Hegseth: Actually, I said "Kill them all? No, survivors!"

"I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs Minnesota Somali leader who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party." — What a difference a year makes

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I don’t totally agree with everything in this @acoyne.bsky.social column, but kudos for correctly explaining the effective carbon price, CCfDs, etc. - which has clearly (and understandably) been tricky for most people who don’t cover this stuff all the time. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I've had enough of your cockamamie schemes. it's high time for cuntamamie schemes #feminism

Some background! I wrote about Tennessee in 2023, asking whether it's still a democracy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Wow. "It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.” - Newsmax's Judge Napolitano

I knew it reminded me of something.

"The word 'affordability' is a Democrat scam." —Donald Trump Dems had better use that clip in heavy rotation.

Canada has reached a final agreement to join the EU’s €150B Security Action for Europe (SAFE) program.

"why would Trump, whose poll numbers are cratering, generate even more negative headlines by pardoning Hernández, who was duly convicted of conspiring to send more than 400 tons (!) of cocaine to America? The answer is the influence of the crypto/tech broligarchy."

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

lmao

Trump allowed 17 members of the Sinaloa cartel into the US. In May he commuted the 6x life sentences of the leader of the Gangster Disciples, most notorious drug trafficking & murderous street gang in the US. Now Honduran drug trafficker Hernandez. Is Trump setting up his own drug corridor?

I got to thinking: "What if it's not about the contradiction between the Hernandez pardon and the air strikes, but about the consistency between them?" As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

yeah AI Ben Garrison is incredible

Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936 Right: 1936 electoral map

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Full of life.

This should worry everyone. “US officials contacted by Reuters were surprised by Trump's announcement and unaware of any ongoing military operations to enforce a closure of Venezuelan airspace.” Trump’s failing faculties could walk the US into war.

1984 is over-cited, but the best word for this is doublethink. MAGA has tons of it. Trump is a strong leader no one would cross and a poor victim who deserves sympathy. He brought crime down and crime is out of control. The Epstein Files are fake to hurt Trump and have nothing negative about him.

how the media torched biden on the economy, aka the one thing he was actually pretty good at, should have been a wake up call to dems that they need their own media apparatus like the gop has with... everything

I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.

Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent. She didn't want to deploy to D.C. "She hated it. She cried about it." But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it. May she rest in peace. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

SCOOP: For the Trump admin's Sept. 2 strike targeting 11 men on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs, SecDef Hegseth gave an order, officials say, to kill them all. When two men were still alive, orders were given to strike again, finishing them off. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Wow, another former world leader convicted and sentenced for attempting to overthrow democracy. Imagine that!

This is an extremely interesting article about the collapse of early farming societies across Europe around ~5000 BC. We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.

Old Polish joke; two old friends meet for the first time in a while and stop to chat. "How's your year been?" asks the first. The second one shrugs. "Oh, you know" he says, "about average. Worse than last year, better than the next."

This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. You can find my full statement below.

The optimistic take, hope it’s so.

🔥POWERFUL AD ABOUT ICE AGENTS: “What will you say when your kids ask you about your day? A mask can’t hide you from your neighbors, your family, God… you can walk away, but the shame will follow you home.”

Guilbeault out. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Idk wtf I was thinking lol

This is weird framing, given that said deal actually strengthens the most important part — by far — of said Trudeau-era climate measures.

turkey pardoned by trump rearrested for drunk driving and gun possession

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He is risen

NYT reporting that Nobel Laureate María Corina Machado lied to Trump about Maduro´s role in the drug trade to prompt a US invasion... welcome back the WMDs

Today - and every day - is a good day to read Justice Stevens’ dissent in Heller v DC. The bonkers 5-4 decision that not only made it legal to carry firearms in DC but also declared that the first 13 words of 2A were “merely preferatory”. www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/0...

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year be well

COOK POLITICAL: Republicans “may have had a blind spot: the extent to which Democrats could push .. in blue states to fight back.” 🤡 @cookpolitical.com #Redistrict www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...

Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.

oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop

i laughed at this post two separate times before i even saw the name

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.