It takes awhile to get used to enacting policy that rapidly and publicly kills children.

It’s normal for the US president to salute our troops. It was not normal when he saluted North Korea’s troops.

The feds erected a large metal wall in the street around the Portland federal building, then the local police helped harass and beat journalists and bystanders alike.

Hopefully the debt train won’t get cut off.

It’s disconcerting which questions economists can answer with confidence, and for which they just throw up their hands.

A lost generation, common starvation, genocide? Economic and ecological collapse? IDK.

It’s hard not to be biased by the stability of the past. And for me, news about DC politics seems distant.

How would states stop the flow of taxpayer money out?

He already is. Who is going to stop him?

Budget Marlon Brando?

Referring to this? The Anti-Defamation League is a joke.

The judges all know Trump has just bull rushed around consequences for crimes against this county, and he’s a lot more powerful now. They won’t push their luck. The scotus majority will make nice, then the next distraction will come along.

How about Buttigieg?

I hope Putin doesn’t order a famine for US.

What if they reduce climate impacts by engineering a global famine?

I think billionaires finally admitted to themselves that the world’s economies, ecological systems, and countries population trajectories were fundamentally broken, and our flawed democratic institutions were not cut out for fixing any of these existential problems.

This is part panic, cannibalizing, and power consolidation.

I want to see big brick as a sponcer.

There is no good move to make. The problem is that we can’t even agree on the least bad options to slow it down.

It’s interesting that diplomatic messages said 10,000 were killed. The current Chinese government claims 241 died. Guess we’ll never know because they incinerated the APC paste and washed that down the drain.

Homo neanderthalensis probably had a slightly larger brain too.

You’re right. I had been mistaken for decades.

Back in my day we called it RU-486. Always reminded me of a Russian computerized submarine.