Fluff

It's become clear over the past week that MAGA is about returning to a world in which the US is the hegemonic capitalist power. But back in the Good Old Days, there was no economy big enough to challenge the US. Now there's China and their rise has spooked America into self-harming policy decisions

this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

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On Fake Hannah Arendt Quotations This article discusses a mis-attributed quote to Hannah Arendt circulating on social media, exploring why such alterations occur and their potential consequences. Berkowitz argues that while simplifie...

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ANALYSIS | Trump is starting a trade war. If he wants to absorb Canada, what comes next will be worse | CBC News The first shots of the trade war between the United States and Canada have been fired. Whether it escalates beyond the planned 25 per cent tariff into a wider economic war depends upon how genuinely s...

According to this article, Trump said that Canada should be absorbed into the US because it would be better for America's national security. That's more of less what Putin said about Ukraine.
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Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

"Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you're operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you're willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Seems legit.

Welcome to the Orange age of America!
Nothing golden about it.

Nyummmmmm coffee.
Ok it was a nibble of a cream bun.

The power of the treat.

Higgins feeling festive

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

House Speaker Mike Johnson wants Ethics panel to keep Matt Gaetz report secret

Shocked