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

Fair play to the Quakers for being seen as a threat to the English state for a solid 375 years.

this is, almost literally, a panel from next week's cartoon, written before I read this.

I'd like to say to these people, and this comes from a genuine place of a lesson I myself had to learn: It is all right to have these sorts of thoughts. But they're inside thoughts.

Screaming

one thing that’s a little bit of a tell is how the most psychotic harassment accounts on this site are mostly hardcore Platner defenders

will no one rid me of this turbulent pedophile?

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

BREAKING: Tillis reiterates his call for Noem's resignation, citing OIG stonewalling. If he doesn't get answers, Tillis says he's putting a hold on any en bloc nominations until he gets answers. In two weeks, he says he'll deny quorum and markup in any committees he can until he gets a response.

Literally “war is peace”

I am calling for the arrest of the President, and for his extradition to Iran to stand trial for his many crimes.

take a page from video game genre names and call them Hanklikes

I regret to inform you that the Secretary of Defense is an idiot

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

I’m proud of our common inheritance of ordered liberty and our heritage of killing Nazis when necessary.

A way that society has changed for the better in the last 15 years is that rather than solely dealing with Kirsty's maternal heroism in the face of death in this retrospective, you'd also talk about the fact that she was murdered with no consequences by a billionaire www.avclub.com/the-single-f...

This is so spot on

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Good morning! This man is a fucking liar.

In the face of fascism, “Fuck you. Make me.” continues to be the right move.