If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats
Both Netanyahu and Trump have lost their fucking minds.
We should not be supplying or selling any more offensive weapons to Israel. Enough of this madness is enough.
Good morning. Someone is always going to make money on housing.
Personally, I think it is better for developers to make money building new homes for people to live in than for landlords and homeowners to continue getting rich off of artificial housing scarcity.
so Matt Stoller is just a massive piece of shit, huh
“We’ve got a little hiccup with some of the Hispanic and Latino voters for certain, because some of the immigration enforcement was viewed to be overzealous,” Mr. Johnson said in an interview
"A little hiccup." "Viewed as." They're not going to change policy, they're going to change messaging.
Or maybe, just maybe, the appeal of candidates like Reagan and Trump are deeply underestimated
Thinking about the blisters these guys must be getting on their feet brings me joy
Interesting data point in last bullet here:
This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after.
It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.
Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
JUST IN: Democrats flip a seat in the New Hampshire state House.
Dem Bobbi Boudman has won today’s special election, NHJournal reports.
(Boudman was the Dem nominee in 2024 & lost by 14%; Trump won here by 9%.)
This is Dems’ third legislative flip so far this year, after Texas and Arkansas.
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
the market manipulation and insider trading presidency
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.
Among the many utterly insane things in Trump's screed here is the refusal to distinguish between the Iranian people and the Iranian regime.
Trump isn't committing the troops for regime change, so his only prayer of success is popular uprising. Why should anyone help an indiscriminate murderer?
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
Yarvin is what passes for a thinker on the right.
wild that we spent years with a debate in Europe about whether governments can make the case to their populations to endure higher energy prices as part of collective solidarity against Russia etc only to watch Trump say "fuck it" and skyrocket energy prices overnight with no justification at all
They bought in a lot of narratives on social media, many of them coming from the left.
Also, just straight up lies from the Trump campaign, endlessly repeated in traditional media.
It is entirely possible that Trump thought he would make oil super cheap by kidnapping Maduro and assassinating Khamenei. Truly a world class moron surrounded by even bigger morons.
Still thinking back to my 2024 door knocking and canvassing where left-leaning indies and even a few registered Dems told me they couldn't vote for Harris because she "didn't understand the economy" and would "send our kids to war."
"Burgers were cheaper with Trump" and "he hates war."
Fun times.
Lol yes, please keep suggesting this. Republican candidates will LOVE taking questions about it all summer.
I've been thinking a lot this week about how Japan only has 11 months of oil reserves and gets 90% of their supply through the Strait of Hormuz.
Congrats MAGA. You put the biggest warmongering neocons in power again.
The story of the mid-2020s in a nutshell. People thought it was OK to let Trump take power again because someone somewhere would rein him in. They were catastrophically wrong.
a lot of discussion about how "cosmopolitan" urban dwellers are, but a really underdiscussed trend is the homogenization of culture across *rural* areas of the USA - replacement of once-distinct regional cultures with generic "redneck" accent and culture, regional religions with evanglicalism etc
This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
people still talking about how Democrats need to do more for the working class of middle America have to contend with the fact that we did exactly that and it did not work
Biden spent all of his political capital on bipartisan infrastructure and manufacturing bills and got nothing in return
Exactly. The DHS invasion of Minnesota and the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti had no impact on national gas prices or grocery bills. But people care about it, a lot, and the reaction against that invasion has had a major political impact.
