One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

RFK Jr, & the 5 MAHA/MAGA MDs & PhDs who he has charged to do his bidding (Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, Kulldorff, Oz & Prasad), are joyfully dismantling the US vaccine system brick by brick while spending much time on right wing podcasts & Fox News being anti-vaxx celebrities living their best lives 😔

This is an image from 1992, in case you were curious

the trump administration attempted to assassinate a critic and when she lived, they prosecuted her for surviving

🚨 ICE said Marimar Martinez “rammed their vehicles.” Bodycam footage says otherwise. It shows an ICE agent ram his own vehicle into hers, sneer “Do something, bitch,” and then shoot her. We can never believe anything ICE accuses anyone of.

Can’t believe the Irish tried a version of UBI, found it worked, and decided to keep it rather than commission another study.

i really do think the existence of a idiot like Bari Weiss is a sign of decadence

How's it going folks? [69] #UkrainianView

There's something genuinely funny about how many people made it a point of personal honor to getting banned from Twitter when they decided to finally leave it and are now trying to do the "hey im just a silly little guy" thing when they post at the mods here in the exact same way

The right is doing themselves a disservice, because when we’re finally past this nonsense, and we will be, they’ll never again be able to claim they stand for the Constitution, states’ rights, law and order, separation of church and state, free speech, or protecting kids. Ever.

Ahem.

We have the Insurrection Act for a reason— But it's not so a President with 34 felonies can ignore court orders and punish cities he doesn't like with military intimidation. Especially not when the courts are telling him his claims of insurrection are "untethered to the facts."

People are mad about inflation so let's direct inject a shit ton of extra money into the economy to chase the same amount of goods

a lot of people failed to realize that the interceptor drones Ukraine is fielding were not a counter to multirole fighters, they were a solution to "it's not worth it for us to fire a patriot at Shaheds or Orlans"

in particular having air superiority means you can reach out further with more, and that fundamentally gives you greater ability to attack the combined-arms aspect of the enemy system, rather than just trying to grind through a grinder with another grinder www.patreon.com/posts/98102854

much of my air force partisanship comes not from studies of the air force, but rather from studies of land warfare--especially citino's conclusion that maneuver warfare is simply impossible if the enemy has air superiority www.amazon.com/Blitzkrieg-D...

today in my usual "air force is good and we should do more of it": perun's back of the envelope calculation that russia is delivering more total high explosive by glide bomb than by cannon artillery youtu.be/DfCspYYPi5I?...

I want to draw unicorns and smoke weed and be married to my best friend so we can have a never ending sleepover. Am I being 12 right? I think I’m good at it.

Of course the problem here is reasoning from basically just two events, one of which is ongoing and one of which was bracketed and heavily influenced by the World Wars.

Instead, what seems to be the interaction here is falling vote share for your 'center' parties (liberal, soc-dem, conservative) does almost nothing for your farther left parties (communist, green), it just juices the fascists. If you're a leftist, seems a pretty good argument for incrementalism.

The GOP has been trying to replace Obamacare for 15 years. It still does not have a plan. We are supposed to take their claim to be a party interested in legitimate governance seriously.

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

If you’re thinking, “why don’t they just get out of the car?” The answer is that everyone accosted by ICE is essentially forced to choose between refusing to comply and letting themselves be kidnapped bsky.app/profile/dday...

ICE is now more well-funded than the majority of the world’s militaries. And that money is being used to recruit, staff, and deploy people just like these two men all across America.

Ten years and five months apart

Our small business owners are the beating heart of the East Bay. As a member of the House Committee on Small Business I am committed to protecting and uplifting our small businesses, especially during this shutdown. CONTINUED⬇️

she kicked off that piece with claiming that Australia doesn't care about race or identity, as I remember. this is a country where 'Italian vs Greek' can still be a live issue in some neighborhoods

Back in the land of reality, here's what one of the Black people whose home was smashed into during the apartment raid last week said about his Venezuelan neighbors: "They were cool people." Mr. Jones, a U.S. citizen, was dragged out in handcuffs and held outside for hours.

the conservative business elites spent a long time radicalizing people more and more on social issues to support economic deregulation but radical social conservativism does not actually imply a free market and that tension is finally manifesting

For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again. burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live...

One kingdom's fall is another kingdom's freedom One sovereign's war is another sovereign's peace One mother's pride is another mother's sorrow Their tears both soak the land that they love

When Japanese children are mean to their toys or books, like throwing them or something, it's a traditional saying of Japanese parents to tell them "Don't do that, it will cry." A female Japanese coworker in her 50s told me she was told this as a child, and that she could almost hear the crying.

One other thing I wanted to say is that, unless what I write is about trans issues, few people end up reading it. So shares and quote posts are very appreciated.

These are the lowest cost insurance options for a 62 year old Georgian making $65k. 2025: $228 2026: $1142 She will lose $704/month in credits because of GOP cuts to health care. This is a crisis. We cannot wait to fix this.

i think the war chief thing is telling--he very much wants to call back to premodern forms of warfare (or at least the imaginary of). he fantasizes about being in a boy's club run by the biggest boy and they go out and do violence together. this is BAP influence. unfortunately

lmfao at this breaking containment, his forthcoming crashout over this should be amusing anyway here's him trying to make war chief a thing again dude's very clearly a fascist but also he is very, very dumb, like dumb even by the standards of pete's inner circle dumb

Quibble: Article states Weiss has never run a tv network. That’s an understatement. She’s never been employed by a television network, never produced a television segment, never produced a news item of any kind for a major network.

Having driven to Arkansas and back this weekend I am again requesting that Texas law enforcement be redeployed to stop criminal tailgating on our highways

oh god. we're seeing the President get Indoctrinated by the Reapers

Its not lost on me that the conservative bugaboo for years was federal troops marching in their states and cities and its the first thing Trump reached for once in power

it’s pretty wild that states’ rights and keeping the state out of business were enormous parts of the republican platform for decades until trump came along, and then the entire party and voter base went lol, jk

it was v bad when trump said the new york times is the enemy of the people, however

Don’t forget, when a Sherman was hit, something like 85% of the time the crew could ditch and leave alive Compared to the German tanks (and t-34) where it was like 20%

Did anybody mention penicillin. Or is it woke now?

Fury is in the same spot as The Pentagon Wars - big popular film that either very cynically or very gullibly takes one side of a previously-obscure internecine conflict and portrays it as objective truth. Imagine if Down Periscope lead to people seriously arguing for reviving the diesel sub fleet!

The Allies launched two of the largest amphibious operations in military history within a week of each other in two completely separate theaters