I genuinely forgot *Chris Dudley* is running for governor of Oregon again. 2010 feels like a million years ago.

Here we go again. Reminder that the CEO of Nike routinely tries to rig Oregon's gubernatorial elections to get Republicans elected.

"Urban Combat"??? Erm... that means protestors, right? Right?!?!

There is no version of “I’m just asking questions about vaccines” that ends anywhere other than where it ends. You are not Socrates. Socrates is dead. Polio nearly isn’t.

If you're fortunate enough to take two weeks of vacation annually for forty years, you'll accumulate 560 vacation days. The ratio is roughly 19:1 in favor of the mundane. So we get to a question worth sitting with: Do you actually like your average Monday? www.joanwestenberg.com/your-life-i...

What a shocking story, great local news coverage, and inspiring work all around. This is what it looks like when people (and lawyers) fight back for a more just society. lataco.com/ice-rams-veh...

y'all should familiarize yourself with what the Average American is consuming entertainment-wise!

I’ll give you this: All of you people who had weirdly intense, knee-jerk hatreds of Katherine Heigl 20 years ago were right.

That would fund almost 6 weeks of SNAP, which actually helps people.

A lot of good politicians—Casey, Brown—liked Fetterman and were ready to do business with him. Whatever his faults all along, he’s different since the stroke. People often are. If you don’t like Platner, do it for the cards on the table rather than lazy analysis.

Again: if you didn’t like Fetterman then or now, fair enough, but he ran to Biden’s left when it was popular, against Lamb (who Biden called a stepson) and Kenyatta, who is Black and gay. And in the general he ran against Oz, who is like every surgeon joke you’ve ever heard.

CENTCOM's problem, summarized in a single image.

Dear rest of the world: now would be a good time to start getting off fossil fuels. Sorry we can't join you.

There's half a dozen things a day you've never seen before, but what I can't get over is starting a war on total lack of political credit.

“We’re going to look very strong at the straits” right before has me dying

There's something deeply amusing in an ironic sense about watching people who criticized U.S. COIN campaigns for lacking strategic coherence cheer on the Iran campaign, seemingly completely oblivious to the similar disconnect between tactical proficiency and political ends.

Dawg

today: - UAE is apparently out of / heavily rationing interceptors - one container ship and two oil tankers hit in the gulf west of hormuz excellent gambit, sir,

Iraq after spending all that money to build their megaport to compete with Suez only to have their access cut off too.

wow!

"we kill random people because it's fun!" is one of those go-to statements you can use to make it crystal clear that we are, in fact, the baddies. our enemies do not talk like this. only we talk like this

BREAKING: Alexander Butterfield, the Richard Nixon aide who disclosed the Watergate tapes, dies at 99.

I intend to be the last one standing.

chat sends

Trump officials moving onto military bases is a ridiculous, absolutely inappropriate thing, and the NYT story that credulously credited claimed threats as justifying such a move is also ridiculous.

This is it.

Wow even Biden waited longer before panicking.

honestly if i was QF or Hezbollah, i'd try to take a swing at MAL

They aspired to launch drones at California the same way I aspire to date Jennifer Garner.

The FBI thinks you are fucking stupid. Iran has zero capability to cross the Pacific and sea-launch a drone attack on California. This is too fucking dumb for me to comment on further.

Texas going all-out to gerrymander the state only to have it backfire spectacularly will the the best thing we can hope for this year.

I'm pretty sure these kinds of swings are well past what you need for the Texas gerrymander to become a dummymander

@telthetrekkie.bsky.social BOI

"'The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes,' he said. 'What I would say is that the only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.'"

Has anyone checked on Eric Adams lately?

Conservatively, several thousand people are dead now throughout the Middle East as a result of this, agriculture is threatened due to trade interference, energy prices are spiking and more people are set to die. And people who can maybe bring that up won't. Catastrophic.

rt if u hate nazis and love boobs

Katie Perry v Katy Perry: Sydney fashion designer wins 16-year trademark dispute with US pop star

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

then don’t give them a gas tax break, dummy!

All eyes on Georgia

very good to know they are exactly the short-sighted content hound morons they appear to be

Dawg we're gonna need to make the American equivalent of Estonian e-citizenship cards after this, because *everyone* is going to have their SSN permanently compromised. Need to start over from almost scratch. The SSN's already overdue to be reduced from password to unique semi-public alias.

I spent 45 minutes trying and failing to convince a full bird Colonel with multiple Afghanistan and Iraq deployments that Afghanistan is not an Arabic speaking country. I was helped in this discussion (to no avail) by two Afghan interpreters who were more polite than I was.

What a fucking disaster.

oh my god they admit it: "Trump, apparently, expected to find an Iranian equivalent of Delcy Rodriguez..." www.thenecessaryfictions.com/p/trumps-war...

If CENTCOM is useless, as this war is showing, then what was the point of having it?

i am being absolutely serious here: CENTCOM had one job and it was literally to prepare for an Iran contingency

Just maybe, despite all of the post-modern critiques of geopolitics as discourse, the physical reality that the Islamic Republic has a lot of cheap drones in mountainous terrain overlooking a 24-mile wide strait through which 20% of the world's oil passes isn't an easily mutable fact