“Everyone with car insurance needs to go and wreck their car or at least have it stolen” is some dumb take

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

I wanted to bury my face in my hands, sink down to the floor, and slip into my media, but I didn’t. After twelve long seconds, the intense feeling subsided.

We don't talk about what's going on here enough.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.

The most powerful cult of stupidity the world has ever seen

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

It's this photo if you missed it, savaging the East Wing to make a vanity ballroom.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

It's ours, folks. They gave it up for weirder, fashier ones. And they looks so clean when it's two dozen of them without blue lives matter or confederate or tea stained kekistan bullshit confusing the normies

China expels two top generals from Communist Party in anti-corruption purge reut.rs/3IPiSRZ

SO SECRET MUCH COVERT U.S. Special Operations helicopters near Venezuela expand Caribbean mission www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“YOU hit HER.” CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

Simon Schama: What America’s Founders can teach Trump about liberty on.ft.com/4o9o5Db

Open til 8pm. Furloughed folks get 10% off.

Huh. Odd that.

Everything just got a little better

Am at the beach. In Montana.... @queenofthinair.bsky.social

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

My friends request you clean their windows, @FieldMuseum

Feeling even better about canceling them last week variety.com/2025/digital...

We've been cut. And there are a lot of worms

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

Lot of "I know Bob, the official making official statements, and Bob knows better" going around tonight

All three Indonesian Air Force #TNIAU C-130J-30 Super Hercules (A-1339, A-1343, & A-1344) safely returned to Indonesia after completing their airdrop mission over Gaza They dropped 91.4 tons of aid over Gaza 📸Sultan Iskandar Muda AFB

Indonesian F-16s carrying LJDAM + Sniper targeting pod and U.S. F-15s with Sniper and LANTIRN (?) pods performed a close air support (CAS) exercise at Siabu Air Weapon Range in Riau (11/9) 📸 Roesmin AFB #CopeWest25

Just watched an army dude walk out of the shoppette, crack the bottle cap, and chug a Pedialyte walking to his car. It's 4pm on a Monday. Either getting started early or late. Either way.... 👏 carry on soldier.

what would mister rogers do? get enraged seriously. his word choice. he gave us permission, said it's healthy:

Though the FDA narrowed criteria for the shots, many people still want them, to avoid illness and protect vulnerable family members. Some are turned down at the pharmacy or have to jump through hoops.

Is this what consequences looks like?

Alternate headline: Air Force Looks to Deploy More Airmen, For Longer Durations, In More Conflicts Abroad, With Greater Casualties www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-ad...

"The group brings together hundreds of grandparents nationwide who lived through diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and measles — illnesses once thought eliminated in the United States..." www.kgw.com/article/news...

What the fuck does ICE need snipers for though?

If there's any doubt American boomers are divorced from the reality of America... this older dude in the diner I'm at just started to chide a younger dude (early 40s... maybe, but could have been 20s) for wearing a VFW hat. "There's no way you're old enough to be a veteran of a foreign war"

I encourage people to read the systemic review RFK jr is expected to cite to claim “Tylenol causes autism” as is a wonderful example of the danger of people who don’t understand the limitations of systematic reviews, and why a single review should not override the totality of scientific evidence.

This story should be everywhere right now.

Heads up, mate @eamonhamilton.bsky.social They're either getting ready to invade you guys.... or an Outback Steakhouse

“DHS cut funding to mass shooting prevention programs in Minnesota before killings.” Nice With quote from @jacobware.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...

Fucking losing it how little of the reporting I’m reading about the CDC not mentioning how an anti-vaxxer gunman killed a police officer and fired hundreds of rounds at the building 2 weeks ago. An end to end ouroborous of delusional mania. The GOP will probably give the shooter a posthumous medal.

Middle-aged white guys: when the lady barber offers to trim your eyebrows, you say "yes, please". Every time.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

'Marked safe' in the cesspool of our nation's capital, from tour groups of children and veterans on the mall, mimosa brunches, and the lowest crime rates in 5 decades

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.

Saw a staff weenie (i am also a staff weenie) in the a-ring wearing an Aloha shirt tucked into khaki slacks and fellas, I never wanted to yell "COP!" so badly...

Appropriate, tbqh