Eric Zimmerman

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

In no functioning country is this allowed.

Wow — retired Army general and former commander of 🇺🇸 Special Operations Command Tony Thomas replies to Miller & Hegseth with the execution freeze frame

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.

The Danish armed forces lost 44 soldiers in Afghanistan (37 in combat and 7 in accidents due to other reasons) along with 214 wounded since 2002. This was due to a war called upon Denmark when NATO Article 5 was activated by USA after 9/11. We did not question it.

There are two realities we must take from yesterday and the weeks leading up to it. First, Donald Trump continues to behave like a man who does not envision a political future without him. Second, there is no going back to a pre-Trumpian past, meaning we must embrace new forms and ideas of politics moving forward. Internationally, anyone hoping for a return to American-led stability is deluding themselves. Kagan captures this terrible new reality: Americans are entering the most dangerous world they have known since World War I!, one that will make the Cold War look like child's play and the post-Cold War world like paradise. In fact, this new world will look a lot like the world prior to 1945, with multiple great powers and metastasizing competition and conflict.

At home, U.S. political commentators continue to obsess over hypothetical Republican "red lines" and Trump's flagging poll numbers. This is a Manhattan Project of hopium enrichment that fundamentally misunderstands the fight we are now in.

Donald Trump has obliterated the world we used to live in. We can’t get it back.

Even more frightening, he and his supporters don’t see a future on the other side of Trumpism.

We have to start from there and know we’re working to build something new.

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The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.

If senior officers carry out what Trump is threatening against NATO, “the officers and enlisted people below them will likely obey the chain of command”—and “such an outcome would be a tragedy, and potentially a global catastrophe,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues.

As great powers abandon rules and values for their own interests, middle powers like Canada have a choice: compete with each other for favour or act together with impact.

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2026

Governor Polis, Do Not Pardon Tina Peters An open letter and a plea to retain the integrity of our elections.

Election integrity means not pardoning Tina Peters, Governor Polis. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Nmwt4Z

“The most frightened people are the people who don’t travel,” Rick Steves told Rachel Syme, in 2021. “Fear is for people who don’t get out very much.” Revisit their conversation: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/8yP_em

Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen:

"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."

"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Grønlandsk veteran føler sig dolket i ryggen af Trump Kununguak Iversen har af flere støttet amerikanske tropper som en del af det danske forsvar. Men nu ønsker USA kontrol over hans hjemstavn.

🇬🇱Greenland veteran Kununguak Iversen (48) who served in the 🇩🇰Danish army in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo rightly feels backstabbed by the 🇺🇸US Administration, which now wants to take his land after he fought when USA invoked Article 5.
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It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.

Great to see CDVC on Bluesky. An important organization doing important work

This administration is attempting to intimidate and muzzle service members and veterans because they represent the greatest barrier to unlawful use of military power.

Service members swear an oath to the Constitution, not to any individual.

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

Folks look at you Iike you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then it’s Wednesday.

Presidentialism, & the post-WWII imperial presidency now being fully weaponized by the authoritarians, was a grave mistake:

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She is right. Note to Dems with the word "leader" in their title: Leaders lead. She is leading.

COMMENTARY: It seems an increasing number of Americans, including elected leaders and journalists, are afraid to tell the truth about what happened on January 6. That's dangerous.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

You want civilian control of the military in a democracy. Well, this is it. Elect better civilians.

You want the military to be part of the checks and balances? That’s a praetorian guard.