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a gray tabby cat sitting in my lap with her big paws up and her face looking relaxed and judgmental bc it’s #caturday

biscuit is judging you

Noah was born on a placid island of blissful stupidity in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that he should voyage far. His takes, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday...

If Obama were prosecuting this war against Iran, Democrats and the media would be cheering and half the right would be denouncing it. That’s the problem: in America today, everything gets filtered through partisan tribalism.

I think if Obama were prosecuting this war against Iran his approvals would be at 5%

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Donald Trump is winning the war on farmers.

The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

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This is disgusting, but also a tacit admission of just how horrible and indefensible it is.

After interacting with the general public and/or high school age children for four hours today, I have 3 thoughts:

1. Everyone is fucking insane
2. I am deeply offputting in real life
3. Kindness is such a rare virtue now that when you find it, your cup will runneth over

Don’t worry, I’m sure the public will take very well too expensive food, expensive gas, etc this summer

Trying to imagine the shitposting that would have been going on in previous wars if social media was around

I don’t want to be alarming but I think this energy shock will be worse than the Russian invasion of Ukraine and that gave us $150/barrel

This was basically the appeal of the Soviet system, for what it’s worth

I'm fascinated by the common failure of strategic mirroring where folks assume that because the USA built a global alliance of democracies after WW, that the autocracies must also function in a vast alliance with unified leadership.

Because they don't! They didn't in WWII either!

One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.

my theory of the Harris campaign, which makes exactly nobody happy:

1. she was put in an incredibly deep and arguably insurmountable hole by Biden

2. she made significant errors, largely in not separating herself from him enough

3. her results were still in the upper range of plausible outcomes

Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal.

Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

i wrote a paper in my college class on the french revolution about how so many schools of history portray the revolution as the nearly inevitable outcome of long term trends in france when i think the truth is it was the highly improbable product of a cascade of micro-level fuck ups by Louis XVI

Regarding the U.S. sinking that Iranian warship: when you're trying to describe an act that (probably) isn't an actual war crime, but DOES feel slimy, I think the word you're looking for is "honor."

worse: it actually made politics even more toxic according to an NBER paper

Oh yeah, and I bet everyone in uniform is aware of this. Hegseth is announcing in advance that he’ll throw you under the bus, and he’s patting himself on the back while he does it.

The thing is there’re always rules of engagement, formal or informal. Every soldier has to know “who do I shoot at“. When Hegseth says “there are no rules of engagement“ all he’s saying is “I won’t sign off on any rules, so if you get in trouble, you’re on your own.”

the problem is that the bluesky prog-leftist war nerd is in the position of the conservative intellectual, and the base are people whose knowledge of international affairs comes from the DSA international committee

Yes, absolutely.
But a theatrical display of tactics unfettered by reason or ethics communicates an awful lot to your own people, doesn’t it? About what you’re willing to do for power. And if there’s anything - or anyone - stopping you from doing it.

the IRA is an unfortunate example of the failure of the non-bigoted theory of popularism

it was a good law that poured piles of money into infrastructure (in rural areas!) and they got zero credit for it from the people who complain about those sorts of things, because the complaining is the point

South Carolina started Biden’s march to the nomination and it can end Newsom’s

“Extraordinary wealth corrupts and enshittifies exponentially” me, just now

It was about protecting Division III high school girls volleyball.

you ever think about how 98% of the discourse about women’s sports would disappear overnight if you were not allowed to talk about them unless you have watched at least one WNBA game your entire life?