meanwhile, they’re still very obviously gearing up for this

at least this all filled in the missing piece for why the us went from 20 tankers showing over the gulf at the beginning of the week to 0 in a day bsky.app/profile/bria...

to explain this, the air force uses a narrow corridor in saudi airspace near the iraqi border to get tankers between where they’re staged and the gulf (this is where the collision happened). losing that means it’s over, it more or less cuts them off from the persian gulf and beyond

Can someone at the New York Times get Clarence Thomas's opinion on basically anything

keep talking, you’re helping. you’re doing amazing sweetie

Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.

Shawna Hawk, founder of the Women of Color in Leadership Movement, has organized Juneteenth celebrations at Rebecca Howard Park since 2020.

This is admirably compassionate from Sunderland ❤️ The club's crest of a black cat has been turned into a black dog—a common metaphor to describe a state of depression—to mark Mental Health Awareness Week. A change shared by the club chaplin 👏

The cat's stunned reaction to the baby kicking in the womb

This is stunning reporting: Donald Trump’s so-called “Project Freedom” reportedly collapsed after Saudi Arabia blocked the U.S. military from using key Saudi bases and airspace for the operation, according to new reporting from NBC News. Link to the article in the reply.

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

“OH NO HANTAVIRUS LEFT THE BOAT IT’S COMING ON LAND” it’s… been… on land? this strain has been endemic in South America for 30 years. it’s not a novel virus the way SARS-CoV-2 was it is certainly Not Great but measles is way more infectious and y’all are still raw dogging airplanes and concerts

Chappelle: “Yes, I quit comedy because white people were laughing at my Black jokes for racist reasons, but now I make millions from bigots laughing at my anti-trans jokes.”

remembering this

Every journalist should be asking what the hell is going on with this guy's health that they aren't telling us.

He’s been working on this since he worked for the Reagan DOJ, of course it’s political

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still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? https://newrepublic.com/post/210013/fbi-investigation-atlantic-reporter-kash-patel-drinking

she also happens to be an outspoken Black Woman, but that’s probably just a coincidence.

She was one of the driving forces behind the VA congressional map initiative.

Its the Leftist mirror of the fascist obsession with terms like "sweetie" These people are not well, socially aggressive to the point of functional sociopathy, and think that they can demonstrate their virtue by engaging in absolutely rank and disqualifying behavior Its evil, pathetic, & gross

One of the things that make the massed harassment campaigns so inordinately unpleasant is how people pivot between vicious harassment and this "seek help! we're worried about you, scumbag" posture. The aim really does appear to be to CAUSE mental health crises, frankly.

Also in regards to SSRIs—I am not on them anymore. Cymbalta is a SNRI but you better believe they won’t stop with just one. I was on SSRIs for years before I had to switch and I know for a fact I would be dead long ago without them. Medicine saved my life. It still does every day.

[putting my ER bill, expensive groceries and $5/gallon gas on a 35% APR credit card] I think we can all agree I'm doing well financially

We can’t nominate any Democrat who doesn’t put Supreme Court reform at the top of their list.

So all in all, if you asked me if I'd rather get bitten by a widow or a recluse, I pick the widow every time. The widow bite will suck for a couple of days. The recluse can mess you up for months, if not longer. Be very careful with them.

Kyle Rittenhouse already has a deep necrotized crater where his soul should be, so the effects of this bite shouldn't be anything new to him. For everyone else who lives in the Brown Recluse's native range--generally the Sun Belt--please make sure to be very careful when unfolding clothes.

Like the vast majority of spiders (certain Australian psychopaths excepted) the Brown Recluse does not seek confrontation and will only bite if threatened or trapped. To use words Kyle Rittenhouse will understand, Brown Recluses have a Castle Doctrine and abide by strict Stand Your Ground laws.

Gas prices are increasing because YOU decided the black lady would somehow be worse than what's happening right now.

The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse

When I was a kid, we actually stayed home when we had infectious diseases. That was standard practice. You stayed out of school or work & watched junk TV. Remember that? Sure grandma, let's get you to bed.

MacKenzie Scott Was A Success While Married To Bozos. Her Debut Novel Won The American Book Award in 2006,And Her 2nd Novel Followed in 2013.She Stepped Away From Amazon, to Raise 4 Children. In 2019, Bozos Announced They Were Divorcing. She's A Great American........

I don’t think Ted Turner would have liked what CNN evolved into, or wrestling. But it’s a culture he was enormously responsible for. Vince McMahon took wrestling further, but Turner’s wrestling universe was very influential in rhe ‘80s too.

1) I didn’t realize Ted Turner was still alive. 2) Like it or not, that man indirectly created much of the America I now loathe. Turner made wresting into the spectacle that evolved into WWF/WWE. And he made news into a 24/7 biz that REQUIRED pundits in order to fill all the broadcast time.

If you’re an adult, in a public forum, who took the time to celebrate Star Wars this week, but you don’t ever speak out about anything that the stories explore, sociopolitically, or just morally, then I don’t think you deserve to be taken seriously. Extract the ideas and be helpful. It’s possible.

Look, Ted Turner was an enemy of Vince McMahon. That’s worth something in my book.

He didn’t build a political movement, he built an angry rage filled mob of cruel people

Scott MacFarlane on the FBI raid of Sen. Lucas’s home and office: There are going to be questions raised about how Fox News was there as the raid was undertaken. That type of thing is rare.…

i have said this before but the hate you have for citizens united is imo more properly reserved for buckley v. valeo

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

Me when the meds are working: “Riddle me this, Doctor fancy pants. I feel great! So why do I need medication?!”

I just had a kid and I asked the nurse prepping the vitamin K shot (who had been so nice the entire time) what the shot was out of curiosity and her demeanor just dropped while she explained it. Immediately perked back up when I said to give it to him. It’s obvious she’s had this fight a lot.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Yay! More free money for rich people that bring very few jobs, increase all of our electricity bills and annihilate our natural resources. Glad we’re giving them a break. They must be really stressed out.

Gee, why did Fox know about this and not Lucas?

Lucas, 82, was widely seen as the mastermind behind Democrats’ redistricting push in Virginia and has long been one of the most powerful figures in Virginia politics and a close ally of Governor Abigail Spanberger. 2.4

BREAKING: The FBI is raiding the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas in Portsmouth, Virginia, according to Fox News, who was conveniently on the scene. 1/4

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not