not to be a huge dumbass, but doesn't that mean it's just at the secret level? TS is what's "exceptionally grave". also, every classified document is locked in a safe unless you're in an area that's its own SCIF

love it when GEHA sends me an EOB that takes five hours to actually retrieve because they follow the website design principle of "does not work"

it's very possible that Will Stancil was unfairly cut out because God knows organizing can be like that sometimes but it's not proof the group is full of wreckers or whatever

boy I really hope the rumors about Hegseth's wife aren't true for her own sake

Thanksgiving sandwich from MGM Roast Beef. honestly any sandwich from MGM Roast Beef

"what are we, brown people??" points for trying I guess

insane to accuse anybody of porn addiction when this pathologically porn-addicted "analysis" frames the entire phenomenon of resistance to ICE as inherently sexual. and the specification of *white* women is...boy, I don't know. it's real bad

the extent to which he influenced Twitter joke writing, cadence, and vernacular is impossible to overstate. plus the jokes themselves - how many of us go around muttering "check this shit out motherfucker"

is the verb for reversing the Joining "unplurb" or "deplurb"

the only thing I've seen that was funnier than the passive-aggressive drone on Pluribus was the automated translation on Pluribus

obviously polys are fake but the story here is a guy clearly trying to exceed his NTK for Probably Not Good reasons, staff insisting he follow the rules and getting retaliated against

the anti-AI stuff is rabid and often totally misinformed in every possible way but I don't blame people for being rabid after they were told they would be replaced and their livelihoods were unnecessary

not a UI person but I feel like Tahoe should have had a unifying vision beyond "blurrier and also worse"

if somebody obliterated me from orbit like this I would never get out of bed again but unfortunately mattyg has no concept of shame

this piece is not great but it's also not nearly as bad as the people quote-dunking it seem to think, that said I feel like her editor did her dirty here. this feels more like an indulgent first draft

lmao

childfree people you simply do not have to be part of this discourse. like you don't have to participate at all. go day drinking or weight lifting or whatever it is you do with all that time you have

a thing about high-end travel and dining is that at a certain point it gets skewed by insane rich people. giving two stars to a luxury resort because they thought the linens were weird. one star for not liking the tone of a waiter's voice. zero stars for experiencing a sensation close to discomfort

The fact Bovino is a career civil servant and not a political appointee really shows CBP needs to be abolished root and branch. Let the IRS do customs (seriously).

really don't want to get into it so I will just say as someone affected by the loss of an infant to RSV my professional advice is [USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST]

I don't fw PSL or Code Pink either but I don't dismiss everything they do out of hand because plenty of people involved are sincere and (critically) offline

I thought Ryan Lizza was just scum before but every new post proves that he's fucking rancid. do you know how bad you have to be to make anyone feel the slightest bit sorry for Olivia Nuzzi

everybody who saw the reddit posts whining about consent culture and knew there was worse to come, please collect your prize

little-known fact outside the beltway but this past year The Handbasket has become THE outlet read by (and leaked to by) civil servants who have something to say, please kick some $ or get a subscription if you haven't already

the extremely common "liberal arts major-to-agency" pipeline because otherwise I was gonna have to go to grad school and turns out the IC likes book-readin' freaks

this hit with resist liberals and absolutely no one else, certainly not anybody in uniform or in the IC

this has an almost anti-music quality to it, like despite all the autotuning there's no discernible tune or melody. what is even going on with the kind of chromatic thing happening at "I'm jailbait"

was ready to be open-minded about some kind of procedural snafu or obscure technical problem that prevented the Times from pursuing the story but, boy, that is not what's happening here it is, however, a perfect example of advanced stage NYT reporter brain

everybody saying "the government won't reopen" is underestimating how much people are freaking the fuck out about Thanksgiving flights

Lmao OK so this got so much funnier. This guy saying it's against my religion to go to Shabbat dinner, but in reality he just doesn't want to hang out with Bethany Mandel and, well

The persistence of Helen Andrews in mainstream media is proof that all opinion writing is a kind of reverse WWE, where only the performers are unaware of the performance.

there's a not-insignificant number of normie libs at the agency who wind up tormented and radicalized by their own actions, the problem is a lot of them essentially become Harry du Bois

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

*SSO-T voice* no we didn't

this man cannot stop humiliating his wife for five seconds

the frantic campaign to tank Mamdani (now with a criminal referral to DOJ) has me legitimately afraid for his safety

people will say "Chotiner isn't some kind of master manipulator, he just asks good questions", but that doesn't account for the spontaneous panic attack and borderline-Trumpian incoherence in this one. does she know what her book is about? was the entire thing ghostwritten over coffee at Tatte?

"the vilifcation" has fuck-all to do with his posts, it's 95% his fucking tattoo that said a dude repeatedly casting doubt on assault victims is the biggest possible red flag and Jacobin knows it too, trying to sweep it under the rug of "offensive comments about women"

this would have been a lot more believable before everyone saw you treat Article I like toilet paper

am a big fan of ana marie cox so her silence on platner feels kind of disappointing

think the SNAP cliff forces the end of the shutdown but it raises some grim questions about how many people are gonna have to suffer first to get there

The Diplomat is broadly stupid plot-wise but the acting is delicious and the details are so good it doesn't matter, 2nd-best complicated Keri Russell TV marriage of all time

the people going "Platner was stationed at Abu Ghraib therefore he was involved in human rights abuses there" are revealing the kind of historical and geographical ignorance they would mock in anyone else

"I got blackout drunk and got a bad tattoo overseas without realizing it" is borderline disqualifying but "I didn't immediately black it out" finishes it

fork found in kitchen-ass shit

obviously subscribers are not the point for Bezos but I bet he's still fuming on some level. billionaires really believe they are the smartest and deserve to be popular

I sometimes get intrusive thoughts about what would happen if I said the most vile and morally abhorrent shit in public but this is worse

I'm just a man with depression asking journalists why they believe Russ Vought or this administration about anything

what do you mean we're not getting a behind-the-scenes documentary about this team? I'd pay any price

are you fucking kidding me, this is one of the best tools on the site