if we were better at housing, they would welcome us as liberators.

one way to describe donald trump is he likes to be a dick to friends and a friend to dicks.

the career paths now are health insurance ceo, only fans, and uber driver.

(bluesky seemed like a very gentle place, until i confessed that i am still friends with some tankies.)

if luigi had been convicted some time ago and was on federal death row, would biden have commuted his sentence today?

tired: peace through strength wired: peace through conquest

making the bigtime here.

are there no rare earths in Antarctica?

the question is whether Trump will ratify Russia’s gambit to undo a Westphalian norm in favor of a “great power” spheres-of-interest norm, under which local toughs do what they will and small countries accept what they must.

“I cannot escape the sense that those pundits who really believed that Donald Trump was going to embrace restraint in foreign policy have been played for fools.” @dandrezner.bsky.social danieldrezner.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

a panama thing, let alone some greenland / canada / mexico thing, would instantly justify in retrospect russia’s ukraine thing and in prospect china’s taiwan thing. kind of what a russian-asset american president might attempt.

“We become one of the most dangerous kinds of people — a cruel person with a clean conscience.” @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/o...

the most deluded people in the world, who surround themselves with one another and then their sycophants, know what's "obviously true" when they see it.

it's not that remunerative jobs are boring. it's that they are mostly unethical.

a couple of amazing people i know from elsewhere and have i have found here recently: @lmsacasas.bsky.social @robertmanduca.bsky.social

he's in it for the good of Humanity. x.com/elonmusk/sta...

i have lefty friends who voted for Trump entirely on the theory that he'd challenge the "blob" and US security state, be a force for international peace. maybe so! maybe he's just speaking loudly and carrying a tiny stick. but the case is looking weaker than it did (and it never looked so strong).

remarkable deference. x.com/mattyglesias...

maybe it's just his way of retaliating against Jimmy Carter for voting Kamala.