this is a pet peeve of mine. "war crime" is not something that means "bad thing I think is wrong". it is not a war crime to murder thousands of retreating enemy soldiers. it is a war crime to paint a Red Cross on a truck. if you think something is morally wrong just fucking say that.

even apart from deals with trump meaning exactly & only what he decides, anyone out there saying this is somehow a “good deal” for UVA needs to explain why they consider trans students, faculty, & staff a bargaining chip rather than vital parts of the community with rights & dignity

This cat wandered into a woman’s yard and decided she was home. #WhiskersWednesday #CatDistributionSystem

please someone tell me if uva is really capitulating. I feel like I’m going insane

There's a lesson to be learned here in that a lot of people looked at Mamdani and Platner and decided that the latter was a "young authentic candidate" and the former was not for reasons they insist are not racist

BOUIE: “.. he is working as hard as possible to divide this country against itself. But if we can take any sign from the public’s escalating response.. it is that Trump just may, in the end, remind Americans of the vital power of acting together ..” @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

Another illegal US maritime strike—this time reportedly in the Pacific. www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-str...

Those were your grandpappys enemies. Let's see your brother get an ISIS flag tattoo

wait you can just seize the drugs instead of blowing everything up?

If state and local parties were doing their jobs for the past 50 years, it would be so easy - it SHOULD be so easy - to simply discard one Guy and replace him with another Guy. There should be a ton of Guys (gender neutral), for exactly the reasons we see here.

The 60,000 men and women responsible for keeping American skies safe have gone unpaid throughout the government shutdown. Without an agreement soon, many will be forced to dip into savings, rack up credit-card debt, or take on part-time jobs reut.rs/49mvVVw

this is all infuriating but it’s made even worse that this occurred back in October 2024. DHS has always been like this, not just under the trump administration

As a diplomat, I served in several countries where most government jobs were filled by patronage appointments. It’s a guarantee for ineffectiveness and corruption.

Nieuws: Een Nederlandse man (25) wordt verdacht van deelname aan een terroristische organisatie vanwege zijn rol in de internationale Com-beweging. De verdachte was jarenlang actief in en oprichter van de zogeheten onlinegroep ‘No Lives Matter’ onder de naam ‘Cxrpse’ www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Iraqi prime minister says the US pullout from al-Asad airbase in Anbar, which was supposed to be completed in September, has been delayed/canceled by mutual agreement www.military.com/daily-news/2...

I genuinely like Seth personally, I’ve followed years of valuable work he’s produced & I feel like he, in his heart, knows this is basically a ridiculous concept. There is no American Grand Strategy. Dead. There may be a “Democratic Grand Strategy” someday. There’s clearly an authoritarian one.

Thrilled to announce the publication of my article "The Invention of the Kamikaze: Dissent and Resistance in the Japanese Military" in the October issue of the Journal of Military History!

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Human artists!? Use one piece to convince people to follow you ! (special autumn edition🎃)

Look if Trump wants to demolish the White House he can get enough Canadians to do it again for free

oh you like international relations? name all of them

Blocked someone for skeeting that the No Kings protests "didn't accomplish anything" Oh, I'm so sorry that 7,000,000+ Americans taking to the streets to be in community and send a very clear message of regime change two days ago hasn't fixed everything just yet I'm sure your plan is better

Most baffling type of dude in history is the dude with a secret second family. Seems terminally exhausting.

a hot take about academia: it is both too activist and not activist enough. the endless focus on problematizing critiquing, etc etc often degenerates into navel gazing, while there is often a lack of high-quality outcome oriented empirical work on "what could make social institution XYZ work better"

Also notable that despite the willingness of this administration to pursue baseless prosecutions, it just turned these survivors—who it accuses of being “narcoterrorists”—loose.

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

i think this is why Charlie Kirk's death shook the right so much. For all their prognosticating about how "ackshually libs are the violent ones", left violence is extremely low, so A. the fact it happened freaked them out, and B. "don't you liberals know We're The Ones With The Guns" is load-bearing

The Holocaust was the result of a thousand years of European antisemitism, built up over a decade by a fascist regime that made genocide its first priority. We are going to kill 14 million people because one Nazi-following weirdo with an overpriced car company was briefly popular with Donald Trump.

Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this. Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.

Fifteen presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act. Trump claims one president used it 28 times in the course of a single presidency. The Insurrection Act has been used a total of 30 times over the course of its 217-year history.

Trump handing everyone the SCOTUS ruling from last year

Shrapnel from an artillery shell hits California police patrol vehicle in US military live fire show. The Marine Corps -- which had previously insisted there was no safety risk despite the live fire display over an active freeway -- has launched an investigation into the incident u.afp.com/SsQf

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"you purged your military a second time?"

I know that we’re not party to UNCLOS and that the murder part is worse, but this might have violated multiple pieces of private and international law as well as the sacred duty to render aid to sailors in distress.

But we have a good security cooperation relationship with the country, and it's been good for both sides to maintain mil-mil engagements even when the civilian/political side has been strained. I wonder how much pull the new SOUTHCOM CCDR will have to keep the SC stuff going. Just an own goal...

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love that this makes it sound like the minister was, if anything, pro heist

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KATAPULT German magazine drew a stark map: the area of Ukraine under Russian occupation laid over other countries. Put it on France — it blankets almost all of Normandy and part of Île-de-France. On Poland — about half of Mazovia. On Germany — all of Brandenburg and Berlin. 👇

My friendly advice for any news outlet struggling to now cover the Pentagon would be to adopt a COCOM-based strategy for coverage. Send reporters down to Tampa and Miami and Colorado Springs and have them develop sources there. The COCOMs were often “leakier” than the Building anyway.

I was not aware of this story, and I'm guessing that the University of Virginia wanted it that way augustafreepress.com/news/shame-o...

seen in Antwerp

France has a government. Why that’s news.

We the people are entitled to representation

Always tip your waiter 20%, even if the service was meh and they weren’t particularly charming. Unless they were downright horrible, don’t go below that. If they were great, consider more than 20%.

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI. MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

Feeling dehydrated? This quenched my thirst. www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...

If a stadium takes public money, all the games played within it should be on broadcast TV—none of this Amazon Prime or Sunday Ticket bullshit.

sanitation workers should be paid and treated with the same about of respect as doctors