Hey remember this? Good times...
06.03.2026 17:08
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Hey remember this? Good times...
Once again we’re asking “Why do they hate us?” And the answer is the same: It’s not because of our freedom, it’s because of what we do to them.
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As has always been the case: You can do any corrupt, immoral, incompetent things you want in Trump's employ, but once he decides you're a public embarrassment to him, you're done.
These excerpts from @rhodesben.bsky.social memoir "The World As It Is" about GOP resistance to Obama responding militarily to Assad's use of chemical weapons are tragically humorous to read during the current crisis. Republicans being unserious hypocrites is sadly evergreen.
This place seems determined to both alienate anybody interesting who comes here and if that doesn't work to bore us all by retreading the same arguments and talking points over and over and over
The gap between how cool he thinks he sounds and how he actually sounds would take light eight centuries to traverse.
War is not a morality play.
The relevant question isn’t: Are the targets bad people who have done bad things?
The relevant question is: Will going to war make things better, achieving something that’s worth the death and suffering it causes?
Shorter SCOTUS: if you’re a Republican president you can cheat, you can steal, he’ll, you can rape and kill. But don’t even think about fucking with our portfolios!
They’re not strong, they’re not funny, they’re not cool. They’re just a bunch of losers.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/maga-white...
Many good takes on Bari Weiss' dumpster fire at CBS (e.g tinyurl.com/245qx5z9). But for a tonally perfect evisceration see The Ringer: tinyurl.com/2bvz4emv. All expose her as a pseudo-intellectual, vacuously contrarian amateur prone to self-fluffing (a statue--to herself!)
“And that’s why I’m cravenly endorsing a republican in the Alaska senate race to ensure that this authoritarian menace remains unchecked”
I show it every semester -- same reaction!
This SDE clown doesn’t need a nazi tattoo, he IS a nazi tattoo
Liking this pope more and more every day
Waiting for the same Very Serious People in the media, WH, & GOP who scolded Dems to "lower the temp" after Kirk's death to condemn this & other examples of racist, authoritarian, & violent rhetoric (incl. Kirk's) w/the same intensity & self-righteousness www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Everyone in this administration is competing for the SDE Poster child award
Good for the generals. No one is impressed with this insecure, limp, utterly weak display of warrior cosplay. Certainly our enemies aren't (nor our dwindling number of allies). Typically pathetic, which makes it even more dangerous.
Sadly true but needs to be said, from
@paulwaldman.bsky.social :
"We Were Right: The savvy scolds said lefties were overreacting to Trump a year ago, and calling him "fascist" was crazy. How's that looking now?" paulwaldman.substack.com/p/we-were-ri...
Excellent must-read from Coates (esp. for those who claim to prize "debate.")
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
As with everything about this criminal clown show of a presidency, at once abhorrently authoritarian and laughably stupid. "You have a lot of hate in your hate!"
One can argue with their prescription, but have to hand it to WSJ editorial writers for nailing the Freudian insecurities underlying the "War Department" nonsense (& really everything about Trump/MAGA ftm): "(S)peaking loudly and carrying a small stick" www.wsj.com/opinion/depa...
These days, it's Sleater-Kinney covering "Fortunate Son" during an encore at the 9:30 Club in around 2003 and dedicating it to our last blue blood disaster of a president.
Yeah ok: first song that comes to mind at the thought "I'm glad I heard that live," go
Of course he ended up voting for it in the end. Because if it walks like a little bitch, and squawks like a little bitch, well...
So basically Clarence Thomas, the same Thomas that allegedly sexually harassed Anita Hill and other work colleagues by describing in detail the porn he watched, crafted a ruling that will force judges, including he and his SCOTUS brethren, to watch porn. Well played, sir
www.vox.com/scotus/41806...
The New York Times' "100 Best Movies of the Century" series is a fun diversion from The End Times. Impossible to feel good about a top 10 list when you must leave out so many great films (hardest omissions for me: Beau Travail, Moonlight, Mulholland Drive), but FWIW here's mine:
"If it stays on the path Trump has started down, the United States risks becoming too brutal to love but too irrelevant to fear." Depressingly important analysis of Trump's disastrous foreign policy from @kschake.bsky.social: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far:
A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.
Bill Clinton told David Maraniss that based on his reading of the Bible blowjobs didn't count as adultery.
Homan, ICE goons, and MAGA allies maybe should watch this interesting doc: