Actor Ethan Hawke on Donald Trump: “I’ve done enough Shakespeare plays to know power corrupts. It’s a common theme of mankind. History’s littered with despots and selfish people and greedy people and they make the rules for the kind people”

Great piece about a great kid.

A large masked man who is surrounded by armed backup shooting a lone and panicked woman in the face in broad daylight is such an insane visual metaphor for this administration’s overall disproportionate use of force

WATCH THIS NOW! Doctor on scene: I'm a physician. Ice agent: I DON'T CARE They shot her three times in the face and head and then denied her medical care and it's all ON CAMERA.

My father is 89. Born in 1936. Whip smart. Was in the Korean War. Stationed in Okinawa. He’s been around. Seen some shit. Stopped by for a couple happy hour beers today, and asked him about the ICE killing. He said 2 words… 2 words only… Gestapo shit.

ICE agents killing people in the streets. The naked extortion of a sovereign state. The National Guard unleashed in American cities. The Justice Department weaponized to prosecute political opponents. The tyranny is on full display — and it's waking America up.

This. Is. Not. Ok.

If the US was still a sane country and a healthy democracy, the fact that a sitting president is openly talking about invading a NATO country would be enough grounds for impeachment.

I wish some other country had undertaken the experiment of electing a total imbecile as its national leader, so we could learn from their mistake rather than our own.

.Ezra Klein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?” @JamesTalarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme

Home of the Brave This isn’t a slippery slope. It’s already happening. Masked agents, paper checks, detention before verification, citizens swept up and released later. That’s not theory. That’s the method taking root in real time.

Fascinated by this

How to lose the 21st century to China: 1. Unilaterally disarm regarding the soft power competition by ending economic aid and international media agencies. 2. Impose tariffs irrationally on everyone. 3. Invade Greenland, break up NATO, and isolate the US from the entire world.

Wow. LETS GO!!!

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT‼️

Damn

My problem with the “he wouldn't actually do it” and “institutional checks will step in to stop him” arguments regarding Greenland is that we are in this position precisely because, at every prior stage, he did do it and institutional checks failed to constrain this lunatic.

A moment of silence for all that we lost this year… - Presidential ethics - Checks and balances - Freedom of the press - Due process rights - American global leadership - A competent DOD - Operational security - Reliable government statistics - Academic freedom

“We’re watching a geriatric patient wander through a geopolitical hallucination on stage.”