can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

Current* conditions near Gary, IN:

Are you this much of an unimaginative bed wetter in every facet of your life?

this isn’t to say it isn’t bad, just that it’s bad mostly within expected parameters, at least domestically. the dismantling of USAID is a lot worse, but they also have been far worse at consolidation than i feared

i actually pretty strongly disagree with this, the worst case scenario is a lot worse than this, trump is visibly and rapidly declining and surrounded by absolute dipshits, some of whom are coming apart at the seams less than a year in

THEY BREAK UPON US

Failure of imagination on your part. I expected far worse, little of which has come to pass, and the worst developments I feared during the first few months of the year have come apart entirely as the administration continues to go off the rails. tl;dr skill issue tbh

CRAC!

Chavin (Archaeological Site) (Peru)

Red Grooms, Red Star, 1980 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134708

thinking about her cc @judahfromtexas.bsky.social

U-2S 80-1099 with some condensation on the wings after going FL600 and above today. Clouds made for a nice background too Delivery to Beale on the horizon...

Ok. So there's A LOT of misinformation about the government shutdown, the continuing resolution and gender-affirming care. There was one article in PinkNews that was VERY shoddy about what Trump said. So let's breakdown what's true and what's BS. 1/ www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/t...

Selawik, Alaska Pop: 840 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selawik,_Alaska Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=67066818 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=127730016

You don't say (this doesn't count my ps2 playtime)

Woof man this place

My heart is with the survivors and families who lost loved ones in the shooting and fire in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Places of worship should be a sanctuary and safe from violence. Gun violence is preventable, and we need commonsense federal gun reform now.

There are a lot of commentators showing their ass or w/e right now. This is not some master plan or creeping fascism. Donald trump is literally your crazy grandpa on Facebook. That's it. That's all of it.

The Simpsons gets a second movie before Doug. For shame.

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May)

Making no progress on this today. $100/$350 still and it’s due Wednesday

We were close! The L&HR had three copies, numbered 10, 11, and 12, built in 1944. They saw six (6!) years of service before being scrapped. No. 12 received an overhaul in 1950, but was never fired up again. There was allegedly interest by other RRs in purchasing them, but nothing came from it.

An early version of the first US News college rankings awarded points for diversity & didn't put the usual suspects on top. So the magazine got rid of the statistician responsible & changed the algorithm to affirm the "conventional wisdom of the meritocracy." washingtonmonthly.com/2000/09/01/p...

Sorry but these people are way too unpopular to be alienating the demo “white women from Boca Raton who you’re not sure if they’re actively doing brownface”

South Korea uh

honey.

the things I do for girls (I will have fun) cc @bdebone.bsky.social

some of y’all have internalized elitism against misogynistic Prussians who look like they were created in Minecraft and it shows 🇨🇦

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yes YES @chittimarco.bsky.social

I’m still selling them for $10 a piece + $10 shipping. Dm me if’n you want one or a few!

Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results. So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.

Bigotry will get you nowhere. Cancel the Cuts. Lower the Cost. Save Healthcare. We are NOT backing down.

Simple shutdown demand: stop doing crimes

it happened again: took care of a dreaded task i’d miserably put off for months, & it took five minutes to complete. it was easy! no trouble at all! once again i will learn nothing from this experience

How would you feel if I highlighted Dems we don’t like for Repping the Rep. As in choosing Marie Glusenkamp Perez and talking about the things she’s done right the past few weeks. So that people realize what it means when I say we want the person who would vote with us 70% of the time 1/2

Hell no. We don't need a delay and a pinky promise to negotiate -- we need a deal that keeps the government open and saves health care for Americans. I'm in D.C. ready to vote for that. Republicans have refused to come to the table for months. Why would Democrats acting weak change their behavior?

LAWSUIT UPDATE RE: NATIONAL GUARD IN PORTLAND: A court will hold a hearing on Friday morning on our motion for a temporary restraining order.

i do not think ICE’s relationship with the national guard improves when they start gassing oregon guardsmen who are guarding their facility, which is absolutely what will happen if they move the guard in

for viewers just tuning in, judge lamberth's most famous use of the contempt power resulted in a law review article titled this: scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publ...

Now is the time to be brave. Republicans in Georgia have controlled our state for over 20 years leading to underfunded schools, closing hospitals, & low wages stuck at $5.15. I'm running for Governor to change that.

Judge Lamberth, a Reagan employee, slams the govt's "disrespect" for his orders. He says contempt proceedings would be warranted, but he doesn't order them because nobody asked for them.

oh the border patrol accomplished this bit of work with the help of a kavanaugh stop www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

Remember, the most important thing is getting the majority. We need enough Dems in office that those who only vote with us 70% of the time don’t matter as much, we can’t gamble on their seat by getting them out of office. 13/13

Idea: a white noise machine that makes the warp core noise from TNG

a fun thing is that the late Roman descriptions of weather changing, crop failure, summers shortening that were once taken to be tropes of Christian writing about decline are now often seen as literal descriptions of the effects of climate change.

we call this the "Taoist alchemy" problem

I am crying