No, really, you should read Thucydides.
hilzoy
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Ethics R Us.
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Important.
- You may have noticed something. I used to talk about the president’s dementia pretty regularly, but haven’t in months. That’s because I’ve lost faith. I used to believe the Washington press corps would see the plainly obvious. I no longer believe that. The hypocrisy is too baked in.
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Thread.
1/ Witkoff's evasions & contortions on CNN today all but suggest that Trump team has de facto asked Zelensky to cede unoccupied parts of Donbas to Russia in exchange for what Witkoff has been told & credulously believes are serious concessions by Russia.
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From a good thread about the CDC shootings. I did not realize that Trump had not bothered to comment.
Trump has made no comment. The White House has found the time to post a video of the arrest of that guy who threw a sandwich at a cop, but nothing about a cop killed defending the government's own employees.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose district includes parts of Atlanta, has also said nothing.
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The obstacle (here, anyway) is that many Alabamians don’t see crime as a local issue; they view it as a measure of the character of some other place they don’t like. This goes back decades; you can find Alabama newspapers in the 1960s screaming about crime in Chicago to drown out our problems.
The shorter point here, totally available for any elected Democratic leader who cares to get in front of a camera or make a TikTok video, is that America's blue cities are uniformly safer than its violent, crime-ridden red states. Murder rates in blue states are small fractions of red states', etc.
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A debate? A fucking DEBATE?!?
As President Donald Trump pushes the bounds of military activity on domestic soil, a debate has emerged over a nearly 150-year old law that regulates when federal troops can intervene in state issues.
Trump's domestic troop deployment tests the limits of a nearly 150-year-old law
President Donald Trump's recent actions have sparked debate over the Posse Comitatus Act, a law from 1878 that limits military involvement in domestic affairs.
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not saying it’s a wrong desire, but the index fingers curling on quite a lot of monkey paws from people wanting a fuck-you-take-no-prisoners attitude in a potential frontrunner
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WHY NOT PARSNIPS THO
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Wodehouse would have been much better.
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Malebranche. Sigh.
