How did I end up on the side of the Catholics? My family came to this country because they liked killing Catholics just a bit too much.

People like to bring up the fact that the pentagon can’t pass an audit, but frankly I don’t think they understand just how herculean the task is, and also there probably just isn’t that much they’d save anyway. That’s not to say they shouldn’t pass an audit, but tailor your expectations.

Honestly it’s so amazing to see Swallwell’s life implode in less than a week. Chickens always come home to roost.

This is the kind of essay that has the reader go, “huh”, “wait wut” at every sentence

Honestly I wish the psychologist who outed my trans sibling in the military to her base command could [redacted].

We demand to be taken seriously .

Legit the only reason I found a job so quickly was because a former colleague called in favors. I am now at the point where I am actively considering going back hat in hand to the military because things are so precarious.

The median Trump official is a crypto Protestant tradcath

My former flight commander on Facebook was arguing with me on why we should expel Chinese students from the US on the premise that they were probably all industrial spies anyway.

“We begin by acknowledging this Court sits on the ancestral land of Nacotchtank & Piscataway peoples & we pay respects to their elders past & present. Today, the Court held that Montana’s ban on throwing trans people into Yellowstone hot springs violated the First Amendment” — Neil Gorsuch, probably

You know, sometimes when you think how much money it’ll cost to send even one human, you’ll recognize how inefficient sending a slave would be.

Aand he also says this while vocally kicking trans people to the curb, so you know, still a lizard

Honestly Liz Truss’ brain through all the past five years has been utterly fascinating

Pass

One could say this is something of a project ever since the age of discovery.

Man, we’re giving the Iranians free BDA *and* free advanced warning of troop movements

He’s the Chapo Trap House candidate incarnate

It’s honestly been pretty clear for a while now.

And, again, he was 28 in 2001, and his record shows a startling lack of service for the war he screamed for.

"No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus! By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man... than rule down here over all the breathless dead". 2700 years ago.

“okay that wasn’t public.”

Journos obsessing over being included like fraternity initiates to be hazed will never not be weird

HW didn’t start that war, but he sure as hell finished it.

Yeah we’re cooked.

“We’ll just win and not lose. Why is that so hard to understand?”

If Noah Smith had been a commentator during the civil rights era, you know exactly what he’d say.

Bruh

While it’s hard to get accurate estimates due to variations in time, climate and region, peasants worked approximately 3000 hours a year. Americans work 1,800 hours, and much fewer do backbreaking work like farming through manual labor.

This is notably why people did not and do not flee from the country to the city — hold on, the historian in my earpiece is strangling himself.

There are many intractable problems in politics, but it is a choice to instead surrender democracy to a nomenklatura.

I feel the next logical question should be “why are this way?” instead of moving to “but what if we did the literacy tests?”

Colorado politicians have two flavors: tech bro adjacent new Dems and Christofascists.

The unsexy truth is that most people just stopped attending out of a general lack of attachment. Like, plenty did have legitimate criticisms, but most just didn’t go the next week and didn’t go back because they didn’t feel like it.

Tariff man didn’t lower cost of living. I justify my salary based on having gotten this wrong and also talking about how I got it wrong.

I’m starting to think the charter school guy might not have the greatest take on the public purse.

What part of “norms and institutions” creates a vacuum?

Zero context indoctrination plus losing his wife in the airstrikes. Somehow I don’t think he’ll be in the mood for restraint.

Welp, good thing I live in a metro area

It’s a good thing that our government is hedging this by cutting subsidies to solar, right?

It should be a crime to be this stupid.

Americans are going to need to have their hands taped to the stove

“Be relentlessly lethal”

Did we watch the same thing?

Americans no knowing the world example # who’scountingstill

Yes

Actually this is how.

All this thread tells me is that we really had some fun between 1000 and 1100. Can’t quite recall what though.