Night Owl

Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world. Dario Amodei

Boebert: Have you reviewed any Epstein files that were released that you believe reference or relate to those specific 2016 claims regarding the Podesta emails Comet ping pong pizza used as code possibly. Clinton: Pizzagate was totally made up. I can't believe you're even referencing it

"America looks for accommodation with Russia and China. It aggressively challenges middle-power former allies—such as Canada and Denmark—while seeking to dominate weak powers, such as Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. That’s the reality."

Caine: "I am aware of the loss of 3 US Air Force F-15Es overnight in the region. I am grateful for the safety of the crews and we know this was not from hostile enemy fire. As this matter is under investigation, I'll not comment further on this."

AYMAN: Can you tell me where Iran killed thousands of Americans in America? ANNA PAULINA LUNA: I said they are responsible for thousands of Americans being killed AYMAN: Where? LUNA: Are you serious right now? AYMAN: It seems like you don't want to have a good faith conversation

Robert Hass

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Mark Warner: "I saw no intelligence that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States. None."

Robert Hass

The words ‘tree’ and ‘truth’ spring from the same Indo-European root, <deru>, which means ‘to be firm, to be solid.’ A tree is truth. Truth is a tree. -Janet Lembke, from Tuscan Trees

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair. Wallace Stevens

The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Winston Churchill

Robert Hass

Robert Hass

The world’s so big yet so small. It’s one block. Nasir Jones

We know that the real lesson to be taught is that the human person is precious and unique; but we seem unable to set it forth except in terms of ideology and abstraction. —Iris Murdoch

Miguel de Unamuno

Finland’s President Alexander Stubb, too, had some tips for how to tackle Nordic winters: “Take an ice bath and then followed up by a sauna and do one more ice bath, one more sauna, then a shower and go out there. You’ll manage.” apnews.com/article/be-w...

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

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BREAKING: The State of the Union has been changed to The Airing of Grievances.

Gautam Mukunda

Mayor Mamdani shovels his constituents in Brooklyn out today

was listening to SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR this morning and it is totally wild how much that record is a no skips, banger after banger, stone cold classic. you’re telling me at least four of the best pop hits of the 80s are on one album?!?

Miguel de Unamuno

Robert Hass

Go, and your homeland goes with you. Return, and it’s lost forever. Diana Anphimiadi

Americans tend to be more interested in aliens than people in other countries, Joseph E. Uscinski, a professor at the University of Miami, says. www.axios.com/2026/02/21/a...