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v important to ask whether a massive sensationalized legal battle to get the National Guard out of Bushwick would distract Mamdani from achieving his policy goals on a politically viable timeline
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
v important to ask whether a massive sensationalized legal battle to get the National Guard out of Bushwick would distract Mamdani from achieving his policy goals on a politically viable timeline
Mamdani: I'm trying to diffuse a bomb
Policy-not-politics leftist: but was it really necessary to meet the bomb 😒
Policy-not-politics leftist: but was it really necessary to meet the bomb 😒
November 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Mamdani: I'm trying to diffuse a bomb
Policy-not-politics leftist: but was it really necessary to meet the bomb 😒
Policy-not-politics leftist: but was it really necessary to meet the bomb 😒
Donald wrote to the Israeli President bc unlike establishment conservatives and democrats alike he would genuinely like for the war to end lmao it's an endless headache for him he doesn't even like the Israelis he wants to party in Dubai. Everyone knows Bibi needs the war to stay out of court
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Donald wrote to the Israeli President bc unlike establishment conservatives and democrats alike he would genuinely like for the war to end lmao it's an endless headache for him he doesn't even like the Israelis he wants to party in Dubai. Everyone knows Bibi needs the war to stay out of court
US foreign policy is like the tell in neuro-parasite movies: you win an election, you meet with someone from the Pentagon and then on the news an iridescent ring is faintly visible around your pupils as you talk somberly about Xi Jinping hand-picking what choreos go viral on TikTok
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
US foreign policy is like the tell in neuro-parasite movies: you win an election, you meet with someone from the Pentagon and then on the news an iridescent ring is faintly visible around your pupils as you talk somberly about Xi Jinping hand-picking what choreos go viral on TikTok
in its conduct towards Europe and China the current administration is a leftist foreign-relations pipe-dream lol
if the last thing you can do on your turn is pick the opposing team's leader pick the guy whose policies will do as much long-term damage as possible without getting himself impeached
if the last thing you can do on your turn is pick the opposing team's leader pick the guy whose policies will do as much long-term damage as possible without getting himself impeached
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
in its conduct towards Europe and China the current administration is a leftist foreign-relations pipe-dream lol
if the last thing you can do on your turn is pick the opposing team's leader pick the guy whose policies will do as much long-term damage as possible without getting himself impeached
if the last thing you can do on your turn is pick the opposing team's leader pick the guy whose policies will do as much long-term damage as possible without getting himself impeached
the early thirties have been an absolute wedding frenzy
October 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
the early thirties have been an absolute wedding frenzy
porn on the discover feed is not it!!!
September 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
porn on the discover feed is not it!!!
every September I have a 10 second silence for pre-pandemic Scotch and Soda. The FW collections were marvelous, year after year. Long over now
September 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
every September I have a 10 second silence for pre-pandemic Scotch and Soda. The FW collections were marvelous, year after year. Long over now
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Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
There’s a collective yearning for guillotine vibes 💖
June 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
There’s a collective yearning for guillotine vibes 💖
the most potent determinant of whether bad policy lasts is whether it affects the wealthy as much as the poor. The way to make deleterious policy politically sustainable is:
1) de facto exempt wealthy people from compliance, and
2) have the compliance of everyone else further enrich the wealthy
1) de facto exempt wealthy people from compliance, and
2) have the compliance of everyone else further enrich the wealthy
June 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
the most potent determinant of whether bad policy lasts is whether it affects the wealthy as much as the poor. The way to make deleterious policy politically sustainable is:
1) de facto exempt wealthy people from compliance, and
2) have the compliance of everyone else further enrich the wealthy
1) de facto exempt wealthy people from compliance, and
2) have the compliance of everyone else further enrich the wealthy
politically, unless this subdivision of migrant laborers will be getting a new fast-track to residency and citizenship, the emergence of carve-outs and exceptionalism is not to be celebrated.
This is a return to sustainable thresholds of oppression: ‘we will not touch the land-owners’ wage-slaves’.
This is a return to sustainable thresholds of oppression: ‘we will not touch the land-owners’ wage-slaves’.
Via @acyn.bsky.social on Twitter - Trump says he's going to make an exception on deporting farm and hotel workers because farmers and hoteliers are mad that great people are being taken away. Watch for the way he dances around so he doesn't have to take any blame for this.
June 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
politically, unless this subdivision of migrant laborers will be getting a new fast-track to residency and citizenship, the emergence of carve-outs and exceptionalism is not to be celebrated.
This is a return to sustainable thresholds of oppression: ‘we will not touch the land-owners’ wage-slaves’.
This is a return to sustainable thresholds of oppression: ‘we will not touch the land-owners’ wage-slaves’.