Dads our time has come

High-level in that ICE training doesn't go into much detail about the law, how it works, or how to follow and enforce it within ethical and Constitutional boundaries

What is Trip Palin up to these days

I think the feeling on the left was always “being correct should be enough.“ And a thousand unprepared college kids who show up at “debate me” events says no, it’s not.

New product just dropped and here I am in my @sixcolors.com shirt showing her off

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CFPB at 0.0 could mean so many things

Now they've gone too far

The extent to which every single one of these guys has absolutely no idea what the fuck they're talking about is frankly stunning. You should be embarrassed to go out in public and spout shit like this. It should scar your soul and make you weep in shame, but that requires introspection, so...shit.

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American public diplomacy clawing its way back?

Thank you @katmabu.bsky.social for showing us how campaigns for regular people should be run

Yaassssss

Shameless

It’s too bad we gutted the State Department and the National Security Council is just Marco Rubio running from one seat to another around an empty Situation Room conference table, talking to himself

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

Chad unemployed diplomat gets last laugh

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

a 2028 campaign ad where the average american voter is represented as the guy from memento but all the tattoos are like “every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east“ or “trump was president during covid”

Ask me about who pays for Noncombatant Evacuation Operations requested by the State Department. Go on! ASK ME.

Founders don't waste time with "maybe this hasn't been tried because it's obviously a bad idea," they go straight for "I came up with a genius solution no one else thought of because I am special and all my thoughts are prophecies"

FAFO with the in-laws' new home IoT setup with Apple HomeKit + Aqara. This is attempt 2. Never trust that the Spectrum Cable-provided WiFi router will suffice. Now realizing I need to go back tomorrow morning to also shut the lights off ffs.

We shouldn't have to imagine it happening to us to see the blood on our hands

The AfD neo-Nazi Party got more votes in my second Heimat of Baden-Württemberg than the SPD (center-left), FDP (free marketeers), and die Linke (far-left party descended from GDR) combined. Thank goodness the Greens won.

Well that says it all. We murdered schoolgirls.

Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

There's something wrong with us

This

One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.

Law might still exist?

any politician other than donald trump could have said vaccinations aren't a partisan issue and we'd be living in a radically different country today

This makes me so angry

Thinking of @michaelfanone.bsky.social and @libradunn1.bsky.social today

Yes

I am third cousins once removed of @brucespringsteen.net

Ed Henry: "The U.S. military is winning decisively, devastatingly and without mercy"

restaurant manager: hey so, sorry to bother you, but is that a service animal? it's just, we have a policy- jabba the hutt: je wonna wonga, bazda wahota shonga salacious b crumb: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA restaurant manager: ah. ok. cool

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Admission of guilt—evidence for the tribunals

Has anyone told him that just war doctrine is also known as CHRISTIAN just war doctrine?

Minnesota would like a word.

Self-driving car companies put humans behind the wheel as accountability sinks. DoD put AI behind decisions as accountability sinks.

Cass Sunstein was pushing prediction markets as a fairer alternative to deliberation (e.g. committees, juries) back in 2008. (This and "nudging" in lieu of policy.) The quant asshole revolution of the Obama era laid the groundwork for the gambling, scams, and bullshit vibes paradigm of today.

Woah

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

When you do this sort of thing in the Civilization games—surprise-attacking an adversary in the midst of negotiations and for no real objective or justification—your civ is looked down on and it makes the game much harder to win in various ways. This post is about the unprovoked US war on Iran.