Post your Ws, folks, we need 'em

In fall of 2016 Trump said this to Chris Christie about a possible transition process. "Chris, you and I are so smart that we can leave the victory party two hours early and do the transition ourselves." He thought he could identify and vet 500+ people in 2 hours with the help of one person.

BREAKING: Senator Blumenthal states Trump regime just briefed them on sending US troops to fight in Iran. Boots on the ground. A reminder that him & Netanyahu will not send their sons, but they expect your sons and daughters to go die for them so they can stay out of prison. Are we great yet?🤔

"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

incredible scenes where this is apparently a thing that Khameni has been wanting for ages and others on the council were pushing back against because optics but now council's all dead and congratulations on toppling the regime by giving the previous leader exactly what he wanted- a family throne

I do not remotely enjoy that a bunch of powerful military types actively want to make Rapturegeddon happen AND that the richest tech dudes worship their chatbots

he genuinely posts about Zohran as if he's his Marxist son

our adopt a rent donor list is running dry. i might have to set up an illegal lemonade stand in front of my house.

REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran-- RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday? REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question

I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.

Warning American citizens to evacuate over a dozen countries three days into this war, when commercial flights are already shut down, demonstrates the Trump Administration’s lack of planning or coordination.

I said this a while ago but it bears repeating: The U.S. right is fully captured by a) christian fascist accelerationists seeking to start the Biblical Apocalypse, & b) those actively manipulating (a) for profit. Everything they claim to care about will last only so long as it serves (a) or (b).

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

At some point we will have a conversation about the bogus claim that running a financially successful company equips you for leadership more broadly.

German Chancellor Merz after meeting with Trump on Iran: It is indeed the case that at least the American government, according to my level of knowledge and insight today, has no really formulated strategy about the future civil leadership of this country.

Sounds like Kash Patel is a co-conspirator covering up a murder.

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

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UK: Sending plane for citizens Germany: Sending plane for citizens China: Organising evac buses and sending plane for citizens India: Sending plane for citizens USA to citizens: Here's a MAGA hat, now go fuck yourself

If you know Mark Warner, you know this is a pretty serious statement. He is EXTREMELY level-headed and doesn’t make hyperbolic statements. He is from a state with a bunch of military contractors too. If he is mad about this, then imagine how mad everyone else is.

They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.

A superbly important explanation of the illegality of this war, the incoherence of its justification, and how Dems are missing the clearest framing.

v low priority thought: i just think it's funny that trump has moved to rename precisely zero things after his wife and kids

imagine being a family member seeing your mother or father with an AI hand up their corpse making their mouth flap for a subscription fee and you didn't give a single shred of consent

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides. NOT A JOKE

uwu we are just smol beans doing some chonky peeping

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

KAINE: To wage offensive war, the framers of the Constitution were absolutely plain that you gotta come to Congress KERNEN: But it's almost a moot point KAINE: Let me just underline the fact that I made an argument about the Constitution and you said it's a 'moot point.' I don't believe that

Hiring the dregs of Liberty Law School for the DOJ is the legal equivalent of drafting 13-year-olds into the infantry

A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding. The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.

if “for sale, baby shoes, never worn” are the saddest six words, then “riding in a golf cart fatly” is the opposite of that

America's being led into war by a rambling, disassembling old man with no plan who gets distracted by the golden drapes next to his podium.

really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying

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Damn this soulless man and every one of his enablers.

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?" Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

Strong case that the U.S. military can be bought with a suitable payment directly to the U.S. President.

For zoomers: He was shot 3 times in the head from less than 10 yards away by his buddies for criticizing the war as an illegal atrocity, then the government completely lied about how he died in a big Charlie Kirk martyr way. His buddies also burned his body armor and uniform afterwards, btw

“A squirter” Are you fucking kidding me We are so far away from “from these honored dead we take increased devotion” etc etc All I feel is derision from the top US defense official