Victor Caston

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

Stop him

The press corps is refusing to accept the Republicans' characterization of the Iran war as anything but a war.

Orwellian, in fact

South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

Trump administration cannot force states to supply food stamp data, US judge rules A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from cutting off funding for 22 Democratic-led states to administer food stamp benefits unless they turned over data on mill...

I won't stop fighting until all of our communities have access to the food assistance they need and deserve without living in fear.

Key Trump ally behind emergency elections order reveals loony conspiracy theory motivating his effort Peter Ticktin said the Trump should sign an executive order to take over voting machines, because machines in Antrim County, Michigan flipped votes from Trump to Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

NEW: A conservative attorney said to be coordinating with the White House to push Donald Trump to take control of elections via executive order cited a bizarre 2020 conspiracy theory involving Michigan voting machines as the emergency that justifies the scheme.

"I respect Bernie Sanders because he's an open socialist, and you know that he's a communist so you know what you're getting. Rand Paul's a freaking snake. And I understand completely why his neighbor did what he did. And I told him that to his face."

This is what Markwayne Mullin said about Rand Paul a couple weeks ago.

Anyway, guess who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee

Could not be clearer that he is a complete tool, without any conscience or integrity whatsoever.

GOODLANDER: The Post reported you helped craft a plan to send troops to every state as part of a 'domestic civil disturbance quick reaction force.' Is that accurate?

COLBY: I'd have to get back to you

G: ... you can't say if you were part of the planning?

COLBY: I'll back to you ASAP w/ specifics

A country that always finds money for bombs but won’t feed hungry children at home is spiritually broken.

Two weeks until Trump claims the Iran war would never have happened if he’d been president.

OMG

Remarkably claims not to know who made the order.

Either it's him, or the Secretary, or the President.

The Herengracht in 1670 by Jan van der Heyden. He was v. into urban improvement (invented street lighting!) & often inserts extra trees into paintings to beautify the scene. Today is his day.

will want a copy, when all is done!

A page proof containing the following text: Chapter 3 Xenophon’s Reception in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Corpus Carol Atack There are clear shared themes within the political and ethical thought of Xenophon and Aristotle.1 Both are interested in human life in its extreme forms, from the slave to the absolute monarch, in the structure of the household and its relationship to the wider political and other responsibilities of the male citizen who was its manager, in the constitutions of cities, ideal and otherwise, and in the practicalities of implementing the ideals that underlay the politeia. However, Aristotle’s use of Xenophon’s texts has often been treated as limited to the extraction of useful data about, for example, Spartan educational and political practices, rather than as a critical engagement with Xenophon’s ethical and political thought itself.2 Common subject matter may simply be...

V excited to receive page proofs for a chapter I submitted in 2016 (!) for the forthcoming Brill's Companion to the Reception of Xenophon, on a topic which remains fascinating - Aristotle's use of Xenophon's thought and his exemplary narratives as a source for his own ethnical thought.

Oh really?

This is an accurate headline.

Not "the Senate" but "Senate Republicans."

Last book he read was in the 4th grade, obvs

Honestly, the payoff here is when he imitates what he assumes people are reading when they read. He assumes it is about pirates.

Not sure there are thoughts in there, just Fight or Flight

Performative sadism (fueled by religious zealotry) is Hegseth's brand

Contributor: U.S. attack on Iran echoes Russia's invasion of Ukraine It's disturbing for the U.S. to be playing the role of the aggressor. Equally disturbing is to see mistakes of the Iraq War already being repeated.

"All you have to do is substitute Russia for the United States and it is all too clear who and what we have become. An aggressor nation..." My latest, on the grandiose war-of-choice syndrome that I had hoped was history—at least for America. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

YouTube video by 19king14 Film2Video Archiving Congressmen's Children Enlist

As relevant today as it was over 20 years ago.

When Michael Moore asked Congress members to volunteer their own kids to go to war.

youtu.be/89sXG6kTo6o?...

Literally the first thing academics pointed out about LLMs YEARS AGO was that they would be used for catastrophic levels of fraud—how nice that now the AI bros are confirming what we all knew by running fraud experiments to tell cheats which LLM to use to cheat