Victor Lane
@vhliv.bsky.social
Historian of Eastern Europe, The Habsburg Empire, Galicia— Poland and Ukraine, Nationalism. A Quaker. Mostly here to learn from others.
Trump here reminds me of the sea captain in Blackadder part the Second, who opines that there are two schools of thought about the need for a crew. Our president has such strong opinions regarding things about which he knows nothing.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries” — Trump’s bonkers view of trade is that you become wealthy by not engaging in commerce
On this date in 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the US national anthem before pre-season game against the Chargers at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US.
Or I’ve spent my career supporting policies that increased the equity in people’s homes, but now I endorse nasty policies I falsely claim are caused by dark-skinned people mostly I just want to keep getting elected rather than solve the problems people care about.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoRep. Beth Van Duyne: "We saw the Dallas Fed just release a paper that talked about the incredible increase in housing, 30%, that was caused by illegal immigration. 20% in increases in apartment costs. So by those deportations you're also seeing housing going down."
Reading this it occurs to me that to a certain extent when the GOP rallied around Trump in ‘24 it was like Germans rallying around the Nazis after Stalingrad and then Hitler winning the Battle of Kursk before the inexorable losses began. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/does-...
Does Trump Have a Third Act?
Over the last week, there have been a number of examples popping...
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This is a lesson that people On Here would be well to understand, bc it will be an uphill fight to get even the subpoena compliance Trump refused in 2019. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Ken Lincoln is president of the Thompson Ice House Preservation Corporation, which operates an onsite museum and sponsors an annual ice harvest. Lincoln chronicles America's forgotten ice trade, which revolutionized how the nation ate and drank before mechanical refrigeration. #WeAreAmerica250
i want to invest in securitized subprime mortgages ... for data centers
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w agoBond traders have ramped up measures of credit risk associated with Broadcom as it backstops mega financing packages for the buildout of artificial intelligence
Listening to median voters is a good reminder to hot take slingers--leftist and moderate alike--who are certain that their perfect message will unlock unprecedented victories.
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 2w agoAmazing
Coverage of the Canada trade war seems to be underselling an important point: Trump tore up NAFTA and made everyone sign a new agreement more to his liking in 2020 with a 16-year renewable term. Now he's tearing up that agreement. If his signature is meaningless why would Canada agree to anything?
Blaming Biden two years in only works if you messaged that and took action from the start, like maybe waiting to make tax cuts permanent or start immediately with rearmament procurement. This is GOP politics as usual and we are fed up with it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoBessent on $40 trillion in debt: "We were left with a mess. The Biden administration ... "
Seriously, this shows where the Administration’s priorities lie ….
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝@sundaedivine.lol · 3w agoOne Ossoff joke produced more coordinated deployment than most NATO exercises.
Cassidy is pathetic. He is both a victim and perpetuator of GOP bully culture that took over the GOP after Reagan. Every day men like Cassidy pretend to be the successors to Barry Goldwater while while wiping their feet on Goldwater’s principles.
Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · 3w agoBill Cassidy did not want to personally risk anything for the truth. So he needed a rationalization in his own mind to vote yes for RFK. Cassidy is the only one being untruthful…to himself. Until these guys have the awareness to understand their own motivations, this Mickey Mouse show will never end
Now's as good of a time as any to reiterate that I have never seen anyone in a mainstream newspaper or magazine write about how Mamdani, El Sayed and Hamawy are representing positive masculinity.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4w agoDon't get me wrong, I lift every morning. But being a man is not really about how you show up in the gym. It's how you show up for your family. It's about how you show up for your community.
For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton
Elon is thinking Jamestown. Perhaps the rest of us should think Roanoke without contact with natives.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2mo ago
Seems like a good time to interview Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins and find out why this is all somehow Joe Biden's fault.
Dale @dalejohn.bsky.social · 4w agoThe USDA is projecting the wheat harvest to be cut by almost half in the US. The state of Kansas is the largest producer of wheat and it is projected to harvest 44% less than from 2025. The American Farm Bureau sees a continued increase of Chapter 12 bankruptcies from 2025 as well.
Elon is thinking Jamestown. Perhaps the rest of us should think Roanoke without contact with natives.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2mo ago
Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4w agoIn dishonor of Ross Douthat's last NYT column, I'm breaking my self-imposed ban on reading him—smug bad faith, whiny victimization, and steadfast refusal to let evidence affect opinion—and will screenshot and comment. This is the column if you want to read it yourself (I don't recommend it). 1/x
Remember, this is happening at the same time that MAGA trolls are going to WNBA games and throwing dildoes at the players. All this chatter about dick and balls is just the same old sexual harassment that comes at any woman who threatens insecure men.
You could have voted to impeach in January 2000. Instead, you voted for no witnesses and no documents to be allowed at trial. You are a failed person, Cornyn.
Cornyn (1952) and Tillis (1960) members of the weakest generation. A entire political party consumed by bully culture and hence unaware that they are among the victims of pervasive bully culture. Not a hero left among them, because those that had the guts already left in 2016.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last mo.Founders: We made the legislature Article I on purpose. The Constitution gives Congress oversight powers and requires the president to faithfully execute laws. And Congress is the only one with power to override or remove officials from other branches. Cornyn: What I presuppose is… maybe it doesn’t
this is the kind of obstreperousness, don't tell me what to do-ness, i got rightsness that is the sheet anchor of American liberties.
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · last mo."WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
