Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸

Professional courtesy.

Trump's new "peace plan" just dropped. 🙄

man i sure wish there were a search engine that would make up plausible-looking but completely incorrect search results

Yes they do!

Right? It costs more than my rifle. 😂

And it records video! I tested it on my pet guinea pigs, just to see what living things with body heat would look like.

I could even see them when they were hiding under blankets!

(The scope wasn't yet on my rifle when I did this. I would never point a weapon at my pets!)

By the way, #TeamYuri, one can find these $500 cheaper in the USA than in Ukraine.

Google has conflicting information about whether these are legal to export. But, if ITAR allows us to export these, it might make more sense just to buy a bunch of them here and mail them to Yuri.

I saw @y-chornomorets.bsky.social tweet about the Holosun DRS-TH thermal sight that Ukrainian snipers are using to take down drones. I decided to buy one for hunting now that this is legal in my state.

This thing is freaking COOL!

And I can see how devastating this would be in warfare!

a troll is holding a steering wheel in his hand . ALT: a troll is holding a steering wheel in his hand .

Hmm. Have you considered writing books in English?

My hypothesis: fascism, and all extremism, is a lack of self-awareness.

The inability to see oneself necessarily means an inability to see oneself in others.

So, when one has a lack of insight into oneself, one sees others as foreign and hostile rather than similar and sympathetic.

Remember: almost nothing reported about the shooting of National Guard in DC over the next few days will be true.

Ah yes, here comes the Reichstag Fire. 🔥🏛️

Right on schedule.

I predicted this, and the worst is yet to come: open.substack.com/pub/mattppea...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?

Thoughts from Day Job Land: sometimes I wonder if money makes people awful, or if people who were already awful find ways to acquire lots of money.

Rather than release numbers that will show how terrible the economy is, the Trump administration is simply canceling all economic reports.

I never thought I'd see something like this in the USA.

I just went to a busy Chipotle. There were 6 teenagers working: one poor bastard who knew what needed to be done and how to do it, and 5 low-agency types with vacant stares and thumbs up their asses. The one had to do all the thinking for the other 5, plus his own work. This is a societal microcosm.

The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.

There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?

[Biden gives a speech in front of some red lighting.]

MAGA: "THIS IS FASCISM!"

[Trump sends the military and masked police into American cities, rounds up brown people, and deports them to concentration camps with no due process.]

MAGA: "Hell yeah! This is what I voted for!"

I tire of MAGAs complaining about liberalism, or using the term liberal as a pejorative.

What part of this do you object to, exactly?

Furthermore, what do you think the opposite of liberalism is?

Things are about to get INTERESTING.

This is basically what Russia does, except instead of using AI to pick targets, they have a toothless drunk named Sergei.

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

I hope he does. The Kremlin isn’t kind to anyone who betrays it.

I agree!

“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.”

-Winston Churchill, to Neville Chamberlain