tbh I think it will be interesting to see now that he’s in office! he pulled this kinda thing off during the campaign but the tenor of the response does seem different now. a lot of their theory of governance involves keeping their base locked in
probably an inevitability given his larger approach—i.e. he regularly condemns rhetoric and specific figures without every moderating his core argument—is designed to frustrate hardcore partisans even though it’s probably right
dressed her up
accidentally read some of matt yglesias’s opinions about movies and am considerably dumber than i was 5 minutes ago
they think they’re troops
i read the news today oh boy
It’s so cool all the oil and energy market guys sound like health experts around this time six years ago
as more information about Vance's "opposition" to the war leak out it seems more and more like the vice president is actively trying to use the war to position himself for 2028—and, of course, undermine Marco Rubio newrepublic.com/article/2077...
this has led me down a rabbit hole where i’ve been watching Stuart Matthewman guitar videos for like 20 minutes… beautiful stuff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JE4...
thank you Leander!
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It doesn't seem like an accident that the administration keeps splicing footage from this war with stuff from video games and action movies because many of the people overseeing this war seem to think it is no different from a video game or an action movie
These people obviously speak like this because they're sociopathic cretins but I do also wonder if the specific conditions of contemporary warfare also insulate them from the consequences of their actions enough that they can simply choose to ignore the human toll if they want to
Why was Messi really at the White House? For this week's @goldengoalmag.bsky.social newsletter, I wrote about Trump, Cuba, Inter Miami president Jorge Mas and the legacy of his father, Jorge Mas Canosa, the godfather of Cuban American politicians. goldengoalmag.substack.com/p/theres-mor...
While most of the focus on Inter Miami's visit to the White House has understandably focused on Messi, the real story is the team's owner Jorge Mas, who is using his star player to help bring about his father's dream: goldengoalmag.substack.com/p/theres-mor...
this was exactly our response
One thing we learned while working on this story but did not include is that Jorge Mas's son appears to be dating Marco Rubio's daughter...
For this week's @goldengoalmag.bsky.social newsletter, @salazar.bsky.social wrote about Jorge Mas, the billionaire Inter Miami owner, who just used Lionel Messi to push the Trump administration toward regime change in Cuba goldengoalmag.substack.com/p/theres-mor...
The idea that Trump was an "isolationist," let alone "antiwar" was always absurd. He loves using American military power and has always been convinced that he can use it in "smart" ways—as opposed to the "stupid" Iraq War. That arrogance got us into this mess newrepublic.com/article/2077...
I wrote about Trump's aggressive, hubristic, increasingly chaotic foreign policy and a 2016 "antiwar" debate clip that has been misunderstood for a decade newrepublic.com/article/2077...
excellent @alexshephard.bsky.social piece looking back on Trump's headline "antiwar" moment in the 2016 campaign, the South Carolina primary debate
we should see the Iran fiasco as arising from the unilateralist, imperialist ideology he articulated on that stage newrepublic.com/article/2077...
if you peep the new issue of vanity fair you can see this chart I worked on mapping all the terrible people whose ideas trickle their way into the White House, along with their various beefs. You could call it the everyone is 12 chart
The Trump administration selecting for pure ideologues means no one in the room could read a map or do basic ballistic math and now everything's going to get more expensive as people keep dying to serve a war whose entire desire effect is making snuff films with military cameras for social media.
we've been emailing with him, a thrilling experience
also they reference Miguel's (great) Colombia jersey but for the record I was wearing a Salmon Rondon shirt, a futile attempt to keep the flame that @jonawils.bsky.social lit alive
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The first @goldengoalmag.bsky.social trivia night was a huge success! We'll be hosting these monthly until the tournament begins. Follow along here for more updates: goldengoalmag.substack.com
