Cup of Libertea
@liberalhegemon.bsky.social
Writer | Espionage Steampunk & SFF | Masters in International Relations | Swift-Fukuyama Thought
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I'm just saying, I think you all underrated Alex Garland's Civil War in any number of ways.
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Al Gore loudly booing a US Commerce Secretary at a bankers’ forum should be a Futurama joke instead of real life.
January 21, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Al Gore loudly booing a US Commerce Secretary at a bankers’ forum should be a Futurama joke instead of real life.
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Absolute indictment of our media that there isn't round the clock brow beat coverage of this insanity. They are absolutely capable of doing it but refuse to do so.
A Minnesota high school student was nabbed by ICE agents as she was trying to pick up food for her family after work. She was violently dragged from her car and lost her shoes. So, barefoot in the middle of winter, she was put into the back of an unmarked car in a small town (Willmar).
January 21, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Absolute indictment of our media that there isn't round the clock brow beat coverage of this insanity. They are absolutely capable of doing it but refuse to do so.
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Yeah if Trump were just normal corrupt the Garland approach would’ve been fine but he is and was an active existential threat to the Republic and humanity itself so it was very much not fine at all
"Biden would never have ignored SCOTUS." Yeah that's the problem guys.
January 21, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Yeah if Trump were just normal corrupt the Garland approach would’ve been fine but he is and was an active existential threat to the Republic and humanity itself so it was very much not fine at all
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the one excuse/scenario here I think we need to permanently dispense with is the 'Trump's people rise up and overthrow the government' one, because we have now seen in both South Korea and Brasil that you can break these populist right wing cults if you nove decisively enough.
I think the problem is that there was never an appeals-proof case, and you could not leave the fate of the republic up to SCOTUS, so time was more important than people gave it credit for.
I think my biggest break from this site's zeitgeist is I earnestly believe that the United States Government spent 2021-2024 trying to build a case strong enough to survive appeals and see Donald Trump die in prison, or in the alternative force SCOTUS to break the Constitution declare Trump a king.
January 21, 2026 at 10:31 PM
the one excuse/scenario here I think we need to permanently dispense with is the 'Trump's people rise up and overthrow the government' one, because we have now seen in both South Korea and Brasil that you can break these populist right wing cults if you nove decisively enough.
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A year after the Trump admin. began dismantling USAID, the human costs have been staggering and devastating.
"While we cannot recover the lives lost, we are not powerless to change our path forward." @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social
"While we cannot recover the lives lost, we are not powerless to change our path forward." @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 6:48 PM
A year after the Trump admin. began dismantling USAID, the human costs have been staggering and devastating.
"While we cannot recover the lives lost, we are not powerless to change our path forward." @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social
"While we cannot recover the lives lost, we are not powerless to change our path forward." @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social
Whiny little shits. These boys want to play at being "Real Men" so bad, but we can't make them something they're not.
A massive new survey finds Gen Z and millennial Trump voters think 'the man should lead' in relationships and want more 'masculinity' in U.S. culture.
Many young Trump voters think women 'should follow' men, poll finds
A massive new survey finds Gen Z and millennial Trump voters think 'the man should lead' in relationships and want more 'masculinity' in U.S. culture.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Whiny little shits. These boys want to play at being "Real Men" so bad, but we can't make them something they're not.
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Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
I can't overstate my excitement for Life is Strange: Reunion! I *loved* Double Exposure, ranks just behind the original for me, so I'm thrilled we are getting the follow up so soon. So happy to be going back to Caledon. The Chloe return in the truck headlights was perfection!
January 21, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I can't overstate my excitement for Life is Strange: Reunion! I *loved* Double Exposure, ranks just behind the original for me, so I'm thrilled we are getting the follow up so soon. So happy to be going back to Caledon. The Chloe return in the truck headlights was perfection!
