Mitt Romney was 100% correct in 2012 when he said Russia is the "number one geopolitical foe" of the United States (and humanity more generally).

"'Vova ought to be bent over for this!' he yelled, using the common nickname for Vladimir. 'Bend him over right there on Red Square!'"

Do not enter the freedom truck. I REPEAT: DO NOT ENTER THE FREEDOM TRUCK!

Okay…should readers infer anything to the *upside-down American flag* flying in front of the Supreme Court in the retraction story? I mean, full points for trolling, but it does seem a bit snarky given Alito's views on upside-down flags?

This point is getting lost in BlueSky's initial reaction.

Sauron doesn't offer all-expense-paid trips to Mordor because he needs help herding sheep.

A good explainer about why it’s wise to be very skeptical of industrial carbon capture schemes…. projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

Ukraine's "long-range sanctions" have effectively closed Russia's equivalent of the Strait of Hormuz. 🧵

It gives me no pleasure to reskeet this observation, but it is fundamentally true. You can never be too cynical about the Democratic Party.

That's right.

bate fuel for gooners

"[H]e said thousands of soldiers were being held in pits and tortured 'for refusing to carry out stupid, suicidal orders' and for refusing to hand over money to their commanders." Wbk.

I just received the most unhinged text message from the party-endorsed candidate favored to win the Dem nomination for LA-SEN. Why does the party allow this kind of shit? How can this be understood as anything other than a scam? I am frankly disgusted.

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Did the Reflecting Pool algae make this forecast? 🤔

I didn't necessarily realize until the great heat dome of Summer 2023: those marginal 7°F make all the difference!

This is a tour de force—the definitive write-up of the Starmer fiasco that, in a less dysfunctional UK, would appear in the Guardian.

The yellow is pretty much the entire reactionary centrist playbook

The great moral question of our time is this: how should our society regard the outsider, the foreigner, the misfit? It's not 'out of touch' to care about what the answer is. I'm on the left on economics but the brotherhood of man matters far more to me than most things

The hits (derogatory) keep coming in this series of paragraphs in today's Times-Pic story about the Letlow-Fleming runoff.

This is a great review and interrogates the sincerity of Vance's ostensible Catholicism with vicious nuance. But we don't need nuance: "Vance admits that, about 'half the time these days, we attend Mass at home.'" (1) That's not sufficient: catholictimescolumbus.org/local/is-mas...

I wonder how much of his campaign cash went to his coke dealer

This is unironically a great idea

At this rate the peace deal will include America promising to never develop nuclear capabilities

Eminemdami ft. Jalen Brunson

Heritage not hate 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"i'm a committed catholic. also i waited six years to baptize my child"

>Israel torpedoes the deal. >Israel becomes even more radioactive (globally, with the American public). >Israel takes down the global economy (and Trump with it). That glass is not entirely empty.

Extremely impressive

Crockett is an op. (That's the more generous interpretation of her behavior. The alternative is that she is so petty, so egotistical, so immature that she doesn't even care if she's a wrecker.) Bullet dodged.

You know all those American scientists who were doing something to do with UFOs until they disappeared? Turns out this is not only a shaggy dog story, but one that was basically written as an April Fools Day spoof, by a British writer, for ITV, 49 years ago. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Paris next week

"Ukranian drones absolutely hammered the Moscow Oil Refinery for the second time in a week, making the Russian capital's skyline as dark, toxic, and appealing as the average Russian's soul."

Russian military bloggers in full meltdown mode over Ukranian strikes on Moscow 🧵

So in other words, sign up for the free 60-day trial Straight of Hormuz toll subscription program. Earn a 10% toll discount when signing for annual plans.

Elon could pay the $300B to Iran and still be 3.5x richer than the next billionaire. He would still be a trillionaire after paying Iran. Seems totally reasonable for one person to have that much money.

These are the same stakeholders who reportedly talked Trump into the most recent round of escalation, correct? Almost like they were desperately attempting to put the kibosh on the "deal" they knew Witkoff and Kushner were cooking up.

JD Vance:

Our Democrats *spits* seem somewhat more clued in—at least for now—but I have little doubt that the partially overlapping transatlantic consultant class will do everything in its power to muck that up.

Another Simpsons prophecy soon to be put to the test 🤞

I wonder how many Israeli troll-bots are currently active on BlueSky. I wonder who their targets are. 🤔

I reckon this is just the first of what will turn out to be many.

grandpa's response could be anywhere from '73 style rationing to bombing iran more to giving them the store to reopen strait, any number of secret cursed options, and I have zero idea which he's gonna chose

all my oil industry types I know think we're locked in to an early july "suddenly, gas lines" crisis that will provoke some sort of US response (whatever that ends up being is anyone's guess...)

Ahead of this event, I keep thinking about the joke Obama made at Trump’s expense at the 2011 WH correspondents dinner, when Obama flashed the image on the left on the screen poking fun at what a (then hypothetical) Trump presidency would look like. It’s theorized the joke spurred Trump to run.

The president’s top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself. “One official would later describe it as a ‘surreal’ experience to be discussing nipples in the White House Situation Room.” Gift link:

When the all-hands email starts with "In the name of God, the Subduer of the Tyrants," you know it's gonna be one of those days.

Combined with the absolute insanity over Platner, this is such a damning indictment of Democratic politics. The presidential primary is going to be more deranged than any of us are prepared to endure.