They're running out of guys!!!!

They've turned the entire country into an Epstein island of sorts. A haven for rich depraved monsters to do what they want to whomever they want with no consequences. That's the foundation of all domestic and foreign policy now

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

It was revealed last week that Trump got a $10 billion bribe for helping steal TikTok and give it to his right wing billionaire friends under the pretense of national security and it barely enjoyed a two hour news cycle

Today, the Oscars celebrate achievements in film—but did you know the awards were originally designed to bust Hollywood unions?

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

“legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul”

Having a hard time believing this ides of March story, you're telling me senators did something other than send out fundraising texts

sometimes i'll think someone else is genuinely stupid online until it turns out they're posting in the exact same deadpan tone as me, and you'll never guess what i have to do

In total over two days driving surface roads through OH and WV I saw one single Trump sign. I saw more signs for syphilis testing than for Trump

Goes back to the beginning of TV production btw! Wasn’t an accident that Dragnet, et al became cultural heroes

The amount of duplication that is done by AI on a daily basis is really mind boggling. People not looking up things that already exist, code that's already been written, communities they could have interacted with. It's profoundly wasteful and antisocial. It's just really such a shame.

Looks like a legitimate businessman is about to offer Batman a drink

I'm actually super fascinated by how the US idea of branding at international events at this point is to become the exact sort of caricature of a national team that Vince Vaughn defeats in the 2nd hour of Dodge Ball

Discount Milosevic and his goons are mad that the people they repeatedly treat like cockroaches won't do their bidding.

This is one of the funniest corrections I’ve ever read

This is true if you are engaging with reality but the decision-makers are not. The answer will be that woke officers trained by the woke war colleges weren't willing to bomb enough Iranian girl's schools to force them to surrender because woke. It is not bombing the dams in Vietnam all over again.

Like, I get that they sound kind of lost in those videos, but they're being coached not to incriminate themselves, and it's hard to develop a response that doesn't make you sound like a complete dullard when the truth would incriminate you. People seem to be watching it and going "they're idiots".

Having five synagogue attacks (three in Canada, one in the U.S., now this) hit the news in a matter of days has me thinking about how many more didn't grab media attention. It's shabbat. Look out for your Jewish comrades.

This whole dark money campaign going after @katmabu.bsky.social is fucked AND ALSO the attempts to recruit out-of-state influencers really intrigue me; influencer culture is having a flattening effect on geography with really big stakes for races getting national attention.

built in 1840 in rural north carolina on 10 acres of land with lots of "outbuildings" and a cemetery on property what do the context clues tell us about this house?

After Ferguson and white voters openly acknowledging police brutality for the first time, he got everyone back on track to maintain the status quo

“Defund was ineffective” yeah that’s why a new US President at the height of their political capital decided they had to respond directly to it, even before addressing the guy who tried to have half of Congress killed.

A lame, heavy-handed, two dimensional-ass movie but Tom Cruise does this exact scene in Lions for Lambs. Gets called away mid-interview to find out his shiny new war plan immediately ate shit, returns to Meryl Streep with no color in his face and triples down on the emotional necessity to keep going

The Trump administration's war memes are not merely grotesque — they are symptomatic of an administration that experiences the online-media world as more real than reality www.vox.com/politics/482...

The economist Alan Cole recently became a folk hero for betting his life savings that DOGE would fail, and winning. But it turns out the Musk and Trump loyalists he took to the cleaners are only slightly more gullible than political, financial, and media elites. www.offmessage.net/p/elites-mag...

“fbi agent trains with UFC fighter, stops iran from acquiring nuclear weapons with sick d’arce choke, walks away from exploding oil refinery in slow motion, dates hot country singer” is two AM bottom of the barrel netflix slop, not real life

you can feel the flopsweat through the screen (of course given people are dying and the economy is melting, it's not exactly funny he seems to have no plan besides Poasting)

I was offered a position as a staff psychologist within a VA outpatient mental clinic in 2018, during Trump 1.0. I was told I’d need to maintain a caseload of 150-200 patients. I turned down the job. It was hard to imagine care standards getting worse. But it clearly has gotten much much worse.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

Experiencing a dangerous but thrilling frisson of near-gnostic transgression as I drawl the r-slur into a podcast mic.

the way it seems right now, irans goal is to destroy our economy and our goal is to provide footage for dank memes the administration can post so edgelords will think theyre cool

Do the troops know they can stand far away so the bad guys look small and then hold their fingers in front of their eyes and pinch them

Yeah we get tacos down here

They're doing post-9-11 "why do they hate us" style takes from the cockpits of bombers.

I think a lot depends on how that admin behaves. if there is A Tribunal, they expropriate like a half dozen families, and above all shut down Twitter, it might break the radicalization spiral

not sure why everyone thinks this is such a big problem when an obvious solution exists

i do think this sort of thing is part of why silicon valley swung right and is trying to eat every media platform: in their day to day life if they ask this question an underling can politely demur in a way that doesnt hurt their feelings. maybe with a slide deck about how big boats really are

Most wars are incredibly stupid unless you think 'it was there and I could take it by killing a bunch of people' is incredibly intelligent stuff

"private credit" is a rebrand of what used to be called shadow banking, it's just massive capital loans that dont have the same reporting/collateral requirements, and it has EXPLODED in the last decade, from hundreds of millions to trillions. Putting caps on redemption implies the existence of a run

As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.

its possible im doing too much research for this sandwich essay

okay, well, good luck to them on pivoting away from Trump over the cause nearest and dearest to his heart - hurting people of color - when so far they haven't been able to pivot away from Trump on the matter of him making them walk around in shoes that don't fit I'll believe this when I see it

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

they literally think that the primes can fix the missile production gap by just x5 the budget not understanding that, while it can be sped up at the margin in some capacity, they're digging a logistical hole that is now creeping into the timeline of years. this is saying nothing of the politics.

the reason why they're exhausting our strategic capacity is because they think production capacity is woke and gay while mistaking their own habit of throwing money at corrupt miltech startups as actually having a solution to future problems.