five days in washington dc

happy 10th birthday to The Nice Guys, one of the best movies ever made

As frustrating as my job is sometimes, I'm proud that I'm able to use my skills to help teach so many children suffering from 50 First Dates disease

This precedent could also be applied to government officials who blow people up in boats without a declared war, due process, evidence, or trial.

Mandalorian hesitant to commit after veterinarian informs him Grogu's bowel obstruction surgery will cost $6,500

This was a very specific phenomenon that a lot of left wing folks were concerned about after October 7th. By insisting on a 1:1 between criticism of Israeli and anti-Semitism, it created a precedent by which actual anti-Semites could seize the narrative to say this shit.

Hey internet! You know how you love to be mad? Well now is a great time to put that skill to use and contact the FCC.

no one has any solution for the core problem of the iran war: trump can’t be trusted to negotiate in good faith, honor a deal, or even remember signing it after 24 hours

if we're talking crises that are existentially harmful to human culture 200 years in the future but need to be addressed now, this one is not even in the top 10

Nice to see the Kennedy Dynasty has advanced to the stage where their progeny are like one of those rare breeds of dog with congenital heart murmur whose stomach flips if they eat too fast. Don’t let anyone tell you the American Century ever has to end!

Yikes, $20 million dollars??? California has a population of about 38.9 million people, so this is coming at a cost of more than $0.50 per capita! Annually!! That's OVER half a dollar PER PERSON, PER YEAR!!!!

This has to rank up there with the most evil things Donald Trump has done

can we please stop being ageist and instead be kind, her dungeon is being raided right now she will be back after she defeats the adventurers trying to destroy her phylactery

how high can we set the record for the number of ancient Dems to croak in office. I believe this would be 5, can we hit double digits?

what is it with these people being pathologically allergic to helping their own core constituents

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

is it good when your oppo hit makes the other candidate look better

Impressive work by Friedman here, summarizing a handful of the countless reasons why Trump cannot be trusted as a partner, then demanding the rest of NATO trust him as a partner to reopen the Strait. Why would they, especially when Trump has said he wants to toll the Strait with Iran?

Anyone else get random eye floaters in the corner of their vision that won’t go away? Ive had one for 7 days. Y’all know what I’m talking about right it’ll look like an unblinking winged child with the head of a goat, horns, cloven feet slowly encroaching your periphery? Anybody?

Liberals turning to the reactionary habit of constantly operating in bad faith, and often outright lying, is a sign that their political project is dying

Man fuck you, take this shit down

Highly recommend coming to this panel, which will have both the excellent Congresswoman Tlaib and the equally eminent Munayyer there!

and here’s why it matters. they only squall like this when someone important has them dead to rights bsky.app/profile/dipl...

People who might’ve formerly been described as Progressive Except for Palestine are increasingly just straightforwardly deranged

"This sacrifices 100s of potential VLS cells on actually useful ships" That's the best part, we don't need those VLS cells anymore because we used all our TLAMs to kill a bunch of children in Minab and all our SM-3s and SM-6s to defend Israel and the UAE.

I fully support this plan tbh. Let the military leadership that has happily gone along with various crimes, both legal and moral, hang this joke around their necks and drown themselves. Build 100 of these, cancel all new ships and maintenance cycles for more of this. Sure. You all deserve worse.

My point being, Araghchi and co may or may not be in charge (they're not, nor do they claim to be) but Witkoff and Kushner very much aren't capable of making a decision that trump will adhere to and Trump himself is constitutionally incapable of agreeing to and adhering to anything at all?

all politics is coalition work and so much discourse is around policing the edge. Worth taking a pause when someone suggests a hostile idealogue who stumbled onto an obvious right answer is being framed as part of it over someone otherwise consistently ideologically aligned who stumbled & corrected.

To me it's extremely ironic that this is a common fallacy of the anti-American Empire set, given that the blowback of supporting monstrous freaks because they happen to oppose the people you hate is the key defining feature of American foreign policy that they all hate.

Too bad that’s a German/Iranian drone

the last thing mishima saw

Oh come the fuck on man how come every morning it’s more Airbud shit to wake up to, except the dog can only play basketball if it’s racist or whatever

I cannot stop laughing

Normalise scooping out the eyeballs of people who wear smart glasses.

A sizeable group of voters simply want an asshole as President. There is no point in trying to cater to them, you can either ignore them or discourage them from voting. Every effort to get their vote by adopting asshole-ish policies is a waste, they want the real thing.

Pope Leo XIV gifted Marco Rubio a plant of peace. In return, Marco Rubio gave the pope a crystal football. The pope’s response? “Wow. Okay.”

It's funny how Biden dead-enders and Israeli ultranationalists both have the same view of the Biden-Harris admin: that they withheld a lot of weapons and forced Israel to fight with one hand tied behind its back. It's a total lie, but it is funny.

You should be able to own a firearm to protect yourself from Nazis, regardless of your gender identity, nor is your gender identity relevant in your fitness to own a firearm to defend yourself from Nazis. Comment!

The ability to make a comment on the proposed gender changes for the 4473 are open but short, here is the link: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

School vouchers are a scam, inviting fraud, waste, and abuse. Thanks to Arkansas's scam school voucher program, this abusive 'school' received $300,000 of public funds. These funds should have gone to Arkansas public schools, where they are urgently needed. More: forarpeople.org/jonesboro-fi...

are the star fox characters sexy or did you play it at the precise moment of being 14 that locks in yr fetishes

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

According to @stephensemler.bsky.social, the 60 day Iran War has cost us $72 billion, that's $214 per American $534 per household $679 per tax-payer And it's mostly funded by issuing new debt. Gotta ask my Trump-supporting friends, is this what you voted for?

Swordfighting is excellent cardio and will also build a ton of flexibility and twitch muscle strength. If doing weights or walking is something you find terminally boring, 15-20 minutes of hard shadow fencing might be just what you need!

Fetterman can't pull a Benedict Arnold because he'd have to do something important and heroic for the cause first.

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

If getting yelled at by the press stops you, then you never had a chance.

What's funny/sad is that we could've recovered from his failure, if only he didn't *also* have the hubris to run for a second term. A normal Democratic primary process with a decent candidate would've defeated Trump in the general election, and it would've closed the book.

at least in public, he was an institutionalist to the very end