@cascade14.bsky.social
Int’l affairs. Praising progress and condemning kakistocracy in the strongest terms. Slava Ukraini.
This is simple and smart. It’s the reason we use active voice when we write. Properly identify the subject (Trump) and the object (our wallets) to attribute causation rather than allowing him to weasel away in the miasma of a crisis of obfuscated origin. Come on @democrats.org
January 13, 2026 at 1:42 PM
This is simple and smart. It’s the reason we use active voice when we write. Properly identify the subject (Trump) and the object (our wallets) to attribute causation rather than allowing him to weasel away in the miasma of a crisis of obfuscated origin. Come on @democrats.org
Look for the cliff notes on desks at 1600 Pennsylvania NW.
Russia is preparing a new economics textbook that aims to challenge what its authors call a “myth” that democracy drives economic growth and to revive Stalin's socialist economic theories, the head of a Kremlin-linked advisory body said.
Russia Plans New Economics Textbook Reviving Stalin-Era Ideas - The Moscow Times
Russia is preparing a new economics textbook for university students that aims to challenge what its authors call a “myth” that democracy drives economic growth and to revive the socialist economic th...
www.themoscowtimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Look for the cliff notes on desks at 1600 Pennsylvania NW.
How many lives around the world will be ended or irreparably harmed before our courts finally reach the obvious and increasingly reinforced truth that this is a maliciously illegal regime?
January 5, 2026 at 6:51 AM
How many lives around the world will be ended or irreparably harmed before our courts finally reach the obvious and increasingly reinforced truth that this is a maliciously illegal regime?
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Pretty hard to square this with freezing the Gang of Eight out for "security".
January 5, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Pretty hard to square this with freezing the Gang of Eight out for "security".
This seems devastatingly plausible. When he dies they can blame it all on him and keep their spoils. He is now more a permission structure and a liability insurance for MAGA lunatics than a leader of any kind.
Republicans see Trump’s senility and unpopularity ass an opportunity to ram through the entire neocon wishlist alongside the MAGA madness.
Slashing the ACA, going into Venezuela, talking about going into Cuba… it’s all the stuff that’s been too politically toxic for them to do before.
Slashing the ACA, going into Venezuela, talking about going into Cuba… it’s all the stuff that’s been too politically toxic for them to do before.
January 5, 2026 at 5:28 AM
This seems devastatingly plausible. When he dies they can blame it all on him and keep their spoils. He is now more a permission structure and a liability insurance for MAGA lunatics than a leader of any kind.
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Marionette is a perfect name for a MAGA GOP Congressperson
GOP Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks: "We don't want to have troops on the ground. Iowans don't want that, Americans don't want that. We do not want nation building. This is not what's going to occur."
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Marionette is a perfect name for a MAGA GOP Congressperson
My heart goes out to the Iranian people who are once again standing up to the modern axis of evil. May they give the rest of us courage to act as well.
Several military cargo planes arrived from Russia, too.
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
My heart goes out to the Iranian people who are once again standing up to the modern axis of evil. May they give the rest of us courage to act as well.
Needs to be a clarion call for the principled remnants of government to regurgitate this foul administration.
Jack Smith testifying seems like a peek into an alternate reality where there’s still serious adults in government.
January 1, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Needs to be a clarion call for the principled remnants of government to regurgitate this foul administration.
Disgraceful and appalling. I have to hope that our voters share my disgust. It’s a betrayal of the world order that unlocked the greatest wealth, health, and technology of our species history, and Trump is spitting in its face yet again. Shame.
BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
December 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Disgraceful and appalling. I have to hope that our voters share my disgust. It’s a betrayal of the world order that unlocked the greatest wealth, health, and technology of our species history, and Trump is spitting in its face yet again. Shame.
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An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
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Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @governorferguson.bsky.social How is this being allowed on your watch? This is the challenge of your lives. Rise to it.
Fucking monsters. Thieves as well. Democrats doing the BARE MINIMUM to call this shit out rather than making this more well known will NOT help them. I hope we see candidates primarying the "bare minimum" fuckwits in congress and a ton of Republican cowards run out of office as well by progressives.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @governorferguson.bsky.social How is this being allowed on your watch? This is the challenge of your lives. Rise to it.
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Lutnick isn’t stupid. He knows what he’s saying here is a lie. Kellyanne knows this is a lie. But they have nothing but contempt for the Fox audience, and serving up lies to the lemmings has worked so well for so long. A tiny handful are doing well, millions are not.
December 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Lutnick isn’t stupid. He knows what he’s saying here is a lie. Kellyanne knows this is a lie. But they have nothing but contempt for the Fox audience, and serving up lies to the lemmings has worked so well for so long. A tiny handful are doing well, millions are not.
