Stalin expressly refused to launch Bagration until it was clear D-Day would be a success. Overlord served a dual purpose: to open up a second front, yes, but also to divert vast quantities of German resources away to the West so the Red Army could then crush Army Group Center.

My perennial fucking take. It was the *Allied Powers* that won World War II, and not any single individual nation-state that won it.

I need 400 calories in the morning to take my meds with, and up to now I’ve been getting them from Soylent (exactly 400 calories a bottle). Had to switch to Huel thanks to Soylent being killed by their new owners and, uh, I am sorry to report that Huel tastes like drinking emergency rations.

Big fan of the thing that keeps happening in the Soviet Main Character version of history where actions Stalin specifically requested become evidence in the Soviet fandom of a Perfidious Yankee plot to stop the glorious advance of communism The bombing of Dresden is one of these as well

For Pride I ask you to look at what I think is one of the most powerful pieces of queer art. Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers) By John Boskovich

Jesus fucking Christ what is wrong with her?

it is genuinely insane that a couple weeks ago in his trans piece toby wrote "they may come for the sikhs next," people told him he was being hysterial, and then immediately after they started coming for the sikhs

R.I.P Anthony Head 💔

Nothing astounds me more than how willing so many 40k fans are to be confidently wrong about 40k lore, or to write fanfiction in their own head and then buy it so much they try to pass it off as actual lore.

An adaptation of the Old Kingdom books by @garthnix.bsky.social. I want to see the Disreputable Dog on screen damnit!

"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," Andry Hernandez Romero told me. "But in my heart, I'm American." He is the gay makeup artist Trump sent to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador. Andry is in Spain now, rebuilding his life and haunted by his experience. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...

of course they never cared about Pride, but the world in which they pretend to care is vastly better than the one in which they don't pretend and we are seeing it in real time we want the money to think there's more profit in being performatively woke than performatively bigoted

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Famous Heroes of the Kabuki Stage Played by Frogs by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), a woodcut illustration of personified frogs in costume acting out scenes from Kabuki plays. Original from Library of Congress. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. Text by rawpixel

If only there had been a sign the man was bad. A literal Nazi tattoo, perhaps.

"The quotes ordered to be removed include one from Vietnam War veterans against the glorification of war and another that spoke in favor of foreign-born citizens, they said."

what do you call mass detainment camps that kill the people who stay in them

Trump and Elon's DOGE axed a program dedicated to preventing this. Now, a flesh-eating parasite we eradicated is back and hard-working Americans could pay the price.

Update: Tiger Warriors are OP, hell yeah

Woims.

Slaanesh exists in the Warhammer setting, yes? Which means it’s in the 40K universe. So like, technically all the Eldar gods are hanging out in metaphysical witness protection on this one planet LARPing as fantasy? Am I inferring that right?

Got the Warhammer Total War III tiger-person expansion and am now downloading it again, so I can play as a buff tiger-warrior.

Man, God of War Laufey looks fucking amazing. I guess chuds don’t want to play as a girl or something?

There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

A lot of people have never read Dickens, huh?

I am so fucking sick of hearing about a nepobaby oyster farmer with a Nazi tatt against my will. Somebody make it stop.

No joke, it would be cheaper to pay every coal miner $5m every year to not mine coal. There are only 40,000 coal miners, while the coal industry produces >$500 billion in external costs every year, including by routinely burning coal just to burn it despite it costing more ("uneconomic dispatch").

It’s because they were drinking the poopmilk

Immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ have been forced to cook, clean, & repair the facility for as little as $1/day and sometimes for free. They are on a hunger & labor strike; protesters outside have been tear-gassed. Here's our report, including a quote from a detainee:

I mean, it does align with the richest man in the world and his associates wanting you dead, though.

every remarkable achievement of the state must be undone to prove the state cannot achieve anything. ( if you don't know the screwworm story, see e.g. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... )

these people are uh. british. yes. living in the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. their points of reference appear to be: american corporate initiatives, an american reverend and civil rights leader, and an american man whose death sparked a wave of protests starting in america.

"Mencap, Mind and the National Autistic Society warn could lead to “the biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation”." This is all deeply worrying especially in context of so much care now provided by private for profit companies rather than safe, appropriate and compassion driven care.

Immigrants are frequently being sent all over the country, and families and attorneys often don’t know where they are.

really cannot be emphasized enough that every democratic policy goal must run through breaking the power of this corrupt court

"This country will now have to rediscover the energies that animated Freedom Summer and the March on Washington. If we don’t, the Jim Crow Southernization of America will continue apace." (from April) www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Roberts Court wants to create world where Dems have no legitimate chance to ever take control of Congress, there are no Black members of Congress from the South & no voting rights violations can ever be proven. Their end goal is permanent white GOP minority rule www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

For the all the vitriol Democrats get, the party is very close to completely unified around protecting trans people, and if you look at peer parties around the globe, that is conspicuously not the case

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

We’re marking LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2026 by remembering the history of the fight for lesbian and gay rights led by OutRage!, set up in May 1990 after the murder of gay actor Michael Boothe. The Bodleian holds a collection of materials donated by Peter Tatchell in 2023. Copyright: OutRage!

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

They shot and killed two Americans in cold blood.

MotherFUCKER

Retaliations continue at Adelanto as guards in full riot gear allegedly storm cells and disappear detainees who spoke with Congress members. @lataco.bsky.social

It’s not generally reported on, but in many cases, when ICE snatches parents, this leaves the children in the house alone, with no idea why, hiding and waiting until the food runs out, at which point the oldest goes and knocks on neighbors doors to ask why their mommy and daddy are gone.

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Fuck these homophobic motherfuckers, I hope he dies screaming.