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The move is clearly AI Reagan and AI John Wayne who do nothing but spout incongruously 2020s liberal-coded opinions about Trump being bad. bsky.app/profile/norm...

Why, though? Convincing, credulous dumb guys of stuff is easier than convincing smart, critically minded people. Like almost tautologically. bsky.app/profile/thir...

I was almost gonna say "the dumbest motherfucker you know's vote counts just as much as yours" but honestly given how the senate works, what the swing states are, etc etc the dumbest motherfucker you know's vote probably counts way more than yours does.

Tbh I’m monolingual so probably not suited to any state department job

Hmm maybe

Ok fine, what’s my State Department job in the leftlib-demsoc coalition government

Ok you can be ambassador to Morocco, i figured you’d want something nice and you’re probably tired of Dakar

Also swords don’t actually take a lot of physical strength to use from my minimal experience, even a historically accurate longsword weighs like 4-6 pounds and a rapier ~2 pounds.

Join the DSA. Crush Epstein Child Rape Narcissism Hypocrisy Nihilism Capitalism. act.dsausa.org/s/4536.Xd0xHm

You can have it I guess? I’ll probably ask @diplomatofnight.com first, @meatraffle.bsky.social do you want Eastern Europe or Francafrique?*
*yes I am splitting the Africa desk into NA, Francafrique, Greater Silver Spring, the southern cone(?) and Anglophone west Africa

It would create a different impression if they went with "Still, Elliott Abrams, who aided and abetted a genocide in Guatemala, said he believed there were many benefits to killing the leaders of Iran..."

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

Proposal to start a UN Dudes Rock Committee (distribution of beer or other drinks, fireworks, various fried foods)

something to be said for trump's effectiveness at fucking over literally all his major voting demographics at once. i didnt think he'd hit the rural EV/electricity haters so hard

It also contains a Jorge Luis Borges poem, because of course it does. The draft isn't as nutty as my law-of-time-travel project, but it's close.

The only places we shouldn't bomb are coastal Netherlands (but fuck the bijbelgordel) and Antarctic.

anyhow make me SoS, I’ll appoint my friend to the Iran desk on the “actually has family there and travels back and forth somewhat regularly“ basis

We need competent anti-imperialists

the thing about foreign policy is that the vast majority of normies don't give a shit, but when you break things, they break hard. and these are the fucking people who were in charge of making it under Bush/Trump/Obama/Biden

Most americans who travel abroad have never actually applied for a visa before and if they start having to they are not gonna like it

treat the situation with some gravity, holy fucking shit. why the fuck are you treating matters of life and death like fandom clapbacks on 2010s tumblr

It’s all vaguely relevant noble titles there

Comics drawing of artist Rose O’Neill, sketching a Cupid-like “Kewpie Doll” on a canvas, w 10 imaginary dolls floating around her. Art by Wendy Xu for Kazoo magazine #39.

Rose O’Neill, creator of the wildly popular, & lucrative, “Kewpie Dolls,” kept a standing reservation at an NYC restaurant for any artist who needed a meal. “You can’t make art if you’re always hungry,” she said.

From the feature comic in Kazoo magazine #39. Art by @wendyxu.bsky.social

One of the instances in which it is actually emphatically true that by stifling left-liberal criticism of Israel on a liberal basis you just leave open room for nutjobs to do it and fill the space instead

SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, March 12th will be STELLATHON: A FUNDRAISER FOR YOUR COOL ONLINE FRIEND.

Games streamers! Artists! Storytellers! Giveaways, baby! Participants will be revealed throughout the next week.

Let’s get @antlervel.vet her money back!

Poster by @yotsuben.bsky.social.

Hi, the Jacobin Club wants me to tell you to send your dues soonish so we can get you business cards

I’m not even ‘pro-Iran’ (ian govt) in any fucking meaningful sense. If protestors overthrew them I’d probably cheer. I don’t want *my country* to set the world on fire by bombing them, because it isn’t in the national interest, the world’s interest, or my personal interest.

If being socially conservative was a good reason to kill people we’d be dropping JDAMs on megachurches

Correct but my license photo is from high school and booooooy do I get a lot of close looks at it when I’m going somewhere that cards at the door