Elinor Stillman

Trump’s night of 160 posts on Truth Social fuels debate about US president’s stamina The 79-year-old president’s social media blitz included conspiracies, attacks on political foes and self-praise

That’s not how you spell “sanity”

they’ll do anything to avoid being woke

Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."

Yeah, one of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure fails to prevent a major terrorist attack and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.

a picture of jack burkman and jacob wohl, two of the biggest fraudsters in the Trump era

For example, a nursing home magnate who withheld $38 million in payroll taxes was prosecuted by Trump’s Justice Department, with Trump’s former personal-lawyer-turned-US-Attorney Alina Habba claiming credit. After giving almost $1 million to lobbyists, the magnate was out after three months of his three year sentence. The lobbyists in question, Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, became infamous for their laundering of conspiracy theories during Trump’s first term, and were subsequently convicted in multiple states for voter suppression efforts.

While researching this piece on Trump pardons, rediscovered what some season 1 characters are up to now.

For Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, they have shrugged off their voter suppression convictions and are now selling Trump pardons for $1 million.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

What they say:
-We are at war with "narcoterrorists"! To prove it, we will murder people on boats!

What they do:
-Pardon convicted drug trafficker who facilitated 500 tons of cocaine being smuggled to the US
-Cut drug crime prosecutions to their lowest level in 25 years

My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America

North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.

"The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows...are illegal. For example, 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥."

-DoD Law of War manual

@PeteHegseth on X: Let’s make one thing crystal clear: Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support. I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made — on the September 2 mission and all others since. America is fortunate to have such men protecting us. When this @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors — we mean it. 01 Dec 25

Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

the use of "color revolution" here is like the spoor of the authoritarian internationale--the way that russian propaganda has slithered its way in to the american right

Either the student didn’t complain or Maynard Mack agreed with the grade I assigned. His complaint was voiced years later when his singing group was touring Italy and encountered my sister touring with some young women. Jane told him I had been at Yale. He recognized the last name.

As a reader for the Shakespeare course at Yale, I was about to cut some slack for a student with a French name who turned in a badly written paper.Then I was told he wasn’t French, he was from Brooklyn. I explained this and he accused me of discriminating against him because he was American.

I always wonder who the audience for stories like this is

This article cites several law schools that have closed and one that has never existed. Other than that, the presumably generative AI did a fine job of it

Great time to release a good old Nuremberg Trial movie

As good a summary as you’ll see

19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.

Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?

He gets a full presidential pardon.

Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.

Reminder that shortly after ordering these strikes, Hegseth removed the press corps from the Pentagon and the SouthCom Commander overseeing operations in the Caribbean unexpectedly announced he is stepping down 2 yrs before his term is up. What we are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg.

If this is remotely true, then Southern Illinois University Carbondale needs to have an intervention with its Dean of Education who does not seem to understand “education”

The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down (Published 2024)

Wait so there are Peter Thiel-backed landlocked seasteading libertarian cities that the current Honduras govt wants to get rid of that Roger Stone has been advocating for that JOH also supports? And Stone has also been advocating for JOH 's pardon?

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...

Thread about an actual drug smuggler who’s about to be pardoned by Trump

I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].

Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

I think often of the time a bunch of murder victims’ families showed Trump treasured photos of their loved ones and he signed them

Straight-up sociopath.

Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.

Enough

Something random.

Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine.

Cartoon by Michael de Adder