Hegseth's military is in this weird superposition in which he enforces strict,authoritarian discipline against soldiers stepping even one inch out of line, but also, soldiers are allowed to do literally anything they feel like, anywhere, any time.

So...it's still exactly where it was before you started bombing them then? Job well done

People at the start of Trump’s term told me: this isn’t that bad, the court will rule against trump He and his admin are spending a lot of time, resources, and therefore taxpayer money (mine and yours) for more than a year, devoting serious effort to trying to pull this off In a sane world, that…

April marks the start of my 7th year of continuous full-time employment in digital media, without a layoff in the mix. (Somehow not an April Fool!)

entering my true sloth era

It's simple: The Supreme Court says bans on medical care—and speech related to that care—are only allowed in the conservative direction. Tennessee can ban gender-affirming care as a medical regulation, matter but Colorado CANNOT regulate therapists who wish to deny patients' gender or sexuality

Warfighters coming up to Pete with tears in their eyes. "The biggest bombs, the most beautiful bombs, sir."

wow i can't believe no one else will fight the war we started for us. it's a war they didn't want or support, and none of them will step up? shocking really

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Recently wrote about the Chicago neighborhood tourism posters created by Steve Shanabruch, who has no affiliation with any city agency, he draws them just because he wants to! They’re done in the style of those old WPA posters for the national parks and they’re just gorgeous. The Superdawg one is 😍

No one with little kids will ever vote Republican again

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

I knew about the skeleton animals, but skeleton people???? Nature is amazing

My thought on the new Harry Potter trailer is that it sure sucks that JK Rowling has poisoned her own well

When your president is the cornfield boy from that episode of The Twilight Zone

Awesome, we've definitely proven to Iran that they can take us at our word

As someone who sat through way too many soul-crushing meetings with Jim Spanfeller, this is just...so satisfying to read

Helluva 2026 pic by Megan Varner.

So much of domestic news in the US since last January is just reporting on the consequences of drastic policy shifts reverberating through complex systems with terrible first, second, and third order effects.

they’ve fucked air traffic control, oil, and TSA. commercial air travel might just die.

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

So weird how there was NO BROAD DISTRUST OF ELECTIONS until one dude built his entire candidacy on saying any election he lost was fraudulent!

The worst part of this is how the cute animals still look exactly like the animated versions, underlining how pointless the whole endeavor is

This seems like a good time to point out that 95% of what the TSA does is security theater and it doesn't actually make flying any safer

How can this go on for another 3 years?

Six and a half years later, my rent overcharge case with DHCR has finally moved into the "review" stage*—and consider that NYC is a city with GOOD tenant protection laws *now I just have to wait ??? days for a decision and then ??? days for the landlord to appeal and ??? days until they pay damages

it’s just remarkable how dedicated this administration is to making people’s day to day lives worse in every way

I miss the old internet. Social media ruined...everything (offline too)

Papa! I’m stunting on them, papa! It’s ever so based

"As a history teacher, I never once taught my students about fascism."

If you've never seen the intro to Dirty Pair: Project Eden, you may be surprised to discover that it's one of the most beautiful things ever animated.

Kids will never understand how great the internet used to be

After nearly 100 years, CBS News Radio is being dissolved, per a note from Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski to CBS staff today

I miss '90s nihilism

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

Pretty much every headline reads like one a movie would use as shorthand to reveal the protagonist had slipped into the bad timeline

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OK, I watched Tenet. It was very stupid!

Why are we doing a full discourse cycle over an obvious joke

It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift

He was 8 when his parents brought him to the US. He has abided by the law, earned two bachelor’s degrees and was en route to the NICU to see his wife and child. This serves no purpose but cruelty and does not make the US any safer.

This doesn't have to keep happening. It is possible to craft worlds where women and children are safe, rather than objects to be either dominated or protected from the domination of others. It is possible to create a world where people can just be safe in their bodies.

Because I am a chaos agent, I watched The People's Joker (also it was MUCH SHORTER and I was sleepy)

Right now on Reddit, you can read a post from a guy who saw Hamnet and didn't realize it was about Shakespeare until the final moments, as if it was a Sixth Sense-level reveal. Sometimes I genuinely love the internet

What movie my wife doesn't care about should I watch while she's on a work trip? 1️⃣ Tenet 2️⃣ Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World 3️⃣ Inherent Vice 📊 Show results