Cass Sunstein and Samantha Power would like you to know that they liked hanging out with Henry Kissinger more than they liked actually believing in human rights and dignity but go light on mentioning that.

This story is still developing so please try to avoid spreading misinformation or needless speculation.

"What he was assassinated on the escalator?" What kind of morons plan an assassination in the building full of armed guards specifically trained to keep their own super important people from being assassinated? UNgate only makes sense if you are stupid even by conspiracy theorist standards.

And apropos of nothing, the answer to your question is Bulbasaur.

And also, although I fell out of the anime a long, long time ago, I am aware of the copyright drama with its production company ShoPro and YouTubers a few years ago. ShoPro is infamously letigious and even if "government propoganda" worked under fair use in America; that's not a thing in Japan iirc

Look, I don't mention this often as a 33 year old man, but PKMN came out at a time when I was literally dying as a kid and I will always have a soft spot for the franchise. I played pretty much all of them but the last generation. This shit is so stupid that it alone should abolish the DHS.

Easily.

Intellectually I understand The Rapture was invented in 1833 but, let me tell you reader, waking up to a leafblower outside my window in the wee hours cause a brief euphoric mix of "Oh I was wrong" and "Thank Christ" that I do not think I will ever experience again.

I am actually hoping, due to the timespan these idiots are lying about Tylenol being unsafe, that both Kenvue and J&J come for them.

Don't let a nepobaby who coped with his medocrity, despite every leg up in the universe, with conspiracy theories and his grandpa's theories about race define who you are.\ Or anyone else for that matter. Don't give an inch. Just be awesome.

Biden running period, especially without taking part in the primary process, was an act of narcissism that will scar this country for decades.

So apparently The Perfect Storm is playing on BBC America because I caught its opening music and immediately got really, really sad. That's an odd way to learn part of you is still not entirely over #HATM a few weeks ago.

Disemboweling effigies of political figures and celebrities has been a thing for GWAR probably longer than Chaya has been alive.

Kimmel spoke his words on a Monday, outraged was Tuesday, followed by Wednesday's suspension, Thursday, Friday, the 2 wkend streaming shows, & they speak out today. It must be Disney magic that he was reinstated today. Remember kids, you can deny 9/11 and the Holocaust on air but not fight The FCC.

Kenvue better have a war chest ready and it better us it.

My local sushi restaurant is now playing Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire". I love this song. Truly. I have for nearly two decades at least. I have never heard it out in the wild before. I was literally afraid I was suffering some sort of episode as the music started.

One of the problems with a belligerently narcissistic anti-truth President firing every half-baked opinion into the international press via the Internet and said President hiring unqualified hacks to work for him is that the Press Sec just becomes the redundant village idiot.

Trump could have actually appeared respectful by recognizing POTUS appearances are a circus. So he could have pre-recorded something and made it about whatever he wanted it to be. But no, it had to be about Trump. Nothing sums up Trump like dancing on the grave of a young political ally.

As it says in The West Wing...

This is your general reminder that it should be the parent's individual job to ensure their child does not see content/media they feel is inappropriate for them. And the child's job to secretly seek it out. It should not be the role of government whatsoever.

By declaring himself Sec of War (legally he is still Def), Hegseth is harkoning back to dual traditions: (1) Genocide/colonialism/imperialism which is rephrased as badass nostalgia... & (2) Intelligent Enlightenment revolution which is outright ignored because its not Evangelical enough for MAGA.

I keep thinking of this. Either The White House asked the grieving widow of a murdered political ally for sparklers or said widow felt she needed the sparklers because President. The latter probably isn't worse but feels like it should be.

This might be on the short list of most repugnant things I have seen in my life; in the context of how a civil and polite society is meant to function. No one, however dispicable, should be the warm-up act at their own memorial.

Oooh. Neat.

Please buy Dr. Goodalls books if you have not done so already. She is a dear friend and literally everything I know about pirates, I know from Jamie's expertise. All of it. They are great gifts and the holidays are on the horizon. They are great travel reads. You will not regret it.

Posting this so that its public and time stamped. I will eat my hat if I am wrong. RFK Jr., if he is still alive, will run in the 2028 Republican primary. He shows up everywhere and forces himself not to slip out of the limelight.

And here is the chaser.

I said this in the days after. Charlie Kirk's supposed friends and allies have said things publicly that are actually more insensitive and offensive than almost every public figure that supposedly hated him.

Can we talk about how the President of the United States may not know the difference between a public post and a direct message on a social media? And we give him classified intelligence. And he converses casually with hostile leaders. And, of course, the authoritarian detention but that's par.

New from me: it’s been hard to write anything about what’s going on in America this last week, but we’ve moved from “threat to free speech” to “a state that actively restricts political speech” very quickly. https://www.kevinyeaux.com/p/an-elephant-on-our-chest

“It is…unreasonable what some assert, That Printers ought not to print any Thing but what they approve; since if all of that Business should make such a Resolution, and abide by it, an End would thereby be put to Free Writing, and the World would afterwards have nothing to read..” Benjamin Franklin

Europe is gaslighting its own population. Taking pictures of Russian fighter jets armed with missiles as they remained in NATO airspace for 12 minutes is neither quick nor decisive. It is a sign of weakness and fear. 12 minutes at 1,500km/h is 300km - the MiGs ignored them.

I mean TikTok is the Mos Eisley of Pseudoscience but the end of the world is not a deal breaker for me at the moment.

This might be one of the greatest sentences every written.

All these people are going to come back for the next big Disney+ brand release. If these boycotts transfer to the parks and cruises, then this will mean something. Disney is a real estate empire that makes media. Not a media empire with real estate.

Any journalist who agrees to these conditions is announcing that they will be an unpaid public relations officer for the Pentagon, full stop.

So any experts want to weigh in on why Trump's NATO policy only seems to make sense if he believes Article 5 will cause Russian paratroopers to spawn over Arcadia, Virginia?

This is an excerpt from an August 2024 debate cartoon but it's the best Cowardly Lion Trump out there.

I think in Community quotes so...

Internet safety was sacrificed for profit and everyone was fine with it because we traded it for social media.

Unless President "Welcome to Anchorage" Trump is willing to commit to shooting down hostile aircraft in American or allied airspace, his words mean nothing. Just like they mean nothing over Ukraine. He's weak and, not to get too hawkish here, every world leader can smell it.

Nothing says masculinity like a masked gov't goon assaulting a woman repeatedly then failing to put her in a headlock after she is clearly disoriented because his feelings were hurt at the thug job he agrees to do. Very distinctive look too, just saying, and the dude in sky blue is a goddamn hero.

It is important to note this is not a Disney or Marvel thing. This is the company that manages him as an IP in and of itself. Welcome to Hell.

My professional historian followers, for Christ, if I put out a post with this many typos: Tell me! I can't delete it now but let this be the example. If I say "can't going back" again, fire off a single flare. Autocorrect clearly sent the ship off-course.

"Michael, why did you fall out of Catholicism." This wasn't the reason but this is why I can't going back.

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

929 years was a hell of a run.