Liz

I get what Goldsmith is trying to say about war powers being about politics and not law, but it’s also kind of silly: law is the instrument that empowers or prohibits normative policies.

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

Quentin Tarantino should have been run out of town for speaking ill of this man

Opinion | There is no reason to think this war with Iran is necessary Trump criticized the Iraq War. Now he’s making the same mistakes.

My big takeaway from the invasion of Iraq—which I regret having supported—is that the US should go to war only when it has to. It should not engage in preventative wars against nebulous threats based on suspect intelligence and without a clear endgame. Yet here we go again. wapo.st/4seF5K1

Like I said, you don’t have to hand it to these people. You don’t have to go to their rallies.

They’re not allies or even fellow travelers. They’re irresponsible hatemongers with a poorly read child’s understanding of the world.

0p3rati0n 1337c0r3

Bent over backwards to make it happen.

Remember when people were like “Kamala Harris will start a war”

Remember

Makes you wonder what’s in those files.

that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be

I know it’s quaint but I think impeaching someone over blatant disregard for Congress’ war powers is an okay thing to do.

Iran is an evil regime and deserves to fall. But that's not a good argument for launching a war of regime change without Congress and against the will of the American people.

Key point I keep trying to make: for all the fretting about AI being "big tech," it really gives us the tools to break free from big tech. We should use them to our advantage while we can...

Use their own tools against them...

This 🧵is just one example, but there are so many more.

I'm a fairweather hockey fan. On ritual, honor, and what happened in that locker room.

noodleincident.substack.com/p/im-a-fairw...

I wrote about ritual and honor and The Locker Room Thing.

Been avoiding listening to usual commentary until I could memorialize my own thoughts. As always, I reserve the right to change my mind, but I felt strongly enough to start this in between sets so

Dear hoteliers: must we reinvent the shower door?

@barrylam.bsky.social Been a while — look what I found in Victoria :)

I just feel like a democrat standing up and shouting "fuck trump" would receive massive donations and would be undefeatable in the midterms and I just wish that these incentives were sufficient to overcome what seems to be an infinite dead weight of respectability.

Say more.

eBay knows I spend money on collectible sport cards and desperately wants me to get the Keller/Hughes Topps card. I did buy a Keller card, anyway. And Knight. And Carpenter. Would’ve bought the paper from @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social’s archive but it’s inaccessible without a member login? Ah well.

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

Fathers of daughters engage in the cruelest act of building girls’ dreams up to stomp on them when they become women.

Is … is this an infomercial?

Like I get that you maybe can’t tear your shirt off and rage at POTUS on the phone or whatever, and I’m sure half the team was like “Kash who?” — but this guy is playing goalie for a child rapist and sex trafficker, and you’re gonna put your imprimatur on that? You can just say no; it’s okay!

YouTube video by Olympics U.S. women's hockey defeats Canada in OT to win Olympic gold

Great highlight package this

Been trying real hard to give the Men’s Hockey Team some grace but I can see much of that was misplaced.

Lame stuff from the U.S. Men’s National Hockey Team. They do actually have a choice whether or not to be mascots for this administration. And they’ve chosen terribly.

Well now I’m just sad.

Hegseth, Ingrassia, Hughes — is there no man out there who can answer for his own behavior or must they always defer to mommy?

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.

I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward

THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

Rubin: "There is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm she is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified as accusing Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15"