LOL—LMAO even: “Mr. Ahmadinejad was injured on the war’s first day by an Israeli strike at his home in Tehran that had been designed to free him from house arrest… He survived the strike, they said, but after the near miss he became disillusioned with the regime change plan.” Gift link:

russia russifying ukraine

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All the partisan gerrymandering was always (in part) racial gerrymandering, because the parties' politics were always (in part—but large part) about race. So when you tell Southern legislatures "you can do partisan gerrymandering, but no racial gerrymandering," they know it means they can do both.

children being murdered as a result of trump‘s antihuman directives would in normal times be so outrageous that it would bring down cabinet members, the presidency, tho whole administration yet its already old news that most people didn’t hear about

aww poor russia complaining that ukraine started a war against russia while russia just wanted to finish their sweet little special military operation now russia is finally forced to join ukraine’s war

I know this looks silly but if people constantly spit on you it’s really quite practical

never liked how i'm expected to take pac-man's side without knowing what he did to anger the spirit realm. i don't wanna help some serial murderer or grave desecrator eat a big maze meal. actions have consequences pal. find your own damn cherries

🚨Trump just named Marc Andreessen’s wife to the SF Presidio Trust board, along with other MAGA allies & ultra-wealthy tech figures. Meanwhile, the Tech Bros have made it clear that they want to build a “Freedom City” in the Presidio. sfstandard.com/2026/05/14/t...

And Then There Were None And Grogu

you know that trump be telling serious state secrets to foreign adversaries he can’t help but boast and take credit for other people‘s work, which includes the cia etc

compare and contrast: when IDF soldiers were caught on tape raping a Palestinian captive at Sde Teiman prison and prosecuted, Israeli civilians rioted outside the court and all charges were eventually dropped

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

It’s really hard to overstate the extent to which conservatives are now just the same type of facebook ogre in every single country with few or no other defining affiliations

what the effing fuck?!

The most shocking thing here is that Rand Paul's son has a common first name like William instead of Atlas or Galt or FlatTax.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Trump: "We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail."

fantastic image from an article in Le Monde on Macron’s Africa policy — photojournalism that looks like a still from Fellini or Antonio

how long until the statue of liberty gets a boob job and a face lift?

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

ask me if USA should have nuclear weapons

I just wanna say that a lot of the fits the kids are wearing today were considered deeply uncool when I wore them as a fourth grader.

Kolkata genuinely feeling like fucking Berlin 1933 right now. How long until their first kristallnacht against the nearly 30% Muslim population of Bengal. Rigging and cheating aside, I will never forgive the traitorous Bengali Hindus who helped vote these nazis into our state.

how do i get on to the dead dog instagram algo? i just get fed shiz like poser djs being full cringe www.instagram.com/p/DVN4zlojRip/

free energy for idiots! idiots: no thanks

RBA: while the oil blockade is having as deleterious effect on the australian economy as a dramatic interest rate rise, we think oil prices should be even higher

there might finally be some recognition that israel is a supremacist mafia state in a constant state of war with an illegitimate nuclear weapons industry

gigs i didn’t miss

"I've got things you wouldn't believe. Anyone can have tertiary syphilis, but I've got four maybe five. 'Quinary syphilis' they call it. Like the Medicine Woman show with Jane Seymour. Man, was she a piece of ass or what. Classy as hell too."

higher oil cost is great motivation to find green alternative fuels but much better if it were a tax that gets collected by government rather than a tax that gets collected by oil companies

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

i love concrete construction and i hate that it’s environmentally evil until

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

There is a whole genre of tech reporting that is basically “I shoved a toothpick into my eyeball and this shows why toothpicks are too dangerous”

(bleeding out) damn this cheddar is sharp

an abundance of high speed rail and public transport? an abaundance of dental care? an abundance of free time? nah, just an abundance of pollution

a violent society like usa can ban greyhound racing meanwhile in australia 🙄

better than facilitating genocide i guess

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

nah mate, your anus has weird rings

Trump is directing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prioritize cases of discrimination against white men, but commission staff are "struggling to find complaints with merit"

netanyahu’s israel is an enemy of peaceful democracy

government mandated transfer of wealth aka the cost of doing business in any jurisdiction

everything in american politics boils down to this

Not only is @apnews.com attending the White House correspondents dinner, they invited one of the Trump staffers who kicked them out of the press pool as their guest. This is all so wrong. apnews.com/article/whit...

Is Housing truly the big problem of the anglosphere? And if it is solved it would solve a lot of other problems - wealth inequality, racism, social mobility, unstable banking and financial system, climate and car-dependency? www.ft.com/content/dca3...

something about feeling bad for the tumour