I sprayed a potable beverage onto my computer screen.

My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it. The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?" "An obituary." "Obituaries aren't on the front page." "This one will be."

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Truly thrilled to unleash the cover of All Hail Chaos. Publishing 12 May 2026, dive into the wicked, unmissable sequel to the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling Long Live Evil. #booksky geni.us/AllHailChaos

if you were to make a gender-swapped version of James Bond, and needed to come up with a bawdy euphemism name for a glamorous and sexy Bond Boy, ironically you could do a lot worse than Roger Moore.

A lot of carols get really doctrinal around verse 4. It’s like: v1 Jesus was born in winter v2 Which makes us happy v3 Because he reconciles us to God v4 By uniting the divine and human natures in his person, without division and without confusion

It’s important to remember there are two scandals here: 1. The Administration has likely committed war crimes. 2. But the entire operation - which now includes two dozen attacks - is illegal. In our democracy, the President CANNOT wage war without the consent of the people.

THIS

2018, Russia: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I'll just wait four years." 2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..." 2026: So I guess the joke is on me.

Not a bus, a boat.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

“I was just following otters.”

A nice thing about joining ICC would be that Trump's pardon of Haegseth wouldn't prevent ICC prosecution (it wouldn't anyway, but jurisdiction & extradition would be problems while we're not a member). Meanwhile, pardoning a war criminal is exactly why the ICC can prosecute when the state fails to.

You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.

Straight up war crime

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

Collective, racist punishment.

One thing I have no patience for is "there is nothing to be thankful for" doomerism. If Americans were finding things to be thankful for in 1863, two and a half years into a bloody Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln formalized the Thanksgiving holiday, then I can find things to be thankful for too.

The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us. But I won't back down — and neither should you.

Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call. I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.

Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.

I used to have a friend who was cricket mad. His partner said to him "sometimes I think that you love cricket more than me" and he replied "T20 or test?"

I don’t usually swear online but what the actual fuck.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

People are asking ”well if the court dismisses the Comey indictment for various kinds of fuckmuppetry by the moronic and debased Trump Justice Department, the statute of limitations has run and so Comey is free, right? It depends on the particular kind of fuckmuppetry. /1

oh. oh my goodness.

Today's wild Harvard-Penn game (surely everyone's talking about it, right?) reminded me of one of my favorite radio calls ever: "Unnecessary roughness by the Quakers"

florence pew: thread

It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal

not to absolve them of their other work, but every so often the Bee posts a banger

Current vibe

Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit

"Teenage Wasteland" is maybe the best two-word phrase in rock history and frickin Pete Townshend had to name the song "Baba O'Riley"

I don’t want to create the impression that I’m having cognitive issues but I was skimming & misread that as the NYT needs an orangutan which would be an upgrade for the NYT but terribly unfair to the orangutan

Anyway, though all this seems bad for Trump, I think we have to consider the gains he will make in the modern Libertarian Party

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Guy who thinks John Podesta sent emails in secret pedophile code: You're taking that email where he says "I was discussing being a pedophile with my best friend Donald Trump the other day" out of context

The government trying to play its own game

Earthquake Prediction Flowchart xkcd.com/3165/

i suspect there’s some truth to this and also why we should be EXTREMELY skeptical that senate dems as currently constituted would ditch the filibuster should they ever have a trifecta again

Mamdani is going to implement Daria law or whatever.

mamdani is gonna implement shandalar law. if you want to add new cards to your deck, you have to wander the map and look for random wizard duels

Black Phillip lovin' his coffee. #art #goat #BlackPhillip #witch #horror

the only time the filibuster has ever been used to protect a particular interest of a set of states is to kill anti-lynching and civil rights legislation. that's it.

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