Under “dictator” Mao, life expectancy in China increased by 30 years, literacy rates went from 20% to 70%, steel output grew from 1 million to 23 million tons, 47 million hectares of land was taken from landlords and given to peasants, and China was unified under a strong central state and got nuclear weapons. Despite his failures, it does not take a rocket scientist to understand why Mao is revered in China.

She knows that the actual issue is the 6 million Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank who can’t vote. She just thinks you’re too dumb to know.

Diplomacy isn’t a real estate deal, so why are we sending Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to negotiate with Putin? These two jackasses are too busy complimenting a dictator instead of standing up for America and our allies.

The war in Ukraine is the cleared moral issue in the world today. If you struggle to see Russia and Putin as aggressors and Ukrainian and Zelensky as heroic defenders of freedom, you are a moral infant.

Musk is destroying any remaining signs of American democracy

Repeat after me: Russia has no legitimate security concerns; only its neighbours do. Russia has been the only one invading others.

Ukraine today is Britain in 1940, standing alone against aggression while others debate. The U.S. and Europe have a moral and practical obligation to stand with them. I joined @JessicaDean on @CNN.

George W. and Laura Bush are backing James Talarico against Trump's terrible candidate Ken Paxton

As a kid, I worked for John Reed and Bill Cohen. In college, I became a Democrat because of an ill-advised war , like Trump's adventure in Iran. One goes to college to learn new things. I learned to be a Democrat.

Choosin' Wrong

Good news, red staters. Lots of jobs now open to pick fruit and vegetables in the broiling sun on minimum wage

I think it's weird how few people are troubled by the gist of Sayed's Islamophobia defense. If you say that asking about support for the Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamophobic attack on your religion, then at some level you're suggesting -- or at least encouraging the inference -- that the MB's form of Islam defines or informs your interpretation of Islam. There are lots of Muslims that don't subscribe to the MB version and when you ask them about the Muslim Brotherhood, they don't respond by saying "how dare you attack my religion?"

Alex and I at Writers Block on Thursday.

I don’t expect a Brit who lives under a monarchy — No Kings! — to understand that in the American republic, the bar for treason is set extremely high, and almost nobody in the history of the country, even the Rosenbergs, has ever been charged, must less convicted of treason. That said, Ukraine violated the terms of use for Starlink, which @ElonMusk had given them to use in the early days of the war to help their effort. They tried to use it for targeting of weapons. Not to mention, it’s his property. He could do whatever he wants with it. It has nothing to do with the government. And I was speaking of the UK, why don’t you dispatch some troops to Ukraine? Why don’t you send the two or three ships you have left in the Royal Navy? Do you want to get into a nuclear war with Russia, go ahead. You signed the Budapest memorandum. Do you want to treat it as if it’s a binding document, which it is not, then get your satellites and your soldiers over there and defend Ukraine. It will be a noble endeavor.