John Bossy

I'm not sure anything that happens ever really ceases to exist. Does a beginning no longer exist while an event is yet to conclude? Did the big bang cease to exist at some point? I'm with Faulkner who said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past,"

There’s a special level of confidence you can achieve when you know that the people you talk to don’t expect to hear anything truthful.

OTD in 1906 Hannah Arendt was born. "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

haha, thats a great post. unfortunately you phrased it in a way that allowed me, a moron, to misunderstand it

The hard part about propaganda is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday.

NEW: For those of you who are into just war theory—the study of when fighting a war is ethical, and of how to act ethically in warfare—check out this piece on the Iran war. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-iran-w...

people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see

We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers. #NewYorkerCartoons

ICE coward murdered 37 yo mom of 6 yo it was murder @wsj.com we all saw it👇🏼 murder report the facts to the people or quit your jobs wsj “reporters” bsky.app/profile/mike...

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

All of this is nauseating and profoundly embarrassing. Americans who can watch this without feeling shame and horror are inhabiting an alien moral universe I do not understand.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

We will never be able to put our country back together until we prosecute those who are breaking the law multiple times a day. It’s what should have happened four years ago and it is a huge part of the reason we are in this mess today.

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

Jimmy Kimmel put together an amazing compilation of Donald Trump saying all the words from the birthday letter he wrote to his best friend Jeffrey Epstein

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

This

Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people directly quoting you does’t sound like a personal attack on your character.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

Kirk’s Assassination Brings Trump’s Authoritarianism into Even Clearer Focus By blaming his enemies, Trump seeks to mobilize his followers, discredit his critics, and justify repression. - my latest column @lincolnsquare.media open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

Amazing

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

Thinking about this quote, from JPMorgan's Michael Cembalist, today: www.jpmorgan.com/insights/out...

The people running our country are sick

We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper. Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

Are you against America having a Golden Age?

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

WARNING: This is a heartfelt explanation by George Conway of his disappointment with the Paul Weiss law firm’s succumbing to Trump’s extortion via a bogus Executive Order filled with false accusations. An example of successful authoritarianism, and a crippling of our system. youtu.be/bi25VIQcbN8

(1/X) Can this country to back to the way it was before Trump? No, it cannot. Narcissistic sociopaths break things in ways that can't be fixed.

The Charlie Angus resistance tour will be in Toronto for a town hall on Monday night. I will join the protest at the American consulate at 4pm. Hope to see people there.

Trump:Canada::Putin:Ukraine Mutual role models. Allies in imperialism. Using the same script. @saletan.bsky.social documents the precise parallels in how Putin justified his invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and what Trump is now saying about Canada. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies." -- Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 6, lines 126f (tr. Dryden)

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

One at a time.

There is something depressing about that rhetoric: You’d think people could get sufficiently outraged by the deprivation of basic rights without needing to imagine themselves personally at risk. It’s like we’ve decided appealing to morality is pointless; it’s got to be pitched as self-interest.

"Antisemitism in the Oval Office: A confrontation seen with a historian's eye" snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

A little short-term "disturbance" is a small price to pay for permanently higher prices, permanently reduced real wages, permanently impaired national productivity, permanent conflict with betrayed ex-allies, and permanent surrender of global influence to China.

The fundamental weakness of Elon Musk is lack of it.

I'm starting to think of elite rationalizations of Trump's insanity as a kind of highbrown qanon. It's the fantasy that things can't be as fucked as they seem and that in reality there's a secret plan being carried out by competent patriots

Smart thread here