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  1. Anti-War or Anti-Trump?

    You can be anti-Trump but still pro-war. Among Trump’s political opponents are those who criticize his execution of the Iran war, but don’t oppose waging war against Iran per se, or those who disapprove of the way he went about things in Venezuela, “but,” or those who decry his belligerence over Greenland, not because it is a belligerent resource-grab but on the grounds that it alienates NATO allies. Now, however, you cannot be anti-war without being anti-Trump. It is no longer possible, for example, for people to identify as MAGA and anti-war. A coherent anti-war position necessarily entails opposition to this war-mongering president. 

    Of the two, anti-war and anti Trump, anti-war may make for more durable resistance: if Trump were to vacate office or die tomorrow we would still have his Iran war, all his wars, from the Caribbean to Minneapolis to the Strait of Hormuz, and opposition to these wars would still be the appropriate moral and political position to take.

    This is not to say that the anti-war position can take the place of opposition to Trump, or that it is enough for the moment. If all of Trump’s wars were magically to end tomorrow, there would still be plenty of reasons for responsible, decent, and reasonable people to be anti-Trump: authoritarianism, corruption and self-dealing, criminal depravity, illegitimacy, ecocidal policy, insufferable vanity, brute ignorance and gutter racism, adherence to might-makes-right, non-stop lying, chaos-monkeyism, incompetence, reckless demagoguery, and so on. And yet all of those failings, I would suggest, were always going to lead us to where we find ourselves today, to war.

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  2. Friday, May 9, 2025

    The front is noisy for Ukraine’s soldiers, Russia’s Victory Day ‘ceasefire’ is yet another sham — I’m not fine; Intimate scenes of life during war (Photos) — What Putin won’t tell you about Russia’s Victory Day — Clearly, Ukraine is holding card; economist on why US pressure won’t force Kyiv to concede … and more

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  3. Friday, May 9, 2025

    The front is noisy for Ukraine’s soldiers, Russia’s Victory Day ‘ceasefire’ is yet another sham — I’m not fine; Intimate scenes of life during war (Photos) — What Putin won’t tell you about Russia’s Victory Day — Clearly, Ukraine is holding card; economist on why US pressure won’t force Kyiv to concede … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  4. Friday, May 9, 2025

    The front is noisy for Ukraine’s soldiers, Russia’s Victory Day ‘ceasefire’ is yet another sham — I’m not fine; Intimate scenes of life during war (Photos) — What Putin won’t tell you about Russia’s Victory Day — Clearly, Ukraine is holding card; economist on why US pressure won’t force Kyiv to concede … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  5. Friday, May 9, 2025

    The front is noisy for Ukraine’s soldiers, Russia’s Victory Day ‘ceasefire’ is yet another sham — I’m not fine; Intimate scenes of life during war (Photos) — What Putin won’t tell you about Russia’s Victory Day — Clearly, Ukraine is holding card; economist on why US pressure won’t force Kyiv to concede … and more

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  6. Gizmodo: ‘Free Speech’ Platfrom X Suspends Opposition Party Accounts in Turkey. “Following the arrest of the primary political rival of Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdoğan, demonstrators have taken to the streets and to social media to protest the seemingly politically motivated action. According to Politico, some of those who have taken to speaking out against the government have been […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/gizmodo-free-speech-platfrom-x-suspends-opposition-party-accounts-in-turkey/