The far-right on social media is already trying to disavow him. Popular lies include calling that text an anarchist text (it contains some anarchist ideology but that’s dwarfed by the white supremacist content and it’s current in far-right circles) and calling the shooter an “Iranian” or saying that he’s non-white.…

Putin is terrified of “color revolutions” for a reason. They’ve had comparably little chaos, though you can argue they’ve also not fixed issues of corruption or the like that fueled them.

Honestly, we’re more likely to pick up the habits from the Israelis than the Russians, given the number of training programs both in Israel or led/directed by Israeli “experts”. The numbers in Russia are more impressive, but some of the behaviors (delaying/denying medical treatment, excessive use of force, political…

FYI, Navalny’s doctor has claimed it’s an “unidentified chemical reaction” not an allergic reaction. Reportedly the police tried to prevent Navalny from getting medical attention but the ambulance drivers threatened to make a scene.

When the evidence contradicts your words, I know which is a more reliable indicator 9 time out of 10. 

What’s left of State is chugging away, though they’ve gutted most of the senior non-political roles. But foreign policy at least is more variable and there’s usually more willingness to toss aside a single crazed ruler. It’ll take time to rebuild State, but I think the damage to the IC could be harmful because it can…

I live up in Carroll so we’ve got a fair number of those. It’s not like Hunt Valley type rich white flight, but there’s a fair bit here.

You’ve just contradicted your entire concern-trolling with that sentence. Your actions outweigh your words.

Am I missing his intelligence background or does he actually have none? As a federal prosecutor he may have interacted with the IC, but he’s not part of the IC. The DNI is supposed to be the clearinghouse for all the IC agencies (that don’t always talk well), a position designed to limit pre-9/11 compartmentalization…

Then you’re an idiot, because you’ve made an equivalence between someone using that rhetoric with malice and someone turning it around to use it in a purely rhetorical sense that is in no way equivalent to the initial usage. If you look at that and think “both sides are guilty” then you’re a huge part of the problem.

This is weird bad faith concern-trolling. 

This is playing pretty poorly even in some conservative parts of Maryland. There’s definitely a “white racist terrified of Baltimore” demographic. But it’s not that large. Even in the mostly-white and more conservative areas a lot of people still go to Baltimore, if only certain parts.

Not proud of how long I looked at this trying to make it make sense in Arabic before I realized it was Farsi.

I agree. He’s shown a lot of seriousness. His name ID isn’t great, so he’s not made a lot of progress as a presidential candidate, but I get the feeling he’s realistic about that and is trying to set some policy goals/debates before bowing out or accepting a VP slot.

Honestly the whole “musicians and politicians do things together” thing has never made much sense to me. I get musicians have political views, hell I’ve been active in the punk scene for years it’s highly political, but there’s something that feels manufactured about “X musician on stage with a politician” to me, even…

He’s the best policy-focused candidate other than Warren, and putting out policies like this is about shaping the field and debate not just about his run. There’s a high likelihood some if not all of it will be adopted by other candidates. Warren in particular, given her perceived weakness on the issue, and a…

Posing with guns like that is at, a bare minimum, enough grounds to investigate rather than claim there’s “no violation of the rules” or whatever their precise wording was. 

There is no evidence that the death penalty is effective in deterring crime. If that’s not the case, it becomes an incredibly expensive spectacle that seems to execute innocent people at a rate that even many proponents of the death penalty find worrisome.

Just because you read that on some hate-site doesn’t make it true. You’re parroting some pretty dull lies at this point. The history of Islam and Muslims is a lot more complicated than your racist idols want you to believe.

It’s vandalism though. They don’t even need to touch First Amendment issues here.