Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant

The Latin in my display name has many applications to the second Trump administration, this is the most literal example yet. “Ubi cedunt, victoriam appellant” - in other words: they retreat and call it winning.

The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag

I genuinely believe he has lost the ability to distinguish between his own bank account, flush with plundered cash and bribe money and insider trading bets, and the bank accounts of everyone else.

"The Harvard Kennedy School of Government welcomes Flávio Bolsonaro..."

It's kind of wild that Marco just runs his own foreign policy without anyone looking over his shoulder, not even having to fight the other schemers. He's legitimately a Roman governor.

He often invades after playing this song, fwiw:

I’m sure ICE will swiftly render this illegal entrant to Uganda, right?

THIS is the theme of the upcoming election and when the dust settles, we can’t forget it. Preventing the scope of thermostatic backlash over the next 2 to 6 years depends on it.

Yes, I’m sure “bots” is why I spotted hand-scrawled anti-Flock protest signs while passing through rural West Virginia recently.

Behold: The US Defense Intelligence Agency has released a report on challenges to security in space, including an NEI image of China’s spaceplane from Maxar, taken in 2024.

It was supposed to be Graham Platner. He was going to be the whatabout. The attempted gotchas at El-Sayed about Platner’s tattoo would’ve alone made for weeks of coverage.

Guys, we can win, we can also lose. The future is unwritten. More than that, it is changeable by us. You can go out there and chase the future you want. The cure to anxiety is not “everything will work out okay” but “I can make it work out better.”

If this motherfucker shows up in Mar a Lago without a passport when people playing by the rules get ankle monitors and concentration camps...

Why? So Trump can replace one regime lackey for another? The only difference being deferential to Trump à la Delcy?

45 yrs ago today, Soviet Whiskey-class coastal patrol diesel-electric submarine S-363 hit an underwater rock and ran aground about 6.2 miles from the large Swedish naval base at Karlskrona. This international incident—which wags dubbed “Whiskey on the Rocks”—occurred during a Swedish naval exercise.

Damn, who could have seen this one coming?

Trump II as very specifically an effort to erase JFK seems like an underdiscussed angle. Bulldozed Jackie's rose garden, threatening to bulldoze the Kennedy Center, stripped the Kennedy blue off Air Force One, shuttered USAID, put JFK's animal torturing nephew in charge of reviving polio, now this

Unbelievably vile 1920s-style scientific racism coming from the pinnacle of US government

You guys know that this was a kidnapping case, right? That Elian Gonzalez’s grand-uncle kidnapped him? As a political protest against Castro?

“1 intervention for every 1,000 likes. DMs open!”

Weird. What’s up with that, Admiral Cooper from Six Days Ago?

This isn’t going to be a thing. There’s not going to be individual citizens who have a veto on national security. People seem to be forgetting who the State is here exactly.

the 'ai doom is fake and a marketing strategy' thing is just wrong, lots of people in those spaces genuinely do believe it, it can do impressive and scary things, but it's 100% true with anything palmer lucky related

Who's in charge of this country because it sure isn't us and it doesn't even appear to be the government anymore A bunch of paunchy moon-faced degenerate dead-eyed parasites forming a human centipede of investment in each others' vanity conglomerates, not a scintilla of civic virtue among them

Literally one of the central strategies of civil disobedience was to trigger bad acts by the local authorities that would get national news coverage, John Lewis would 100% have live-streamed walking across that bridge if he could have

Pete Hegseth, the repulsive degenerate cosplaying as "Secretary of War," wanted the globe of Dwight Eisenhower, a real American war hero, for his office. of course he broke it. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

These people have embraced nothing but sheer degeneracy at this point. Every single one of them lacks even the most basic moral characteristics required for participation in public life. A movement filled with nothing but the most gutter cretins.

A smart regime would know to throw us restless peons a few lackeys here and there to preserve the illusion of justice.

“Who is really pulling the strings” is why he will lose this fight. He truly believes Democrats are NPCs programmed by “Globalists”. If he can’t see reality, he’s unprepared to face it. Can’t pay gamers to beat subpoenas. Can’t propaganda his way out because of the cultural vibe shift. He’s cornered

Assuming this is about the MOAB “fireworks and declare victory” bluster.

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

Wresting this company out of that man’s hands has got to be a top priority.

My emerging theory on this is that Republicans viewing empathy as harmful is rooted more in social media-driven vice signaling than religiosity. It’s wrapped in evangelism, sure, but it’s more about community judgment than divine.

Incredible use of the format

Reyes, before she wraps up golf course hearing, says her family has been texting her, "freaking out" over CNN report about death threats bc of this case. "A federal judge is getting death threats over a golf course. I really don’t think that’s what the founders envisioned."

It is funny when one of the fascists realizes ”wait this is all simulacra guys chill out”

Inflicting pain on Ukraine has been a consistent policy choice in both terms. He was impeached over it. He’s emotionally invested in its failure and journalists should be clear about that.

Look he's a fucking idiot and everything. I know. But it'd be nice if the President didn't try to crush a democratic country engaged in a war of self-defense because he's flailing around trying to find someone to blame for energy prices caused by the blunder of an unrelated war he himself started.