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Carl Quintanilla • @carlquintanilla.bsky.social .. Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. 'I guess, he says... 'Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.' "

Reuters Exclusive: Trump on rising gas prices during Iran operation: 'If they rise, they rise' By Steve Holland, Jarrett Renshaw, Nandita Bose and Bo Erickson March 5, 2026 2:04 PM EST • Updated 1 hour ago

Talking like an old man who knows he's not going to be around to see the fallout?

The most illuminating thing about graphs like this is how inefficient work is in the United States. We generate far less wealth per hour worked than our wealthy EU counterparts.

Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?

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Maybe his most real moment tbh

Correct

Fox News would call a path amnesty (and not be wrong) and a bazillion Americans would suddenly opposed it. That's the point. You sell it good, they buy it, you sell it bad and they don't, which is substantially different than having a fixed median voter you're trying to chase

This is 400 Benghazis but they never actually gave a shit about that beyond them trying to hurt Hillary with it.

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

Sedgwick’s prescription is “reparative reading,” a theory of more flexible sense-making that can hold truth and provide an antidote to the overwhelming paranoia of our times. While the conventional wisdom states, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you don’t have enemies,” Sedgwick turns this formula on its head: “Just because you have enemies doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.” Or to put it another way, having a direct understanding of systemic oppression (the healthcare system, police violence, the fascist state) does not condemn a person to a categorically paranoid point of view. To practice a worldview more expansive and more open to possibilities than paranoia does not mean you have to deny the reality or gravity of oppression.

Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Hideo Kojima, you bastard.....

Wow, I didn't know that, you're telling me now for the first time

I pretty much can’t watch cable news anymore even in clip form.

There’s been a weird sea change in centrist politics where the only people they’ll accept on the left are the white men who perform—deliberately or not!—explicit racism. Watching the Pod Save guys back this dude to the hilt is extremely disorienting

Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

someone transported here from 1995 with a layman's understanding of the Republican Party - "they like low taxes for the rich and aggressive use of the military" - would be more correct in their assessment of the party than many ostensibly savvy pundits working right now

Such a perfect example of Pundit Brain at work: Harper says he always knew Trump was lying about being the peace candidate — but still turned that into criticism of Harris.

Ross Douthat Tweets: Lesser of two evils, art of the possible, blah blah blah, but all of the factions that have strong agency in our society right now seem profoundly dangerous. I don't know which one is the most dangerous but none of them should be trusted with power. Fundamental factional energy -- Silicon Valley: Faust bargaining with the devil RW populism: mob boss in a tinfoil hat The Cathedral: Voluntary human extinction

You'd think the NYT could hire a less worthless 'house conservative' than Douthat, doing this weaksauce anti-anti Curtis Yarvin schtick. You could tell him his salary doesn't depend on being SO fake as that.

has anyone in the government even bothered to tell anyone what reason we are pretending to rely on here this time? not even a fig leaf anymore. just spree killings. mass murderer shit

You can just say things.

Just out in the open and people still pretend we have a federal government. Lol

Why Biden-era clean energy investment policies had limited political returns | PNAS The Biden Administration enacted the largest federal policy framework to incentivize clean energy and decarbonization in U.S. history. We examine w...

Fascinating new research paper asks: why did Biden receive so little political credit for his enormous investments in manufacturing? Turns out people give all the credit to governors (ironically, in this case, mostly red-state governors who were hostile to the policy!).

you don't get the benefit of the doubt on quote-posting a Nazi account when you had a totenkopf tattoo

this guy is bad, actually

youtube continually flies under the radar as one of the most radicalizing platforms out there

In principle, of course, the First Amendment lets you say this with or without 230. In practice, it’s unlikely most platforms would take the risk of permitting you to say it without a liability shield.

Absolute fucking mess of a sentence. All constructed to make Cuba look like the aggressor. I’m sorry, people in a Florida speed boat were firing at Cuban border patrol and they shot back ????

After Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner joined "The Gang of 8" he told reporters "this is an extraordinary serious time, serious moment in the Middle East, serious moment for America." Warner called on the President to make the case of "what our country's goals are, what our country's interests are and how we're going to protect American interests in the region." He added "Maybe we'll hear that tonight, but if we don't hear it tonight, we need to hear it very, very soon."

I seriously don't get why "no war with Iran" is so difficult to say.

What case could possibly be made by USG to satisfy these Democrats who should absolutely know better? I don't blame them for where we are but the point of being the opposition is to clearly oppose.

a lot of countries are committing demographic genocide lately, really strange behavior. but fascists do what they do, I guess. they are, to keep it succinct, really fucking stupid people