can this be a solution?

Just heard that Trump is sending the Marines to "reopen the Strait of Hormuz." I'm sorry, but how does that work, exactly? Gonna stand around the beach doing pushups, or what? Unless this is the start of a ground invasion -- God help us -- wouldn't this be a Navy thing?

It does, in fact.

We are a nation of morons, embracing and elevating the most ridiculous coterie of submorons to lead us from the last shards of the American Century into the deepest chasms of ridiculous, absurdist moronity. This is unbelievable even as farce.

I'm already nostalgic for the war in Venezuela. That's what this administration does to you.

That's a goddamn good question.

Too bad Kim is in the Caribbean -- and off the grid -- cuz she might have gone for this

Happy Mario day!

The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

Can someone explain to me what my dad just sent to me thanks

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

May I add that it's hard for them to "surrender" when we KEEP KILLING OFF THE LEADERSHIP. Who is supposed to do the surrendering?

Greg Dolezal, a Georgia state senator and conservative Republican who's running to be lieutenant governor, released this bizarre Islamophobic "anti-sharia" ad that, somewhat confusingly, features an AI generated driver that looks exactly like Claire Danes.

"When crazy people have nuclear weapons bad things happen." You don't say ...

This is horrific. Israel is a scourge on its neighbors, and on the world. This is madness.

One odd thought: Before the Department of Defense was founded (1947), the Army was under the War Department, while the Navy and Marines were in the Department of the Navy. /1

Well, yes. I wonder why we never ask politicians this question: "Are you going to hasten the end of the world?" Those who say "yes" shouldn't be in office. I know we hate litmus tests but this seems like a low bar.

Being a working writer with deadlines is great but it's also unbelievably stupid. Like sorry guys I can't go out tonight, I am thirty-three years old and I have homework that I begged to do.

BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing new legislation to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half. A chunk of the money raised would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.

IDK if this is your exact question, but Out 120 FIRCs (Foreign-Imposed Regime Change) in the last two centuries, just three became stable democracies: Germany, Italy, Japan And experts now understand that these outliers are because these countries had democracy previously bsky.app/profile/data...

Sitting in a bar in Calumet, MI and they got Fox News on talking about the Iran bullshit and two old timers at the end of the bar are just agreeing with everything. Bartender changes it to hockey an the younger dude next to me goes “thank fackin gawd” in full blown Yooper

I see two possibilities: 1. The US and Israel bomb Iran, kill a lot of people, declare "victory" and fly home, leaving the regime intact 2. The US and Israel launch a full-fledged invasion and occupy Tehran, leading to Iraq 2.0

It is clear now that the Omani foreign minister's sudden media blitz last night was an attempt to shame the United States by putting into the public record how readily Iran was prepared to reach a deal.

OK, but what IS a "Star Wars shirt"? (We KNOW what a "Star Trek shirt" is. Don't deny it.)

In this month's E&A I brought up "political" posting in a gaming forum. I said I wasn't happy with the simple declaration that "all content is political," but didn't have a way to say how "political" something was. /1

One of the dudes behind the whole Haitians eating dogs fake scandal has found his second act. Documenting the "Jewish invasion of" *checks notes* New Jersey.

Sarcasmitron's video on the invasion of Venezuela is (as usual) a good one.

in that way you can mobilize the deep current of American knee-jerk libertarianism for good for once. "trans people just want to live their lives, how about leaving them in peace? get Big Government out of my bathroom, fuck you"

As someone with New England Yankee ancestors, I can confirm. Hell, they were friendlier to Black people than the goddamn Irish.

I will say I'm more tolerant of AI for images than AI for text. Reason I'm more against the latter is there's a more direct transmission of thought to text than thought to image. If you have clear thoughts, clear text should follow easily.

Gee, wouldn't "imprisoning women" "hurt the fertility rate"? And yes, they have a big impact on things, being a majority of the population and everything. Where the fuck do we find these people?

IANAL but I know the 24th Amendment bans poll taxes, and I would interpret that to mean that if you need an ID to vote, YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE THAT ID FREE OF CHARGE. But again IANAL and I'm sure SCOTUS would reject that argument out of hand.

The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the field’s name. The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”. It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving

Wow. Trump has uncovered a Chinese plot to “to terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate the Stanley Cup.” Big if true 😂

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

lol

Do you think this is the first time Bartolome de las Casas has been labeled part of the "woke mob"?

I was having a hard time believing this was real. But I think it's real.

odd feature of our time in how many liberals and progressive are bog standard monogamous family types--Serwer, Bouie, Hayes, AOC, etc--and how many Traditional Family Values conservatives are fuckin drugged up perverts

yeah, it's like *we* say go ahead and do whatever you want between consenting adults (within reason), while *they* insist that everyone should be forced into permanent hetero marriages while getting coked out of the skulls and fucking someone else's wife bsky.app/profile/cmer...

Woke Hollywood's refusal to cast a furry as Helen of Troy is a direct attack on Western civilization and everything it stands for

According to FOX 9, a Minneapolis federal judge demanded to know why DOJ is missing deadlines & AUSA Julie Le said, "The system sucks, this job sucks" & asked to be held in contempt so she could sleep. PACER shows she got assigned to defend the govt in 88+ cases since Operation Metro Surge started.

Time flies—and our language reflects that. If you also felt like this month lasted forever, it’s because you didn’t enjoy it. If you had enjoyed it, it would’ve felt short—or “merry,” in the original sense of that word, from the same root as e.g. Ukrainian бо́рзий “quick” & Sanskrit múhur “suddenly.”

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is: The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.

A secret society called "The Zodiac." Real Doctor Evil shit.

You should know that you've lost when your pro-ICE agitprop is indistinguishable from anti-ICE agitprop

Some new Epstein revelations are so vile and depraved I literally find them hard to believe. Claims that they killed girls and buried them in the backyard and so forth.