congressional ones.

Ronan Farrow reported in a 2023 New Yorker piece that the Pentagon signed a contract to keep Musk from cutting off Ukraine’s battlefield connectivity at will. Colin Kahl described it as a way to lock in service so Musk couldn’t just flip the switch, considering Musk's known antipathy towards Ukraine

Professional political consultants say that voters don't care about corruption. Polling shows the opposite. Indeed, voters have come to understand that America now suffers from the worst corruption in its history and that this corruption links directly to decisions to go to war, gut healthcare, etc

A reminder also that this office has no U.S. Attorney, and the guy running the office — as first assistant — was ruled to have improperly served too long as the appointed U.S. Attorney.

Solid metaphor for the entire administration, honestly

Glad to see more Democrats recognizing that if Elon Musk donates to your opponent, it is an absolute *gift* to you as long as you draw attention. He's a deeply unpopular, dorky white supremacist asshole who's using his billions to try and buy off politicians. Light. Him. Up.

A real headline, somehow.

We live in idiocracy

“I have decided I am never going to fix my clinical depression; it pays me too well to sell it to an audience.”

Tbf I think the nonsense for the rubes, Machiavellian capitalist imperialists in the backrooms was a genuinely good model of Bush II and that's when I came of age so I think I just over indexed on my childhood.

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

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These events do not particularly remind me of Macbeth.

The most corrupt admin in history by at least an order of magnitude and everyone knows it.

i've covered musk a bit & i sometimes woner what would be enough then i remember the literal fucking nazi salute *that he did twice* was almost 2 years ago now newrepublic.com/article/2119...

It needs to start. Instead it lives on his platform, passively absorbing the brainworms endemic there as just normal conservative positions.

From a Russian dissident artist on IG named Dmitrii Shurov, who understands Trump’s policy toward Russia and Ukraine a lot better than a lot of American legacy media outlets appear to do.

Going to be honest, if this guy manages to take away our democracy that's on us

President Trump: Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven't been doing much. Comment from me: see quoted post.

it's very revealing how Slotkin can say "we need to prosecute all criminals in government so that people think twice about using the government for crimes" and the entire Republican party erupts in hysterics biggest hit dogs hollering moment in a while

TJ recalled in his autobiography that the VA legislature declined to insert “Jesus Christ” into the statute: “they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of it’s (sic) protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination.”

Madison et al were also helpful enough to include the no religious tests clause right there in The Constitution. As ever, the people who most performatively fetishize The Constitution are also the people most eager to urinate on its actual provisions from a great height.

Thoughts and prayers to everyone who's also mourning the missed comedic potential from Zacharia only lasting half a Scaramucci. Since when is failing popcorn reading and lying about being a lawyer disqualifying to be WH press secretary?!

Trump did a deal with Putin. We (actually, Trump's friends) get cheap oil in exchange for cutting Ukraine off. Prove me wrong.

Hell yes! More of this please! A singing movement and a laughing movement is very often an effective movement.