Team "no stupid rules of engagement...no politically correct wars" gets real particular about word choice when it might mean consequences for themselves.

I refuse to believe this is real. "Unleash Chiang" as sports trash talk is something Ron Burgundy would say.

*sigh* Everything is gender

Critical support to this guy as he tries to become the first true air combat ace in decades

wut

hey #chinasky, does anyone have a full run of digitized 红旗/求是 articles (for any period but especially looking for around the transition from one to the other)? I know someone must have done this already. Please do not make me digitize another Chinese publication.

This plus an eclipse on lantern festival is some portentous shit

if you're feeling a cryptic unease about days and dates, this might be why: right now, the days of the week match up with the dates they matched in 2020, and right now is roughly when covid awareness in the u.s. began to lead to shutdowns and the (not-really-locked-down) lockdowns.

Highkey maddening that the only us citizens who were given warning to leave worked at the Israeli consulate

we ignore the graying of america at our peril, i think; we are going to lose a lot when all of these people are gone, and we don’t yet know how to replace them

dawg

fucking hell

Very funny to send an email asking people to celebrate 65 years of the peace corps now, of all times

it really feels like he got way too much of a pass for strong-arming his way into head coaching the Bucks and the Bucks immediately becoming so bad Giannis is going to leave bsky.app/profile/tbon...

no ones going to like this but she would unironically make a good attorney general

JFC i'm talking to some people who are like, "i don't know man, i'm not convinced kamala wouldn't be bombing iran, too." are you some kind of asshole?

Not to dig this one back up, but one rather consistent falsehood is that right wing losers are cool, actually

Need to start keeping a list of all the people who thought they were immune to Elon and were wrong

it’s all a learning experience for the world’s most special boys

Its not important in the scheme of things but being ruled by 250 pedophile Poasters is made extra annoying by the fact that none of them can post good

add it to the list of stuff some career folks need to eventually get fried for

Aight, saw someone call Ro Khanna the 2028 front runner and that's it, I don't believe most of the users of this website are real people anymore. Full believer in the empty internet now.

“Constitution destroyed in plane crash” feels like a VEEP joke that they scrapped for going too far.

I know many of you already know this because it’s obvious but you can absolutely take a survey of an opinion desk’s output over time and pretty accurately surmise the views—or at least the intentions—of the people who are in charge of deciding what gets published. I thought we were all adults here

The Times had a decent writeup (apparently it might be torn down to give another handout to the Adelsons) Gift link

“You finished those DC metro stations?” “Sure thing boss, beautiful, moodily lit and oddly unsettling, just like you asked.” “What?”

*slick used car salesman voice* You want missiles, buy a S-400. These babies are hittles.

Nazi stuff

in light of recent events I am now seeking to acquire nuclear capabilities

But like you literally did start it Pete

I repost the infamous Caitoz ‘promise me’ post a lot but this from Jeet Heer is equally Louvre worthy imo

They murdered over 100 schoolchildren

“A squirter” Are you fucking kidding me We are so far away from “from these honored dead we take increased devotion” etc etc All I feel is derision from the top US defense official

It reminds me of what someone said about trump voters. Not everyone who voted for trump is a racist, but every single Trump voter decided racism wasn't a deal breaker.

who’s burning toast

What air defense doing

Whether it's US war planes falling out of the sky in Trump's Middle East war, or AOC saying 'umm' in Munich, unexpected blips are hitting both sides of the aisle

computer, enhance

with a shock I came back to life

Every single time a major event like this happens, everyone turns out to be an overnight area expert. As always, listen to Iranians and listen to the people who have actually been studying the region for years, not to folks who make it their goal to have an analysis on hand for every occasion.

There’s a nonzero chance hegseth manages to lose this war outright

happy to report that Cincinnati zoo has an orphaned opossum named Ellie as an animal ambassador and she is adorable

is that good

I'm done thinking about stupid shit on here. The New York Times op ed page. Romantasy novelists applauding 9/11. From now on I'm thinking full time about a French private investigator with a hook for a hand named Le Chat Diabolique (The Diabolical Cat) who I just made up. He lives above a bakery

"Aipac Shakur" is honestly remarkable. Man's at the very frontier of inventing new ways to be extremely weird online.

This isn’t true

But AOC’s time as a waitress doesn’t count as “working class” You know, just once I would like something not to be gender