I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee.
These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment.
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It's hard to think of an action more damaging to American greatness, or insulting to American freedom, than cutting off cancer research to punish a university for failing to align politically with the current government.
We launched one of the biggest operations deep into Russia. Dozens of successful strikes. Some targets were 4,000 kilometers away.
But tell me, did you see a single image of a bombed apartment?
A Russian mother screaming in the dust?
A Russian child buried in bricks?
No. Because we don’t hit civilians.
We fight to live, not to destroy.
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Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil.
It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men
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MAGA’s new motto: punish the poor, protect the powerful.
Trump and his crew are pushing work requirements for food, housing, and healthcare—while handing out tab breaks to billionaires.
If they really cared about “fraud”, they’d start with their own damn tax returns.
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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HUGE FLIP: Democrat John Ewing Jr. just turned Omaha blue—defeating the longest-serving GOP mayor in the country and becoming the city’s first Black mayor in history.
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Lissen,
As an adoptee I've had to learn that one's worth is not a currency to be bartered for belonging.
You are not on Earth to be everybody’s savior, secretary, sounding board, therapist, mama, mule, or messiah.
You are not a bottomless well of “strength” for people to sip from when they’re thirsty and then walk away when they’re full. Your worth is not in your labor, your silence, your forgiveness, your caretaking, your ability to bend without breaking, or your capacity to carry what no one …
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Live from the Chaos-Monkey Cage: Instead of conquest, the role of foreign-policy statecraft in producing a prosperous polity is in shaping world market conditions so that one’s imports and exports are carried out at attractive terms of trade. The role of foreign-policy economic statecraft in providing for security lies in using threats to adversely change others’ terms of trade to guide their behavior—“sanctions policy”. There is no chance the forthcoming Trump administration will understand that this is the point, or how to do this. Here Paul Krugman recommends Henry Farrell on the foreign-policy configurations we are likely to see under Trump II: Reign of the Neofascist Chaos Monkeys:
Henry Farrell: ‘Internal battles…. Traditional national security hawks will want to double down on sanctions and export controls, without any clear sense of where to stop. Fans of tariffs—a group that currently includes Trump—will apply them to remedy economic insecurity and all else that ails the United States. They will eventually discover the limits and costs of tariffs, but probably not soon enough. Well-connected firms will call for more traditional, business-friendly measures, combined with sweetheart deals and carve-outs…. Fraught alliances, palace politics, knifings in the dark, and Trump’s whims will send economic security policy reeling. The one area in which Trump shows unwavering determination is his enmity toward technical expertise… hinder[ing] the ability of the economic security state to get things done…. Everyone—businesses, allied governments, and adversaries—will be trying to figure out what is happening within a chaotic administration, and, if possible, to shape it…. Once, and not too long ago, it was possible for U.S. elites to believe that technocrats could order the world… making it secure and predictable for them…. The sun is setting on the sanctions technocrats, and indeed on traditional technocracy more generally… <foreignaffairs.com/revi…>
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We launched one of the biggest operations deep into Russia. Dozens of successful strikes. Some targets were 4,000 kilometers away.
But tell me, did you see a single image of a bombed apartment?
A Russian mother screaming in the dust?
A Russian child buried in bricks?
No. Because we don’t hit civilians.
We fight to live, not to destroy.
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It's hard to think of an action more damaging to American greatness, or insulting to American freedom, than cutting off cancer research to punish a university for failing to align politically with the current government.