They don’t give a shit what the law says.

As always, about 30 minutes in, I’m beginning to question whether I should’ve eaten a full meal before watching The Thing.

We were always at war with “narco-terrorists.”

Time just makes fools of us all.

The framing here is maddening. Is it “Washington establishment” shuttering the gov’t or is it the radical right wing MAGA movement led by a president hellbent on destroying all those he believes wronged him? I get that Cooper is running in NC, but we shouldn‘t hide from the truth. Trump did this.

Nearly a THIRD? What is even happening, y’all? Where did reality go?

Oh, fun. The aliens in They Live say they’ll complete their control of Earth in…2025! Mission accomplished!

Oh, hell yeah.

Anecdotal, of course, but day 1 of the shutdown and the usually very busy Alexandria Wegmans was a ghost town peak lunch hour. No lines for prepared foods. No lines to checkout. Aisles largely empty.

Yom Kippur starts tonight at sundown.

It absolutely sucks that so many universities seem to be turning the clock back decades. Major southern universities like UGA have made enormous strides over the past 30+ years and decisions like this show the growing cracks in the paint.

He looks thrilled.

This season did not work out, but Snit turned around a sinking ship in 2016 and went on an incredible run from 2018-2024. No one—and I mean NO one—had the Braves winning the World Series in 2021 and we did. Thanks for it all, Snit.

The worst people are running the federal government.

Cincinnathistime

All 3 Wild Card games today have been freaking great. Wow.

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For comparison, in 1964, the US had 23,300 troops in Vietnam. Donald Trump has deployed more troops to US cities in 2025 than LBJ deployed to Vietnam in 1964.

Jared is destroying EA because an 8 year old owned his ass at CFB '26.

Wild that a drunk white dude gets to give an important speech on the importance of being violent and mediocre just because people confuse seeing one minority on the street with the apocalypse

The most un-American American politician since Jeff Davis, Alexander Stephens, etc. left the Union to form the Confederacy.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

He's trying to radicalize military leadership against the United States of America, its people, cities, and commitment to the Constitution.

In reality, he watched The Hunt for Red October on basic cable last week, thought it was a classified briefing, and sent a submarine in response.

OK, even at its lowest points, Washington was never less safe than *AFGHANISTAN*, a country where, just yesterday, the Taliban shut off THE ENTIRE COUNTRY'S ACCESS TO THE INTERNET.

FWIW, he looks and sounds like utter dogshit.

If any other president gave a speech to military leadership with even a scintilla of partisanship, they'd be excoriated by politicians, pundits, columnists, and anyone with a platform. Meanwhile, Trump is out here telling the military that our biggest threat is his political opposition.

Playing the "greatest hits" because he has nothing else. He's deeply unpopular and flailing at every turn.

The government could shut down in 14 hours, and Donald Trump is in Quantico bemoaning his inability to say the n-word, while ranting about battleships, deploying troops into U.S. cities, and criticizing military leadership. We live in hell.

Me, when I somehow continue to fail at finding and sinking your submarine while playing the game Battleship.

I'd love to see it at the bottom of a resignation letter.

Troops aren’t marching across fields. The horrifying report from cannon fire doesn’t rumble through town. There isn’t a Ken Burns documentary on the way, but make no mistake, these folks are trying to finish what Lee, Davis, Jackson, etc could not.

It’s like reading Orwell after you’ve whacked yourself in the face with a dodgeball 8-10 times.

The whole Hegseth thing reeks of desperation. A flop sweat of a speech, attempting to masquerade his own shortcomings and look like the opening of the movie 'Patton.' A man in desperate need of real help. Despite the lack of applause, he'll come off that stage believing he's stronger.

The world’s biggest losers are running the US government.

Republicans continue to deploy armed troops into US cities with aplomb. Not something that happens in democracies.

So you decided to further deprive those rural hospitals of much needed resources? Make it make sense, Senator.

“Downplaying America’s role in Europe and Africa” is exactly what Putin wants. No wonder military brass are concerned. Also, pulling back in Africa would be a big win for China. So much for narrowing competition with China, eh?

This is why Johnson and Thune didn't want the meeting Trump is in a bubble. Gov Kotek pierced it this weekend Think about how often he's asked questions and has no idea what reporters mean. And the medbeds video. JFC Part of it is his declining mental capacity. But also shows he's not in charge

Rural hospitals have been shutting down in red states for more than a decade, because Republicans like the ones down in Georgia decided to play politics, refused to accept the Medicaid expansion in the ACA and a dozen rural hospitals shuttered. This was nearly *15 years ago*.

So, I don't do much these days, but a while ago I set up Google Alerts for my name. The only thing I get these days is for a fellow Joel Mendelson, who's a journalist in Alberta. This was a story he just published. Bless our neighbors to the north. Truly.

The party of "personal responsibility" refuses to take responsibility for shit.

Meanwhile, one of the largest AI data centers in the world is building a massive campus in West Jordan, Utah.

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

Here's the thing--a baseball team blowing it in the second half isn't a business problem. Cohen's VC-based approach to the Mets might lead to firings, but it doesn't fix the core problem: the Mets aren't a particularly well-constructed club and they came up short. That's baseball, baby.

Stephen Miller is running an operation that's indiscriminately killing fishermen. He is not immune from prosecution. LFG.

Probably rooting for a shutdown, because I can't imagine BLS would have anything good to report on Friday....

Look, there are myriad reasons why we needed to avoid another Trump term, but high up on that list was preventing Stephen Miller from being anywhere close to power. A dangerous man who needs years of therapy--not the ability (legal or not) to use the military to kill people.

AI slop yearning for an era that totally sucked. I mean, other than DVDs being at their absolute peak, nothing else about 2002* is worth this level of nostalgia. *Other than my beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who won the Super Bowl that season

The GOP under Trump operates with gangsterism as political strategy.