Connor Stedman

Also, most importantly: It was an attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of the United States.

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Biden & Harris were already speeding up permitting -- not by slashing regulations or imposing arbitrary timelines, but by fully funding & staffing the offices involved.

Seriously. The best case scenario for Pete Hegseth - the absolute BEST case - is that he didn't know about the second strike in advance, reviewed the video, and opted to support a clear war crime.

There is no version of these events that leaves him fit for office. Draft articles of impeachment now

Natasha Bertrand: Lawmakers are apparently being shown the full video of the Sept 2 boat strikes in their meetings with Adm Bradley and Gen Caine. HIMES: “what I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service…you have two individuals and clear distress, without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, were killed by the United States.”

They need to release this video to the public

Great thread. I'll add: Bidenomics often emphasized dignity of work/importance of being able to remain in communities of birth. It's no accident this was paired w/major investments in areas Trump said were abandoned by elites. Complicates Douthat's story about liberalism.

Yup. Traces of reality and good intent behind it, but a) no solid systemic analysis and therefore b) very often looking in entirely the wrong places for causes/culprits.

(And whether those misses are genuine, or willful/motivated, varies quite a bit from believer to believer.)

Today in 'headlines that feel like they should be by The Onion but are in fact horrifically real'

Social scientists spent the last 50 years arguing that racism is still prevalent in US even if it's covert (racism w/ a veneer), unconscious (racism w/out intent), or systemic (racism w/out racists).

Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.

They really thing if they say "cultures" it's not clear they mean "people" bsky.app/profile/just...

Yup. A genuinely long-held, mystical belief in tariffs; complete impunity for his family and social circle/class; and vile, vicious, gutter racism.

Donald Trump's firmest held belief beyond gutter racism is that white collar crime is not only legal but there should be more of it

this really isn’t an exaggeration

also, regardless of what one thinks about OBAA, Vineland’s (and really all of the California Pynchons’) finger on the pulse of the counterculture/pseudoscience aspects of all this is really remarkable.

very very well traced and said.

the New American Religious Movements histories of this whole period (well over half-century!) are going to be absolutely wild, and maybe more clear-eyed that we usually have been able to be about our own time.

the UAW ought to be loudly and publicly asking these executives whether they agree that their own workers and communities should be ethnically cleansed of somalis

Amazing, thank you for sharing that

This is why caroling (or even rarer, its older British Isles predecessor wassailing) is very cool where it still exists.

this is because at Christmas as an adult you have to supply all the magic to your own family but Halloween magic production is explicitly communal

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

Don’t Overcomplicate the Scandal of Trump’s Lawless High Seas Attacks What Else Is There to Know, Really? As I was describing yesterday...

We already know enough to make strong judgments about who is culpable and for what: The whole campaign is unlawful. The initial strike was unlawful. The subsequent strike was unlawful.

NEWS: Leaked memo exposes flimsy legal basis for Trump boat strikes DOJ's classified, "legal authorization" for the missile attacks is beginning to collapse.

"This explains why the administration refuses to declassify the memo...If the public saw how flimsy the legal footing is, they’d see the president is using wartime powers he does not have to kill civilians he cannot legally target..." open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it’s another day where Mike Johnson admits he’s completely incompetent.

The Times has honestly been outpacing even the Pitchbot’s valiant attempts to parody it.

See: Sino-Soviet split.

Racism is also the conceptual fulcrum of Trump’s world view - despite the commentariat’s attempts to portray it as incidental.

it is crazy that the president is essentially just the project manager for a medium-sized hotel ballroom who tweets things which would yet someone with that actual job fired instantaneously

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

Increasingly tech is seeking to solve for the problem "humans exist," which is what you'd expect to see in a system where humans are seen as a cost and not a value.

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