Yes.

If you imagine your war to be with the smart people of your country the last thing you want is for them to get reinforcements

is the sea 'wine dark' in the odyssey

Not that anyone cares but yes this is illegal

it is pretty insane that the movement which produced the idea that Kamala Harris would go to war in Iran has not produced any sort of resistance, even messaging, about the actual war in Iran

"effective coercion requires more than heavy-handed threats...Trump’s approach makes opponents less likely to comply with his demands, both by revealing the limits of U.S. capabilities & resolve & by undermining the credibility of U.S. assurances that targets will be left alone if they acquiesce.”

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social please give me deliverance

The moment they blocked satellite companies from releasing data was the moment you should've known they'd start going a-war-crimin' I once again challenge anyone to claim that the IRGC's tolerance of civilian death is less robust than American voters' tolerance of high gas prices

Just heard someone in a meeting describe something as "an edge case of an edge case" Homey, what do you think a corner case is

Head of the Heritage Foundation in July 2024. It’s not like voters weren’t warned.

10 months ago.

New meme just dropped

"This is the worst game to lose, because you don't go home, you go to Miami"

Manifest(ly incompetent) destiny

Who needs government-subsidized GLP-1 when you can get tapeworms for free

Government so small you can drown it in a bathtub. Or you could if you could get off the toilet.

I think China was quite eager to thwart American ideological expansion, but having seen us basically flush whatever that ideology was over the last decade in favor of whatever inchoate garbage we have now, CCP now sitting surprisingly pretty

I'd call this hyperbole, but I recently learned an friend's husband will literally call her from 3 time zones away to ask her to summon an Uber for him because he cannot comprehend apps And on balance he's one of the good-guy lawyercats. 🥲

Just waiting for someone in MAHA to say they don't worry about cyclospora because real Americans don't eat vegetables

Trump enacting a global carbon tax indirectly

it’s hard to explain how much shit like this has radicalized people. like i’m a white middle-aged broad who’s always been liberal but i’ve gone full-on “abolish ICE/reform scotus/the next dem candidate must commit to mass prosecutions” and you will not sway me from that position.

Seems like it might be a good time for everyone to revisit my reporting on the Coffee County voting system breach and my analysis of the FBI’s affidavit in support of its search at the Fulton County elections hub: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what... www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fult...

It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.

But I had been explicitly promised that it can only good happen

this is “pete hegseth wants an all-white military”

i am to the right of most of the legislators i support because i can detect that those legislators would prefer to legislate than to circulate between awards dinners collecting lifetime achievement awards

BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.

To be fair I think the peak of Black political influence is behind us. CBC is mortally wounded by court rulings. Blue states will respond by carving up Black districts. Left will fight to reduce the power of southern primaries in Presidential nominations. Doge, anti-DEI, etc. On our own now.

Plenty else to say but honestly my first thought was to be glad that queen got himself to Disneyland first

Hard disagree. Peak was burning your own 12-hour MP3-CDs

What does it say about me that my very first reaction to this comic was "but cats don't have sweat glands"

there’s a certain kind of mild mannered lawyer who will become john brown if you’re openly contemptuous of the very idea of the rule of law.

brunson also left money on the table when he signed with the knicks, basically saying "use this to help surround me with a team that can win a championship." they seem to understand the extra money won't meaningfully improve their lives, but winning a ring will.

Teen Vogue, People, and The Onion shall lead us.

Crazy how People is the remaining publication that just goes for the jugular.

Former NFL star Colin Kaepernick helped fund the independent autopsy for 18 year old Nolan Wells. His foundation stepped in to cover the costs so the family could have the examination conducted outside Mississippi, amid concerns over a lack of transparency and trust with local authorities.

My kingdom for believers of even-handed justice who understand the difference between objectives and prerequisites

I've been pretty enchanted with the heuristics of the Interstate numbering system for its wayfinding and like, rightly or wrongly lots of folks assume this isn't a preserved life skill it's me having a pinch of the tism

The "defense" I might give Brooks is that things were so unabashedly f*cked by 1933 that the broader public was already primed to try out any new idea. He's assuming a floor on how f*cked things will get over the next two years that is not supported by anything that's happened in the last 10

Are they concerned The Almighty doesn't know the moon is there

At least I can feel alright about what's going through the mind of the "donates to West Bank settlers" Trumper I know

I wonder how much of this is about oil prices and how much is about the collapse of Spirit Airlines. For all its crappiness Spirit did serve one important market function: its ultra-low fares forced some price discipline on the other airlines www.wsj.com/business/air...

bro I need this “no taxes on [very broad group of people]” thing to be revealed for the honeypot that I so desperately hope it is, they got fuckin’ Abdul El-Sayed on it now

Good stuff from @liberalcurrents.com : “what is needed is not merely a program to restore Washington. What is needed is a program to reconstruct Washington—to rebuild the civil service into a robust driver of liberal goals and ambitions” www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-rebui...

"As the protective value of physical distance erodes, strategic depth — once conceived in geographical terms — must now be measured in the resilience of data and compute.” @bdherzinger.bsky.social

i think the radicalizing effect of WFH led to more or less destroying the Silicon Valley workforce more out of spite than anything

You know, third parties are a thing. When the Whigs sucked ass on slavery, people formed the Republicans and chose Lincoln and the rest is history "Democracy" is working your ass off to convince other people what you care about matters, not just a ballot someone hands you

The phrase "in miniature" is undervalued... many people these days seriously (and somewhat understandably) cannot comprehend the huge difference between corruption in millions and corruption in trillions. It's actually helpful the baby regime writes its parables for us