vance is basically nixon if nixon were a dipshit and not a genuinely impressive guy

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

Well, I'll be damned. Mike DeWine has had, in effect, an execution moratorium in place in Ohio, but this is such an important progression on his part.

Five Summer Outfits That Will Make You Look Like A Sexy Little Reflecting Pool

Still one of the funniest calls on this site (note date):

That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

”If you question or criticize Platner you are rooting for Collins” is the new “objectively pro-Saddam.”

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

Counterpoint: the Hormuz situation should be of little interest to someone who refuses to buy anything sold or processed

Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.

For Memorial Day, again, the dedication page of my grandfather's Great War memoir _Stretchers: The Story of a Hospital Unit on the Western Front_.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Colbert is both a mensch and an actual genius. One of one. He and @maddow.bsky.social are the two best broadcasters of our time; truly in their own category. I'm angry and sad the president and the feckless suits cancelled the show but also know it's not the end.

I think a lot of people should go to prison when this is over

I think the case of Fuck You v. Make Me applies to this situation.

‘Baal Room’. The subtitles contain a typo. We regret the error.

It is worth reading this in the context that it's a matter of record that all of President Trump's close advisers are completely mental and very racist, and most of them are also extremely stupid

this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)

I would imagine having a working State Department and a working Secretary of State would stave off the problem of allies being surprised when you start using bases in their territory to re-hot a war. Ah well, I'm sure Steve Witkoff is a totally fine replacement. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Again, I am open to the idea that he’s just a guy who got a Nazi tattoo because he thought it was edgy and cool and also he’s a bad liar with a thin skin who is an incredible dumbass and lacks discipline, which is the most generous read here

Thank you, Fed Chair Powell

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They call it the Onion because an onion has many layers you cannot peel back without weeping. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, slathered with a conundrum, baked in an unsolved wordle, sprinkled with sudoku, cut up into a 5000 piece jigsaw puzzle of an empty, liberal blue sky.

Leibniz: But let us set our differences on the matter of calculus aside for a minute. Perhaps you would care for a biscuit? I have some delicious chocolate-backed confections, far superior to those fig-based monstrosities that have become so popular recently. Newton: now hang on just a minute…

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

If leaders abuse the rule of law to make themselves immune to it, so that they can undermine the rights of others with impunity, by what moral or philosophical argument are they entitled to its protections, once they lose power? By what grace should they be sorted by law instead of by other means?

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

Happy oviparous-lagomorph-on-a-stick day! And may your eventual AI upload simulation afterlife be glitch- and basilisk-free. (Trying to cover all the post-Christian bases here.)

Is it an FCC violation to quote the president verbatim? Asking for a friend

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

Harmeet isn’t stupid. She’s just a fucking liar.

"That's what I do. I drink, and I No Kings."

going back in time but to make the Wordle guy sell to somebody less harmful, like Exxon

Honestly, fuck off.

If you're a country elsewhere in the world and you're looking at the Hormuz situation, I think you'd pretty quickly come to the conclusion that the only reliable solution is regime change... in the US. "American regime falls, America is defeated, withdraws" is literally the shortest path out.

This would be incredibly easy to foresee for everyone who managed to realize what fuel is and that renewable technologies do not require fuel to operate but y'know thinking isn't popular these days.

That’s a good talking point!

The presidential tantrums will continue until morale improves or there is a new president, which probably occurs simultaneously.

And after all of it, he apologized. To our team, and loosely to me. Then he got in his car and drove home. That's a human being who has been fed rage by people in power who will never have to stand in that parking lot.

Best Twitter riposte of the day.

the important thing i think is that they get comfortable now with living in federal facilities

I can't believe I have to argue that you shouldn't make sweeping and serious claims without evidence even if the person you're making them against is really bad. This shouldn't be controversial.

It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.

"I am neither condemning nor defending the man who lied about having a Nazi tattoo, but the real villains are his critics who are insane for pointing out this indicates both terrible judgment and will be used against him in the general."

Looks like I picked a bad week to be off