I wonder how much of Virginia is an artifact of 1) NoVa people returning 'home' but going to DC or Maryland for slightly closer to job and/or moving in with boyfriend/girlfriend, And even more so, 2) Hampton Roads military members attending college of shore duty and then going wherever next.

Expensive gas is also probably the only effective mechanism that causes negative political feedback.

Lol, 'on brand', as they say.

Who would win, the Marshall of the Supreme Court or the Pontifical Swiss Guard?

Don’t know who would like a blue-eyed distraction heading out the door today, but here’s Henry J. Go easy. Share grace.

Morón air base? So they're naming air bases after Trump now FFS.

The reign in Spain expels the American plane

There are some precedents for heirs of a previous regime to come back in power after a revolution. Both the Bourbons and the Bonapartes did it in France. And as people have said, Bongbong did is in the Philippines and Fujimori's kid had/has a credible shot in Peru.

The Romans “make a desert and call it peace.” The Americans make a civil war and call it liberation.

"no blood price on our side" I guess Dort still insists that Kuwait isn't a real deployment.

@adam35.bsky.social Speaking of Boise, these guys wound up about 200 yds apart. Shouting distance!

Probably worth keeping in mind that 72 bucks a barrel benchmark for oil is still far lower than 100 bucks or so we saw in 2022 after Russian invasion of Ukraine or the 80 to 90 bucks we saw for most of 2023 from the same.

sunning + stunning

Love this shot. Emma is our Squirrel of the Day for March 1, 2026 #sqrlpix

Though one of my frequent bugbears is *someone* delayed the news of the Iran counterstrike casualties enough to give the impression that the strike was ineffectual, that further Iran action would also be so, and there was no impetus for the US side to do to go another tit for tat round.

Ready for the cherry on top of this story? 👨‍🍳 💋

Today was the first time in a while that I've watched MTP, and what doesn't come across in these clips is how Graham went into a loop, repeating the same three or four talking points with the same three or four sentences, without variation 4, maybe 5 times.

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

This graphic looks like she personally went to Tehran to blow stuff up. (In revenge for the death of her son in a completely different and rival country)

c a t u r d a y

I dunno, that sounds like logistics to me.

There’s something magical about activated urban spaces 🪄🎩🐇

You'd figure someone would be against using these woke Spanish terms and demand they say "Fleets" as the English language has used for almost a thousand years.

There is a particular sort of middle-aged/older man who does not think you are fully dressed or professional if you go around in a shirt & tie but no coat. One of them occupies the Oval Office, in fact. I suspect this vest, & the rise of the puffy vest generally, is a response to this prejudice

very much torn between rip bozo for all these assholes and very real restraint that Khamenei represented both on escalation and nuclearization and ???? with whom comes after him

i see we have entered the “get mad at Democrats about unilateral Trump action” phase of the thing and, whatever makes you happy I guess most of the criticisms are correct and almost all of them are irrelevant

also got bodied during my turn to throw the spicy spheroid It was clear that the instructor had already had to do it 10+ times before me and would do it 10+ times after me. I guess that's why they do the training!

No shit, in Basic Training, I did exactly that. Threw that MFer and then watched it just long enough that I got hauled to the ground bodily 🤦‍♀️ fuckin idiot. But it sure is an impulse!

put on my fall/spring bike dad uniform for a false spring trip to Bridge Diz

When you go to war on casual Friday.

I heard stories of people who've fed crows, and been given gifts in return. It sounded charming, so I began doing that. Then, one night, there was a rapping on my bedroom window. I stumbled up and opened. A crow flew in and spoke: "They're coming for you. You must flee." I only just made it out.

the level of people currently scrambling to blame democrats for trump's attack on iran is off the fucking charts

I will say coming across the name with this post made me do a double take. (Tbc, the Michael Bolton principle applies. "Why should he change, it's the other guy that sucks")

Congrats, CENTCOM peeps, your Kuwait deployment is now a 'real' deployment again.

Move over pizza rat, I've got pizza squirrel 🍕🐿️

From an American or even Israeli standpoint I don't even know why you'd want to kill Khamenei. The whole Axis has collapsed in the last 9 months and that's not unconnected to the Supreme Leader being a sick recluse pushing 90. I know why Trump would. King of the 80s wants that fuckin headline.

about to get way more antisemitic AND way more islamophobic simultaneously. very cool

The "The" trilogy is now complete after "The Commish" and "The Shield"

lol, Virginia Tech got an invite to the ball but VMI didn't?

Flipping around tv just in time to catch the official song of Friday evening in Washington DC. youtu.be/-iejqSJKmUM?...

Before you freak out about this - note the date.

Welcome to Bluesky the words app where all the words are made up and scoring points is the only thing that matters

Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln are Highlander Immortals.

CBS & Paramount streaming is already almost entirely cop shows, cowboy shows, and cop cowboy shows. And how Sheldon Cooper's Texas family are all nice people.

Who wants this Scrubs reboot? You’re supposed to reboot a show after you’ve had some time enough away to actually miss a show. And Zach Braff and Donald Faison have kept playing JD and Turk constantly for the last 15 years. You could not escape it.

Felt. Might delete later.

If the Catholics can have Touchdown Jesus, the Mormons can have Goal Jesus.