And they screamed and squealed about Hunter fucking Biden.. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Republicans in general and DJT in particular are flailing about - lashing out in every direction at once - throwing whatever they can up against the wall to see if it sticks. They are weak. Don't let them bullshit you.

Markwayne Mullin is (as my old man would have said) "dumb as a stump." He/they can draw up all the plans they want.. the odds of this happening are right up there with Marie's IQ.

🇧🇬 Bulgarian Prime Minister Roman Radev has informed the United States that after June, his government will no longer allow U.S. military aircraft to stop at Sofia International Airport, citing the Donald Trump administration’s refusal to lift visa requirements for Bulgarian passport holders.

🇷🇺 Moscow Times reports that Russia is reportedly selling gold from its reserves for the first time since the early 2000s to cover budget shortfalls.

Just how authoritarian was your favourite 19th century writer / thinker? (by Instagram user: @mapsenthusiast)

Wow even Hannibal Lecter canceled!

We'll see, I suppose.

This whole thing is so much performative nonsense. The Thayer Amendment of 1866 permanently banned living people on U.S. paper currency. This was a direct response to a scandal involving a Treasury official named Spencer Clark, who narcissistically put his own face on a 5-cent fractional note.

I used to think Kevin Hassett had the most slappable face in the current administration when he was appointed. He has been lapped, several times, by Scott Bessent since then.. Faces you just love to slap.

This is from Haaretz.. Netanyahu and Israel Owe Obama an Apology

Because he is psychologically incapable of admitting he made a mistake. Best case is he will find an administration scapegoat to hand the failure on - Hegseth seems a likely candidate as I don't think he has the balls to blame Bibi.

I don't for a moment think that this was accidental. This is Russia "poking" NATO to test their response. So far, I think the NATO response has been weak. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Big bada boom Bezos www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

An ice cream truck just drove down my street and it occurred to me that it's pretty rare to see kids just hanging/playing outside in their yards or unsupervised elsewhere. There were no kids outside on my street. The ice cream man left.. burning gas.. kind of makes me sad.

It just occurred to me that I'm just two weeks away from my 48th wedding anniversary.. Panic will be setting in shortly. youtu.be/JwboUfxxf7M?...

Iran: US deal text not finalized, rejects western reports – Tasnim

US GDP: 2023: 2.9% 2024: 2.8% 2025: 2.1% 2026 YTD: 1.6%

Today's economic reporting will focus on 1st-Qtr GDP being revised lower and how incomes/spending are stagnating. But what's most notable from the flood of today's data? Over the last year, Americans have burned through half their savings, seeing them fall from $1.27 trillion to $612 billion

Primaries are a shitty way to choose a candidate because the majority of the electorate can't be arsed to participate, leaving the choice of candidates up to the zealots. And then in the general, people bitch about who they get to choose from. ps. The headline is BS - He would have won regardless

Everybody feeling good?

The Iranian response

"Given that the Executive Order does not command Plaintiffs to do anything, and that no agency has yet acted pursuant to the Order in a way that could harm Plaintiffs, they have not suffered any harm at present," wrote Nichols, ​who was appointed by Trump ​during his first term.

Of course they have.. The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a longtime target of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration..

Weaponization, you say? This entire regime should fall off the face of the earth..

Above all, we should start to stigmatise X usage for what it really is: a small and selfish part in making the world measurably worse. You are not special. You are not immune to fake news, delusion, anti-reality.

IMO We need a massive restructuring of the military with a gigantic reduction in military spending.

Explainer: Russia’s Grip on Its Neighbors Is Loosening - www.kyivpost.com/post/76988

This is somewhat akin to a "concept of a plan," no?

Despite what you may read or see in the coming days, the United States is not, has not, and most likely will not “win” this ill-conceived war. Anyone who claims victory in this disaster is insulting your intelligence.

An interim agreement to end the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran looks likely, and it may very well find Donald Trump acceding to Iranian demands he has long resisted.

Just another grift.

RIP Sonny. One of the greats.

@deanbaker13.bsky.social second point is a pet peeve of mine. I can't tell you how many times I have lost my shit arguing with someone who cites a BIG NUMBER as "waste, fraud, and abuse" without understanding that the BIG NUMBER is little more than rounding error in the grand scheme of the program.

With little new information, the most recent estimates — some a decade old — place the base figure between $100 billion and $120 billion. That money, together with interest accrued over the years, would be crucial for rebuilding the country after the U.S.-Israeli bombings.

The great Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz defined war as the continuation of politics by other means. The military is a servant of political ends — one tool among many, and always in service of a clearly defined objective.

Advocates of tax cuts—from Reagan’s cuts in the ’80s to Trump’s in the 2010s and ’20s—have long argued that they generate more than enough growth to pay for themselves. This has never been true. In recent research, tax cuts are precisely to blame for driving up the country’s debt ratio.

If these are, in fact, the points of agreement, Iran has "won." They will be in a better position than they were before Operation Epic Fuck-Up began.

Trump is negotiating a 'loser's deal' with Iran..

Shame your balls didn't drop until you were on your way out the door, Tom. Feckless fuckhead. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Trump says "it's mandatory." The world says, "Lip up, fatty."

Dental work? At the hospital? GTFOOH! www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Come the mid-terms lets start to put the "o" back.. youtu.be/cOJibuV2cGs?...

Lima’s appeal lies partly in its scale and cost. Unlike many other tactical jammers, Lima can cover large swaths of territory, protecting critical infrastructure. Each unit costs up to 3 million hryvnia (€58,000) to produce, depending on the iteration, according to Cascade.

For Memorial Day. Most of my relatives who served during wartime made it out alive. This one, Issacher Ettenger, didn't. During the August, 1862 Battle of Second Bull Run, Issacher was mortally wounded. He died at the 3rd Division General Hospital at Alexandria, Virginia, on September 28, 1862.