“Her reporting depicted the war as a psychodrama of vanity and hubris that indicted the values of the ‘Greatest Generation’ to which she belonged.”
Andrew Holter reads Mary McCarthy on Vietnam in a new era of wartime illusions—and new efforts by writers to puncture them:
So despicable and disgusting. Americans are risking their lives overseas, and the Trump family is cashing in! There is no bottom with these people!
I gifted this so you can read it.
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"It was always strange to assume that a brain worm would pick and choose which judgments to infect." Many of RFK Jr.'s other ideas are pseudoscientific, conspiratorial, and wrong.
@mikegrunwald.bsky.social in for @citizencohn.bsky.social in the latest edition of The Opposition:
Farm workers harvesting romaine lettuce
"Guillermo" is harvesting romaine lettuce in Maricopa CA. "This is a very difficult job. You need to work fast while you are continuously bending down and getting up and using a sharp knife to cut the lettuce." #WeFeedYou
Here’s last night’s story about USAID, why the Trump Administration has gutted it, who is being impacted, and how many nice things John can say about George W. Bush. It’s more than zero! By a very narrow margin, it is more than zero. youtu.be/tU8S13xYJNM
Trump has just spent billions of dollars replacing Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei and, in the process, sent the price of oil soaring over $100 and plunged the world economy into crisis.
Great job, numnuts.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Need to go outside the US media to see real analysis.
"Most of the world is appalled by the ignorance of Trump and his people... Now they are playing at war, a game about which they know incomparably less than those who’ve done it for real in Vietnam and elsewhere."
Worth a read.
“Ecocide” means unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts
- consensus definition for proposed inclusion of Ecocide as international crime in Rome Statute
Tune in tonight at 9 p.m. ET on the Life with John Mayer SiriusXM station (ch. 4) for the premiere of "Grateful Dead Listening Party", featuring live recordings hand-picked by the Dead & Co guitarist.
John Mayer Wants To Listen To The Grateful Dead With You On Sunday Nights:
Joe, you'll be missed. Your performance at Woodstock remains a pure moment in American history.
This projection from the world’s top expert on climate change, Dr James Hansen:
Dropkick Murphys finish up their set at a benefit show across from Alex Pretti Memorial: “We’ll never forget what we saw with our own eyes, we’ll never forget what we’ve seen here today. thank we’ve seen here today. Thank you all for allowing us to come bear witness with you, thank you Minnesota!”.
By the time Trump is done, America’s only allies will be the dictatorships who sign up for the Board of Peace.
A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found …
“The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”
washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...
Long past time.
Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol
Are We The Baddies? The USA is Emerging as the New Leader of the Axis of Chaos
From Global Policeman to Brazen Belligerent: Unpacking the New Era of Perpetual War
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May 2002, Rice said, "I don't think anybody could have predicted... [that] they would try to use an airplane as a missile". I guess Rice never saw a documentary on World War Two showing Japanese kamikaze pilots crashing their planes into American warships.
"It’s striking that Trump decided to start this war in an election year—and at a time when prices were already arguably the biggest issue dragging down his approval ratings." Desperate times, desperate measures?
Excellent piece by @saletan.bsky.social on all the false claims of an "imminent threat" from Iran.
"The U.S. didn’t launch this war because we had to. We launched it because we could...Trump all but admitted the truth to Jonathan Karl: 'We have become spoiled.'"
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We’ve crossed the rubicon America and are being led by a lawless regime that breaks laws domestically on our own soil & internationally. There can be no rules-based order in a world w/this type of governance. Trump has single-handedly destroyed western democratic ideals & our standing as a nation.
Mr. Mullin may be the penultimate moron in the U.S. Senate, out-thinking only the husk that is Senator Tuberville, but helped by enough lip filler and hair extensions, he can be augmented with the intimate advice and constant companionship of Cory Lewandowski, a committed consigliere to DHS.
The competition for the dumbest member of the United States Senate has just heated up with the elimination of one its strongest contestants!!
“It’s like those casinos I used to own. We made the most money off the people who thought they were on a hot streak and kept on betting. Eventually they lost it all. I learned that you gotta leave the table before you lose your money. So I’m cashing out.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-trump...
If the feds, with their institutional expertise and legal constraints, cannot consistently avoid abusing surveillance powers, why should we assume newly created state intelligence offices will do better?
Read more from FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social and @laurenleharper.bsky.social:
This is not just an Ohio problem. www.rand.org/pubs/researc...
“The body is the primary subject of Trumpian politics. This is true both in the affirmative sense of right-wing aesthetics and in the punitive sense of managing the bodies of others to display power and contempt.” www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-poli...
So, wait...we forced Israel to force us to "proactively defend" ourselves by attacking Iran without provocation from them? Which means, if I understand this properly, that, per Trump and Rubio, we actually were the imminent threat to which we were responding? That's some 4D chess going on there.
Trump is indeed running the govt like he ran his businesses. Republicans must be so proud!
He was warned. Repeatedly. For weeks if not months.
He did it anyway
And now they’re dead
