*Some* ambassadorships. Small tropical islands usually get the donors, places like the PRC, hardship and danger posts (you know places billionaires don't want to live), and important allied usually get professional FSOs.

Of course

The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules 👇

After today, it's likely safe to say that Bears are an endangered species in Russia.

Clearly the problem is the people reporting on the plan, not the plan itself.

Pardon John Brown!

"Don't worry, Trump has a plan!" The Plan:

Even children don't buy Hegseth's bullshit answer about Signal chats.

I wonder who at NPR was included in the group chat....

When I lived in Russia, there was a common joke about having to bring a paper to government offices that proved you were not a camel.

Chat, is this what liberation looks like?

Important read here

Chat, is "Sike!" a valid trade policy?

LoL/LMAO

The "I waited till the last minute to do the assignment" energy is massive.

@mike10010100.bsky.social kinda says it all.

Ahahahahahah

SecDef be drunk texting his ex

Something I don't understand here - can't Greenland/Denmark just tell them to fuck off at the border and not admit them?

C'mon man....

Something something price of eggs....

I'd like to congratulate everyone who thought voting Jill Stien or Trump was a way to stop this from happening.

I still think that Letters of the Marque is the way to go here.

So maybe we take the train from now on.

I know a guy.

So I know that laws and words and other high minded concepts don't matter to these people but if what the administration believes regarding birthright citizenship then wouldn't that also mean that the "illegal" immigrants aren't subject to laws on deportation?

I....ummm...well.... nevertheless?

It's like no one ever learns their lesson from doing this....

You can always tell when agent orange has a talk with his Russian handler. He immediately spouts the Kremlin talking points we give him.

Here's hoping that's the case.

Lol/Lmao

Yet another massive missile attack committed by russians against sleeping Ukrainian cities. Yet again the world will be silent, yet again this will be under-reported. #UkrainianView

On recent conspiracy theories.

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@edzitron.com turns out to be right, again.

@cpimentel986.bsky.social here's some of the hood tonight.

@edzitron.com found the next hype cycle cash grab.

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We've spent too long considering Russia's red lines. It's time we started making them consider ours.

Meanwhile on twitter . I suppose this is better than vaccination...

Not exactly how I'd translate Dolbayob

"Republicans have been ordered to shut down the government" is a really good line that drives home how bought-&-paid-for they are with extremely economical verbiage.

Well this looks bad. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We don't need to abandon anyone to win. It's not like we want to be like the UK Labour Party, right?

What a long winded way to say the Supreme Court Conservatives are transphobia.

If you're keeping score it's : AG : 2 SecDef: 1.5

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The ability of the Israeli government to enforce a cease fire with full force and zero tolerance is amazing. (Bad amazing not good amazing)