about 80 percent of intelligence is routine in one form or another (procedural work, bureaucracy, office politics), 5 percent of it is extremely cool and smart, and then 15 percent of it is guys like this.

PERfect juxtaposition

Confirming with my own eyes and pics what several fellow Washingtonians have said about this post with hundreds of shares and earnest comments: straight up misinformation

As annoying this is to the fans in attendance, you’ve got to appreciate how funny it is for him to do this shortly after skipping his own son’s wedding.

d-day involved boats, making it a form of colonialism

It’s code for woman with a college degree who won’t let you say slurs or fuck you

This isn't baseless, but it's also not more illuminating than it is confusing and muddled.

Kind of funny that one of the people responsible for removing all of the teeth from Eisenhower's civil rights act was LBJ.

As a Lithuanian, I feel really quite strongly that not only Paris but also Vilnius should have been liberated by the West, not the Red Army. Bite me.

I guess Catholics should be relieved they are considered Christians.

Damn Scots they ruined Marxism.

I find it extremely funny someone will come on bsky dot app, a site that loves immigrants and hates ICE, and will defend the belief that "you will never be one of us" to someone who wants to become their new neighbor.

I mean this in the most derogatory way to society but the most flattering way to Hunter Biden: this is the Joe Rogan of the Left — and perhaps, the POTUS — we truly deserve.

The idea that people should be able to freely move within a country should not be some sort of radical belief and instead it should be a deeply held American value.

Something something leopards won't eat something something.

we have reached the natural endpoint of “native New Yorker” discourse comparing immigrants/transplants moving to NYC to West Bank settlers. wrap it up folks, impossible to top this

Lovely morning at the Merril Collection, viewing the manuscript for one of my favorite novels, Kim Stanley Robinson's THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT. I don't have huge revelations (they caught the typos apparently)> but it was a lovely experience.

My maternal grandfather hinted at being a POW of the Japanese but man he did not like to talk about it and would shut down if anyone asked. I'm assuming he suffered a lot of cruel treatment (which they were pretty damn notorious for during WWII).

Watched the second Lego Movie with the kiddos. It's inferior to the first, but I do find it funny they made Chris Pratt also voice a character who was cliche version of every asshole character he is cast as and I honestly wonder if this led to any moments of self-reflection by said actor.

This is uh something I may have uh heard IRL

I don’t expect or demand that people have more than a casual interest in WWII but I think it’s important to *literacy* to understand that sometimes people have, and had, inconsistent ideologies. Just because you think 1940s USA was fascist, doesn’t mean that THEY thought that, by and large.

Seeing the "takes" today and I think the far right and far left both think the US was on the wrong side of WWII. The far right wishes the US joined the Axis. Meanwhile, the far left are confused about why the already fascist US weren't in the Axis.

It’s one of those days isn’t it

I'm considering supplanting that bad history take with some other options like "the North was wrong to fight the Civil War because slavery wasn't economically viable." Maybe throw in a side take about Imperial Japan's scrupulously humane behavior in WWII.

“We HAVE to elect Platner to prevent Trump from seating hundreds more federal judges with lifetime appointments!” (Insert running goose meme) “Why does he have that power? WHY DOES HE HAVE THAT POWER??”

Truly one of the great moments of collective embarrassment in world history: www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/mil...

This is obviously total bollocks but also, had D-Day actually been about stopping the USSR occupying all of Europe up to, and including, France that would have been... absolutely a good thing? Subjecting half of Europe to a different type of totalitarianism would not have been a good thing!

I have a Singaporean uncle by marriage, born not long after the occupation. Hates the PAP, hates war, pretty live-and-let live old guy. The only time he's ever been angry at me - red-faced, cussing in Hokkien - was when I made some offhand comment about the tragedies of Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

The timeline where D-Day doesn't happen is a timeline where the Soviets make a separate peace with Germany, which is something Stalin threatened to do if the second front wasn't opened up.

They wanted groveling admiration. The whole thing was always rooted in their insecurities--their personal insecurities about race and gender and whether they were really good people--and it wasn't enough to achieve their stated goals when the whole point was to be validated and stroked.

The idea that Operation Overlord and the entire W. Allied campaign in Europe was to prevent the spread of communism is *utterly* ridiculous and utterly ahistorical to what was going on. It had always been the overall goal by the Allies for a second front in Europe, especially by Stalin since 1941.

The year is 2038. Every single member of the 280-member Democratic House caucus is a female former helicopter pilot. Representatives on mission personally lead strafing runs against the Wyoming fascist insurgency.

I’m sorry but this analogy doesn’t even work. The Nazis didn’t storm the beaches, we did. They came by land.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jun Reuters In scathing ruling, fed judge refers two DOJ lawyers for disciplinary action after finding that they essentially lied to the court in an effort to force Rhode Island Hospital to comply with a subpoena for minors' GAC records.

Yup, they want us to come clean and “admit” that we’re just as bigoted as they are. Why we allegedly hide our bigotry is anyone’s guess.

their ultimate enemy is free will itself and they'll never be satisfied until there's a chip (metaphorical and/or literal) in your skull preventing you from saying mean things to them

Still think about that time when a bunch of Americans joined a Chinese social media site and someone tried to apologize for nuking Japan and many of the Chinese were like "You should have nuked them harder."

The overlap between people who think Japan should have got more tank juice and people who think Mao is a swell fellow is a bit surreal tbh. The good people of China thought if anything, Japan had too much tank juice.

So in this analogy... the people storming the beaches... were bad?

They're not happy because they not only wanted to win, but also have their former opponents apologize and praise them for winning and are thus furious that hasn't happened yet. The richest man in the world wants Stephen King to tell him how cool he is.

What gets me is Woke War I is over, they won, and none of them seem any happier for it. Labour is a step away from nuking Scotland for gender nonconforming skirt-wearing. The right has infected US institutions so throughly it’ll take decades to untangle. The richest man on Earth funds the right!

A great shame that a Nazi was allowed to speak at a D-Day memorial event.

You know what? People who don’t like kissing don’t have to watch romances. Sober realists aren’t forced to sit through SFF. Grouches can eschew comedy and squeamish people are welcome not to watch horror films. Just let things exist for their target audience.

Hard R, insane budget, HBO adaptation of World War Z, with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg as Executive Producers.

oh my GOD

#OTD in 1944, thousands of African American troops participated in D-Day despite serving in a segregated military. Their courage helped secure victory abroad and strengthened the fight for civil rights at home. #TheMarchContinues

yeah these are genuinely quite fun and you will probably not guess the artist immediately

People love historical what if scenarios. What if JFK was never assassinated? What if the Nazis won in WW2? A scenario I never see discussed is what if the aids crisis didnt decimate the gay men of America in the 80s-90s? Its easy to forget 1 in 15 gay boomer men died. An estimated 300,000 deaths-

“I’m not saying platner is an angel” This is why the bear