If a politician tells you they can improve your life without taking on the concentrated power of the ruling class, they are phoney. Either they are stupid or they think you're stupid.

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I'm substantively pleased about this. Waltz is full-spectrum hawk from the c. 2012 era of GOP foreign policy thinking: Threaten war everywhere to maintain primacy. I thought that was stupid then. It may be even stupider now. (Going to war with Iran wd certainly be stupid.)

FDD are smart people — they don’t emotionally react to attacks, but instead claim that they’re on the same side while sliding in their own extreme preferences (what “nuclear weapons facilities”?) and offering more dialogue to get powerful decision makers back on side.

This will be a total disaster. Utterly inefficient way to provide aid. Unsafe and unethical to make badly malnourished people move (many on foot) through insecure territory to retrieve aid. The aim here is not to cut out Hamas - it's to cut out the humanitarian groups.

Starmer misinterpreted Labour's 2024 victory as a mandate to exhume and reanimate a zombie Blair/Clinton "third way" neoliberalism, offering Conservative Lite austerity and militarism instead of a solidaristic governing agenda. Democrats shouldn't make the same mistake.

Everyone should be clear that the dumb, pointless, counterproductive, time-wasting fight over the word oligarchy is one centrists have picked with the left because they don’t have an actually good, let alone inspiring, agenda to mobilize around.

Matt Duss It's also important to note that his landslide electoral victory was due, entirely, to our dysfunctional electoral system, rather than any semblance of significant popular support. Labour's aggregate vote total was a million less than in 2019, and substantially less than 2017.

Matt Duss Its share of the vote was roughly identical to what is was in 2019, when the party suffered its worst electoral result in a hundred years. Essentially, the Labour government was starting life with a 1997-level majority, with 2005 level popular support.

Matt Duss Instead of doing popular things to improve the economy, and meaningfully impact people's lives - thus giving our political and economic systems a fighting chance of survival, they essentially perpetuated Conservative orthodoxies, and are continuing the managed decline of the UK.

Matt Duss In essence, they are continuing to compound the structural problems the UK has that are mechanically and predictably increasing the support for Reform. They, in effect, have no idea how to win the political battle they are fighting.

"It's an obvious Commie trick, Mr. President. We are wasting valuable time! Look at the big board, they're getting ready to clobber us!"

Billionaires like Trump and Musk don’t have a clue what it means for working families when it becomes too expensive to buy your kid a birthday present.

People should understand how completely off the rails a member of Congress has to go for that many staffers to sound the alarm to a journalist.

Trump kneecapping his party’s hawkish interventionist wing is an objectively good thing. It would be great if Democrats had a 2028 candidate interested in doing the same.

“Rubio’s esteem has risen in Trump’s eyes since the former senator has abandoned many of his past policy views” politico.com/news/2025/05/0…

Prime Minister of Israel The missing word in this tweet: Dermer. Netanyahu doesnt need to have a direct channel with Walz for the story to be true.

The best way to understand this stuff is on an analogy to gladiatorial contests: it's bread and circuses for the MAGA masses. Trump whips up the crowd, by being absurdly comical and triggering normies into fits of apoplexy about him.

Consider the amount of time and energy the Biden team wasted on this. Literally up to the last month of his administration. Absurd.

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