If Trump and MAGA cannot break the president's loudest Republican critic in the House - if it turns out he's lost that much 'juice' in GOP primaries - I wonder if we don't see some 'recalculation' by Congressional Republicans who right now live in fear of a Trumpy primary challenger.

people think you need therapy and expertise to face death well but the truth is you can just crank up Blue Oyster Cult real loud

wrote "dem domms suck" instead of comms in a chat and i'm fighting for my life now.

Somewhat simple; the market was in the weird state of half expecting a genuine disaster but, between fomo and taco, was unwilling to actually price it in. This is just relief it's not going to be WW Gulf edition

When you’ve lost *checks notes* Josh Barro.

Our ten point plan, which I am sure the president of the United States read and understood before agreeing to...

My car stereo is struggling with Kino tracks

This is fantastic and hilarious

If only the US had had 47 years to build most of its Middle East policy around avoiding this exact scenario!

"@gork how can they mine the sea? it doesn't even have any emeralds"

As one of the fifteen or twenty genuine Liberal Internationalists in the US, all of whom are active on this site, I do think we really need to confront the fact that a genuine liberal-democratic "rules based" international order cannot be underpinned by arbitrary and hegemonic US military might.

I went to Delphi, strange place... smelly, place, [wafting gesture] smelly, and they told me... You know what they told me? They told me that all I had to do was invade Persia, and a great EMPIRE, an EMPIRE, would fall. Would you believe that folks? Would you believe that?

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force. Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

By the way, to all the lefties who were gunning for USAID to be abolished: You were absolutely on board with this. I do not trust any of you. I *know* you'll now all pretend to have always cared. I genuinely hope you never sleep well at night. Fuck you and fuck your conscience vote.

Things are generally the way they are for a reason. On a purely intellectual level I admire the commitment to rediscovering them all and all at once.

FAA: you haven’t even asked Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic if this is safe

Jason Mendoza 🤝 Somali pirates:

millions of children will die but it might erode American soft power a little bit relative to Russia and China so who’s to say if demolishing USAID was bad or not

you know that phenomenon where diaspora from an oppressive regime will make it their whole entire personality to advocate for their new country to bomb the shit out of their old one? that's lowkey gonna be me if they ever force me out of America

Somewhere deep in his texts with Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Bannon takes the time to fanboy out of HBO show 'Chernobyl'

Some runners use leg day to improve their strength for breakout or sprints Some runners use their sprints to run away so leg day can't catch us

Archeologists have only discovered the lost Ruins of Ur-Frostor

Why does every gym have more ellipticals and less treadmills

That no band has picked the name 'stereocilia' or similar is a shame.

WERE SO BACK

Every flight anywhere from RDU goes through some airport in Texas. I've just stopped paying attention where. If they switched the flight at the gate to Zimbabwe I wouldn't notice until someone started speaking Swahili

is there anyone out there in the void who knows if anything from the #crfh forums survives? I'm talking about from the before times, from keenspot and even before that Therein lie dark secrets of my past, and I'm wondering if they remain alive

In your teens or twenties, the realization that, with a screwdriver, some pump music and some willpower, you can assemble and disassemble most every piece of furniture sold should be empowering. The next level of home improvement Kung Fu comes when you have power tools;

When I post baby/kid pictures in the family chat, and someone responds with pictures of their own kid - from a different day.. Bitch, come at me. My kid is cuter than yours

Pro Palestinian activists are the most ideologically self defeating people in existence

After inflation being on everyone's lips for the last few years, this is an objectively insane headline. An insane world

There aren't enough memes here about the Atlantic story, so! Some of my favorites

Part of being human is both having the instinct that you can't cut it at some job, and yet convincing yourself that you could, given ..x, y or z conditions. Maybe you could - people are impressively adaptable! But either way, your ego is protecting you from the possibility of failure

I'm not on here much, but what can I say. It's bleak, brothers. It's getting bleaker every day

In Upcoming Recession news, Duke University just announced a whole skew of cost cutting measures. Hiring freeze, full travel restrictions etc., and noted this is only a first step. This goes beyond the steps they've taken as a result of the research funding cuts

Republicans want one thing and it’s fucking disgusting (tax cuts for the rich funded by healthcare cuts for the poor)

Like, if I was the Dems, I would blast this ad on every television set and all over social media say the admin wants you to have to pay to get the weather report. Micro transactions for a sunny day.

Why would you fight destiny when destiny has the best name ever

My toddler is vague in her understanding of what a princess is, but frequently uses the word 'stability' in a sentence. Our friends think this is my programming of her, but I swear it's just her intense balance issues

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

Directions my wife sent me

I managed to stay away from the news all day as intended. Just got "caught up." 😵‍💫

How did I miss this?? Durham, represent!* (Don't do terrorism kids) www.wral.com/news/local/d...

We'll come back from this. The other side has no future. What we're seeing today is how long and punishing the trail we'll need to walk out if this will be. Our enemies are bound to lose

Liberals and leftists and resistors CANNOT come here and shun other platforms. Come here to relax, coordinate, vent - sure But stay out there, hitting every conservative post with a rebuttal. We don't have the luxury of home turf

the reason i find the term "fascism" useful is not because i think the word itself has any power, but because it helps me clarify and identify the social bases of the movement, which could inform strategies for battling it