So let's say that Trump appears before the hastily-called gathering of all military leadership and tells them to swear personal allegiance to him. Would congressional Republicans do anything? Would Democrats, for that matter?

The administration has done a lot of stupid things in the last 8 months, but placing crushing tariffs on medicine is an utterly psychopathic act that's going to hit his base especially hard.

Wait, Ted Cruz said something not just unobjectionable, but laudable? Surely the End Times are upon us. www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/p...

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

I am looking forward to RFK Jr tweeting graphs showing a correlation between a growth in autism diagnoses and growth in general-population Tylenol use so I can counter with another graph similarly proving that crème brûlée causes autism.

This is not going to end well.

That's why they're called enemies, genius.

This message brought to you by the Roberts Court.

Musk: “If lidars/radars disagree with cameras, which one wins? This sensor ambiguity causes increased, not decreased, risk" Per Musk, a unanimous, wrong, "all clear, keep going!" signal is better than a "not sure, better slow down" when approaching a fog-obscured truck at 80mph.

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

I objected to a comment in a thread that claimed that GenX individuals are less suited to leadership positions due to lead poisoning (hello innumerate eugenics bullshit). The person then assumed I was GenX, reminding me of the time a guy assumed I was Jewish because I objected to his antisemetic BS

Increase a band: A Colony of Seagulls

This is bad, but the report demonstrates a common, fundamental misunderstanding of these systems. The LLM did not commit "fraud"; it can no more commit fraud than a spreadsheet can commit fraud. It did not "know it was lying" at the time it output a series of tokens; it doesn't "know" anything.

lol buddy this says AI = 0

Maybe this is the cause of the Fermi paradox. Civilizations develop AI girlfriends and become extinct through sheer weirdness.

If the Nobel Committee really wants to further the cause of peace, they should give Trump a "Special Peace Prize" so he will lose interest in international affairs go back to playing golf.

Thanks to the Roberts Court granting Trump immunity, the president having sweeping pardon powers, and the D's believing in chumminess over accountability, nobody of import is going to be held responsible for turning the US into a nakedly corrupt 3rd world nation. Act accordingly.

There is at least one timeline where he succumbs to Covid and I bet that timeline is hilarious.

Odd metadata on a large number of cnn.com articles:

Good morning this is all I have to contribute to the discourse

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

Whoever allowed spaces in filenames should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

Release the X-Files!

Hey, you -- charity whose work I admire and to whom I have given a not insubstantial sum in the past. That thing you do in your fundraising letters where you "personalize" it by faking a handwritten note and strikethroughs? Such manipulative BS makes me far less likely to give you money.

“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.” - Turkish Proverb

He bought Twitter so he'd have people to talk to. He bought the POTUS so he'd have people cheer for him. He'd have had both if he'd just chosen to be the world's greatest philanthropist instead of a mass murderer. But the richest man in the world is a pathetic lonely, needy, broken, dangerous man.

In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.

If only some idiot hadn't unilaterally torn up the comprehensive agreement to limit and monitor Iran's nuclear program out of spite for that black guy. www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/w...

Funny to think that if Musk had grown up reading Verne instead of Heinlein, he might now be polluting the ocean instead of the atmosphere and night sky.

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.

Well, that's a shame. OUSD has some great teachers and administrators, but district leadership has been a disaster for years. And as much as I love teachers (as my parents were) the teachers union has been an impediment to improving education. oaklandside.org/2025/06/05/o...

🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

It's sci-fi world building, but for eternally adolescent pseudo-intellectual incel dipshits.

Of all the NYT opinion-havers, Ross is by far the Douthattiest.

Genuinely mystified as to how there can be so many podcasts. Who is listening to them, and when? I barely manage to eat breakfast most days (cuz I'm an idiot), how the hell do you people manage it? Showerproof headphones?

D leadership saying, "We're doing fine, the only people upset with us are those who are politically engaged" is not the galaxy-brained take they think it is.

Jeebus the "I'm no crypto shill but this genius act seems great!" sock puppets are out in force today.

You know what else reports a net loss every quarter? Every single police department in the country.

Really classy Daily Mirror front page on the 80th anniversary of VE Day. This Philip Zec celebrated cartoon was in the paper on this day in 1945

The tariffs are a historically stupid own goal. But there is a lot of misinformation out there about "nothing" coming into US ports from China in the coming weeks. The Port of LA currently shows a total 35% y-over-y dip next week, but then a recovery the following week. signal.portoptimizer.com

@rogerodonnell.com Finally plucking up courage to ask long-burning Q re: Push. Always thought main keybd was F#ED/C#BA from studio version, but live sounds primarily like F#DD/C#AA. Please ease my aural OCD -- am I mishearing the studio mix? Thanks and luv ya!

I hereby proclaim that the moment we are living through be known henceforth as The Great Precession

It's getting tiresome to hear anti-Trumpers on the left and on the right reflexively presume that team Trump is just going to ignore the courts and the courts can't do anything about it. Expressing that attitude is contributing to normalization of anti-democratic behavior. STOP DOING THAT.

SCOTUS right now.