Huntington W. Sharp

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

They want us to live as if we’re at perpetual war.

Secure land title *now* isn’t implicated by what happened *then*. What a truly idiotic take.

It seems to me that we are in the midst of a very hard battle and every day we are at risk of losing everything, even the syntax of truth.

~Elena Ferrante

[photo by Yaşar Koç]

The speech in full.

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Peter Baker. I recognized your foul stench when I read the headline.

The whole point of Gen X is not caring about any “greatest generation” nonsense.

Dismantling DHS is an entirely achievable goal for Democrats at this point.

You can have Fox yell at you for being a radical leftist or whatever, but you're going to have endless images of paramilitary goons assaulting people on TV, and voters will associate you with wanting to end that.

Jeane Kirkpatrick is rolling in her grave.

Going back to the primary and general elections of 2015-16.

I’m remembering Caroline Sanford, raised in a Parisian palace, living in one in Gore Vidal’s novel Hollywood.

Yep. It happens to everyone.

Screenshot from Washington Week showing a news segment discussing why President Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 during the campaign but later hired Russell Vought. A male news analyst appears on screen in front of the White House at night.

A long way to say, “He lied to the voters.”

Happy Nichelle Nichols’s birthday to all who celebrate!

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.

There’s no third option.

Why Are Democrats So Afraid to Even Mention the Source of Trump’s Political Power? We're not doing this country any favors by steering people away from the truth.

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Your brain is not a computer.
Your thoughts are not algorithmic.

Don’t let Silicon Valley limit your understanding of your own mind with inaccurate metaphors.

And might even now!

They were never going to get anything material from the shutdown.

Or actually delivering government services.

So you’re saying there’s a chance!

They don’t mind hierarchies based on wealth either since they think they might still rise to the top and want to be able to treat poorer people badly.

this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.

“Zohran Mamdani wants people to prosper, even those who didn’t vote for him. Donald Trump wants to execute everyone who disagrees with him. Could this represent a new coalition in American politics?”

ME, AFTER SUFFERING A MASSIVE CONCUSSION

It can be. Republicans generally don’t do much with it when they hold the chair, but Republicans aren’t really into democracy, and House is the most democratic part of our government.

I thought I was the only one who thought that that was the most appropriate track for her specific talents. She could make the people’s chamber far more powerful than it is.

Somewhere, Ramona Singer is sighing into her rosé.

Even those who didn't rely on them will feel the pain as insurance premiums are going to jump for almost everyone.

The only question is whether Americans will learn from this or not. Whiteness is not a force field that protects you from harm, and white folks ain't equipped to handle what's coming.