our human condition......

17 civlian buses to Ukraine vs 4 to large backwards country.

Very Mad Max-y.

Ken Paxton’s former top cop on why he’s voting for James Talarico:

I spent 2 hours with James Talarico. Number one, I saw no deception. He answered all my difficult questions. He didn’t dodge anything. He hit it head on.

I have been around politicians my entire life. I served 5 residents… And James Talarico is so different than other people I’ve encountered.

I think he’s the man who needs to go to Washington DC, and Ken Paxton needs to go home.

poor truth-telling guy'll prob get doxxed from here to hell......

No words!

All I'm saying is that if you had a tribe of say 100 people and 5 of those people hoarded 95% of all the resources while half the tribe starved the rest of the tribe would eventually nationalize SpaceX

I for one hope the Petola campaign's Double-Dan gambit doesn't kill her candidacy in the same way Vivek's Rape Mom ad has so clearly killed his.

Seems like Mary Peltola made the right decision firing that person.

This was an article in the New York Times two years ago.

He’s done all of it.

Dejan Šoškić, the former head of Serbia's central bank, is one of the more serious candidates to be the country's new PM. He has suggested lustration, in particular of Vucic's expansive party-oligarchs, will be a priority for the/his new government.

That term, lustration, is central to what did not happen in Serbia the last time the country swept away a strong man leader, Slobodan Milosevic.

The security archives were never opened, the regime's apparatchik class never ejected, and the intelligence, military, and police apparatus never reformed. The result was the return of the Milosevic B-team, with Vucic at its fore, barely 11 years later.

The new government in Belgrade, if it is serious about making a historic break with Vucic, and with Milosevic for the matter, must pursue a serious lustration policy.

Declassify the security archives; allow us to finally learn the whole truth of the Serbian state's direct involvement in the wars of the 90s; to learn whom the regime(s) of Milosevic and Vucic surveilled, harassed, and assassinated; and let us finally learn the true extent the network of political and media collaborators in Serbia itself, the region, and Europe more broadly. Including the names of a few of those prominent personalities, including on this platform, who welcomed the change of government through gritted teeth.

The past forty years have shown, time and again, that Serbian nationalism, as an ideological project, has two pillars: authoritarianism at home, and expansionism abroad. Last night, the Serbian public rejected the former. No one truly expects them to reject the latter overnight. But the new government can begin that process by revealing the true costs of the latter, first and foremost for the Serbian people themselves, and begin charting a slow, uneven course into a different future for the entire region.

This is how it’s done! ✊ Howard Buffet, who is the son of the Omaha Oracle Billionaire Warren Buffet, has just donated $1.4 billion to Ukraine.🇺🇦

I think @irishelt may have accidentally Blocked me(?)

The single most insightful, funny not funny monologue about America's political structure in the past 30 years. True then. True now. Plus ca change......

Great photo!

These women would all be in my Mom's age cohort, born in 1924.

think maybe @juliaioffe & @ContraPoints should get together, maybe rope Melania into the convo, compare notes on what dosage of ketamine they were all enjoying yesetrday.
- Boy Howdy!

and Lo, it came to pass......

Side note about my Dad. As you may recall he was a lifelong Republican from TX who saw the light. He went viral for saying at age 95, "All my life I was mad at the wrong people." He voted blue in 2024.

Well, Dad passed a few weeks before the Iran War began. While he was still lucid he said, "That mother-f*cker is going to go to war with Iran, isn't he? Does he not know about the Strait of Hormuz? This is bad, Annie, this is BAD."

95, dying, dementia, feels like crap and even he knew what Iran would do should we go to war.

Every morning he would also ask, "Is he ☠️ yet?" Dad last asked the morning he passed! He passed around 10pm that evening. Not long after he asked, the meds kicked in and he didn't talk much after that except to say he loved me. Then he was unconscious. But even on his literal death bed Dad was determined to resist this regime. Dad passed at 97.5 yrs old.

Thank goodness, Google search hasn’t gone totally to shit. I found the image and the story. Mama didn’t think so highly of you. Damn did she nail it. 💯

100 years ago everyone owned a horse & only the rich had cars.

Today everyone has cars & only the rich own horses.

How the stables have turned.