So the conservative #SCOTUS majority includes 1 man credibly accused of rape, 1 man who owes his seat to an unprecedented GOP refusal to seat Obama’s nominee, 1 woman who got her seat in the most rushed confirmation ever, and 1 man who may be the most corrupt Justice ever. Cool.
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Max KennerlyCartoonish levels of corruption. One nice thing is that, while Justice Thomas continues to obliterate the Supreme Court's legitimacy, he's also dragging down an entire generation of conservative law professors who are obliged to defend all this.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus
Murshed ZaheedThe man who reportedly leaked U.S. military intelligence threatening our national security was a racist, antisemitic gun nut (a MAGA kind of guy).
So much for the BS rightwing hysteria about wokism hurting our military. As usual they were projecting while traitors thriving in their radicalized cult.
Years of Trump sped up the radicalization of U.S. military and there ought to be a wider conversation about it. #uspol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents
When you have a culture that exalts militarism and obsessively builds hero cults around warriors while simultaneously erasing the victims of our wars and violence, this is the kind of horrific thing you get.
Matt Gaetz’s Legislative Aide Is a Convicted War Criminal via @theintercept
https://theintercept.com/2023/03/29/matt-gaetz-aide-war-criminal/
It says a lot about our current politics that “this indictment will really help him politically” is a plausible statement.
A country holding its former leaders accountable for the laws they’ve broken us actually one of the most important signs of a healthy democracy. Allowing their impunity is the stuff of dictatorships and autocracies.
I’m on team democracy.
There’s so much more to say (and that has already been said), but let me just end by saying let us be the last generation of Americans who ever makes these mistakes again. Let’s finally learn the lessons that have cost so so so much blood. Let us never again choose war.
What struck me most is how little has truly changed between then and now. The arrogance, the cowardice, the flippant disregard for others lives, the irrational optimism, the erasure of non-American agency, the othering, the racism, the overconfidence in military force, the under-appreciation of political forces, and the lies. So. Many. Lies.
For the 20th anniversary of the #IraqWar I chose to finally read The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam’s powerful examination into the decisions and actions that led the US into war in Vietnam.
My latest for Inkstick Media on how I'm thinking about the anniversary of the war in #Ukraine.
There's so much that can and should be discussed, so this piece is by no means an attempt at a complete view of the war or US foreign policy. Rather, its my reflections, as a progressive advocate for foreign policy, on a year of horrific war in Ukraine.
