Patrick Hruby

I don’t buy this at all

I mean when has a hopeful moment of popular uprising against a despised regime ever given way to a new revolutionary government that came to be just as corrupt and repressive and sclerotic as the one it replaced. Certainly never before in Iran.

How much more money does Jim need

One year later, seven fired federal workers share where they are now The Trump administration fundamentally altered the trajectories of hundreds of thousands of lives.

“They unleashed an army of highly talented, skilled, and competent public servants that now have the motivation and the time to fight back. They've tried to break our souls. They tried to break us down, but they're not going to take that fighting servant spirit. They're really not.”

Going back to feudalism, everywhere you look

a central GOP platform for as long as I've drawn breath has been the coddling of corporate power, the enabling of mindless consolidation, and the destruction of regulatory oversight

But every single time the party promises "antitrust reform" the U.S. press helps them pretend they have credibility

America’s epitaph

Just as the Framers intended

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.

No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep

This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil

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

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

Nope, we’ll just have another GOP regime doing more of the things GOP voters want and like, all while rich Democrats complain about annoying campus leftists and swing voters keep trying to kick Lucy’s football

Everyone needs an editor, including Judy Blume

colin powell at the un

feels so quaint.

In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law

I like to distract myself from the terrifying political news by reading the ridiculous political news.

On oligarch media consolidation, TV networks matter, but don't sleep on:

TikTok USA (Ellison, Andreesen, others)
Ex-Twitter (Musk, Saudis)
Electronic Arts (Saudis, Kushner)

All Trump donors, allies, bribers, and/or family.

maybe the former weekend morning talk show host and the wrestlemania ceo and the podcasters running everything will be able to pull off regime change in one of the most politically complicated areas of the world

James Franco being executed by hanging. "First time?" he asks, as though he's been hanged before.

hey gen z welcome to republican governance

One way the Anthropic/DoD saga ends is that Palmer Luckey somehow rebrands an existing AI tool as like WarriorAI and gets a bajillion dollars for software that doesn't work

they really are the dark side but its the spaceballs version

My Trade Secrets today. The Trump tariff refunds saga is blackly comic. About 20% of tariffs levied on Chinese exporters are paid directly by those exporters. So they get a refund windfall, having largely passed the tariff costs on to US co.s & consumers. I know, right?

as.ft.com/r/30dbb3e0-8...

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

finding out one of your least favorite NBA players of all time didn't even have his own bit is an invigorating hit of hateration

that this gets called “thinking” is why this is where we’re at

What a time to be alive

What should be apparent, at this point, to all watching is that this is Government-as-Racketeering. It's their one, and only approach to education, to elections, to State's Rights, to tech, to media, to polls. It's all just extortion, all the way down. And it works because nobody who matters cares.