wait, so we were the victims in the Greenland thing?

what if we escalated to the *26th* amendment?

"we would be better off if we had an actual race to the top rather than our current race to the bottom." @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com // the headline is a bit unfortunate, bc it suggests hostility and perhaps military risk in the competition i hope we avoid. we should agree to a race to the top!

you knew they were taking us into the dark ages, but this is pretty literal.

i wish we called straits narrows. it sounds cooler.

i think god owes me reparations for all the people who have died.

look, you have to give the Trump administration props for efficiency. it took a years before Bush administration's adventure was universally recognized as a catastrophic debacle. this administration managed to achieve that in a matter of weeks. mission accomplished!

what if we just did the opposite of what would be smart? what happens then?

as long as in the end there is a Trump Tower — Kish, he will score the escapade a victory.

eclipse up close. ht @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com

maybe, john roberts, an independent executive's "bold and unhesitating action" is not, after all, more important than keeping him accountable to the constitution, to law, to humanity itself.

i think the tacitly much of our leadership is like, "well look, braying brimstone like a cartoon villain is his brinkmanship on behalf of the U.S. of A. it would be *unpatriotic* to undermine that. if everything really does go to hell i can condemn it afterward and pretend i opposed it before."

fascism is a prion.

“The Democratic Party has its own class of big-dollar donors, and as a result tends to be skittish about imposing a sufficiently rigorous taxation regime to make a dent in [wealth] inequality. But if the American republic is to survive into the medium term, it simply must be done.” @ryanlcooper.com

is it possible to impeach, convict, and remove over the course of an afternoon?

a political system that makes the joker commander-in-chief of its armed forces might stand some reform.

youtu.be/etSbOs3aUqI

maybe it’s because i’ve been out of the country awhile, but i’m gobsmacked how into taco tuesday i suddenly find myself.

fascism is a form of national suicide masquerading as national aggrandizement.