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One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
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'We will never fucking trust you again' www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.
www.readtheline.ca
December 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
'We will never fucking trust you again' www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
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This is not some harmless joke. This is the “Hafez gives us wheat” billboards of my early visits to Syria.
When I saw the story in passing I thought it was the same dumb bit as the army parade, the fig leaf of using Flag Day because it happens to also be his birthday. But no, Trump's birthday as such is now an official commemoration for NPS free admission days.
www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...
www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...
December 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This is not some harmless joke. This is the “Hafez gives us wheat” billboards of my early visits to Syria.
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This chapter needs to be thrown in the face of every European official who has spent the last 12 months optimistically saying things are the same.
Relying on the old Atlanticism is just malpractice at this point, and putting pro-Americanism ahead of leaders' own citizens.
Relying on the old Atlanticism is just malpractice at this point, and putting pro-Americanism ahead of leaders' own citizens.
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This chapter needs to be thrown in the face of every European official who has spent the last 12 months optimistically saying things are the same.
Relying on the old Atlanticism is just malpractice at this point, and putting pro-Americanism ahead of leaders' own citizens.
Relying on the old Atlanticism is just malpractice at this point, and putting pro-Americanism ahead of leaders' own citizens.
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They saved: $105,800 HKD (~$13,600 USD)
That's the cost of 151 lives (or more)
That's the cost of 151 lives (or more)
December 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
They saved: $105,800 HKD (~$13,600 USD)
That's the cost of 151 lives (or more)
That's the cost of 151 lives (or more)
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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
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when I hear Starmer speak about immigration and race he's spitting in the face of the Labour voters I knew growing up in Manchester, who put themselves on the line against the National Front - and often the police - in the 1970s and 1980s.
Ultimately the vision of britain that starmer has is profoundly cynical, nasty and just not true. He thinks that abidicating his responsibility in showing that another option is maturity and doing the difficult thing, but he's literally just creating the hateful country he is so afraid of
November 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
when I hear Starmer speak about immigration and race he's spitting in the face of the Labour voters I knew growing up in Manchester, who put themselves on the line against the National Front - and often the police - in the 1970s and 1980s.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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he may not have a choice in this based on staffing and security regulations, but i appreciate the administration's commitment to making sure everyone thinks it's a choice they're making
U.S. TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE MANDATORY FLIGHT CUTS AT MAJOR US AIRPORTS STARTING FRIDAY IF NO SHUTDOWN DEAL IS REACHED -- SOURCES
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
he may not have a choice in this based on staffing and security regulations, but i appreciate the administration's commitment to making sure everyone thinks it's a choice they're making
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I'm at the Popular Front / I'm at the Color Revolution / I'm at the ccccccccombination Popular Front and Color Revolution
the 2028 democratic party is going to be 50% DSA and 50% CIA at this rate
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I'm at the Popular Front / I'm at the Color Revolution / I'm at the ccccccccombination Popular Front and Color Revolution
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Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things:
1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad
Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.
1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad
Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things:
1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad
Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.
1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad
Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.
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I kinda get what they think they're trying to say here, and I do want to see Hongkongers welcomed abroad, but this is also basically arguing that only immigrants with college degrees and money deserve have enough value as human beings to be allowed in to start a new life. I'm not down with that.
“If Britain has no space for a group like the Hongkongers, then our national panic over immigration will surely have gone too far. This country needs some immigration, and if it is not the productive & educated exiles from Hong Kong, to whom we also have a moral duty, then who will we let in?”
Hong Kong’s migrants are the ones we need
Tightening the rules makes life harder for 160,000 highly educated and employable refugees
www.thetimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I kinda get what they think they're trying to say here, and I do want to see Hongkongers welcomed abroad, but this is also basically arguing that only immigrants with college degrees and money deserve have enough value as human beings to be allowed in to start a new life. I'm not down with that.
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French knights arguing about their virility on the eve of facing the British Long bow.
Sure, literally will not matter in big boy war
October 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
French knights arguing about their virility on the eve of facing the British Long bow.
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i'm sorry, but if you think voters should avoid the consequences of what they voted for, you don't actually believe in democratic accountability: Trump ran on tariffs. They are getting tariffs. Voters will learn that tariffs are bad.
The difference between liberals and socialists is that socialists don't want to "nuke the finances" of delivery drivers
If I delete my account here it will be because of accounts like this- I've honestly tried to keep posts like this off my timeline but it doesn't work
If I delete my account here it will be because of accounts like this- I've honestly tried to keep posts like this off my timeline but it doesn't work
supreme court please stunt on these people and allow Trump to nuke their finances
September 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
i'm sorry, but if you think voters should avoid the consequences of what they voted for, you don't actually believe in democratic accountability: Trump ran on tariffs. They are getting tariffs. Voters will learn that tariffs are bad.
