Gosh I’m tired tho

A couple of times while I was very pregnant at the airport nice young men offered me their seats so it does still happen occasionally!

Personally I don’t think you should say “well the ends justify the means” about the threat of nuclear annihilation but what do I know?

Reader, Iran was not: 1) close to having a nuclear weapon 2) Posing an imminent threat to the US

I won’t apologize for my happiness (eats entire bag of malted milk balls)

Why has nobody invented TURBO TEA?

New parenthood update: may need to develop a coffee habit

I'm gonna get this out of my system so I don't go insane: What Trump said about the pope is easily the most genuinely anti-Catholic thing any American politician has ever said in my entire lifetime, and if Obama or Biden had said it, there would literally be calls to disband the Democratic Party.

In addition to their cultural achievements, the Aztecs far outstripped European contemporaries in the sciences. By 1500 they had developed floor buttons, spring-loaded wall spears, flaming spiked pendulums, and awe-inspiring (if rudimentary) clay robots that drop machine gun ammo

It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.

Again, no other president in history has been treated by the national political press with such deference and shrugs. It should be wall-to-wall front page, breaking news that the U.S. president is either deliberately attacking the Catholic Church while positioning himself as Jesus, or he is unwell.

the pope should get his act together

i’m sorry what

You should all know that the big baby keeps trying to give new baby her toys. She doesn’t drop them on him or anything, she just holds them out for a while and then politely withdraws them when he doesn’t take her up on the offer

i can't believe this guy has control of the nuclear codes.

I fear his patron's defeat means Rod Dreher now stands no chance of ever getting a Pope to read his book.

Telling the cat that the Pope is weak on crime

“The Pope is weak on crime” is going to rattle around in there for a good, long time

A short bedtime tale by the 4yo: "Once upon a time there was a little boy who really wanted a unicorn. But every day, no unicorn came to his house. He would shout, "UNICORN!", but no unicorn came to his house. He wished EXTRA SUPER HARD but still no unicorn came to his house! Only tigers."

an all-timer for "imagine how JD Vance would react if a democrat said any of this"

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Watching the Guardian/Braves game, I don’t care about either of these teams, who should I cheer for

tbh i think the best use of a dem house majority, specifically, is wall to wall trump administration corruption hearings that line up enough evidence for a dem AG who takes office in 2029 to run with starting the minute they're sworn in

One thing we have to reckon with in the US is that assuming we win in 2028 we'll most likely have two years to get everything done that needs to be done

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

It really cannot be emphasized enough that this old man is a lunatic

jd vance negotiating with Iran

The United States seemed not to understand that Iran knew Paul Maud'Dib's lesson perfectly well: the power to destroy the trade that depends on the Hormuz passage is absolute control over it. Why, it's as if there's some analogy to be drawn between the Spice and oil.

:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute ::

As little as I already thought of the man I'm in awe of what he's accomplished in 15 short months. Historic run. Basically threw away all his fire extinguishers and told every firefighter in town to eat shit, and then set his house on fire. We need a separate Mount Rushmore for morons

Just saw a car with a DC vanity plate that said “EARMARK”

Casting Taylor Frankie Paul as the Bachelorette

Fuck Eric Swalwell, fuck Al Franken, nobody is entitled to women’s bodies and nobody is entitled to a seat in the federal legislature. It’s not fucking television, you don’t get to skate for a few seasons because you have such dedicated fans

"sex doesn't belong in YA books" Listen, I learned more about birth control, menstruation, and how to get and give consent to different acts from Tamora Pierce books than I did from my school. There's a huge difference between smut and showing teens what healthy sexuality is.

I’ll never forgive TJ Maxx for starting all this “maxxing” nonsense.

Fox News doc on lower fertility rate: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation"

hey i don't think the president should be posting videos of people getting literally murdered on his personal or official social media in pretty much any context and especially not to try and incite a pogrom. seems like unpresidential stuff basically

I know this sounds hopelessly naive and plaintive at this point but a large part of me is just shrieking WHY THE FUCK DOESN’T SOMEONE FUCKING DO SOMETHING

These would be deplorable, inhumane conditions for any prison. The majority of these people have never been accused of a crime, much less convicted of one. Most, at worst, entered the country illegally seeking a better life. Some, not even that.

So that answers whether Melania has her own lawyers or uses Trump’s

My baby is a week old so I’m telling him it’s about time he started having takes. I want to know what he thinks about the Strait of Hormuz.

To all who celebrate

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Everyone whose special interest is French ecclesiastical history today

NATO chief performs ritual self-disembowelment.

Called it

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Maybe we should mention the president doesn't have the authority to do this?