In the battle between the Murdochs and FIFA, it’s just a shame they can’t all lose www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/w...

Ukraine will win.

the proper time comes

See also: putting real estate clowns in charge of setting the terms of war and peace isn’t a spectacular idea

Russia has attacked Kyiv overnight with one of its Oreshnik missiles. Before this, Rubio talked about Ukraine peace talks, noting "We're not interested in endless meetings that lead to nothing." Meanwhile, Xi bathes in the afterglow of his Trump & Putin summits. mickryan.substack.com/p/the-interd...

You don’t say

Norway boosts GPS jamming detection in border region amid Russian escalation of electronic warfare.

Surprise the techbros who think they bought a president called the president they think they own to get him to do what they wanted and he did it because obviously the sacks of money have nothing to do with anything and everyone here is an informed and honest actor

Binance — whose owner Trump pardoned after he got a billion dollars from a crypto project — allowed the Maduro regime to stay alive in Venezuela and is now shown to be essential to sanctions evasion in Iran Totally cool for POTUS to profit from sanctions evasion right www.wsj.com/world/middle...

I just feel so sorry for everyone who keeps writing about how this is the great normal future of a party that is dead as dirt

Headlines of the end times of a once great democracy:

When tech companies think they are the magnificent seven but actually they are the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse:

Chaco is a unique & magical place — a monument to a sophisticated culture, where people stood a thousand years ago and watched a supernova burn in the sky and tried to make sense of what it meant for their place in the universe It is our duty as Americans to preserve these civilizational treasures

I remember when I was warning everyone that conspiracy becoming the basis of attempted policy was really bad and everyone was like “but disinformation doesn’t *do* anything, you can’t *prove* does anything” well here we all are in the hell of our own making www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Why don’t they just make us start getting exit visas like the soviets www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Everything about this incredible piece is beautiful and uniting and lands so loudly in this time of division, racism, denials It’s such a testament to the American truth that we want to know our stories and the truth of those stories of who we are www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

The developing plan to maduro Castro because the plan to iraq Iran didn’t work out www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The developing plan to maduro Castro because the plan to iraq Iran didn’t work out www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“Pave over history for kooky dog memes and AI dance tracks” is pretty much 🎯 for this dumb era

Everything about this incredible piece is beautiful and uniting and lands so loudly in this time of division, racism, denials It’s such a testament to the American truth that we want to know our stories and the truth of those stories of who we are www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

"American history was forged not by “warriors” or “lethality,” but by soldiers who were citizens—family members, laborers, teachers, tradesmen, etc.—first and foremost, and who reluctantly agreed to engage in the horrors of war.” @pptsapper.bsky.social

Frog and Toad were sad for a while. Then Frog said, “Toad, here is what you must do. Tonight when you go to bed, you must think some very big thoughts. Those big thoughts will make your head grow larger. In the morning your new hat may fit.”

I just want to repeat again: The American people saved 26 million lives — because we could It something we should be proud of. Our leaders should tell us about it. Not decry it as some budgetary sin while signing our names to a slaughter.

The Australian Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Norwegian government, to further support the acquisition and domestic manufacturing of missiles in Australia 🇦🇺🇳🇴🚀 www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

NEW: Russian forces have conducted two days of nearly continuous strikes against Ukraine with over 1,600 total long-range drones and missiles that heavily targeted Kyiv City and resulted in high civilian casualties. (1/8) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar051426

Who is the master and who the servant

My grandfather helped cut sailors out of sunken ships at Pearl Harbor and wrote the report on the damages. But hey who needs reverence for the dead when it’s PAAAAAARTY TIIIIME. Pour one out from the monogrammed bourbon bottle.

This forever

This plan is absolute madness. Building a data center that is SIXTY SQUARE MILES in mountain west drought land which on paper will raise the temperature of the entire area by 5-12 DEGREES F is mental Unless the reality show is to create an American Aral Sea www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I feel like “let’s connect the US to Russia or else Europe will plunge into permawinter” is kind of a Sophie’s choice.

It’s like when Luka visits Putin

This is the rough equivalent of Nazi Germany demanding that the Allies leave France in 1944 so that talks can start. But, even Putin knows the war only gets worse for him from here. www.kyivpost.com/post/76048

What Russia hears when the American president is sucking up to Xi and bedazzled by another military parade:

Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.” “Why?” asked Frog. “I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.

A reminder to show up for jury duty when summoned.

Was just pondering how much blow and K probably flew to China on Air Force One

I think the point has always been that no one should need to tell us this — especially if you have access to classified intelligence. It’s right there for our eyes and ears. But plenty in the last admin were doubters, and everyone in this admin.

I know I’m dating myself but the blue M&Ms still feel wrong to me What did tan ever do to anyone?

So Hegseth tries to take credit for sending American soldiers to learn from Ukrainian drone expertise while also continuing to do nothing to support the Ukrainian war effort — this is the perfect encapsulation of how this admin will lose us every ally

This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.

But only one of them rotated to face the sun — and yes, it was Turkmenbashi

“Illegal prison camp used as tax-payer funded propaganda for hate campaign to shut down now that rubes have been distracted by new shiny object”

Oh so like, what Wagner was channeling. Cool cool.

RIP to a brave fellow Cardinal (the color, not the bird!) This wasn’t so long ago, and I don’t think people fully appreciate what he stood up for, how much it mattered, and how easily these gains can be lost

Oh man, my sister found another awesome 1960s cookbook If you’ve ever wondered about “MEAT SHAPES” — /1

This article doesn’t mention that the US companies being targeted by Russian strikes in Ukraine have kept quiet because they mostly kept doing business in Russia this whole time and want to preserve their market access there Kind of like the silent US president www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/w...

Every time someone mentions “ending the X tax in America,” just remember that in this dumb era, all it means is reducing the tax base that funds the necessary workings of the nation and finding more ways to extract wealth from highly-taxed middle class via “fees” to send it to untaxed gazillionaires

“Tell me in one tweet you don’t understand warfare”

All or nothing, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?

1/ NEW: Russian forces in April 2026 suffered a net loss of territory controlled in the Ukrainian theater for the first time since Ukraine’s August 2024 incursion into Kursk Oblast. Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar050226