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From last week's Kyunghyang Sinmun
Top caption: “After the bus has left…”
Text on the bus: “Detention & Plunder”
Trump: “You’ll just stay, right? You’ll be right back?? Ally…”
Top caption: “After the bus has left…”
Text on the bus: “Detention & Plunder”
Trump: “You’ll just stay, right? You’ll be right back?? Ally…”
September 17, 2025 at 6:48 AM
From last week's Kyunghyang Sinmun
Top caption: “After the bus has left…”
Text on the bus: “Detention & Plunder”
Trump: “You’ll just stay, right? You’ll be right back?? Ally…”
Top caption: “After the bus has left…”
Text on the bus: “Detention & Plunder”
Trump: “You’ll just stay, right? You’ll be right back?? Ally…”
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Linz was right and America should be a westminister system
Tangential but I think part of this starts with not accepting the premise that the president has in any way a better/stronger popular mandate than congress.
Congress contains representatives even from the party not in power, it is a better approximation of “the people” than a president can ever be.
Congress contains representatives even from the party not in power, it is a better approximation of “the people” than a president can ever be.
What I wouldn't give for some principled opposition to the imperial executive.
September 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Linz was right and America should be a westminister system
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If the recommendation to Democrats was to speak plainly, casually, like a normal person having a real conversation rather than like a politician stumbling through jargon, they’d be gushing about Mamdani and telling Dems to be more like him.
But they’re not, because they really mean something else.
But they’re not, because they really mean something else.
you’ll notice that Third Way isn’t concerned about management speak as much as they want Dems to use *their* management speak.
August 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If the recommendation to Democrats was to speak plainly, casually, like a normal person having a real conversation rather than like a politician stumbling through jargon, they’d be gushing about Mamdani and telling Dems to be more like him.
But they’re not, because they really mean something else.
But they’re not, because they really mean something else.
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Trump’s electoral superpower is that voting for him is seen as a generic “I’m mad” button and everyone just kinda fills in what they’re mad about and what he’s going to do about it themselves, ending up with their own personal fanfic version of the president.
July 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Trump’s electoral superpower is that voting for him is seen as a generic “I’m mad” button and everyone just kinda fills in what they’re mad about and what he’s going to do about it themselves, ending up with their own personal fanfic version of the president.
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You have at least some hope of making a majority of the population smarter than rocks but there is no getting rid of dumb authoritarians once they are in power except through violent upheaval. To quote my favorite fictional character of all time:
July 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
You have at least some hope of making a majority of the population smarter than rocks but there is no getting rid of dumb authoritarians once they are in power except through violent upheaval. To quote my favorite fictional character of all time:
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Trumpism has made me more loyal to the *idea* of America, warts and all, not less. Because I realize we are losing something that is worth preserving. An imperfect, often deadly imperfect Something. But that Something has been the hope of the world and could be again.
Creedal nationalism has its problems but I would take loyalty to the American creed, with the Reconstruction Amendments understood as the foundation for that creed, over JD’s lumpenblood theory any day.
July 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Trumpism has made me more loyal to the *idea* of America, warts and all, not less. Because I realize we are losing something that is worth preserving. An imperfect, often deadly imperfect Something. But that Something has been the hope of the world and could be again.
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I do not conceive of an America that doesn't strive to be the apotheosis of human freedom. These freaks that want this country to be some backwater European ethnostate are aliens to me
July 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I do not conceive of an America that doesn't strive to be the apotheosis of human freedom. These freaks that want this country to be some backwater European ethnostate are aliens to me
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again, *feeding an occupied population* is one of the most basic responsibilities imaginable under international law. not doing so is an actual war crime*, as is using starvation as a weapon.
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
By Anas Baba
By Anas Baba
Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
n.pr
July 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
again, *feeding an occupied population* is one of the most basic responsibilities imaginable under international law. not doing so is an actual war crime*, as is using starvation as a weapon.
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Will the media give even a fraction of the attention to what Donald Trump did say that they gave to what Zohran Mamdani didn’t?
"No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, shylocks and bad people."
July 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Will the media give even a fraction of the attention to what Donald Trump did say that they gave to what Zohran Mamdani didn’t?
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When Thaddeus Stevens proclaimed "Free Every Slave, Slay Every Traitor, Burn Every Rebel Mansion To Preserve This Temple Of Freedom," he sure as shit wasn't focus grouping the message, or watching out for any goddamn poll
i think we've bred our politicians to mostly be cowards because they think their job is following polls instead of shaping them, like there has been a profound regression in political leadership over the past few generations, which coincides with the total collapse of Congress as a governing body
cowardice is a much bigger problem that outright evil or cartoonish corruption
June 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
When Thaddeus Stevens proclaimed "Free Every Slave, Slay Every Traitor, Burn Every Rebel Mansion To Preserve This Temple Of Freedom," he sure as shit wasn't focus grouping the message, or watching out for any goddamn poll
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mamdani must immediately engage in preemptive strikes against chuck schumer in order to secure lasting peace and stability in the region
June 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
mamdani must immediately engage in preemptive strikes against chuck schumer in order to secure lasting peace and stability in the region