Alright betting pool for the reason behind the Quantico meeting: - deploying troops to hunt down antifa: 2:1 - in-person transgender inspections: 4:1 - invading greenland: 5:1 - invading canada: 7.5:1 - party invite inadvertently sent to the email list: 15:1 - party invite purposefully sent: 25:1

More reason to pass my bill requiring a security audit of the data systems infiltrated by the DOGE boys. What data did they access? What data did they take? What back doors did they leave?

America is bailing out Argentina, while Argentine farmers sell soybeans to China instead of American farmers, thereby bankrupting them, which is why America also have to bail out American farmers. If this is considered winning, I fear what losing looks like.

A Fox News host just said today's ICE shooting happened because Jimmy Kimmel didn't apologize well enough. Remember last month when another Fox News host said homeless people should be executed, and days later someone shot up two homeless encampments and Fox didn't say jack-fucking-shit about it?

Some of us do.

Phase Changes xkcd.com/3144/

Release the Epstein files!

Rumors have swirled for years about an affair, as neither Kristi Noem nor Corey Lewandowski have kept their apparent extramarital coupling discreet.

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

The world is still incredibly small. no matter how alone it might feel sometimes. This is the second time in two months that I've run into people I knew from years ago from the states, completely unplanned. Be a good person on every continent, just in case 😉

Obviously, nothing is sure until he's actually released, but I'm so relieved that after six years in prison, Alaa will finally be free: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

keep aggressively reposting this because I think ~in these times~ what actually matters is *listening to trans kids* about their experiences given the opportunity, they're perfectly able to speak for themselves, despite the fact that they're being objectified into a political football by adults.

Nobody can fund a “group” that doesn’t exist.

After the August 2008 war, Russia bulldozed dozens of villages in occupied regions of South Ossetia (Tskhinvali, Georgia) to ensure there could be no return 190,000 were displaced, ancestral villages erased totally Looked just like this If we stopped Russia then, it would be a different world

Hey Disney: remember in 2023 when you sued Ron DeSantis for violating the company's First Amendment rights by using government power to exact political retaliation?

This administration’s staggering corruption is dangerous beyond belief. And it’s a complete slap in the face to every single family working hard to put food on the table.

#Twitter/#X is just a 100% authentic place full of real lifelong Democrats who suddenly realized Charlie Kirk was right, registered as Republicans, and posted so in identical tweets. These are absolutely not foreign bots trying to influence US politics or increase partisan divides in the US.

Amid my anger at US politics, let me pivot to point out how pointless our cruelty is. Finland doesn’t treat homelessness as a personal moral failure, and most of them end up not homeless anymore. When we see and treat people as humans, things get better. Imagine that 🙃

News. After the revelation that Tom Homans took a bribe of $50,000, President Teump took a firm line with his cabinet: “Nothing under seven figures!”

You want to read this story. I promise. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how...

I know everything is stupid, but a day later and I'm still impressed at the gleeful public willingness to scream out "WE DON'T CARE IF OUR SIDE IS CRIMINALLY CORRUPT!"

So federal agents just drive around looking for brown people to harass, I guess?

"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."

Pretty cool that we now more easily (more correctly?) define dinosaurs by their bird lineage than vica versa. There were definitely some omnivorous or herbivorous therapods, but in terms of biomass I’d imagine the majority of herbivores were “non-avian” (non-therapod). 🧪 #Birds #Dinosaurs #PaleoSky

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

Donald Trump: “Charlie Kirk was like the son I never had.” Which came as news to Con Junior, Fredo, and Crypto Barron—three sons he barely remembers having.

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

After Jon Stewart's Daily Show "obedient" monologue, he interviewed Maria Ressa, Phillipine journalist and co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. I highly recommend listening to that interview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsb1...

Way more military downside than upside in re-invading Afghanistan to take and hold one airbase. An easy-to-see net negative for US global strategy. But it was a grievance the right made a big deal of—because “damn Biden for following through on Trump’s deal” sounds bad—and that drives US policy now.

🙏🙏 Ah the wars will be fought again The holy dove, she will be caught again Bought and sold, and bought again The dove is never free Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in That's how the light gets in LC

Every threat should be documented publicly; there should be a public resource for this that everybody can use. bsky.app/profile/conw...

Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

After Jon Stewart's Daily Show "obedient" monologue, he interviewed Maria Ressa, Phillipine journalist and co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. I highly recommend listening to that interview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsb1...

“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny.” — Mark Twain

Quite a leap from the current H-1B fees of approx $3K to the Trump fee of $100K. Another stupid Trump move.

He signed a £250B US-UK "Tech Prosperity Deal" and then flew back to Washington and ****ed those same US tech companies in the a***.

I just can't stop watching it I love how they blame "Wi-Fi" and I like how they're pouring untold billions into "superintelligence," and their big bold idea of showing off progress is having it read a recipe in order which it can't do

It turns out @britannica.com is a great follow.

This is a Rule 8 dismissal, which is not common when you’re represented by a lawyer, but is very common when you’re a sovereign citizen suing without a lawyer. This judge is treating the president of the United States as a pro se litigant.

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I give the best pardons. To the worst people. Silk Road guy. That was me.

Hell of a photo by my former Chicago Tribune colleague Stacey Wescott from a protest today at an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs. Read the sign at the bottom. @staceywescott.bsky.social

The FCC once enforced the "fairness doctrine," requiring broadcasters to air both sides of an issue. Now, the FCC enforces an unfairness doctrine, threatening broadcasters that air views critical of Trump or his MAGA right.

This is from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Just thought I'd post it here for no particular or current reason.

I’m not saying these aren’t dangerous, I’m saying guns are exponentially more dangerous and it’s absurd and illogical to literally and symbolically crush one but never! not once!!! the other

Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.