Witkoff is a puppet an a fool. It’s an insult to all stakeholders in this conflict, including the U.S., that he represents and blatantly betrays U.S. values, those of our allies, and the lives of the heroic and righteous Ukrainian people standing their ground against a foreign invading horde. Shame.
If Russia is “fully committed to achieving peace in Ukraine,“ get the hell out of their country.
December 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Witkoff is a puppet an a fool. It’s an insult to all stakeholders in this conflict, including the U.S., that he represents and blatantly betrays U.S. values, those of our allies, and the lives of the heroic and righteous Ukrainian people standing their ground against a foreign invading horde. Shame.
Blaming the victims is a great way to ensure there will be more victims.
Nothing says “peace process” like blaming the people not invading anyone.
December 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Blaming the victims is a great way to ensure there will be more victims.
It’s the culmination of decades of gutting public education and blaming minorities and immigrants for young white men’s inability to compete in a ruthless global economy that requires intellect, resilience, and access to opportunity. This is an investment by the right paying dividends.
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It’s the culmination of decades of gutting public education and blaming minorities and immigrants for young white men’s inability to compete in a ruthless global economy that requires intellect, resilience, and access to opportunity. This is an investment by the right paying dividends.
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This man is the best of us.
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This man is the best of us.
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13 years ago today.
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
13 years ago today.
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What happened, not enough wasted taxpayer funds or shattered lives to boost your profits? 💀🩸🔥
Elon Musk says DOGE was only 'somewhat successful' and he wouldn't do it again
Mega billionaire Elon Musk said his efforts leading the Department of Government Efficiency were only “somewhat successful” and he would not do it over again.
apnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
What happened, not enough wasted taxpayer funds or shattered lives to boost your profits? 💀🩸🔥
This is a stink that may not wash off. Remains to be seen if the clown car government can actually execute on this incoherent corrosive babble.
The NSS That Could Destroy the NATO Alliance
⚓️ Another reason for Europeans to give me nasty looks when I walk into a room full of them with an American flag on my ‘My Name is:’ sticker. 😤
www.csis.org/analysis/nss...
⚓️ Another reason for Europeans to give me nasty looks when I walk into a room full of them with an American flag on my ‘My Name is:’ sticker. 😤
www.csis.org/analysis/nss...
The NSS That Could Destroy the NATO Alliance
The latest U.S. National Security Strategy doesn’t just sideline Europe—it seeks to reshape its politics, backing nationalist parties and challenging the European Union in ways that could push the…
www.csis.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This is a stink that may not wash off. Remains to be seen if the clown car government can actually execute on this incoherent corrosive babble.
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So Bondi and Kash make a big deal out of arresting the J6 pipe bomber then the guy confesses that he is a Trump supporter who thought the 2020 election was stolen and his lawyer is arguing that Trump’s broadly-worded J6 blanket pardon applies to him and he should go free. Poetry.
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
So Bondi and Kash make a big deal out of arresting the J6 pipe bomber then the guy confesses that he is a Trump supporter who thought the 2020 election was stolen and his lawyer is arguing that Trump’s broadly-worded J6 blanket pardon applies to him and he should go free. Poetry.
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The new US National Security Strategy reads better in either the original Russian via which it was dictated or the 1930s vintage German in which it was based. It makes Putin and Stephen Miller the architects of US foreign policy. The big loser? Our allies. The big winner? China.
December 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The new US National Security Strategy reads better in either the original Russian via which it was dictated or the 1930s vintage German in which it was based. It makes Putin and Stephen Miller the architects of US foreign policy. The big loser? Our allies. The big winner? China.
The missing piece here is that those who rise must be made to strengthen those beneath them - the ones they fundamentally depend on - as they ascend or the artifice crumbles. The billionaires can keep swinging from the chandeliers for a long time while the pyramid below them falls in on itself.
I disagree on basically every level with that sentence, and history has agreed.
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The missing piece here is that those who rise must be made to strengthen those beneath them - the ones they fundamentally depend on - as they ascend or the artifice crumbles. The billionaires can keep swinging from the chandeliers for a long time while the pyramid below them falls in on itself.
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Still not nearly enough discussion on how the U.S. forcing Ukraine to cede territory to Russia will all but guarantee a new nuclear age.
Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada, Poland, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, even Ukraine itself—what non-nuclear power looks at this and doesn't now go for nukes?
Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada, Poland, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, even Ukraine itself—what non-nuclear power looks at this and doesn't now go for nukes?
November 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Still not nearly enough discussion on how the U.S. forcing Ukraine to cede territory to Russia will all but guarantee a new nuclear age.
Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada, Poland, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, even Ukraine itself—what non-nuclear power looks at this and doesn't now go for nukes?
Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada, Poland, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, even Ukraine itself—what non-nuclear power looks at this and doesn't now go for nukes?
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"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:33 AM
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...