FINALLY some good news

The White House’s defense is they left in a position of senior authority someone they now claim was a “known leaker”, who had been cut off from various accesses, and who they had ordered to be fired? And they left him in place with all kinds of access to sensitive classified information?

ok i will only allow myself one more

"His remarks have no basis in reality" "Then he drifted off and never completed the thought" "That's a bit of a mystifying statement" I don't recall the NYT writing quite this dismissively before, even on the liveblog. Interesting trend to watch.

A State Department cable shows that senior Israeli officials knew that Iranians would “get slaughtered” if they took to the streets against their gov. The “revolution” they were looking for didn’t happen because the DoD tragically bombed school children first. Let that sink in.

Library Walk — Gregg Lefevr, 1998

the billionaires are not ok

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

i'm sorry this is so funny. great stuff www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-...

NYC would be the 12th biggest state if it were on its own. New York state would drop from #4 to #6 without NYC, but it would still be as populous as Illinois. NY would still have four cities with more than 100,000 people.

States with fewer people than New York City*

Jesus when he comes back to Earth:

"No Quarter" is the single dumbest thing to announce in a military setting. When a nation's leaders are told they cannot surrender without being executed, then the costs of surrender are infinite, and the costs of continuance of war will always be lower than "infinite."

"many people don't recognise fascism because they think fascism will arrive selling oppression and tyranny, but, if you're part of the privileged group, fascism is selling you safety, normalcy, and tradition"

People on awards shows don't "make it political." The world is political. Our lives are political. Our choices are political. The only decision is whether to acknowledge it.

Things are not okay.

One reason we need to foreground art is so that people who would prefer not to engage in any self-reflection might understand that introspection has been central to the human experience for millennia. bsky.app/profile/dave...

a friend summarizes: We need 2500 marines for the not-war we already won that won’t have ground troops also please send ships, world. All of this was part of the plan.

The extent to which every single one of these guys has absolutely no idea what the fuck they're talking about is frankly stunning. You should be embarrassed to go out in public and spout shit like this. It should scar your soul and make you weep in shame, but that requires introspection, so...shit.

"We Have Enough Dead Friends" — Lena Oleanderson lena-oleanderson.tumblr.com/post/7810319...

Someone needs to send an ambulance to X

"Proud Islamophobe" Laura Loomer celebrates the world's most famous monument to Islamic art

Q: Can you say why we're sending 5,000 Marines and sailors? TRUMP: You're a very obnoxious person

"I meant for this to happen", says Florida man as he repeatedly steps on rakes "I saw this coming", he continues, as he makes a beeline directly for the next rake "This was always the plan", he finishes as he places another rake directly in his own path

Europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of Hormuz:

Clearly there's a point where introspection can become excessive, counterproductive, and frankly narcissistic. But to conclude that the answer to that is to have "zero introspection" ... is pathological. And the notion that introspection didn't exist until 400 years ago is historically absurd.

Wow, what an amazing moment. Donald Trump just spoke live to the world a private medical diagnosis of someone just because he's a solipsist diaper wearing baby who can't help himself. And you see this fascinating moment from Johnson; for just a second you see the vestigial humanity still >

This is dope.

The Quillette review of "Grit" does not disappoint quillette.com/2016/05/07/m...

Very on-brand for Gingrich to seek out a new, younger canal the moment the current canal starts having health problems

:)

The combination of machismo, stupidity, and outright bloodlust, that finds statements like this funny or impressive is horrifying to me. The Trump cult and all his screening viziers genuinely do not seem to me people one could share a civilised society with.

It’s kinda weird to endlessly brag about stopping eight wars that you didn’t stop and then follow that up by starting a global one

There's nothing "confident" about them. What you're seeing is the dead affect of psychopaths who literally cannot comprehend how other human beings think and feel. That may "read" as confidence, but it's actually a complete and total lack of empathy.

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

"I ASSUMED the US Military had an active plan to open the Strait." How can people who are paid to understand geopolitics be so bafflingly naive?

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

Hiding, going underground, is what smart humans do when out-gunned in war. When facing a stronger aggressor, the move is survive, draw out the war, and as the costs pile up, the foreign invader loses their will. We’ve known this for decades. Vietnam. Afghanistan. Basically Ukraine’s strategy too.

JFC. Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools.

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

Sports gambling should be legal but you should have to go to an actual building to do it and it should be so off-putting and sad you’ll never want to do it again

#PhantomsFriday The Drowned Man's Ghost Tries to Claim a New Victim for the Sea, Thorvald Niss [1842-1905] Skagens Museum, Skagen, Denmark #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.