"are we dealing with the right officials" is almost universally a sign the diplomats/heads of state are stuck, lost, in denial and are resorting to "maybe there are other interlocutors who agree with us", which is about as ridiculous as it sounds.
Carl QuintanillaCan they transfer us to the right department. 🤡
There are only three possible futures: a) everyone in the Trump admin goes to jail, rule of law partially restored; b) Dems retaliate in full, and maybe that's a deterrent; c) neither (a) nor (b), so lawless authoritarianism wins again, and when Republicans regain power they ramp it up even more.
Murshed Zaheed“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.www.nytimes.com
They were literally born in the same town. This is egregious, gutter racism.
RavWhat the fuck?? “While Mr. El-Sayed is fringy and radical, he’s also a Muslim man. Ms. Stevens is a white woman. This puts her at a disadvantage in the identity Olympics that internal Democratic Party politics have become.” www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
If a peer said something like this about how I talked about Economy I might kms.
Michael DerbyJ.P. Morgan’s Feroli on Fed chair Warsh’s presser: “It's hard to know what to make of Warsh’s remarks, which involved a lot of well-turned phrases but little in the way of a coherent macro view.”
It was, in accelerated fashion, a parallel to how living through climate change is making Republicans far worse on emissions & pollution.
Aaron RuparThe Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.
Seeing how many respectable liberals, and even leftists, in New York media continued to speak warmly of Reihan Salam is what made me first realize that some journalists have no criteria for moral judgment other than whether someone is personally nice to them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/n...
Can This Man Stop the Mamdani Agenda?Reihan Salam loves New York. He loves the free market. And he’s very worried.www.nytimes.comI had exactly this thought about Salam about 15 years ago and it's been the same ever since. He moves in their social circles, talks in their cadences, attends their events, and is genial to them in person, so he gets no pushback whatsoever for enabling & defending moral horrors.
Ned ResnikoffSeeing how many respectable liberals, and even leftists, in New York media continued to speak warmly of Reihan Salam is what made me first realize that some journalists have no criteria for moral judgment other than whether someone is personally nice to them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/n...
