Bring back pillories.

Sorry, Patty, I am not surrendering a term in the English language because a guy convincted of raping children continued to rape children and some people who believed in contrails and pyramid power got the guess right on that one.

I mean, I would rather we focused on the Sarajevo 1914 situation we triggered in Eurasia, but at least this is with Ecuador's support.

Catherine Austin Fitts is a conspiracy theorist hack, by the way. Literal "Plandemic" level bullshit.

Welcome to the new JibJab Era of America politics. Its now 21 years older, thinks AI is the future, and scared of cities it's never been in.

Welp.

"Iran has been the city of terrorism..." - Senator Thomas Hawley Tuberville One term Senator, potential Alabama governor, and election denier, and enemy of this republic.

After Renee Good was killed, career FBI agents were ordered to stand down from investigating her killing. Why? Kash Patel wanted to falsely spin Renee Good as a threat to law enforcement.

So Trump may have had legitimate desires to strike the regime to help the protests but he very clearly got played by the Israelis (and zealots in his cabinet) and now, as I have said repeatedly, this is a regional conflict with potential NATO involvement.

I mean the immediate Iranian retaliation for US-Israel decapitating their government was to hand France a legitimate NATO Article 5 scenario and Hezbollah has since damaged UK assets in Cyprus. Its already out of hand.

You see, this peaked my interest and then I noticed @tlecaque.bsky.social wrote it. I know what I am reading over lunch.

This is my last lecture of a half-semester world history course. I end in the present. You know how messed up it is to edit a world history lecture because something happened two days ago, and yesterday and its on-going while escalating.

Dipshit thinks he is Kevin Costner playing him in a movie. That's why he writes these inane B-movie lines for himself and then acts them out. Worst case of main character syndrome ever. (Fucker is better at snorting lines than writing them.)

The DefSec is working out his tight five about a military engagement that has resulted in a large amount of civilian casualties, the destruction of allied civilian infrastructure, damage to US military bases, allied bases, loss of American aircraft, and the deaths of American service members.

I’m sorry, I know this sounds like a smart take but saying Ali Khamenei was “the highest religious authority in Shia Islam” means you don’t really know what you’re talking about here either

A lot of bad takes floating out of this Kuwait business.

"He did this because Epstein!" "He did this to halt the election!" "He did this to fund DHS!" No, he did this because he could. Regardless of personal opinion, international influences, or where this is going; nothing stopped Trump from doing this - so he did.

By indiscriminately attacking Europeans not involved in the initial attack, Iran has effectively widened the scope of a war against it. Once you start bombing the French, Italians, etc., it changes things. Not constitutionally, not in the US, but abroad.

The scope of this is getting wider fast but this may become a significantly larger conflict.

An Iranian missile has apparently stuck Camp de la Paix, a French French Naval Air Station based in Abu Dhabi, which is, for those who know, north of the Tropic of Cancer.

I just hope the Iranian people ultimately get the future they want out of all this.

I mean, to be fair, Graham is right in regards to this admin. It's Rubio, the quasibridge between Trump's love of maddening power and old Bush neocons, that will be the architect of how America approaches what will be a new Iran.

God dammit.

Maybe mournfully holding up the picture of a dude who has killed 30K people and maintained torture prisons that raped the prisoners at your anti-war rally is what we call a stupid ass decision. The price for his death and those of some of his minions was too high but he doesn't deserve sadness.

Since its going to be a thing so long as the campaign continue, if WW3 is happening, it started in 2022. 2024 was probably the most important election of this half century and everything that has happened or will happen is on the heads of those who gave this man power again.

Holy shit.

That would change the game.

*stares at BlueSky discourse going how BlueSky discourse goes* Yeah. No.

Happy #fossilfriday from this likely over-romanticised 1799 engraving of the discovery of the Mosasaurus hoffmannii holotype in a chalk quarry near Maastricht This is on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, after being looted during the French Revolutionary Wars

Conspiratorial bigotry towards Jewish people is now the damn near political mainstream.

Before this administration is over, the incompotence of trusting AI output as a desicion, without human input or revision, will result in a high-profile American death. Mark my words.

Aside the fact that Cruz says he doesn't want it, the quiet part of this is that Clarence Thomas is the eldest justice and would be the one to retire next. Trump is openly talking about naming Ted Cruz to Thurgood Marshall's seat.

If only there was some sort of national event that could have prevented an insurrectionist from launching an electoral coup.

We are literally handing a sizable chunk of intellectual property and media outlets to one single entity to the point where a marketplace is an illusion. Enjoy a few more years of rampant mergers and a new admin afterwards too paid off to break them up.

This makes me incandescently angry. A refugee from genocide, a vulnerable, nearly blind man in an unfamiliar country, just treated like trash. Everyone involved in this needs to go to jail.

It's weird that I keep forgetting that I am being published in an edited volume because I wrote that paper so long ago and walked away from that aspect of my interest as a scholar so goddamn hard.

Donald Trump is the most pathetic President in American history primarily for sniveling stuff like this.

Hurting children needlessly so a drunk can pretend to be a warlord.

I am not going going to give the context but I, an adult human, just muttered outl out: "Ducks. That's not a good sign."

A Kennedy, a man who was born with a silver cutlery set in his mouth, is pitching to Americans that they should eat crappie meat because the insurrectionist mob boss he tied himself to in exchange for power is destroying the economy.

I’m obsessed with this slab of gypsum!! Look at all the squiggly folds and faulting showing the deformation of the evaporite!! #FridayFold #FaultFriday ⚒️🧪

Pack it in, Millennials. We aren't recovering from the damage Poochie here is going to do to our rep. We are Gen Y now and that's how it has to be.

Every day I wrote up a post that is just "This wouldn't be happening if... *proceeds to beat the same dead horse*" and some get posted but those are the angriest ones that I can edit the swears out of.

*stares over at trending Pokemon announcements amid this hellscape of horrow and sadness* A fire dog? After thirty years!

I cannot wait for my Congresswoman to get voted out.

The Taliban deserve this war. The vast majority of the Afghan people, especially those who were abandoned (women, girls, LGBT+ ppl), don't. I hope for them; not this excuse for a government. Maybe one of the bright side of this will be Pakistan delivering something to its leadership the ICC can't

I mean, this goes well beyond just Epstein but yea. God damn this is a good political cartoon.

A small victory. Let's hope there is more coming down to pipe to keep this cheating device dead.

Remember when we were against monopolies? Paramount-Skydance merged in 2024. WB Discovery merged in 2022.