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I know it sucks, but Dems have got to be prepared to inherit a munitions-and-readiness hole that is going to be expensive to fill, but which will need to be filled. Hardly the only such hole, but it will be a big one.
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2h agoWho knew ridiculously long deployments and demanding op tempos run a ship and crew into the ground!
For federal elections, splitting the GOP into two competing crank Nazi movements would be great for Democrats. At the state/local level, however, we'd be condemning large portions of the South and Midwest to governance by Crossfit George Wallace's.
this is legitimately a huge problem that i don’t know how they will resolve, either from an executive or legislative standpoint, and it’s going to be the case across a lot more than just defense
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2h agoI fundamentally do not know how to square the politics whereby Democrats will essentially have to tell the American people that because they (the voters) made an extremely stupid decision, they need to lower their expectations substantially for the foreseeable future, but here we are.
Its consumerist thinking rather than civic thinking. You arent at the store, you are fulfilling your responsibility to help choose who will represent you in government.
Aaron van Dorn@aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 2h ago"Deserve" and "loyalty" are words that you should not use about countries and politicians generally. Leads to bad thinking.
This is not a happy ending, except for the IRGC. It's a terrible precedent that will worsen international tensions. But it can't be helped. It's been inevitable ever since Trump decided on this war against the will of Congress and it's all on his reckless, ignorant, and lawless White House.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h agoas noted yesterday, Trump has now come around to treating an Iranian toll system covering the Strait of Hormuz as a given. Hard to overstate the level of strategic failure. US started the war purely as a war of choice and ends up dramatically empowering Iran and given the Iranian govt big wins.
If you can't be a graceful winner after somebody else is a graceful loser, it means you have too bad a personality unless that blue wave is a lot bigger than I am expecting.
Oh, he's going to lose the general.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h agoEl-Sayed: "They spent an unprecedented amount of money to beat us -- attack ad after attack ad after attack ad after attack ad, wall to wall ads. But it turns out that the commercials are the part of the television show most people don't want to watch."
Rhodium projects that under current policy, US GHG emissions will be 26–29% under the 2005 level in four years, driven by an influx of natural gas and renewable production. Their forecast for 2040 is 27-41% below the 2005 level. rhg.com/research/tak...
"I shouldnt be at 42% approval" Good news! You're not.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4h agoTrump: I shouldn't be at 42% approval. We have the greatest economy in the history of the world for any country
Blue Dogs do substantially better than baseline Democrats but there’s no equivalent group of GOP overperformers who can win tough races in the face of Trump’s unpopularity. www.slowboring.com/p/republican...
Regardless of outcome tonight, flooding the zone with junk polls ruins your ability to actually run a campaign based on the actual fundamentals of the race is a lesson that will not be learned by either the far left or right it seems.
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this is clickbait garbage a) it wasn't ~dronez~ stuff, it was the same vanilla GPS jamming that has occurred at WSMR for decades b) a crew should *absolutely* be capable of conducting a nonprecision approach to an ILS, *ESPECIALLY* if there's a NOTAM out for PNT jamming
Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 6d agoA routine medical flight, on a clear night, ended with a plane crash that killed all four people onboard. Investigators say it's the first known US civilian plane crash tied to electronic warfare. This won't be the last story of its kind. A must-read from @jeffwise.bsky.social for @wired.com
Gen X and millennial hipster craft gastronomy genuinely changed the world.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
My observation, especially in the last year, is that the real insidious thing isn’t even the rise of outrageously obvious antisemitism. It’s the complete refusal by many on the left to call it out or do anything about it. After over a decade of calling out every kind of niche reactionaryism.
Dalassa@dalassa.bsky.social · 22h agoRight now there doesn’t seem to be any movement in the US opposed to antisemitism.
oh hey we're doing degenerate Jewish art but leftishly.
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago
It absolutely does not cause Trumpism. Can we please stop trying to medicalize/explain away arseholery. Sometimes people are just arseholes. This thinking does more to stigmatize TBI, PTS and Moral Injury sufferers. Platner is just an arsehole.
Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d agoA watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
Brought this up before how the actual reason Trump voters hated the Haitians was because the Haitian immigrants are actual hard workers who made the local white trash look like the entitled losers they are. bsky.app/profile/weed...
Weedle@weedle.bsky.social · last mo.Remember a major reason for the hatred against Haitian immigrants in Ohio was that they were actually doing the manufacturing jobs and showing up to work consistently unlike the local white trash who quit as soon as they get some beer money. www.salon.com/2024/09/30/s...
One reason why Bringing Back American Manufacturing will always stay just a meaningless political slogan is that actual industrial workers in 21st century America are overwhelmingly non-white and 'populist' Trump voters would revolt at seeing a bunch of brown people with respectable well paying jobs
same thing as he’s doing with the war
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · yesterdayScoop: Trump has ordered workers to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad new WaPo photos show how past work was removed over weekend Trump is contemplating changes to White House lawn's slope, raising bigger Qs about project and cost
A failure to understand basics of law and governance! Republicans were SO mad that the Congressional GOP could not stop Obama on the ACA & stimulus. This fueled the Tea Party. Same mentality. Doesn't help that when Dems DO succeed in blocking Trump, as on the SAVE Act, it's invisible to most. 1)
Bill Scher@billscher.bsky.social · yesterdayDemocratic voters are mad at their party leaders because why? washingtonmonthly.com/2026/08/04/d...
Anyway silly of me to think that these people wanting to welcome RFK Jr. cultists into the tent is about them fetishizing how Authentic and Populist and Masculine they are over the smoothgroin cringe libs who believe in modern medicine.
It seems crude to put the cost in terms of dollars and cents, but it really matters! Resources being used to treat measles are resources that can't be used for other things. Medicaid dollars are extremely finite and other medical spending is already a huge strain. There are negatives besides death.
CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social · yesterdayNew Mexico's 2025 measles outbreak cost $5.4 million Researchers based their analysis on direct medical costs, lost productivity, and expense to public health agencies. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hNSPte
Synthesized hormones have only existed for 100 years and are only able to be produced at scale do to industrialized chemistry. Any movement against modernity and pharmaceuticals is going to be inherently hostile to trans people's healthcare no matter how queer and counterculture you paint them as.
No one more discredited than the anti-globalization folks of the 1990s.
We built a free trade network with the world, it was hugely successful and raised the standard of living for pretty much everyone involved, and people have noticed that Trump has destroyed it.
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · yesterdayDSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...
Germany has so many lol. The woo outnumbers the real pharmacies
Your Ad Here@cooluser354.bsky.social · 2d agooh my god no it does not. Canada has maha type cranks. The UK does. Japan does, Germany does, Sweden does, India does, France does IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS OF THE SYSTEM, WHICH YES ARE BROKEN MAHA IS A EUGENICS MOVEMENT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
And it's not even because their thing turned out to be fake! North america and Europe are both on fire!
Weedle@weedle.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump has dismantled a hundred years worth of environmental protections and the Sunrise Movement's banner image in August 2026 is a photo of them protesting Kamala Harris.
