When Americans were asked to temporarily sacrifice going to their barbers so we could keep the morgues from overflowing, people with guns stormed the Michigan capitol.
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When Americans were asked to temporarily sacrifice going to their barbers so we could keep the morgues from overflowing, people with guns stormed the Michigan capitol.
are you interested in other places for their own sake, not just as an extension of America? congratulations, you are already ahead of the majority of DC think tanks.
"'The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes,' he said. 'What I would say is that the only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.'"
peter dinklage playing the manager of a toys r us he’s clean cut, unlike his game of thrones character, and is seated at a desk in an office that probably has no windows
“i drink and i know how to do things in excel”
side by side of the same view of buildings in Beijing right: dirty air, smog, can’t see buildings in the distance left: clear air, no smog, can clearly see buildings in the distance
calls to mind Beijing’s efforts to
prepare for the ‘08 olympics…wonder how localized and visible the impact will be in major ports and in the hormuz bottle neck
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pa...
Imo Graham and friends knew this wasn’t going to be speedy and lied about this being the Venezuela model to get Trump on board. Now they’re making the surprised pikachu face now that exactly what they wanted is happening.
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the absolute dumbest and most incompetent people are getting thousands of people killed, gumming up global trade, and wasting billions and billions of dollars doing it
still can’t fathom that this country elected the idiot fascist again
oh my god they admit it:
"Trump, apparently, expected to find an Iranian equivalent of Delcy Rodriguez..."
www.thenecessaryfictions.com/p/trumps-war...
mine sweeping is a computer game and computer games are for weak little nerds, now hold this chad’s beer while he does an epic military
this ranch is currently owned by rabid rightwinger Don Huffines who will be our next Texas State Comptroller and who definitely doesn’t come across as an incredibly creepy person all on his own
NEW: US Attorney nominee Phil Williams has a long & disturbing history of attacking trans people and their parents.
He said parents of trans children should be drowned. He also compared efforts to support gender-affirming care to slavery & the Holocaust. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/us-attorne...
“But our culture's general obsession with nostalgia, coupled with the human tendency to love something when people hate it so much, has made the pendulum swing back around.”
i need to know that @raxkingisdead.bsky.social sees this
Crazy day deserves a crazy type video. Makes us smile ..
youtu.be/B9FzVhw8_bY?...
No surprise, but depressing as hell anyway.
We're killing 1000s of Iranians & destroying ancient, vibrant places to obscure a) Trump's political decline & b) the drip-drip-drip revelations of Trump's pedophilia.
All that in our names, to the lasting shame of—and increased danger to—every American.
they need an easy win against narcoterroists (who may just be fishermen) to distract from the Iran/Hormuz situation which was a distraction from the Epstein situation
🧵A thread about the Jewish community, Democrats, and Israel🧵
Rahm Emanuel, the über-centrist former Chicago mayor eyeing a presidential bid, just told a reporter that Bibi "led the Jewish people into a ghetto."
Jewish establishment sees cracks like this as a crisis. I believe it's an opportunity.
When I worked in naval mine warfare requirements development and later on the Iran problem set, I have to admit, we never considered a Presidential tweet as one of the means at our disposal to get a Q-lane going through the Strait.
That’s on me, honestly.
headline from New York Times website: Judge Is Skeptical of Penn's Argument Against Trump's Demand for List of Jews A federal judge appeared receptive to the White House's demands for information about the University of Pennsylvania's Jewish employees.
if you had absolutely zero context for this you would not be mistaken in seeing this headline and assuming that Trump was trying to carry out a pogrom
this looks fucking amazing
This country deserves everything coming its way <3
Oil production around Kirkuk, in Iraqi Kurdistan, is connected to global markets via a pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan
This is Iraq’s only crude supply that can bypass the currently-closed Strait of Hormuz
Shut-ins in the Basra area by the Gulf are already at >3 MMbpd
cum is seed oil
i’m sorry, im sorry, im trying to delete it…
Someone catfished that Jake Lang white supremacist guy pretending to be a 15 year old girl and he took the bait in the worst possible way.
Chaser: goodauthority.org/news/trump-a...
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
this junkballing Czech electrician is a folk hero in Japan for striking out Ohtani in the last WBC (stopped for photos/autographs etc) but he's retiring after this bc Czech league ball doesn't pay the bills.
I love the way he took in in this one last surreal moment before going back to normalcy
these fucking ghouls were binging on steak and lobster while cutting SNAP
30 Rock DON'T GET PEER PRESSURED INTO INVADING IRAN.
Just rewatching 30 Rock and