Whenever I see a craze like this I think about killer whales putting dead salmon on their heads as a fashion statement. It's the same thing.

War is peace. Peace is war. Same as it ever was.

who needs state media when the private outlets will defend the empire to its dying breath?

My son once asked me, "Is today Father's Day?" And I said, "I don't know, do we do that?" And he said, "No, but I feel badly about it."

Me: Honestly guys don’t plan or do anything special for Father’s Day, it’s been so busy. Family: We weren’t planing anything.

200 people spent millions on Trump’s memecoin and were rewarded with this dinner www.wired.com/story/a-heli...

An AI tragedy in three acts (the string I gave it is random)

Once upon a time the most famous person in the world -- Christ, Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, the Pope -- was famous for being good at something. Now the two top ones are known for being an idiot and an asshole respectively. Yes, and you know who I mean too.

"It'll never just say, 'Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?'"

Once again, the curse of our age is the Counterreformation of the Most Special Boys

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

Spherical

*will not actually work for scale

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

This is the GOPs Brexit, which will simultaneously crater both them and the economy.

New DOGE dishwasher is lit

As the spouse of a librarian, YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE how much use libraries get. It's insane.

🙂

When I was baby KGB agent we'd spend years digging tunnels, tapping phone lines & honey trapping civil servants to get 2% of what team trump incompetently send to a journalist.

I’m sorry but I’m still thinking about the Secretary of Defense texting “We are currently clean on OPSEC” to a group chat that, unbeknownst to him, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine.

In another blow to legacy media, I'm hearing that the Trump administration plans to remove The Atlantic from its war-plans group chat. The outlet will be replaced in the chat by the Gateway Pundit.

the obsession with USAID and the US Institute of Peace (which studies peaceful transitions to democracy) are particularly instructive. they believe that all protesters are paid. what's the solution? dismantle the payment agencies which pay the protesters.

silicon valley is especially vulnerable to this. the idea musk (and andreeson, and thiel) had was that a blue checkmark made someone famous rather than denoting that a person was already famous. they started selling them and immediately found out that they were valueless, and were confused.

HMMM: So the administration reveals in a new court filing (ordered by Judge Bates) that Amy Gleason was actually hired by HHS as an "expert/consultant" on March 4, just a few days after the White House identified her as the administrator of DOGE.

Post your favourite Dr. Who. Wrong answers only.

The fuck?

Get you a woman who looks at you the way that execs look at backstory.

'Just say thank you': Lutnick says Canada is acting like Ukraine nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

This is starting to read like the transcript of a dictator screaming at a crowd in another language. And the real belligerence has wiped away anything initially funny about his whacky threats.

Donald Trump being outplayed by <checks notes> Doug Ford and then whining about it is one of the funnier things that has ever happened in US-Canada relations.

The thing about speedrunning is that most of the time it doesn't work. It takes 1000x tries to successfully speedrun a level. I once tried to speedrun editing a film, ("let's go STRAIGHT to the fine cut!!"). That was a fucking sobering experience. Now do America.

People forget how quickly things change when History happens. That the world might look completely different in two or three years is, well…, the way things normally would occur in times of crisis. What is sad is that this crisis was entirely manufactured by propaganda.

I hate everyone who has reduced me to watching Doug Ford on CNN. I shall never forgive this. I will be on my death bed muttering about this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcqe...

Saw this in nyc

When someone writes the definitive book about DOGE & Musk’s foray into politics, it absolutely has to be titled “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.”

I don't follow $TSLA but I just checked in and holy shit... it's off more than 40% since the December high. The big chart looks nasty too... it took 3 years to recapture the 2021 high, and then immediately fell off a cliff.

The chances of Zaluzhny being approached in these last few days by US "officials" about leading a coup against Zelensky are.... Very far from 0 .... Had it happened, a "diplomatic" way of reacting for him could look something like this.

Dem brain on full display. Mistaking a dot on the map for the territory.

Live your life so that you don't have to wipe your phone every night

what is it with (wannabe) dictators and that haircut?

If you're wondering about the vibe in Canada right now, I just got served this ad for a brewhouse that is just a portrait of the White House being burned down. No text, just a bigass picture of the White House burning and a link directly to their menu lolol

You all know my feelings about AI, but this is... kind of genius?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8oS...

We used to be a real internet. This is what you get when you click on an NPR link

Imagine watching Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and thinking Francis was the hero.

Impossible to stick this one out. Starmer will *have* to comment, and it can’t be in any way supportive of Trump.

Trump cannot be given a state visit to the UK. It should never have been offered. The invitation must now be withdrawn. You might as well hand it to Putin.

Probably the most shameful day in US history during my lifetime, at least that I can remember. From this point on the US will be regarded by most if not all of its former allies as at best a failed node, and (most likely) an adversary.