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cyberpunk 2077 is legit one of the best games of the decade and if you disagree you’re not a real gamer you’re just a reddit browser who doesn’t actually play video games
January 21, 2026 at 9:11 PM
cyberpunk 2077 is legit one of the best games of the decade and if you disagree you’re not a real gamer you’re just a reddit browser who doesn’t actually play video games
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this is what i mean about the new liberal internationalism: we, liberals, need to start thinking about what it means to organize liberal-liberal rather than state-state
Don't back down, Europe: youtu.be/SS5Ep3LTqnE
Europe: Don't Back Down
YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama
youtu.be
January 20, 2026 at 10:33 PM
this is what i mean about the new liberal internationalism: we, liberals, need to start thinking about what it means to organize liberal-liberal rather than state-state
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"In the end, however, if senior officers—starting with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the heads of each service—follow Trump down this dark road, the officers and enlisted people below them will likely obey the chain of command." #Greenland
American officers know what Trump is planning, and their minds will rebel at directives to take everything they’ve prepared to do for years and apply it backwards, against the allies they have trained to work with and protect.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal
Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:47 PM
"In the end, however, if senior officers—starting with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the heads of each service—follow Trump down this dark road, the officers and enlisted people below them will likely obey the chain of command." #Greenland
This is a sobering piece from Tom. The tension within the military of contemplating (and potentially launching) an attack on a NATO ally is significant. But as Tom writes, if Congress doesn't restrain Trump, and the Joint Chiefs don't reject such orders, soldiers will likely follow chain of command.
American officers know what Trump is planning, and their minds will rebel at directives to take everything they’ve prepared to do for years and apply it backwards, against the allies they have trained to work with and protect.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal
Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:59 PM
This is a sobering piece from Tom. The tension within the military of contemplating (and potentially launching) an attack on a NATO ally is significant. But as Tom writes, if Congress doesn't restrain Trump, and the Joint Chiefs don't reject such orders, soldiers will likely follow chain of command.
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this isn't a fight between like, empires, it's a fight between a president who has daddy issues and is mad about the nobel
equating the US to the EU is absolutely stupid
equating the US to the EU is absolutely stupid
i don't think this works when one side is unilaterally trying to annex territory
January 19, 2026 at 6:11 PM
this isn't a fight between like, empires, it's a fight between a president who has daddy issues and is mad about the nobel
equating the US to the EU is absolutely stupid
equating the US to the EU is absolutely stupid
Wonderful thread from Sharon. If we had social media in WW1.
@vienna_official
today we welcome his imperial highness archduke franz ferdinand to sarajevo. unity, stability, progress.
@pan_slav_posting
wild that austria thinks this is a good idea but ok
today we welcome his imperial highness archduke franz ferdinand to sarajevo. unity, stability, progress.
@pan_slav_posting
wild that austria thinks this is a good idea but ok
as a black comedy, someone should write a version of WWI leadup that has social media. Don't bother about incongruity of fitting 21st century social media tech into early 1900s. Just imagine what it would have been like
January 19, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Wonderful thread from Sharon. If we had social media in WW1.
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recorded this last week
Why Congress Needs to Treat ICE Like the Ku Klux Klan
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 1:11 AM
recorded this last week
A true hero. If you can't read the article, there's some incredible excerpts in the thread.
Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:46 AM
A true hero. If you can't read the article, there's some incredible excerpts in the thread.
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January 16, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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We gotta decouple "taking seriously the idea that Trump is going to try to end constitutional government in America" from "we're doomed and nothing matters"
Of course the latter is toxic, and only serves Trump. But the former is just obviously true
Of course the latter is toxic, and only serves Trump. But the former is just obviously true
January 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
We gotta decouple "taking seriously the idea that Trump is going to try to end constitutional government in America" from "we're doomed and nothing matters"
Of course the latter is toxic, and only serves Trump. But the former is just obviously true
Of course the latter is toxic, and only serves Trump. But the former is just obviously true
Rubicons being crossed all over the place at an hourly basis. Gestapo in the streets, concentration camps, openly white supremacist regime.
I fear it won't be long now until Trump attacks Greenland. Europe will denounce it but won't risk fighting. NATO ends. The US will have become the 4th Reich.
I fear it won't be long now until Trump attacks Greenland. Europe will denounce it but won't risk fighting. NATO ends. The US will have become the 4th Reich.
January 14, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Rubicons being crossed all over the place at an hourly basis. Gestapo in the streets, concentration camps, openly white supremacist regime.
I fear it won't be long now until Trump attacks Greenland. Europe will denounce it but won't risk fighting. NATO ends. The US will have become the 4th Reich.
I fear it won't be long now until Trump attacks Greenland. Europe will denounce it but won't risk fighting. NATO ends. The US will have become the 4th Reich.
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If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+
January 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+
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Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
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the last year has been one long exercise in finding out who has principles and who is a spineless worm fit only to wriggle in the dirt.
we have been way too tolerant of cowards: we should be demanding that far more people in power who claim to be against the murderous evil of MAGA meet the standard currently being demonstrated by Jerome Fucking Powell
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
January 12, 2026 at 1:21 AM
the last year has been one long exercise in finding out who has principles and who is a spineless worm fit only to wriggle in the dirt.