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it’s wild how everyone hates Fetterman (correctly) and there’s a guy running who’s basically holding a huge I’m The Next Fetterman sign and it hasn’t slowed him down at all

very unfair to call this guy a Nazi merely because he had a Nazi tattoo, retweets Nazis, and praises Nazi shows. after all, he could just be really astonishingly fucking dumb. seems like a great candidate!

I'll say it again: If you're consistently finding ways to rationalize away Graham Platner's Nazi tattoo or embrace of Nazi content creators then you really are no different than those on the right who were trying to explain why Elon really wasn't giving a Heil Hitler

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

This is right. And people hate to hear it, but Joe Biden’s single most important task was to Trump-proof the US.

His task was to destroy the Republican Party to punish them for Trump, salt the earth over them, and implement big structural reforms to stop future R minority extremism.
And he failed.

Today is Disability Day of Mourning, remembering disabled people murdered by caregivers/family.

Any journalist who portrays these stories as anything short of murder is doing serious journalistic malpractice, yet it happens so often. disability-memorial.org

What is the point at which someone disabled deserves to be locked away?

Which disabilities?

Where's the line?

Or maybe we shouldn't be locking up innocent people just because they have a medical condition.

Disability is determined by others. (per ADA)

Anyone can be labeled disabled.

You too.

David Frum tweet, Mar 1, 2026: According to the self-proclaimed experts who get quoted at times like this, the corpus of international law can be reduced to one simple rule: "Terrorists and communists are always allowed to strike democracies, but democracies are never allowed to strike back."

Why do we act like David Frum has knowledge or expertise when he's barely at the level of your dumbest uncle posting his shower thoughts on FB?

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What if we told all the petrostate oligarchs trying desperately to prop up the profit margins of an obsolete technology--and who are willing to kill uncounted children to do it--that they could just retrain for a new economy?

You know, it was a regime, not just one guy
There not going to give up and start singing like the soldiers in THE WIZARD OF OZ

might want to accelerate those chinese EV shipments to canada

Sure, call me a Luddite, but it feels like not a great thing that the United States is using a chatbot famous for hallucinating false information to decide where to hurl bombs.

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

🗳️ THE BLUEPRINT TO STEAL 2026?

A leaked 17-page plan shows the regime’s plot to seize election authority and outlaw voting machines. They’re already running "drills" in Fulton County. This is not a drill.

Read the terrifying details:
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-trie...

And then let's normalize not electing psychopathic criminals whose only hope of staying out of jail is to clung desperately to power at all costs. Works for both US and Israel

Local man being paid to sit on sidelines for past eleven years says people should do things.

The Internet is not a great place to Do Nuance but this is one of those places where nuance is really called for.

A lot of enlisted folks enlisted out of economic need, did not sign up yesterday, & really cannot just walk off the job without severe consequences.

AND enlistment is not heroism, AND

A mad king’s illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.

My instant reaction at 3 a.m. yesterday was not whether Khamenei would be killed or oil prices or anything else but this

This undeclared, unexplained war is illegal. Full stop

28 hours later, it is still the worse abuse of power in U.S. history. Impeach

My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

They've monetized and incentivized committing crimes against humanity.

It's a scandal on par with Pete Rose betting on baseball, if Pete Rose were undersecretary of defense, and baseball was murdering civilians with bombs.

Carney puts rules-based international order sign back in window OTTAWA - After publishing an official statement on behalf of the Canadian government supporting the joint US-Israel bombings in Iran this morning, Prime Minister Carney was spotted happily putting the...

Carney puts rules-based international order sign back in window

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack"

- Mark Carney

Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically.

Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.

Of course the IDU's best banker is a war criminal.

There's no world in which this piece of shit doesn't crawl up Trump and Netanyahu's arsehole.

Fuck Mark Carney.

Trump’s attack on Iran violates UN rules Canada has agreed to uphold. It contradicts numerous values PM Carney claimed he supported in Davos. Endorsing illegality, violence, & destruction over dialogue and peaceful resolution is not what Canadians were promised, or support.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Nobody should have nukes but if US, the most destabilizing force in the world, can have nukes then all bets are off and anyone can have one. Give one to Johnny Knoxville. Fuck it.

The other important thing is that Trump’s goals are different than those of the people around him. Trump cares about money, power, and immunity. The Project 2025 men have an ideological vision that he likely doesn’t care about but will enact anyway. Others surrounding Trump badly want a war with Iran. The potential nature of this war is frightening. Trump is obsessed with nuclear weapons and has been since the 1980s. He’s spoken frequently of using them, but at the same time, he says he fears them. He believes the world will end in nuclear annihilation. My fear is that the way Trump deals with his fear is by becoming the one who pushes the button.

From November 2024. I don't believe Trump is in control of this war. I worry about how he may try to control it now that the war is here. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/just-answe...

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.