I can tell you that times are tough for independent journalists and publications right now. If there a few that you like and have some spare coin, now would be a good time to toss them a sub. I run burnsnotice.com and publish at least twice weekly. It is $4/mo or $40/year to sub.

There’s only one answer for me

History books are going to be really annoying with students having to memorize an endless number of less-than-60-day military actions of the US targeting Iran in some way

From @adapalmer.bsky.social’s introduction to The Book of the New Sun.

Side-eying this skeet a bit, though I deeply appreciate the thread as a discussion. If you think Bluesky is “very white”, I have to think that you’re not curating your feed very well

Top 15 TV shows ever, gut instinct edition Doctor Who (naturally) Deep Space Nine The Shield Arrow M*A*S*H* Big Brother (USA) She-Ra (Netflix) Lost In Space (Netflix) Buffy the Vampire Slayer Happy Days Family Ties Grey’s Anatomy Battlestar Galactica (Syfy) Mr Roger’s Neighborhood The Muppet Show

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Then DON'T FUCKING MAKE ANIMAL FARM. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

I wrote extensively about John Roberts 40 year war to kill Voting Rights Act in my book Give Us the Ballot for those who want to take a deeper dive in light of Callais us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Well worth the read

the Sacramento zoo has 6 BABY CAPYBARAS

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Legit question; do we think that if the ballroom already existed, Trump would have insisted the WHCA rented it from him for the dinner?

What to know about US-Iran standoff over the Strait of Hormuz https://aje.news/350684

Some agents with stories to tell Spilled tea on their leader from hell Nine sources and more Have run up the score On the next ex-director, Patel.

The thread that leads up to this post is an excellent read

Patel deserves to be chucked under the bus. Patel possibly getting chucked under the bus very soon is hilarious. But I can't wait to see what happens when they run out of women and brown people to toss from the window. Because that day is coming up fast.

Frankly, I can easily believe that the one era I was completely absent for is in fact my natural home I mourn for all the memories-of-a-lifetime that I missed out on due to the hustle

At some point I should try to articulate why I feel so positively about the books on my bookshelf, when I know I haven't (yet) read more than 50% of them and don't have any realistic plan to do so within my lifetime

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Has John McNaughton expressed any opinion about his entire oeuvre having obviously been fed into the artistic slop woodchipper that is the Trump social media account?

Personally, I wouldn’t have put the guy who can’t order donuts in charge of peace negotiations with a determined enemy

www.usnews.com/news/nationa... A good article by Davi Schulman that gives some metrics for what I've been seeing anecdotally. I would have liked to hear more about what exactly are the "many risks that Gen Zers are worried about."

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"Other countries are our property, and we dictate their behavior. You know, like women in marriage."

And if she ever did jump out of an airplane, we have drones that can make sure she never reaches the ground, just say the word - Hegseth adds, probably

Andy Weir: hey dudes and dudebros Weir: did you hear about the hot new marketing genre that's taking the literary world by storm? Weir: we call it MANtasy Weir: it's like fantasy Weir: but for HIM!

Looks like China got involved

Summary: • There is a two-week ceasefire while negotiations proceed. • The Strait of Hormuz will open for those two-weeks while remaining under Iran’s control. • Trump indicated that Iran’s 10-point proposal for ending the Iran War is “workable.” Whew.

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

Here's a shot of good news for your Saturday: Congratulations to Starbucks workers in Greeley, Colorado just won their union election!! LET'S GOOOOO 🔥

If you get self-conscious about posting repeated promo, let me give you all my long-standing promo-hack, for free. (I'm not currently using it, but I will be soon! lol) This is a site without an algo, but also one that does not punish links. So what you want to do is make a strategic thread.

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

I'm listening to the oral argument in Trump v. Barbara because I want to be mad this morning.

And if I had enough ponies it would be very easy to beat the Preakness

I’m really struggling with the Final Girl scenario play Poltergeist at Sacred Groves. Seems like I have to successfully move 10-12 spaces before the end of the second action phase to have any chance. Will try substituting out the starting event for Hallowed Ground and see if that helps

Ashland OR protest is easily 3x the previous two #NoKingsIII

Looking like Frodo and Samwise here - one of them is carrying all the stuff and the other is very clearly NOT

I just bought airline tickets for my family yesterday. I may not be exaggerating that I looked at more screens, opened more tabs, and considered more options & scenarios than the US did when we went to war with Iran.

"at 12:03 PM, President Trump told reporters he wanted a ceasefire with Iran. At 12:05 he declared victory. At 12:07 he announced he was sending Marines. At 12:08 he said no boots on the ground. At 12:11 he said he did not want a ceasefire. At 12:16 he declared victory again....."

Joanne Freeman spotted something that went right by me: trmp runs his reality show plays for ratings... the stock market is where he reads the ratings. None of this is real... except the pain.

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man

"Generations of Assistant US Attorneys had built the goodwill of that office for your generation to destroy it within a year."

Check out some How War v2 from @malcolmcraig.bsky.social and @handiworkgames.bsky.social When mysterious Border Science expert Kurt Langer goes missing from the camps, a fractious SIG team must find out what's happening - and take individual advantage... youtu.be/FF9Mrwf6OIU?...

CALL TO ACTION: Today Pam Bondi announced a new rule that would stop state bar associations from investigating misconduct by lawyers. We can work to stop this rule by writing comments stating our objections. youtube.com/shorts/434iX...

I just found this. Maybe it can be helpful.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