Someone tell this guy about the psychology of projection.

I’ll translate Jelani Cobb’s quote for you, Drezner: “we, the Columbia administration, have encouraged and promoted open season on Jewish students. But now that there are consequences, we’re not going to be able to do that anymore.”

This is whataboutism.

77 million people voted for Tang the Conqueror so he could host a reality show to amuse Vladimir Putin.

So it goes.
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The scrubbing of government websites is venal. The impact on democracy and science is unfathomable.

The Internet Archive is one stop gap. I just donated to this very worthy nonprofit. Please consider doing so as well.

If Trump blocks federal funding for rebuilding LA, that will catalyze a secession movement in California (which he might be fine with).

The hosannas for Carter are preposterous. This is a man whose incompetence helped birth the Reagan era and whose blind spots led him to hugging Khaled Meshal. In other words, nice guy or not, this is a man who did tremendous damage.

What if RFK Jr decided hot showers were bad for you?

In Korea, when the president attempts a coup, people come out and demonstrate in masses. If that were true in the US, maybe we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now.

I’m not sure what this is about because it’s about a lot and absolutely beautiful and devastating

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That escalated quickly.

If Assad can fall, so can the Iranian theocracy, so can Putin. It will be a tragedy if Trump appeases in Syria like Obama did.

Essential reading.

Looming authoritarianism, looming schmauthoritarianism. Looking public heath dark age, looming shpublic health dark age. Looming handmaids tale, looming shamdmaids tale.

Bring them home. Bring them all home. Nothing else matters, still.

Betting markets currently have Trump at 6% chance of winning the 2028 Republican nomination for President.

The bluest state in the country? LA County. Population over 10 million, and its vote is 2/3 Kamala.

Kamala up by 3.1 million in California; Trump up by 5.6 million everywhere else.

Dispatch from the Department of Obvious: We had a historic economic collapse that Obama didn’t do nearly enough about.