Melissa Boyack

I'm overseas right now and have had similar experiences, including the questions and the plane going over being only 50-60% full.

Thank you for writing this!

Rick, there are too many dudes in Silicon Valley who have simply never had genuine, in-person human relationships, and it shows. Yarvin is the Head Boy of that disordered antisocial sect.

Russia is once again preparing to escalate the forced removal and deportation of Ukrainian children during upcoming summer months. Russian official stated that about 53K children from occupied Ukraine will “spend their summer holidays” in children’s camps throughout occupied Ukraine and Russia

I feel like I'm burning a lot of calories lately just by wrenching myself from the clutches of cynicism.

Thank you for this.

This is THE question.

Yep. The fact that Viktor Orban has been underwriting the Heritage Foundation is the only proof anyone needs of this.

Rachel, I am so glad that YOU are talking about this! Some people think I'm crazy for saying it, even though it seems blatantly obvious. Thank you!

Yikes

What happened?

You know some of that is gonna happen.

I hear ICE is deputizing a bunch of newbies, probably vetted mostly for MAGA loyalty and not much else. Won't be surprised if some of them straight up commit armed robberies by power of their uniforms. That's typical in fascist regimes.

That definitely adds up.

I feel foolish for ever believing they'd do this.

Yep

Yep, I have known many people who fit this profile.

Very true, but I was always told that the market preferred stability, which Trump so obviously was not offering.

Sure, but it isn't like a Dem administration was going to hurt them in any meaningful way. They seemed genuinely surprised by the tariffs, even though he yammered about them constantly. It reads to me like they're all greedy idiots dressed up like experts and that lie has finally been exposed.

I kind of get that, but from what I've read, there's no clear alternative waiting in the wings to replace the dollar as the global standard. Wouldn't they prefer to avoid such total chaos?

That always baffled me.

Angry, what's your take on the predictions of empty grocery shelves starting to show up in earnest in about two weeks? I keep seeing this. Thanks.

What the everloving hell are you doing with this skim-milk headline?

A few months late, but ok, yeah, let's go.

You were just at the wrong church. 😉

Russia had A LOT to do with it.

If people stop resisting because of these types of semantics, they were never serious in the first place. We'll save democracy without them.

Given that the vast majority of commenters all feel similarly, I doubt we're losing anyone. Thanks for your detached, erudite concern.

We should all be ready to scream about what's happening at CECOT rather than distracting ourselves with lofty intellectualization around the parsing out of types and degrees of historic authoritarianism. Go write a paper.

Is this the group of men taken from the US, specifically? Do we know if they're keeping them together in their own cohort at CECOT?