Might be time to retire the phrase “They’re saying the quiet part out loud” because there’s no longer a quiet part

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST @audacityofdespair.bsky.social check this out!

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So cease. Much fire.

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Fighting the same klan in a different century @brotherjones_

Tennessee: a picture says a 1,000 words. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Going through an issue of the TLS from last December, I find a philosophy pun courtesy of Nigel Warburton that surely deserves wider currantsy.

As venues are struggling to sell tickets, I bet they appreciate the "hope no one gets blown up in the parking lot" message.

A big reason the White House press corps deserve to be locked in the ballroom mausoleum with him and burned alive is that they never, ever defend their woman colleagues from this continual degradation.

The ballroom section of the ballroom.

War is peace

The United States has no strategy whatsoever in this conflict except Trump continuously making up new lies every 24-48 hours to try to juice the stock market.

Pope Leo XIV gifted Marco Rubio a plant of peace. In return, Marco Rubio gave the pope a crystal football. The pope’s response? “Wow. Okay.”

I'd pay cash money to see him try to pump gas.

I know this isn't going to matter because Americans don't care, but it fucking matters.

Kamala Harris: When you look at this war in Iran, which the American people do not want, which was not authorized by congress. Even if it was, it should not have been initiated. He talked about obliterated. It's all just bullshit.

like a butterfly dropping into its grave, of course. a phrase we’ve all used and a very normal, relatable kind of image that conveys clear meaning. i’m always saying this. so beautiful, like a delicate butterfly croaking mid-air and gently floating into a tiny open bug grave at the insect cemetery.

My dad died of Covid 5/10/20. Trump was doing his 5:00 p.m. daily press shows then. The language transcribed below is identical to six years ago. (I have autoplay set to off just to not hear Trump.) The PTSD that this little bit elicited should earn me two free therapy sessions.

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

This story is indeed gobsmacking

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

That reminds me, I gotta pick up some anticipatory champagne.

I am increasingly on the fence

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One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

the absolute size of the national debt gets overstated in importance, but it changes the dynamic when (a) the underlying spending *isn't* being invested in infrastructure, science, and the long-term health and well-being of people and (b) the US is internationally viewed as unstable and unreliable

30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

Microcosm of the horror of this post-Callais moment: the Mississippi House plans to hold its redistricting session in the Old Capitol where they seceded & instituted Jim Crow. They'll meet there aiming to erase Bennie Thompson's district — the one majority-Black district in a state that's ~40% Black

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The Bible is very clear that we should make and worship golden idols, I support this

congratulations to Pope Leo for perfecting the "this guy..." smirk!

First it's Hassett with, "Soaring credit card debt is awesome!" Now it's Duffy with, "Let them eat road trips!"

If you thought elaborately faking being good at videogames to impress a bunch of manchildren was embarrassing, consider elaborately faking that your mother loves you.

#ICYMI “All of the full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vessel Sanitation Program are now off the job,… The epidemiologist tasked with leading the agency's outbreak response on cruise ships was included in the layoffs” #CDC www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Every political scientist in America right now:

this is not the quote a person who gives a shit about racial justice or equality.

Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.

How it started How it's going

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Trump White House didn’t bother checking with Gulf partners before trying to run the Strait of Hormuz—which risked resumption of high intensity warfare—and an angry Saudi Arabia forbid use of bases or airspace. Helps explain “Project Freedom” reversal. Nearly every way they can screw up, they do.

I can’t believe we’re still doing this. Knight Rider is actually the driver. The car is “Knight Rider’s Monster.”

Ahh, yes, the unpopular decisions like “black people don’t deserve political representation,” or “rich people should be able to control everything,” or “women shouldn’t be in charge of their bodies.” Truly a man committed to justice.

A first thought is that this hollowed-out, fading old crank needs to be in assisted living. A second thought is that having surrounded himself with an adiministration servile, ass-licking sycophants. the White House is, in fact, an assisted living facility.

Not only does telling a chatbot ‘do not hallucinate’ misunderstand how LLMs works, the idea that they are capable of following instructions is an illusion. At best, this just adds text to the context that may cause them to go down one path rather than another. But they don’t literally obey commands.

All his life, J. Edgar Hoover had one hard and fast rule for the FBI agents who served under him: "Don't embarrass the Bureau." Those were the days, my friends.

"When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...