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People talk a lot about how footage from Gaza affected the internet, and I think they often overrate how much graphic depictions of atrocities drove that. Stuff like machine gunning random apartment buildings out of boredom harmed the IDF's reputation more than just about anything else

Say what you want about the #CAGov clown car primary, but billionaire/ self-proclaimed "class traitor" Tom Steyer rebranding Prop 13 as the "Trump Tax Loophole" is an interesting rhetorical move. I wonder why nobody else is taking a page out of his playbook. (h/t @jdcmedlock.bsky.social)

Once again: it is good to be the party that civil society feels is worth trying to move with protest. It is because we are made of more pure things than the other one

I'm not sure the GOP is going to be sufficiently incentivized to make a break with Israel. Their anti-Israel voters can be mostly satiated with domestic-pointing antisemitism. This is unless Tucker Carlson runs, who is both a committed antisemite and a skeptic of Israel on geopolitical grounds

they like Trump and they want to help him. This is why 3% unemployment under Biden was presented in headlines as a failure and rising unemployment under Trump gets "the plan is working" headlines.

industry and press people talked so much shit about the SLS and basically everything about the Artemis program that didn’t involve spacex. The SLS is two for two now, though, and elons rockets are giant steel dildos that blow up

Just a regular reminder that the centers of both the Harvard and Yale campuses are named for Trump supporters, as is the main branch of the New York Public Library. Trump is the crowning glory of 40 yrs of work by an entire set of persistent, well-educated Americans, which is the actual problem.

Some of the organizers were held in ICE detention for over a year

People like Ben Sasse destroyed this country more than any kid on college campuses and even with terminal cancer he can't show the humility to accept the blame for what he helped cause.

I remember clearly 10 yrs ago opinion polls conducted on Palestinian people was used to render all of them antisemitic animals.

If you havent seen this, make sure you read.

The Accepted American Discourse on Israel™ is this carefully formalized dance of standard statements and mantras, deployed in carefully-constructed formulas according to unstated but ironclad assumptions, and the second you start to question it the whole thing just implodes.

And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Bears mentioning that everything everyone on this site feared Trump would do to Iran yesterday, Israel is doing to Lebanon today.

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

Eventually, the brain-damaged chimpanzees in the WH will figure out that the laws of armed conflict are enforced—in part—because an adversary is almost always capable of responding reciprocally to any violation you commit. I just wonder how much global energy is taken offline before that happens.

If elected president he will be cucked to likud just like every other republican if more

Someone please explain to me how this is the next step in THE GRAND PLAN of confronting China. I'll wait!

No. The ai industry will get ahead of you in doing transactional politics with republicans and it is ALREADY HAPPENING!

Says the one who is currently destroying us democracy for pipedream of invading turkey after "winning" in iran

Every single person responsible for this needs to die

You understand that this "good news" would embolden them to kill more people right?

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

so let’s get this straight: they can’t force the strait of hormuz open and they can’t take out Iran’s missile arsenal and so the plan is to fire all the black people and women and do a bunch of war crimes in the hopes that they’ll give up the greatest fighting force in the world, everyone

space race is a good reminder that as awful and imperialistic as the ussr and midcentury usa were, both were also animated by a genuine believe in human unity and progress. a space race between the modern superpowers would probably reflect the debased and grasping cynicism of our current age

I'm gonna be so pissed off if years from now historians try to blame this on Trump being old and senile. He is operating right now at peak Trump form. He pulled the same shit in the business world for decades: talk big, bluff, act impulsively, get bored, fail, stab partners in the back.

There are at least 3 combatant commands (SOCOM, SOUTHCOM, CENTCOM) which will need legit Soviet style purges after this, because too many of their officers cannot be trusted to do the right thing, discern a legal from an illegal order, or place honor and decency above career advancement.

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

Once in a generation OBLIGATION