Joe Biden ended the forever war in Afghanistan (at tremendous political cost); was painted as a bloodthirsty warmonger by the alt-right media apparatus (and leftists). Donald Trump tore up the Iran Deal, assassinated the top Iranian general and was treated as 'anti-war'.

The whole "deplorables" imbroglio lasted for weeks b/c the press hated Hillary & kept it in the news cycle. This little Christmas missive from Trump won't even be a story b/c he's conditioned the press to accept this as part of his whole shtick. I DON'T MAKE THE RULES, FOLKS!

Peter Wolf Russia is the country everyone thinks Israel is.

the more i learn about energy costs the more i see how damaging the romantic affection for the uwu smol bean homeowner making their own artisanally crafted small batch power has been. electricity is fundamentally a large scale endeavor

if you make a train faster and more frequent, it will generally boost ridership way more than if you make it free

holy fucking shit

Trump has never cared much for democracy, wants to park this with some kind of new military dictator who’ll cut favorable oil deals with members of his family or whatever.

Liberal presidents are less likely to start wars and more likely to end them. That's just a boring true fact that people decided to reject, like "eating fewer calories makes you lose weight" or "more government spending causes inflation"

"Say what you will about violating international law and the Constitution, the U.S. military is a real panty dropper" - Rachael Bade (an actual well-paid journalist in these here United States) basically

Every Democrat who supported the Iraq war, did so because they were scared Republicans would call them the 2003 version of woke - basically Brooklyn hipsters with blue hair. The same dynamic repeats itself now. To be against war is to be female, and weak, and stupid.

Relatively affluent white conservative men aren't telling their own children not to take AP classes in high school, they're telling yours. 😒

Currently reading a paper on 1950s housing policy. One of the conclusions 76 years ago? Keep homes cheap and accessible for young people, the birth rate will be higher than otherwise and you need fewer migrants. Government continues to wilfully fumble the obvious.

This is because I said Tim Walz was a typical VP candidate, no different from Biden, Tim Kaine, or Shapiro.

I am wholly uninterested in whataboutism. Nothing about trans rights going too far or the evils of performative DEI justifies lighting cancer research, herd immunity, civil rights, and the stability of the world on fire. America looks evil and stupid pretending otherwise.

This is insane. Walz was a boring, competent, governor and congressman. He never spoke about whiteness, or maleness. Every VP candidate is expected to fade into the background. This is resentment of a white man being subordinate in any context. It’s mental illness.

Brazil - Bolsonaro leads coup, arrested the next day, tried, convicted, imprisoned South Korea - Yoon Suk Yeol leads coup, impeached 10 days later, arrested a month after that, currently on trial for insurrection United States - Trump leads coup, gets away with it, seizes power

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

Why does everyone think that there will be a real election in 2028? In 2020, Trump tried dozens of ways to invalidate votes, before Jan 6. Many, the GOP refused to go along with. But he has his own people installed now. They’ll do whatever he wants.

Well-reported The Atlantic story on how the oldest President Donald J. Trump in history is actually taking orders from Stephen Miller. While Trump falls asleep in meetings and picks out tile for his ballroom/senior arts and crafts project, his boss is running wild. 25th Amendment territory.

People saying, "don't worry, Trump won't really invade a NATO ally" remind me of the anonymous Republican official quoted in the Washington Post on November 10, 2020, who said: “What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time? No one seriously thinks the results