TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of Defense/War/whatevs Pete Hegseth: “This is not a political war. It is not even a cultural war. It is a spiritual war.”

Cops are your enemies

Well yeah, but then you send out patrols to find the POO, and then you setup PBs to operate from so you can extend further from the fob, and then you put up some hescos to make them more secure, and then you send out patrols to find the POOs for the IDF that hit the PB, and then... Wait

Cops are your enemies. Tagging @gregdoucette.bsky.social because if you haven't seen this, then you should. youtu.be/id8dFfEqUWs?...

I keep saying Ezra Klien's job is to sell fascism to liberals and I mean it! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

5 years ago today I got my first smoke free look at the fire that burned down most of the places where I grew up in. Still unimaginable how much burned in less than a day and that it'll never be the same in the next few lifetimes. The West is on a short fuse. Go out and see what you can now.

Fire is fun. RIP snakes and mice.

Almost quaint by comparison

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

National suiciding for reasons

stadium blaring roundball rock as a casket is pushed out of the c-130 overhead; a big bullseye painted on the field with “free 10 oz black rifle coffee” in the center

Holy shit. The operational cost of that makes wildland firefighting look like a bargain! Tagging @puckthepilot.bsky.social and @airwolf.bsky.social for obvious reasons.

Sam Altman being white sunglasses guy is the least surprising thing I'll see today.

I no longer think it's just SOCOM; there's almost certainly quite a few naval officers who need to see the inside of a jail cell

It is certainly true that illegal drugs kill more Americans each year than al Qaeda ever did. Also true that the Confederacy killed more Americans than al Qaeda ever did. Yet for some reason, the Trump administration is re-erecting monuments to Confederate traitors.

The US military has become hot trash and you should have zero respect for anyone in uniform until this changes. They're no better than the IDF or Russians at this point. taskandpurpose.com/news/us-thir...

What is it with cops and Republicans deciding to express their loser ideas through Starbucks cups?

Good luck to all the traitors who took part in these murders. The moral injury monster will be with you for the rest of your life.

"GOD DAMN YOU JOE BIDEN!" -legless man after stepping on pressure plate

"Hey everyone, the beds in this camp are actually pretty nice!"

Scenes from the confluence of an AI bubble and crony capitalism: xAI is currently raising $10 billion at a valuation of $200 billion while the data annotation team is run by a college kid. Much prudent investment. Very wisdom of the market. futurism.com/elon-musk-co...

If Russia does this 4, 5 or 6 more times this year, I’m sure the strongly worded letters and summoning of ambassadors across Western Europe will begin.

Must not make the joke. Must not make the joke. It's right there but nope. Must not make the joke.

Totally absurd and entirely an excuse to advance an agenda of hatred. newrepublic.com/post/200688/...

Will wait for all those people who said they’d support the LA resistance if only they waved American flags to follow up

Interesting

Poland’s border guards report that two Russian fighter jets performed a low pass over the Petrobaltic platform in the Baltic Sea, violating its security zone. NATO has yet to respond to the 2nd Russian incursion today.

⚡️ BREAKING: The Estonian government is initiating NATO Article 4 consultations after three Russian MiG-31 jets violated its airspace.

ICYMI: DOJ this week also went after states and election officials who are resisting Trump's crackdown on democracy

You're going to have to take my word for it but...CALLED IT! Actually, I figured Estonia would be after Poland but they had to mess with Romania first.

Again, the reason Trump keeps doing & saying all of the things is because, as soon as he does them, <everyone> in <every single societal institution> moves on & acts as if it's normal & OK. We have the political & object permanence of toddlers as a society.

BREAKING: A federal judge has tossed Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday in Florida, who was appointed by President George H. W. Bush, didn't mince words in his ruling: See below 👇

This is all part of the plan that was drafted before Trump took office. Maybe we should be talking about the "police-ification of the military" in addition to the militarizing of the police. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Just the paramilitary secret police manhandling an opposition political candidate.

I'm sorry what now? Oh this will end well.

instead of covering every magazine billboard and surface with messages telling you to REPRODUCE and CONSUME the aliens from They Live have opted to make the glasses tell you that directly

I would strongly suggest that we stop this nonsense now.

Just coming right out and saying it now

It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it

Pour one out for the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social. Satire is dead in a world where the real "reporting" looks like this

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

Why I could give a shit less about political violence.

Say people from your state are morons without saying it Alabama edition.