There’s a link in the article on that. But yeah, their support for Israel comes with instrumentalization of Jews in Christian prophecy. I personally find such views gross and bigoted, but some rightist Jews love CUFI because they hate all the same people.

CUFI is best thought of as a hate group. The difference between that group and one of the well-moneyed anti-Muslim hate groups is minimal. They overlap a great deal. It’s an ideologically rabid organization.

They were caught in a bad spot. They wanted to limit passing lanes to the main US attackers who had gone wide but also stay close enough to try and cut the angle and block a shot if Lavelle went towards goal. Which meant they stayed too far off her (though generally speaking you’ll see a lot of backpedaling because…

The cable was from 2017 if I remember correctly. Though I’m not suggesting he leaked it personally. Far more likely someone sympathetic or allied to him did so. More deniability that way, and of course if you take this action and get in trouble you’ve got the support of Boris and his very wealthy pro-Brexit pro-Trump…

That’d be a much stronger argument if she had signaled the PK and then did a VAR check because it was so important. It was a blatantly obvious foul in real time. 

Those companies are largely outside the public economy and the avenues for direct individual boycott of say GEO group are limited. They aren’t reliant on consumers.

These agencies have a fundamentally abusive and toxic culture. I don’t think it can be salvaged. It is nice that some officers were trying to do something, but people are literally dying in custody and they are preventable deaths, not to mention the conditions that probably meet the international definition of…

Johnson’s near-coronation makes it most likely he’d have the sway to do it. It’s easy to justify by saying he’ll soon be in charge. That’s my read. 

Got to wonder who leaked this, as it looks a lot like throwing a diplomat under the bus to make nice with Trump, which is totally something I could see Boris Johnson doing. When you sack him (or push him to retire) you get to go to Trump in private and say “look I dealt with him”. Easy way to get into the good graces…

Someone was paid money to make that. Just let that sink in. 

Great match, even if I have no bloody clue what that ref was doing for much of it. Weird no-calls, slow to check on players on the ground, and it’s embarrassing you need VAR to see that dangerous high boot. Didn’t end up mattering in the end, thankfully.

I still don’t think there’s much likelihood this works out for Trump and his goons. Much more likely this is a big failure and he leverages it to rile up his rabid and racist base. That probably will be successful, even if it’s logically incoherent. 

All this idiocy aside, how can you look at her hairstyle and not immediately think “yeah that’s definitely a mermaid”. 

Macro radicalization like that is a bit different than individual cases, but yeah I think the theory is relevant here. It’s a nuanced issue but there’s definitely signs that Trump’s base is engaged in a continuing process of radicalization and dragging much of the GOP with them. 

Actually, I should’ve noted this is a basic part of radicalization. From white supremacists to Daesh taking transgressive (often violent in those cases) actions builds bonds and pulls people deeper. It’s why for example child soldiers are usually forced to kill in a controlled setting as part of their training. Daesh…

I doubt he could get that far, personally. Not that our institutions are holding up particularly well, I think opposition is eroding over time, but that’s a jump that’s a bit too blatant. Roberts wants to achieve his partisan goals without looking too guilty while doing so, so I think that’d be a step too far for the…

Putting out an EO and getting the GOP to defend it, leveraging all their media and PR arms, would be breaking the norm. It’s not about win or lose. It’s about asserting power and watching people fall in line. Those that don’t, he’ll mark. It’s about solidifying loyalty. If you cross the line with others, it builds…

There’s a very real possibility that all the news on this, and Trump’s posturing, is about confusing the public in hopes of driving responses down. 

What’s most likely to happen next is Trump tries to push the envelope and see just how far the GOP will allow him to go. I suspect he’ll fail here. The plain text of the law is too hard to ignore and with forms already being printed the battle is essentially symbolic now.

Amash spent a lot of time as a hard-right hyper-partisan. I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he’s learned from that time, for now, because this is a step that’s pretty dramatic. I can respect fiscal conservatism a lot more than much of the cultural war abuses the Tea Party he was associated with…