BREAKING: As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the war with Iran, according to sources familiar—far higher than the Pentagon’s publicly disclosed figure of just 8 seriously wounded troops. The true toll of this war is already far worse than the public has been told. (Reuters)
Not trying to be hyperbolic, I fear we are on the cusp of a 9/11 type catastrophe that this regime is unwilling and unable to protect us from.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
I heard the audio. He said it.
Lord. What have y'all done.
Schlossberg: If this becomes the new normal and the president is able to trademark America’s birthday and issue his own currency while weakening the dollar, having gold skyrocket, and increasing prices on every commodity and input cost in our economy, we’re getting screwed and he’s getting rich.
NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”
Who agrees? ✋
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
I’m sure this will be popular. 5 million people are in default right now. The Dept of Ed estimates as many as 10 million by end of next year because of job market.
Mitt Romney said the quiet part out loud: the rich should pay more in taxes.
The Wall Street Journal attacked him for it.
But he’s right—and ignoring the math is how democracies crack.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
“Clinton is in the Epstein files!”
Great. Next time I come across a Clinton rally, someone wearing a Clinton hat, or flying a Clinton flag on their truck, I’ll be sure to let them know.
The rest of us want them ALL held accountable because we aren’t in a cult. Hope that helps.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s CDC funneled a $1.6 million grant to researchers to carry out an unethical and scientifically unjustified randomized clinical trial of the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau. With MAHA, it’s Tuskegee all over again. sciencebasedmedicine.org/every-accusa...
Hey! Remember when Barr (Bondi) withheld the Mueller (Epstein) documents for weeks so he (she) could mischaracterize what was in the Mueller (Epstein) Report and spin the findings for three weeks and then over-redact them? I sure do!
Yet. Like Roe they may be fishing for a better case with which to accomplish the change.
Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
Worth remembering…
A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
The Founding Fathers passionately ransacked the classical historians for ways to escape the classical fate. One cannot easily overstate the anxiety that attended this search or the relevance they found in the ancient texts. Thomas Jefferson thought Tacitus “the first writer of the world without a single exception. His book is a compound of history and morality of which we have no other example.” “To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand,” said John Quincy Adams, a founding son, “seems to me as if it was a privation of one of my limbs.” As Adams’s cousin William Smith Shaw put it, “The writings of Tacitus display the weakness of a falling empire and the morals of a degenerate age. . . . They form the subject of deep meditation for all statesmen who wish to raise their country to glory; to continue it in power, or preserve it from ruin.” Polybius was almost as crucial—for delineating the cycle of birth, growth, and decay that constituted the destiny of states; and for shadowing forth the mixed constitution with balanced powers that the Founding Fathers seized as remedy. The classical indoctrination reinforced the Calvinist judgment that life was a ghastly risk and that this was a time of probation for America. For the history of antiquity did not teach the inevitability of progress. It taught the perishability of republics, the transience of glory, the mutability of human affairs. The traditional emphasis on John Locke as the father of us all obscures the darker strain in the thought of the Founders recently recalled by J. G. A. Pocock—the strain of classical republicanism and civic humanism that led from Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy through Harrington, the English country party and Montesquieu to the Constitutional Convention. This tradition argued that republics lived and died by virtue—and that in the fullness of time power and luxury inexorably brought corruption and decay. “The Machiavellian moment,” according to Pocock, was the moment in which …
it really gets me how no matter how much the right keeps claiming they're originalists and constitutionalists, they don't actually seem concerned with what the Founders had in mind when it came to opposing corruption
This is amazing.
Punishing college students for protesting him.
Pressuring TV networks to fire late night talk show hosts for criticizing him.
Suing newspapers for reporting he doesn’t like.
If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
Dutch late night TV has its take
This seems good
What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.
I will as well.
