You have to wonder if the strikes on the "drug boats" were just a way to test which generals would follow illegal orders wrt an undeclared war with Venezuela and weed out those who wouldn't.

"she delights in being mean" is a hell of a clapback for a dude who murdered on the order of a million people by cutting USAID, in the name of fighting back against "suicidal empathy"

I found lots of useful details in that Nature piece, but I'm struggling with what seems like a clear contradiction

Franklin is somehow both

- working alone, excluded from the world of informal exchanges

- an equal member of a group of four scientists

[squints trying to resolve a complex image]

I get that Vance is a recent convert but someone needs to tell him it’s not normal to have the Pope question your specific behavior this frequently

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

if you want to defend the working class? buy out a street vendor’s cart so they don’t have to choose between their income or kidnapping by ICE

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this