Multiple mascots at the Yuruverse event in Sumida Park yesterday.

I wonder how much the United States will be able (politically, socially, legally) to cleanse the federal bureaucracy once the current situation is over. I reckon a 3 is required but they'll do a 1 or 2. 1 - Let bygones be bygones 2 3 - West German deNazification 4 5 - De-Ba'athification

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

This only happens to you once

Gonna have to teach everyone from scratch that the president isn't your boss, he's your employee

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.

I think, by comparison and with the benefit of hindsight, people were a bit unfair in their criticism of Gaddafi's UN speech.

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

Dear Mr Scientist President Trump, please tell us, could we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just a very powerful light, supposing you brought the light inside the body, instead of using a vaccine.

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I joked the other day that all the Post's editorials are just "what if this bad thing were actually good," and will you look at that

Australia recognizes the State of Palestine

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

The man is a cursed money paw incarnate. Tech, farming, media, manufacturing - anyone who asks for his attention or help, or even just tries sucking up to him, pays dearly for it in new and interesting ways.

Dear Mr President Trump if you are reading this please don't punish us by cancelling the AUKUS submarine program. That would make us very sad and you should definitely not punish us like that.

After how embarrassing the Jonathan Swan interview was for Trump all those years ago, I'm surprised the Secret Service lets Trump get that close to an Australian journalist.

as a law professor I have good days & bad days & busy days & calmer days but there’s only one day I teach my class in a banana costume & that day was today

As one of the millions of people around the world understanding and experiencing this event I'm mostly surprised to see Republicans this excitable about a school shooting.

When you’re the paper of record and have definitely understood the franchise up until this point

This is the only episode of If Books Could Kill I couldn't finish. The book is *so bad* the excellent efforts of those exceptionally talented hosts couldn't make it bearable. Truly a deadly (tedious) text, my god.

WSJ edit board spins a fantasy: "for Mr. Trump, while this is a moment of personal sadness, it is also an opportunity for leadership...he can help the country rise above this madness. He can say that this is the moment when the descent into political violence must stop.” Meanwhile — no, he can’t:

The confused old man backs up against the wall, thinking "But all those computer company guys said I was cool."

The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live. Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed

Gonna need to buy a big "I'm not American" hat for my trip to the Gulf later in the year.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

I wonder if there's a word for an actual economic downturn which bums you out like a vibecession, but it's not just vibes.

Just absolutely embarrassing that this made it to market. So many people need to approve an ad before it gets national airtime. Just wild that they could screw up a detail like this and have nobody either know or care.

The US has a problem. Democrats want to build nice things. The GOP votes against the 'Build Nice Things' bill. Nice things gets built. Some GOP schmuck who voted against the bill takes credit for it. I propose an elegant solution...

"Death, destruction, starvation and displacement of Palestinian civilians are the result of choices that defy international law and ignore the international community." "We continue to insist that this horror can be stopped."

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

A friend said recently that my ideal Alien film would be in the style of Shin Godzilla with lots of meetings in Weyland Yutani. And they're right - that would rock. (Ditto a reboot of the original Resident Evil, but centred around Umbrella Corporation crisis management meetings.)

…were running guns to Mexican cartels and creating a national security and public safety threat to Mexico and its people, nobody here of any position of power or influence would stand for that.

I know this is useless to even point out but: if Mexico bombed a boat off the shore of the U.S. and killed a bunch of American citizens on the stated case — without providing a real criminal case in a court or anywhere else and after having lied about everything for 8 months — that those Americans…

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Will the absence of reliable automatic metro service in the United States mark the moment its citizens notice how far behind their country has fallen?

yeah, we lean heavily on insisting on attribution for even plainly true things. "experts say plotting to kill someone, and then killing them, is a crime"

I've read a few dismissive judgements and orders but this is the first one where I'm confident the first draft was "1. just fuck off"

A lesson for us all on why you should not promise the impossible to the terminally insane

By the way, I’m including the troops that pulled the trigger here in this. You had an obvious civilian target that had violated no orders (eg to stop), and instead unilaterally hit it with a hellfire. That is a violation of the LOAC. The order to fire was not lawful.

Look, the next Democratic president needs to put everybody involved, from Trump all the way down, on trial for murder. They blew up 11 civilians in broad daylight without statutory authorization.

wot. is. happening. make. it. stop.

Apropos of nothing, if our American friends ever need advice on the best ways to embalm a corpse for worshipful public display, we have some literature.

What the *actual* fuck ConocoPhillips - and more recently Santos - have had a leaky LNG storage tank in use at Darwin LNG terminal for EIGHTEEN YEARS and not only are we just finding out now, but Santos has no intention to fix it and aren't even required to report its emissions.

Trump is reportedly putting the national guard on short orders, "ending them on day 29 and restarting on day 31", to save "roughly $2,500 per service member per month" in housing and health benefits. Trump clearly believes they are suckers and losers, and he is short paying them accordingly.

I saw dozens of people on here like a post saying it was good that two cops were murdered while trying to serve someone with an arrest warrant for sex crime and child abuse offenses. Why? 'Because ACAB'. Personally, I like the state having people who detain sex pests and child abusers.

What is it with CEO’s at public events? Tennis star Kamil Majchrzak was signing autographs yesterday when a man was caught stealing a hat from a child. He shared the video in hopes of identifying the boy & getting him a new hat. The man was quickly identified as Piotr Szczerek, CEO of Drogbruk

“When oppression becomes law, resistance becomes duty,” is a remarkably bad thing to say, even for Katter, the same week two police officers were allegedly murdered by a sovereign citizen.