It's worth noting that the NYT eliminated their Public Editor position in 2017. Who will watch the watchers, indeed.

boy howdy

[urge to fed post intensifies]

This is what I listen to while deep in excel and/or editing slides

Ole painless is waiting

I hope Merrick Garland stubs his toe every day for the rest of his life. I hope he gets violent IBS. I hope his favorite product gets discontinued. I hope he gets incurable hemorrhoids. I hope he never has a moment of peace again as long as he lives, what a fucking coward.

so...there are significantly more files?

all I want is to sit in a plush leather chair in my two story home library with two story windows overlooking a wooded valley while drinking a flat white from the Collins Quarter while pondering issues of strategy, not thinking about POTUS and Epstein or bombing Caribbean fishing boats AND YET

on the bright side this will catch some white supremacists as collateral damage

How fitting! The Post's space weather writer -- Kasha Patel -- was on a flight, cruising over Cedar Rapids, Iowa during the geomagnetic storm last night and captured this stunner of the northern lights....

anyone maintaining a line of sight on the bad place? curious how the Q folks are taking all of this, are they ready to do a comet ping pong or have we found biblical inspiration for a change of view on these matters

lmao this is a murder, Joyce Carol Oates is a serial killer and her victims are the egos of the biggest shit heads on social media

As with most vets, I never took a lot of pictures when I was active duty, but here's a picture of one of my guys back when men were hard. Uh, tough. Hooah. 🫡

Gonna become a 2nd Amendment hardliner just so I can shoot robots on sight. I want SLAP rounds for sale in vending machines and convenience stores.

Before there was Veterans Day, there was Armistice Day. We shouldn't have changed it. When we rattle sabers and hold human life cheaply, I think about this dedication from my Great Grandfather's WWI unit history. Armistice Day was as much of a warning as it was a celebration. Lest we forget.

Happy Veterans Day to those of us who endured years of complete & utter nonsense interspersed with the occasional bit of Did I Almost Die. Enjoy your free food & have a beer.

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Senate Dems: we may have caved and agreed to a deal that has 85% of the base calling for our heads, but at least our esteemed Senate Republican colleagues promised a vote on ACA subsidies! Speaker Johnson: lmao I don't give a fuck, suck my dick from the back 🖕🖕 www.newsweek.com/government-s...

I guess we all learned something today

Anyway I have a goal of getting, at some point in my life, very very high and eating a charcuterie board the size of a pool table

legalize weed, regulate and tax the hell out of it I don't know anything about politics (if that wasn't already abundantly clear) but this feels like a real winner to me tbh

Tucking a fat pinch of shredded Parmesan into my cheek like chewing tobacco

If the state of things has you in your feelings, this is a really good emo flavored pop punk song to scream/sing along to. From what I've been told, anyway. open.spotify.com/track/06NnfC...

There's an old adage that "everyone gets cut in a knife fight," (the implication being you should avoid knife fights) so if you get into a knife fight, expect it to hurt. You might even bleed out. So you better do everything you can to hurt the other guy more. Apropos of nothing in particular.

the country that produced the world's first trillionaire is also the country whose citizens can't afford food or health care 👍

The trolley problem, with Senate Dems + govvies in the trolley and SNAP + ACA subsidy beneficiaries tied to the tracks. Senate Dems are going to pull the lever and realize to their horror that Mike Johnson has cut all the wires, consigning thousands to die anyway

also are we lacking in intellect? why does anyone think this will pass the House, which has been in recess for-fucking-ever, because of very specific ✨reasons✨

How is moral fiber so fucking lacking in this country? Do we have values, or do we not? Do we have the rule of law, or do we not? Fight, god damn it. Fight!

I am just so sick of these losers goddamn

So they are using federal workers as a wedge and split the Dems in the Senate Do I have that right

THIS IS JUST PAYING MONEY TO HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES WITH EXTRA STEPS YOU STUPID ASSHOLES

Someone help me remember - who was President during the Tongo Tongo ambush? I bet some folks in USAFRICOM remember. Our politicals have the memory of fucking goldfish

I've personally seen a range safety NCO Goldberg-style spear a soldier who was *accidentally* flagging people at a shoot house This shit would get you skull fucked by any competent NCO. Right to the wood line, no hesitation

I regret to inform you that treat night has been postponed due to my very large dog suffering from a correspondingly large upset tummy frankly the volume of shit was astonishing

I just found out that Oscar Isaac was in not one, not two, but *multiple* ska bands. Incredible.

y'all wanna see a dead body

This guy was an 88M, if I am not mistaken. But I'm sure the Vikings needed someone to repair the long boats too

Do you guys ever think about how the guy who is two heartbeats away from becoming President of the United States of America has "no jerking off" accountability pact with his own son?

I did a good deed today, going to reward myself with a treat (bourbon)

We stopped paying civilians a while ago, and now we are out of money to pay the military. Contractors are mostly getting paid, but good luck if your PoP ends any time soon. Not many new contracts are being funded, if any. The working capital fund(s) won't last forever. And this is all a choice!

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.” “We want to put them in trauma.” - Russ Vought Director, OMB youtu.be/oBH9TmeJN_M?...

say the word sir

Joke's on them, I'm not into Slavic blondes. A reasonable facsimile of Ana de Armas could probably talk me out of a kidney though

me, re: CNAS, in ~2008

Lately, and this is the gospel truth, I have been thinking about getting into birding Ladies, ladies... please settle down and form an orderly queue

I would like to be launched into the middle of this

they should try this Jewish ritual

Did you know that Costco sells giant soft pretzels that come in a 2-pack so you can turn one into a soft pretzel pizza and you can eat the other with the pre-made burnt ends that they also sell at Costco