This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?
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Randy Cauthen
Профиль VivelyRhetorician, Mets fan (it builds character), and Poet-in-Residence at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
Agreed. And "If you don't mean it, don't say it."
Rebecca Rauber“I think a lot of reporters hear [Trump threaten war crimes] and say, he won’t do it, that’s a lot of bluster. But I don’t think that’s the right way to react. We should be saying, it’s unfathomably sociopathic that he’s even considering it, and an American president shouldn’t be talking this way.”
A federal judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit filed by FBI Director Kash Patel against a blogger who accused him of being a “Kremlin asset.” Now that we have that out of the way, can he explain why he’s scheduled to be in Moscow in October, three weeks before the midterms?
Yale is on the verge of cutting a deal with Trump to change its admission procedures. Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant. Surrendering to authoritarianism only invites more of it.
right, operation warp speed was basically the one thing he ever did that provided some genuine public benefit and it became such a liability with his base that he completely disavowed it and handed HHS over to the antivax industrial complex
Melissa. Just Melissa.Especially weird that the vaccine was the one positive thing Trump could credibly take some credit for, but instead... this.
I will keep self promoting on these stories until they make a tiny difference to how Rufo gets treated in organs like the NYT, so maybe until I die www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...
Had to scroll and scroll and scroll to find one (1) paragraph covering the only relevant details about the Manhattan Institute, a deeply creepy racist organ of plutocrats
the unceasing psychosexual obsession rich assholes have with considering themselves the underdog in a society that, 9999 times out of 10,000, serves solely their interests and material comforts, if harnessed, could provide unlimited clean energy and usher in an unprecedented era of economicstability
Freakbeat TakeshiWe're assembling a team of the weirdest looking think tank ghouls to fight the communist menace.
🚨 U.S. Senator “Ohio” Dan Sullivan showing up to Mountain City Baptist Church (Anchorage Baptist Temple) — the most right-wing, cop-loving pulpit in Anchorage — and standing feet away from a Confederate battle flag like it’s just part of the decor. Normally this would be disqualifying. 
I believe there is no greater generational constant in USA than the high profile snake oil salesman. I bet historians can document trajectory changes in USA purely based on phenomena & gold rushes engineered by snake oil salesmen. ‘I invented a genie’ guy may be their crowning achievement though.
Dare Obasanjo“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.