What, and I can't emphasize this enough, the fuck am I reading here.

@profanity.accountant how'm I doing?

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.” The latest from George F. Will:

Trump to sign Executive Order ending the use of the metric system to describe quantities of cocaine.

If I had a nickel for every band I saw this year on their twentieth anniversary of an album tour I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but holy shit am I getting old.

If I'm reading this right, the message they're trying to send is that they are more than happy to be torturously awful to people to convince other people to self deport.

Damn, messing up on day one. Pentagon spox confirmed that all strikes in Caribbean are "directed by the President". Congrats.

I gotta admit, Wendy's Tendys is kinda genius.

John Brown, murdered this day in 1859 by the original MAGAts. RIP

"America is a good and safe nation to surrender to" shortened the European theater's participation in WWII by months & saved hundreds of thousands of lives, innumerable cultural and architectural artifacts, and untold millions of dollars.

For a politician, Jeffries is very bad at *checks notes* poitics. The whole point is to demand a vote because Speaker Johnson writhing like a worm on a hook has been *horrendous* for the GOP in the court of public opinion. Demanding accountability is what the public wants & is good for his party.

SECDEF: "I want you to take care of that boat. And by 'take care of' I mean kill everyone on it." ADM Bradley: "I'm going to need that in writing." SECDEF: *hands ADM Bradley a copy of his book* "It's all in here."

We had a war 250 years ago to remind those tea-drinkers on the other side of the Atlantic we don't give a shit what they think.

"Caught it just a touch heavy."

The cool part about a guy like Pete Hegseth having your back is when he shoves you into the path of a speeding bus.

Wait, so it's all legal and above board but also not ordered by the SECDEF? That's contradictory for two reasons: 1) SOCOM does things because the SECDEF tells them to. 2) Why would SECDEF not take credit for a totally legal thing that's also his job?

Contracting for Donald Trump:

That canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about. Ian McShane does "tyrant simultaneously losing his grip on his fiefdom and his sanity" like no one else. (And yes, that's Sebastian Stan in the background.)

What gets missed is Washingtron's period of maximum sucktitude happens to conincide with Washington become a really national city. It makes rooting for DC as opposed to going to DC events a strangely uni-tribal experience. We're all rooting for sport, I'm rooting for *THIS* sport world.

“It’s a mockery of due process. It’s a mockery of our constitutional rights.”

Being a Washington Football Club fan is torture. Do I think they'll win? 1 chance in 7. Will I go to sleep before the game ends? 0% Will Monday suck because of that 0% chance? 100%. Win and lose draft stock. Lose and...lose. Fuck my liver.

How many pale-ass tight ends does Wahsington have?

All time catch

Everyone who has had an MRI has probably already chimed in, but I'll reiterate: you don't get an MRI on a part of your body without at least 12 questions that are some variant of "You're getting an MRI, which is a giant magnet, on X body part. Any non-surgical metal we should know about?" 1/?

At this point given the cost of a barrel of oil and associated taxes, a gallon of gas being below $2 would be indicative of cratering demand. $2/gallon gas means no one is buying. Then again, Trump in 2024 ran on claiming he got gas below $1.75... in May of 2020.

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.

Too many Christian kids grew up being told one day they'll have a gun pointed to their head and asked if they call Christ savior and said they can avoid that if they're the one with the gun instead. It is, as I see it as a homeschooled ex-evangelical kid, the straight line from the pew to Trump.

I took this photo while standing on a ladder and did not realize the Christmas lights were almost out of frame. I regret nothing.

The Otterson is watching the Ohio State v. Michigan game and regretting his decision to go to a college in Michigan.

Out here, there's no backup. That's why you gotta keep a spare clip on you.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen. The Juliana Theory Flogging Molly Dropkick Murphys Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Delirious

I've met CID agents better at acting like "just one of the guys" than this chucklehead.

me after "Mr. Fantasy" performs in the parade

Post a villain more fun to watch than the hero:

My hot take is that this holiday is great and gratitude fucking rules. The shittiest people in the world want you to feel despair and they don’t know shit about feeling thankful. Nurture this superpower, bring goodness out into the light, and shame the pricks like the devils they are.

Dude's chopped weeks off the House's calendar and wants to complain about his workload? The workload has been covering for a child molester.

Keith wouldn't be Keith if he knew how to sit this one out.

"Do you have any comment on your guy saying you're a highly manipulable rube who can be conned into doing things contrary to the US?" "That's a standard thing, everybody does that." My favorite part is when an inveterate liar inadvertantly tells the truth.

There is apparently no "right way" to immigrate to the US anymore.

Who is their photo editor who managed to get the shades of blue so radically different from one photo to the next? I'll still likely get one because no sponsors on rugby sweaters >>>>>

Gimme some expanded cities and a revised combat system that makes it easier to disengage and run/hide, and I'll put another thousand hours in.

PEPFAR was, arguably, the greatest foreign affairs action of the US since the Marshall Plan. It saved an average of a million lives a year for 20 years. Now? We're not going to recognize World AIDS Day to toot our own horn. Punching ourselves in the dick and calling it America First.

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Other vile content notwithstanding, are you really acing a cognitive exam if you have to take one in the first place? It's like saying the airbags in your car worked perfectly.