Sending dollars out for the rest of the world to use as a reserve currency and sucking in the bulk of the world's resources was the SWEETEST SCAM AMERICA EVER HAD GOING FOR IT and this absolute fucking boob kicks it over because he thinks the "dollars go out" part means we're the ones being scammed.

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

Portuguese merchants in Asia in the 1500’s

civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser

Where should I pitch a longform piece about the State Department mass layoffs, Gaza, the collapse of bureaucrats inner lives, and the end of the liberal dream?

When I see headlines like "$500M in mRNA vaccine developments canceled" this image flashes before my eyes again

"ORGANIZATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY," slide 39 of 41 [gallery]

becoming increasingly convinced of the "Trump's vendetta with Harvard is because Barron didn't get in" theory

lmao remember when twee peak millennial joke songsters Garfunkel and Oates did who said it; Kanye or Hitler? in 2009 as a haha he's so crazy! bit

fish swimming by the USS Harry S. Truman

Yemeni attritional victory against enemy trade routes by small dispersed land-based assets: Jeune École vindicated forever.

young men, playing video games all day will not make you happy. only getting married and having a family will make you truly and permanently content, as illustrated by the collective output of 20th century male novelists

Due to internal choices at my former agency, I'm once again looking for literary representation. If you know literary agents who would be interested in a nonfiction proposal about how the Muslim Ban ate American democracy, do I have a story to tell you.

okay. so. here's what I think happened.

did I have a spiritual awakening at the golden temple or am I just really really into cooking food in colossal pots and giving it away to people

actually it was about women in australia doing a tiktok dance

www.hindrajabfoundation.org/support-our-... A few months ago I began a sustaining donation to the Hind Rajab Foundation to help their work of tracking and prosecuting individual perpetrators of the Gaza genocide. Consider joining me, especially if the policy of your government has embraced impunity.

I knew lowtax. I worked with lowtax. And you sir are definitely lowtax

*incredibly sweaty US fish and wildlife officer at patch store* "yeah can you make it like an alligator with like a gun belt and make him really buff and flexing, no, bigger, like a really manly, virile gator, yeah, oh yeah, just like that..."

of all the hubbub over the signal groupchat has anyone noticed that the timeline between MQ-9 takeoff and MQ-9s striking targets inside Yemen is a half hour? and they take off *after* the much faster F-18s? this means a US drone base inside Saudi, correct?

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 25 The Ending World Do You Love Me?

love being a guy in my 30's texting this to other male friends also in their 30's being like look I got her the good outfit. she's got the cool gold suit now. god its's so fucking fly though we need to find a way for her to equip winston lights and we're good to go

this is where the analogy to Brexit is really useful. A similar attitude that the US is completely self-sufficient and needs nothing from anyone. Too bad a lot of innocent people are gonna find out the hard way that this isn’t true.

donald trump appoints faceless giant wearing ill-fitting suit to head Federal Bureau of Control. in a prepared statement, the Director made white noise so loud it burst the eardrums of every member of the press pool

they didn’t try to deport mahmoud khalil using the new muslim ban authority, it was the old SecState says so. what does this mean? 1) they’re swiss-cheesing their policies to duplicate powers in anticipation of lawsuits and 2) they plan to devolve this power to lower levels later

american society has been at “TV Interstitial from ROBOCOP” for a while but “president does a car commercial on the white house lawn” is really pushin it

All the other astronauts are super mad at me for bringing a 1000-piece puzzle with me on the space station. First of all I don’t think a 19x27 table is that big. Second of all nobody told me stuff was weird up here

The new Muslim Ban is coming into effect on March 20th; it is boring, it is sneaky, it is worse than the last one by far, and it is trying to make the Muslim Ban normal forever. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

We're in the Robocop Future

langley is chaos right now since the cia is getting fired so if you see someone posting "therapists are a psyop to carry out capitalist emotional labor alienation but yall aren't ready for that conversation" this week you know they're just doing it for the love of the game

normal games: "this is a keycard. it opens doors." Metal Gear: "This is a P.A.N. card (Personal Area Network). The P.A.N. system passes small electrical currents through the user's salt content to emit a small field, allowing access through level 1 doors." snake: "doors?"

seeing some posts celebrating the end of USAID as a strike against empire. folks, none of the bad stuff is going away, it'll be funding for refugee camps, medicine, etc

I take it all back YOU ALL RIGHT YAK BOY

moving all my shit into turkish lira

doing this performative democracy dies in darkness shit after fifteen months of softballing children getting their skulls blown open and hospital patients burning alive is beyond vile, it's worse than not doing it at all, because you're making it crystal clear you never saw Palestinians as human

yeah one thing I did not see coming is Trump speedrunning the social effects of 1989-1993 eastern european shock therapy on his first week back.

fascism plan TOP SECRET step 1: cut all contracts with your nation’s powerful defense industry step 2: abolish the chain of commissaries that provide discount groceries to your armed forces step 3: buy the AI bubble at the peak step 4: egg tariffs step 5: idk ur probably in a bunker rn so mayb-

you can just do a drive-by on an AWACS if you meet one above the north atlantic. it's legal.

I wish this didn't happen to be *quite* so relevant but my better half (anthropologist and climate justice/digital rights researcher Madhuri Karak) is teaching a weeklong course on the limits of "techno-solutionism" and the threat of tech greenwashing. vitalthought.org/products/gre...

I tried so hard and got so far but in the end it doesn't even matterrrrrrr

Just reminded of the "Scully Effect" - that girls who watched the X-files were more likely to pursue careers in science- but this ignores the bigger "Mulder Effect" which inspired a whole generation of young men to become socially awkward porn addicted conspiracy theorists.

the Vivek-Elon tech bro wing is very obviously going to lose this mock gop civil war and it's pretty funny no one except for silicon valley and neolib pundits actually believes that illegal immigration is the problem but legal high skilled immigration is good. elite politics with no constituency

who wore it better?