My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.
Keith Fitzgerald
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Negotiator. Conflict Advisor. Former Harvard Negotiation Project Former Kennedy School & NUS Lecturer Managing Director, Sea-Change Partners Co-author, "Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists" Photographer https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithfitz
"Trump is stuck. He cannot win militarily at this level and he cannot resolve this diplomatically without paying a political cost at home" @valinasr.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/87b0...
Donald Trump trapped between escalation and an Iran deal on Tehran’s terms
US president faces few good options to exit a war he once said would end swiftly with the Islamic republic’s surrender
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I wonder how many people do not realize that Abdul El Sayed is a medical doctor, Rhodes Scholar and is author of many articles on public health.
Journalism is increasingly concentrated in NYC and DC. Not because the industry is booming in NYC and DC, but because it is collapsing everywhere else. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
What price have the rest of us had to pay, just so this ignorant man could learn basic life lessons? An Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran’s Defiant Leaders www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
An Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran’s Defiant Leaders
Iran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump.
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Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick.
The discovery that chronic inflammation is a cause of myriad illnesses could be this century's biggest medical breakthrough.
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These pricks are raised in a bubble of privilege & immunity, told their entire lives that it's their right to have whatever they want & dominate anyone lower on the class or gender totem pole. They can not simply pivot, one day to the next, to a plausible attitude of regret & contrition. They can't!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 20h ago🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:
“read the article darth” they said “it will be fun” they said
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 21h agoOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Perhaps the biggest single problem with AI is that many of those betting on it want to use it to dominate others.
“The story is one of systemic failure: how an enormous strategic objective—regime change—became an executable mission without the political level, the IDF, and the Mossad ever genuinely agreeing on what it was…” Must-read piece by Nadav Eyal about decision-making in Israel leading to the Iran War:
Exclusive: The Warning Netanyahu Got Before the War
An in-depth look at Roaring Lion — the war aim Israel never made public, the intelligence assessment that failure could push Iran toward the bomb, and what the Mossad told the Kurds
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god i love local news
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
today Elon Musk will host SpaceX’s first earnings call as a publicly traded company and if you think he will be “grilled” by sell side analysts you have never listened to a TSLA call for 16 years
Again, a bracing reminder that "tough on crime" conservatives are never actually concerned about being tough on CRIME. They want to be tough on PEOPLE who they want to CONTROL: non-white people, say, or in this case women. It has always been about social control, not public safety.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayNN: The abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller -- Moreno says he should resign, but President Trump disagrees. Do you think Miller should step down? REP. JIMMY PATRONIS: No. I agree with the president. This is a family fight. Unfortunately, divorces are messy. There are two sides to every story.
I am utterly fascinated by this moment in Trump's remarks today where he referred to some DC buildings as having been built in "the real time." He specifically cited the 1930s SCOTUS courthouse. It reads to me as far right nostalgia like the groyper obsession with greco roman architecture.
I understand why the average american sees it as far worse if we blow up innocent people who weren’t doing anything but this will never not be true. If we want to be the country we pretend to be, than these distinctions don’t matter when the state is going on a killing spree. Prison guards weren’t…
Steve Saideman@smsaideman.bsky.social · yesterdayEven if involved in narcotrafficking, this would be illegal. Due process.
America’s munitions shortfall is sending a worrisome message to its allies around the world—and those relying on the nation’s military equipment need a Plan B, Phillips Payson O'Brien argues.
Why Is the U.S. Running So Low on Weapons?
Allies that depend on U.S. military equipment need a Plan B.
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"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold
This person asking the questions is way too polite. McConnell is a US Senator. His office has an obligation to share information on his health and his capacity to do the job. She should not be allowed to get away with "no comment" on this.
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2d agoMitch McConnell’s communications director’s silence and smirk speak volumes. If he were fine, or even improving, she’d just say so. There’s no way this man is coming back.
Some truth about humanity's greatest double-standard
god, please grant me the confidence of mediocre republican operatives who can't read
Hello, my name is [...] I am 9 years old. Can you help me get out of this jail? We are children, not criminals. We are 3 siblings, my mom and my dad. Please, a federal judge see this letter and help us. We have been here for 47 days [...] Leave us in your country, don’t deport us. ⛓️👧👦👧👩👨⛓️ FREEDOM
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2d ago🧊😲 KIDS IN CAMPS ⛓️👧🏻 What could drawings from children possible be evidence of?
Trump: I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. Really disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. She folded like an umbrella. And people get away with things. It’s a disgrace.
Trump’s DOJ gets “expert” Mafia witness to explain the term, “86.”
Trump is incapable of peacemaking. Period. youtube.com/watch?v=fdZb...
Inside Trump's shaky plan to disarm Hamas
YouTube video by CNN
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