10 months ago.

I have been watching YouTube history documentaries recently and am 90 percent convinced that Whiskey Pete would have gotten the whole French garrison at Dien Bien Phu killed simply by going “logistics? That’s for pussies!” As seen with the overcooked meat on Navy ships for instance.

The Pentagon has estimated that the costs of the historically unpopular war on Iran fall between $80 billion and $100 billion when additional operational costs and the price to replace destroyed aircraft and other equipment is factored in.

God that “I weigh 50 pounds more than you” just really makes the whole sentence 100x more evil than an already very evil sentence was

it seems Adam is hanging out with rapists, the described scenario here is utterly alien to my experience

I don’t think a lot of younger people realize we’re like barely over thirty years out from marital rape becoming universally illegal in the United States. The Simpsons has been running longer than it was illegal to rape a spouse in every state

No, this really really really is rape

My mom told me she was having problems with the Wordle today so I looked it up, and when I told her, she exclaimed "that's not a word!" It's listed on Best Word List but I do agree it's a stretch.

Had a health scare today. Recently I started a new medication, but then in the last two weeks I've been awoken up by an issue which I brought up to my doctor, whose office called me today to say I should go to the hospital since it could be a medical emergency. I did go to Urgent Care and /1

Meanwhile inflation is still happening and the orange asshole is draining the coffers with his illegal wars and crony handouts and so on.

Democrats claiming Lindsey Graham "dedicated his life to service" is not simply saying something nice about a dead colleague. It's fundamentally untrue. Would they say Stephen Miller or Kristi Noem dedicated their lives to service? open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/...

Serious question, what is the exact point of this? Apparently let it is not reflecting sunlight away to cool the planet but reflecting it BACK to Earth at night, did I read that right?

Some exciting personal news I can finally share.

Of course when he means "we", he means the GOP, Christian nationalists, etc's freedom to do what they want.

Westerners fooled by the glittering oligarchs don’t realize how poor Russia is, and how kleptocracy has impoverished most Russians. 20% of Russian households don’t have indoor plumbing. www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/02/i...

"ICE Keeps Public Safe From 26-Year-Old Dad, In Front Of His Daughter In Bluey Pajamas | Witness heard shooting victim say 'I tried to stop' before he died." www.wonkette.com/p/ice-keeps-...

It wasn't confined to his Administration, but it is worth underlining just how much of the classic "CIA is cartoonishly evil and/or incompetent" is specifically Eisenhower era policy Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, Golden Triangle drug smuggling 1950s, Lumumba 1960, Bay of Pigs 1961

Finally got it in the mail, Chequered! by Chubby Checker, his psychedelic soul album from 1971 I learned about from a video on 50s rockers who tried adapting to the late 60s. Unlike others like Del Shannon's, this wasn't available on Apple Music too I ordered a cheap CD, plays well so far.

Been doing better in Call of Duty Black Ops 1 tonight, ratio of 0.56 for a change due to playing more aggressively I guess. Though the server situation is still horrible, Noticed more players stuttering, freezing then showing up several feet away in-game. And "error: lost connection to host" common.

Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

This was always what was next. We know this, not because of any smug assumptions but because their strategizing is literally written down& sometimes on conference recordings. Never been secret. But the norm of extending credulity & pretending good faith where none is warranted has been a plague.

if anyone is curious, the Washington Reporter is a Trump-loving site that last year went with the Pentagon guidelines for only reporting approved material in exchange for press passes and called any critical "left wing hacks." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing...

If Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. is successful, staunch Trump supporters Larry Ellison and his son David Ellison would control CNN, CBS, Warner Bros., Paramount Skydance, and HBO Max. It would effectively have create a conservative media empire. trib.al/dEDkYEs

Another ragebaiter over on Threads, I have some self-esteem issues but this is just pathetic in comparison. "A bunch of people got mad I said teachers should work for nothing, I got them mad, I'm so smart!" I swear, these accounts only exist to feed their delusions that "they mad=I'm right."

I hate how fractured social media is that I only found out Sam Neill died from the Simpsons Shitposting subreddit.

Some good people made this handy, easy guide for drafting a comment: ombcomment.netlify.app

Comments due by Monday on the attempt to politicize science/aka kill American research as we know it. Do it at the link (counter the ton of Heritage-foudnatoin-prompted comments): www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Typed this up then forgot about it with House of the Dragon, I nearly broke down in tears. Been playing more Call of Duty Black Ops 1 multiplayer on PS5 and, I suck. The last match before typing this up I was at the bottom again with 1 kill and 11 deaths. I’ve given more assists than actual kills./1

Thanks! I hadn't seen that one yet. I dunno...I found these two pics of him from April of this year. His face looks much thinner and hollower cheeks, etc, than he looks in that picture. He looks super healthy for somebody his age and alleged injury and start to recovery...

Something weird which bugs me about this photo besides the lighting and the smiles is that Mitch isn't wearing his wedding ring right with his wife at his side. Maybe it's a loveless marriage, though there's a photo from a while back with more bruising on the hands and a wedding ring.

You're supposed to represent us Californians, and this sure doesn't: most of us here will remember Graham's selling out to Trump even though he knew better and his enthusiasm for harming others at home and abroad. He was fully on board with so many lies, so much killing.

How about when he threw an angry tantrum in defense of a SCOTUS nominee credibly accused of rape? Did you all have a good collegial chuckle over that?

Also this from earlier this year: "Danish Prime Minister Squashes Lindsey Graham’s Sexist Remark Like the Little Bug He Is | The South Carolina senator threw a tantrum because Trump hasn't been allowed to buy Greenland." www.jezebel.com/danish-prime...

whatever demands he might make monday for democratic lawmakers to disavow a random professor's tweet about lindsey graham's legacy of murder aren't even a glint in the eye of the heritage foundation/gop staff asswipe lighting up his favorite volkischer telegram channel with aids jokes all day today

Congratulations to Lindsey Graham for writing his own obituary ten years and two months in advance. The question of who deserves it remains, since the natural world and a whole lot of people in this country and beyond do not deserve it.

He was a lickspittle who went from saying "Trump will destroy us if he wins' to gleefully sticking his nose straight up the orange asshole and going along with idiocy like the strikes on Iran. This is yet another reason I'm sick of the Senate and the condolences.

AC is broken again, so it’s midnight and hot with the windows open in LA, so to take my mind off it I went to check the Graham Instagram again, it’s chock full of replies all expressing sympathy “RIP Uncle Lindsey thanks for standing with the Iranian people”, variants on that. Did see one reply/1

I am really hoping that the posts saying Lindsey Graham is dead are for real and not just a cruel prank by some MAGA troll account or something while McConnell’s status is unknown.

Old enough to remember when the PCI (Italian Communist Party) used to get more than a third of the country’s vote. They ran cities like Bologna, and very well at that.

Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqDa...

Planning on getting a haircut next week so here's one last photo of its glory before the heatwave. Also a photo of Howie since he loves the new bath mat I got.

No, just no.

Explosive foodborne outbreak It's a real shit show out there: What we know, don't know, and what it means for you. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/explosive-...

Playing Call of Duty Black Ops 1 on PS5, I am amazed at the lag and desync, for example it can take an entire magazine unloaded into an enemy at close range focused on them to drop them, while they only take three shots with one behind a wall and it connects./1