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That’s the part that really kills me. They chose this with eyes wide open.

Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions.

If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

A ray of hope on an otherwise bleak weekend.

Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months?

Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA?

But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis.

Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

You’d really be forgiven if you had a hard time conceiving of a success on this scale. “So I’ve got this idea for an environmental and public health project, we’re gonna reduce pollution by a fifth. No no it doesn’t cost anything. Actually it’s gonna net half a billion dollars.” What!

maybe these two stories could have been one story. NYT with a not so subtle choice of article placement.

Ah yes, the fiercely environmental MAGA party.

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

It is already funny but now it’s become far funnier because they know everyone knows and is looking at their shoes but they still have to do this

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

democrats still seem to be laboring under the delusion that they can introduce stuff to pass while trump is president and they, not trump, will somehow get credit for it. they learned nothing from trump taking credit for covid stimulus checks

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

There should be zero financial incentive to become a politician. It should be codified.

I just did seven years. You won’t let it go that long because you have actual responsibilities, but the answer to your question is an unequivocal yes.

it's really bad for the world that half of the American political system has convinced itself that the concept of diplomacy is fake and gay

Whatever it takes to keep dear leader out of prison for all the child rape and murder. 🫡

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

It is horriying to think that an entire generation is coming of age knowing nothing but Donald Trump and the nastiness that is our political culture. I shutter to think about what the implications of this will be for an already weakened democracy.

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%.

boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

It is really hard sometimes to keep the big picture in mind but whereas it was noteworthy that just two people were elected to Congress in 2018 who were openly and hyper critical of Israel, in 2026 it will be more than two dozen.

Hear me out: If the US is not aligned with NATO and the US is not aligned with the USSR, then the ignorant poster may indeed be correct.

I can see using LLMs to do pre code reviews. They’ll catch some things that human reviewers would miss. But the danger of review spam may be ungovernably high.

A friend of a friend claimed to have replaced his business lawyers with LLMs two or three years ago. I can only imagine amazing outcomes from this decision. I hope I get a chance to follow up with him.

It’s a problem that the president is a world-class imbecile with zero capacity to think strategically, understand the basic context of his decisions, and who makes those decisions in chaotic spasms.

It’s a much bigger problem that our political system finds it impossible to say this out loud.

Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.