@samwisethewise.bsky.social
The message of Trump’s letter to the prime minister of Norway signals that the president “genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/U0fviLiM
19.01.2026 16:30 — 👍 2112 🔁 662 💬 109 📌 56Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.
19.01.2026 13:06 — 👍 8714 🔁 1812 💬 40 📌 215Gun violence is out of control. The victims of gun violence are Republicans, Democrats, independents, and kids, who have no political affiliation whatsoever.
We need to tone down the incendiary political rhetoric, for sure, but we also need to do something about guns.
The guns!
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
10.09.2025 19:00 — 👍 7569 🔁 1869 💬 460 📌 301Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
10.09.2025 19:09 — 👍 7905 🔁 1988 💬 146 📌 127Waiting for news outlets and reporters to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, reporting Trump's social media posts on foreign policy without confirmation is deeply irresponsible and an embarrassing failure of journalism.
24.06.2025 11:35 — 👍 3971 🔁 702 💬 68 📌 49
UN delegate with sign that says "MAGA"
UN delegate presses button to turn over sign
UN delegate's sign now says "Neo-cons"
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The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence?
Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue.
1/ A🧵on the danger.
i think it’s interesting that random podcasters are “the left” but none of these people seem to care that JD Vance actively pals around with internet nazis
24.05.2025 01:05 — 👍 6972 🔁 1145 💬 258 📌 31
Unreal: To sustain his lie about a "genocide" of "white farmers" while meeting with the South African president, Trump used a photo of war deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
I looked into this a bit more. It's worse than it first appeared. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.
05.05.2025 13:37 — 👍 17551 🔁 3982 💬 220 📌 143Let's say Harris won last year and Vance was holding 10k-20k person rallies where he railed against left-wing "oligarchy."
Would the CW be that this was crazy and a waste of time? Or would we be seeing NYT op-eds and A1s about what "oligarchy" is and why the GOP base was on fire about it?
My Socrates Note?
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