It is remarkable but also fairly straightforward. The republican party is the party of gangsterism with the texas republican party being the exemplar second to none. But like all gangs, the threat that maintains cohesion only works if it is credible. And it is no longer credible.

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Today, while protecting Palestinians, Brad Lander & a group of American rabbis & others were taken by the IDF. Releasing Brad isn't enough, the Israeli govt must release them all.   If this is how they treat Americans, imagine how they treat Palestinians. Trump & Rubio's silence fuels this impunity.

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i know this is a running discourse theme of late, but it really is a profoundly serious problem that some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people sincerely believe — and convince other people to believe — wholesale, malicious fictions they’ve spun up entirely from nothing at all

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There is genuine public rage about Musk, which is what Congress is responding to, so when he says he will come for the people pulling the strings, he means the voters.

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like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.

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