and it is having exactly the effect that we told him it will have.

Libya in particular was a catastrophic mistake in that regard. Iraq you could argue was a special case, the first Iraq War had not really ended, with the continuing no fly zone and sanctions. But Libya had just made a deal. But now nothing matters. Everything is a protection racket.

"A week ago, Atlanta Fed’s nowcast of consumption was 2.2% q/q annualized; now it’s zero… In the 11 or so years of nowcasted consumption growth, there have been no instances of negative values (or zero values) outside of 2020…this is a somewhat remarkable occurrence." econbrowser.com/archives/202...

nuclear nonproliferation is dead. the scaffolding upon which it was built was enforcement by great powers of norms against predatory militarism. with that gone, unless it is improbably resurrected, every state that means to survive must find its own nukes or a close ally's nuclear umbrella.

impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat. impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat. impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.

it's all the same if you find yourself in the path of the axe.

"You Can’t Put Too Much Water into a Nuclear Reactor"

this is a lie. we know the names of people who have died. Wah K’Ler Paw. Pe Kha Lau. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

i mean, the national security threat of X rather overwhelms it.

it's remarkable the term gaslighting was invented prior to this administration. cf @ddayen.bsky.social on Schroedinger's CFPB. prospect.org/economy/2025...

yeah, man. Europe is so scary. from ourworldindata.org/grapher/homi...

wasn’t this the traditional definition of chutzpah, when you massacre half your legal team then ask for lenience from the court because you’re short-staffed? ht @histoftech.bsky.social

maybe we could have a strategic sportsbets reserve too.

stop complaining it is the absolute pravda.

it’s undoing an achievement in transparency for the benefit of money launderers and tax evaders.

drain the swamp. screenshot from thread beginning xcancel.com/ustreasury/s...

they are comfortable opposing Biden. it’s the basic Schmitt / fascist intuition, opposing the enemy is the political good. but now the same deed is just theirs, theirs alone. without that cover, voters they care about, “America First” voters who just want out of everything, may demur.

this Republican Congress wants simply to disappear, to be absolved of all responsibility for anything. the founders thought Congress would be jealous of its privileges. this Congress is desperate to escape the blame that might come from even the slightest exercise of them.