This bit of news — at least 40 dead— appears around the 27th graf of the NYT story. Which is a really bizarre choice. (And we find out a few grafs down that several US soldiers were injured)

personally I think if a story about an illegal war and kidnapping leaks to you should publish it.

on the whole, i would prefer if we hadnt selected the idiot rapist as our king. i think it was a suboptimal decision on our part

I do mean to imply this. If the media wants to disprove this, they should figure out who was doing the polymarket insider trades and conclusively demonstrate no ties bsky.app/profile/tbon...

we are going to have to put Ellison in his son in prison and they are both going to have to die there

So does Trump think this is like Crusader Kings where if you capture the enemy leader you get to press all your war goals or something?

I don't have much hope of it actually happening even if/when Dems win back power, but is nice to see one Dem politician bring it up

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

I’ve been hesitant to endorse this for a while because it’s been a big deal for my hometown of Kansas City to be chosen to host World Cup games, but at this point? Yeah, they gotta do it. Not a damn one of them should spend a penny here. One more thing to hate Trump for.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below:

Simple as Everyone in DoD who participated in planning and executing this needs to face charges Yes I know the scope/scale of what I'm saying; either laws mean things or they don't

If you are visiting here from X because the CSAM thing was a bridge too far, welcome. I'd encourage you to carefully consider whether the things you heard about Bluesky on X are true or whether they were lies spread by the guy who owns X who controls what posts you see on his site.

The funny thing about this post getting some attention is I have a few people in my mentions defending the honor of north korea but absolutely no one defending the honor of bari weiss

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Yeah uh the BlueAnon people were right about her

Also if democrats could successfully block Cuomo for being a creep, the failure of republicans to block Trump for being a *confessed rapist* becomes a searing moral indictment of the Republican primary electorate. If Cuomo was nominated, then they could announce BOTH SIDES, their religious precept

Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here

guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

this is a fake quote and you can tell because british people use plural pronouns for bands, not singular pronouns

The most talked about tv show right now is about 2 queer hockey players being queer together, they've already lost

SHUT THE FUCK UP, EUROPEAN

Fleece lined jeans are so comfy

This latest reporting shows Bondi, Blanche, and others at the DOJ have been lying to the American people about the Epstein files since day one. The less than 40,000 pages that have been released represent less than 0.01% of all the total documents. They are hiding something.

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I keep telling you guys, "It Should Be Illegal For Girls Not To Date My Beautiful Nazi Grandson" is going to be the median Atlantic article by 2030.

then he whispered “delicatessen” to himself

Should be a bombshell but basically totally MIA from the NYT. An interesting decision by them!

We do not hate Republicans enough

My crank Star Wars opinion is that "there are heroes on both sides" is essential for understanding the thematic role the Clone Wars were supposed to play in the story, and the complete inability of the franchise to portray that is a big part of why the Prequels are so incoherent.

Sequel era Republic households commonly put up portraits of Dooku, Grievous, and Skywalker, and in turn First Order loyalists display Vader, Palpatine, and Obi-wan (for killing Grievous)

A lot of Blueskiers are going to dismiss this observation because of the source, but it is correct. I'll just add that I don't think there's anything special about single-family homes that means they should never be rentals, any more than there's a rule that multifamily units should never be condos.

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yeah I think this is something people mostly don't get: ships + cannon were *unbelievably* powerful. like, the classic outside context problem for most places but even in the context of European land warfare ships were incredibly strong. (Games very rarely represent this well, curiously)

What really happened is that the city drove them into bankruptcy by capping the fare at 5¢, despite inflation that started with WWI (and if you wanna go further back, they handicapped the economics of private rapid transit by forcing all new lines underground starting with some court cases around…