Bremmer believes that USAID existed solely to grow and maintain US power and that the lives it saved are only meaningful towards that end. That foreign aid has a moral dimension is largely irrelevant to him and he's incoherently rationalizing that.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.

the house is kiki, the senate is bouba

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3w ago

The house is quant, the senate is qual

"It looks like D.C. will get its first democratic socialist mayor." @samdelgado.bsky.social and @curiouskurz.bsky.social for @51st.news 51st.news/janeese-lewi...

Kenyan McDuffie concedes mayoral race to Janeese Lewis George

The Ward 4 councilmember is leading in partial first-round results by double digits

51st.news

you couldn't make Sleeping Beauty today due to woke

jared diamond is a pox on our impressionable youth. agriculture is rad as hell come take it from my warm, soft, well-fed hands.

@rprobbins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A different take on that statement from an archaeologist 💯💯💯🎯

Frankly, I want to divest SCOTUS of jurisdiction to enter *any* orders reversing a lower court without a complete elaboration of the reasons why. They are the least busy judges in America with a self-selected workload. If they can't bother to explain it, they should not do it.

no kink on stolen land

Shouting from the house press gallery, I demand to know whether Rep. Kean has been recovering from a BBL.

Dave Levinthal@davelevinthal.com · 2mo ago

Whereabouts of missing Rep. Tom Kean (R-N.J.) remain unknown, but he’s trading stocks again. From today’s @notus.com newsletter:

Maybe the least offensive thing here, but if you're a member of the WH press corp you should probably learn what 'Fourth Estate' means.

Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Zero. Sympathy. They did this to themselves. Oh, and also? There definitely is an easy answer.

i don't have a clue who hasan piker is and i strongly suspect none of you should know either

jonathan the tortoise would rather die than see man return to the moon

any justice voting to overturn the 14th a. should be impeached. sorry but if you're confused by the plain text of the constitution you are not operating within the bounds of 'good behavior'.

sure this sucks but have you considered that from day one its going to be filled with the worst people in dc

Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Polymarket is opening a bar in Washington, D.C. tomorrow called The Situation Room. Per Polymarket: "Imagine a sports bar… but just for situation monitoring — live X feeds, flight radar, Bloomberg terminals, and Polymarket screens."

third way more like turd way amirite

tidying up the desktop like a pool shark. slowly at first, my coworkers gather behind me placing side bets. they hold their breath as i drag 400 pdfs into the trash. nobody notices as an intern faints.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5mo ago

moving files around, renaming files, making folders, putting folders inside of folders... all these things and more are permissible during Fun Computer

But eating ass doesn’t give me calories, Karen.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Republican senator tells Americans struggling to afford rising beef prices to just eat something else: "You have so many proteins to choose from."

listening, learning

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

there’s a whole different America out there posting on Threads

Activist OpSec posturing is just Operator culture for lefties send post

There unfortunately isn't a way to organize a society that is immune to somebody seizing control by violence. There is no simple answer to precisely when a democracy must defend itself from antidemocratic fascism, but every democracy will someday defend its ideals with blood else it will perish.

Edward Cornwell@hopper3011.bsky.social · 9mo ago

So "liberal democracy" can't win the political argument against fascism and has to resort to violence, is that what you're saying? If that's the case, it strikes me that, perhaps, liberal democracy isn't such a good way to organise society?

there are about 120,000 polling places and ¾ of states have some form of mail-in voting. there are about 22,000 immigration enforcement agents total. ICE can indeed terrorize a medium-sized city and harass others, but this fear-mongering about elections is innumerate nonsense.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”

the american right wing controls three branches of federal government and controls a significant portion of national news media. nobody is learning anything here, this is just a proto-fascist social club for dummies.

Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 6mo ago

these people seem like idiots

Montgomery County Immigrant Rights Collective has their heart in the right place, but its apparently run by the dumbest motherfuckers in the DMV

footage seer@douglassfreestate.bsky.social · 7mo ago

the dominant "rapid response" group in DC is deliberately discouraging the use of whistles and offering no alternative system to alert people who are in immediate danger. wrecker behavior at best, at worst infiltration.

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

Verified Account Tracker@verified.evil.gay · 7mo ago

✅ @icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

Third Way is not 'the Democrats', its our nation's premier think tank for dumb centrist policy. Sarah Pierce is a DHS alum and both she and Erickson have been pushing their personal center-right immigration agenda for years.

Ryan Broderick@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 7mo ago

ICE may be shooting people in the face, sending people to concentration camps, and illegally occupying our cities but, apparently, the Democrats think saying, "abolish ICE" is "emotional" and politically "lethal."

remember that when people finally come around to your project, its time to grit your teeth and, with careful grace, welcome them. even if they're joe rogan and still dumb as shit.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“.. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo, 'Where's your papers?' Is that what we've come to?"

I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

at every opportunity, waste their time. they are wildly understaffed and every minute they're dealing with your dumb bullshit somebody is left free to live their life..

Shannon Heffernan@shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Also: " Border Patrol officials also plan to send all nonlethal weapons housed in Chicago to Minnesota, according to the documents."