You cannot "save democracy" if you can't even take a clear moral stand against genocide because you're too enamored with your titles and clubs, too beholden to big donors or ossified with indefensible views.

The elephant in the room re: "housing politics" in this country is that only the socialist left is honest about the need to deflate speculative investment in the housing market. Red Vienna wasn't the product of little land use reforms, it was the product of crashing the market.

This “Anne Frank actually died of typhus”-level discourse is so deeply offensive it’s hard to know where to begin. Anne Frank was hunted and killed by the Nazis. I do not care that she died of typhus, and anybody pushing that line is doing so for a very clear reason.

I am 44 and I have to say I don’t really expect to ever receive a state pension, and if I do, the retirement age will likely be 75+ by the time I get there and it will be some means tested bollocks.

I mean literally everyone expected that.

SMART Union member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained by ICE this morning during a routine check in. This comes just three days after a federal judge released him from custody. The Trump administration is now threatening to deport Kilmar to Uganda.

Awesome you still get people demanding “Source!?!” about these shenanigans, and you can truthfully tell them you heard it from *the PM’s Chief of Staff*, because he’s been bragging about it for years to everyone who will listen, and then people still say it’s a conspiracy theory.

Again, every western liberal has redefined “a ceasefire” as “Hamas surrender” so they can just reiterate surrender terms while looking humanitarian and Deeply Concerned. A brilliant propaganda coup that’s gone on for 17 months that no one in western media ever bothers mentioning.

if Democrats won't support Mamdani why do they expect the rest of us to support whatever vacuous corporate slimeball they push down our throats in 2028

so just blatantly bypassing congress to purport to create a new crime that’s already been found unconstitutional

50 years of economic policy re asset inflation have ensured that this is not going to happen even if we have another recession

Israel pioneered this tactic a decade ago: deporting an estimated 4,000 asylum seekers to Uganda and Rwanda, where they faced horrific conditions and were often funneled into deadly trafficking networks. I investigated this shadow deportation system for The New Republic in 2018:

I remain surprised that this hasn’t been a bigger scandal. The Trump admin has been moving to drop multiple prosecutions against very serious MS-13 lieutenants and leaders to avoid having them testify about Trump ally Nayib Bukele’s prior connections to the gang.

Today, farmers are making less and food costs more for us. So who’s making all the money? John Deere! Cargill! JBS! Walmart! Dollar General!

Impossible to reckon with America’s role in Gaza or offer an alternative, more humane policy without acknowledging this is how Biden behaved for 16 months. Bipartisan commitment to hollow condemnations while continuing to arm Israel created the ever-darker trajectory we’re now on

If the ACA is an example of abundance liberalism — public money + incentives for private companies to accomplish social good — then it illustrates an extremely expensive effort that only partially addresses one problem (uninsurance) and replaces it with another (underinsurance)

It’s probably bad that the evil guys are comfortable being this openly evil

The arch neoliberals at the American Enterprise Institute are outraged that Trump has taken a stake in Intel, but also correct that this is not industrial policy. It's a one-off authoritarian derisking intervention. ft.com/content/2ddbfd…

We don’t have the right to know shit, I expect. We didn’t even find out Britain had soldiers in Syria until they were forced to announce the Americans had accidentally killed one of them. I doubt we’d get even that, in this instance.