They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

hell yeah

"I meant for this to happen", says Florida man as he repeatedly steps on rakes "I saw this coming", he continues, as he makes a beeline directly for the next rake "This was always the plan", he finishes as he places another rake directly in his own path

I question the backbone of someone who can be bullied by Ryan Grim.

hope bovino enjoys retirement as much as lockjaw

people are so quick to get on the internet and reveal that they can't find meaning in art unless Someone Very Serious is spoonfeeding it to them, and I'm sad for them. if you can't watch a summer blockbuster & see what it says about who Hollywood thinks we are, well... (that's a skill issue)

And this doesn't even factor in the (loooong) wait it takes to get a passport, either new or renewed. It was already several weeks even before the doge-fueled evisceration of the federal workforce

This entire administration is a group of brain geniuses thinking nobody before had the large thinking idea of shitting where they eat. It saves so much time!

You may be asking, "If you predicted the stove would be hot then why did you touch it?" and well it's a complicated answer having to do with free will and determinism that you wouldn't understand

The thing that's unusual--even in tech--about Palantir is that it was born evil. Like it was founded by evil people to do evil things, very explicitly. Gave it a special "we do evil things" name, put together a founding team that was on board with the "do evil" program. They didn't back into it.

Left intellectuals replacing historical materialism with ad hoc idpol where epistemology begins and ends with who is making a claim may have been good for papering over disputes in academic institutions/ nonprofit advocacy but has been a disaster for building a growing progressive politics.

This spawned from fake NYPost drama (Zohran Mamdani's wife had illustrated a book cover for an author) That author, Susan Abulhawa, is a strong pro-Palestine voice. Good! She also routinely shares far-right anti-Jewish bullshit, from Holocaust denial to defenses of neo-Nazis to "noticing". Bad!

We really need to kill Woke 1 Over 6k likes, on a communist account, for "Palestinian people cannot be anti-Jewish bigots" The most popular Nazi in America is a gay Latinx! Identity is no shield!

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

simultaneously my most and least egghead academic opinion is that we have actual political treatises at home and we should simply let art be art

Every damn day

The most ironic possible year for WB to tie a record for wins by a single studio

WE LOVE TO SEE IT!!!!

yupppp

I like it when the Oscar’s spread the wealth around between films and performers. Sweeps rarely feel justified

deep below hollywood, in a subterranean lab, work has already begun on michaels c.-g. jordan, the first two models having proved so successful

The whole world is writing 'have a great summer!' in the US's yearbook.

“They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave.”

Very on-brand for Gingrich to seek out a new, younger canal the moment the current canal starts having health problems

Iran, please wait in line until your number is called.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.

I'M SORRY I MEANT IT AS A JOKE

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

Picked Poor Robin Thicke needs to stop.

Officials are normally presented with ceremonial swords or paintings or whatever. But these guys are so fucking stupid that foreign intelligence agencies can literally give them an "Honorary Electronic Communications Device for a Very Special Boi" and they fall for it every time.

The devil is in details, you surely meant dermatologists

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republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

[Applebees, the ides of March, 44BC] Caesar: i’ll have the salad Cleopatra: me too, it’s my salad day Waiter: et tu, brute ? Brutus: *opens napkin* oh great. no knife Caesar: what Brutus: what

People of any identity should be disgusted by hatred for social groups —but there’s a good reason for non-targets to feel threatened as well. It enables authoritarians, spills into general violence (including war), shreds the social contract, makes democracy impossible, constrains freedom, etc.

a specter is haunting America: the specter of Corn

I know some disagree but someone like Stephen Fry changing his mind and doing a complete 180 after supporting She Who Must Not Be Named, is a good thing and is evidence that attitudes are changing.

They're calling it the dumbest air campaign of all time

To the tune of Crimson and Clover: Wind farms and solar, over and over Wind farms and solar, over and over Wind farms and solar, over and over Wind farms and solar, over and over Wind farms and solar, over and over Wind farms and solar, over and over Wind farms and solar, over and over

Is the Iran War moral? No. Is the Iran War legal? Also no. Is the Iran War grounded in a well-considered strategy in terms of goals that benefit the US? Again, no. Is the Iran War taking place in the context of a network of allied relationships that have been nurtured and consulted? Yet again, no.

An actual post by the sitting President of the United States. 🤬

And a reason the title was “Gangsters of Capitalism.” bsky.app/profile/noah...

There’s a reason I subtitled my last book in part “the making and breaking of America’s empire.”

Thinking of my friend Peter Davis's devastating 1975 film "Hearts and Minds," which is named after a different use of that phrase but still holds many lessons for the country today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcE6...

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finally beat sweepthestrait.com but it did not result in a congratulatory message from CINC NAVCENT/C5F like in "The Last Starfighter" as I was hoping. Oh well I'm sure he's just busy. #yvaNehtnioJ

If the Wills be Garry, then life will be merry; If the Will be George, your life he will scourge!

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.