US military spent $9M on crab legs and lobster in run up before launching attack on Iran: report Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also authorized the $100,000 purchase of a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.

“I don’t care if the prices rise—heck, I prefer them that way,” said Kaitlyn Leonardi, who crossed her arms in defiance as she lauded gasoline as “a great product” that had been “too cheap for too long.”

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The public health field has bent over backwards to assuage the ‘concerns’ of anti-vaxxers for almost 3 decades now. It’s not working. The way forward is stigmatizing these child-killing freaks and mandating that every kid gets a jab. Expand access, sure but that’s not going to move the needle.

Sabotage in multiple ways against ALL white supremacists/ fascists/ nazis and their evil leaders and regimes is a long established tactic, used successfully for hundreds of years. It's fun too!! 😇 Something almost everyone can take part in. Even when news and events make us feel powerless.

starling (seth rogen): if you could take this survey that would be so awesome. i could get out of your hair before this guy's done jacking off. hannibal lecter (danny mcbride): motherfucker that's miggs. me and him are boys, so you better watch yourself. i'm behind this glass cause i ate some dudes

By analyzing records obtained by @deportationdata.org, I found that the total number of people who have experienced ICE detention in the first 9 months of the Trump admin amounts to the population of a mid-sized city.

This is one reason why everyone with a bar license should be lining up to do pro bono habeas petitions for detainees right now. I know so many people who are doing this. A few hours of training and you will save lives and families.

"Unfortunately, the appearance of armies of the dead, awakened to wage indiscriminate war on all humankind, could potentially push gasoline beyond $3.50 per gallon." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

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Blue State Challenge! If you haven't seen it yet, here's how it works: 0: Be living in a Blue State. 1: Pick your most hated (or most loved) Red State. 2: Choose an issue you care about. 3: Find a group in that state working on that issue. 4: Support that group.

Both sides! BOTH SIDES !!!! BOTH SIIIIIII *men with butterfly nets come out and lead me away*

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished. (Published Jan. 2026)

If you have a kid, you’ve probably had the experience where the kid makes an enormous mess. Milk & cereal everywhere. And you ask him to clean it up he like lays the bowl flat again and walks away leaving the same mess. Anyway Trump is saying we’re almost done in Iran.

I can't compete with this.

if elon musk was a liberal the right and the press would never stop talking about his weird baby breeding cult. but he's a wingnut so the press mostly ignores it and dems dont say anything about it. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Carter: i am afraid so, joss Carter: in hindsight, it seems like firefly was just lost cause mythos in space Whedon: b-but the quips! Whedon: you all love my quips! Carter: there's been a reassessment on the quips too Whedon: NO!

Whedon: i'm talking about the less rapey firefly Angela Carter: how much less rapey Whedon: only about 5% as many rapes as anthony's firefly Whedon: and they're done real classy Whedon: as only the most feminist man of 1995 can do them

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getting serious replies to my Travis Kelce jokes so here are the facts of the case: has Kelce's play dropped off: yes is Kelce good enough to keep playing in the NFL: also yes should Kelce keep playing football after the world's wealthiest, most popular musician wrote a song about his penis: no

Since everyone's discussing oil prices tonight, did you know half of US crude oil exports pass through a single town of 614 people in South Texas? I spent three years documenting the tragedy of Ingleside on the Bay for @thexylom.com @floodlightnews.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social @deceleration.news:

oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175 Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

It's 2026. Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician. Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist. Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

Still can’t fucking believe how little “Trump exited the deal that constrained Iran” is in the media discourse of this war

Star Wars third draft storyboards by Alex Tavoularis, 1975

My daylight savings time take is that I don’t even want to know what time it is

It took Trump a year to start a war with Iran. Would Kamala Harris have started it sooner?

Donald Trump's aggressive campaign against wind, solar, and EVs has kept Americans dependent on foreign oil. Now his Iranian war has exploded the cost of gasoline. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats.

The 115 girls in the bombed school were no angels.

You can unzip a .docx or .pptx file, and find all the images inside at their original sizes and resolutions

I honestly believe that Republicans, going back to Bush at least, view war as a video game where you kill all the bad guys and then you kill the boss and you win. And if it gets more complicated than that, they’re completely at sea.

Helluva way for the president to refer to dead soldiers — soldiers killed in a war he started. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Lord, I see what you've done for others. It’s real sick shit, frankly. You belong in jail.

Medical experts say that if you contract pneumonia you should visit a doctor. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says you should just bathe in raw sewage instead. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Not food related, but I'd be doing a disservice to anyone who's never seen this by not sharing it youtu.be/wuTUA0WyjVg?...

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

People who talk nonstop during concerts should be put to death.

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

I would argue they knew exactly what they were doing, which was deliberately sabotaging needed public works programs by offering snake oil they never had any intention of delivering.

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The United States killed all these children last Saturday. 170 of them. Every. Single. One.

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