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"Oh, you think Donald Trump is a MISOGYNIST? Well did you know he's MARRIED to A WOMAN??"

Anyway.

BBC editors are so nervous sometimes that it's almost funny

We think of war as something we can choose to engage in when we want and ignore it when we don’t. This also means we take the current state of affairs as natural fact and all those pesky intl orgs are just roadblocks holding us back rather than preventing nonstop 30 year wars.

Special Birthday Boy theory of geopolitics

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“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to “take all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”

There’s a whole thread about people saying Clair de Lune is mid and I am calling the police.

"Voters don't care about any of that, just focus on [insert kitchen table domestic issues]" may be right, but you do need to find someone who will treat it like an election winner anyway because the alternative is careerists playing with other peoples' lives for attaboys and think tank appointments.

Brett McGurk: A Hero of Our Time Every generation of American diplomats has a figure who becomes the face of the era in foreign policy, a Dean Acheson, Henry Kissinger, or Richard Holbrooke. The years of pain and sorrow otherwise kno...

This scathing article in New Lines is a pretty good summation of McGurk and his rotten legacy. “Brett only meets people who speak English. … There are like four people in the government who speak English. And somehow he’s now the person who should decide the fate of Iraq? How did this happen?”

the fact that McGurk keeps getting put on CNN and Colbert (along with Petraeus!) despite not actually understanding the area

mfw this guy was THE middle east dude for the USG for like 20 years and he still has no idea how the Islamic Republic works

but what is a cave if not a safe space

Beyond the specifics of this case, as someone with a Swedish name that everyone thinks is Jewish, married to someone with a (Sephardic) Jewish surname that everyone thinks is Italian, I find this stuff fascinating

OK, now, for shits and giggles, we will explore the question of Graham Platner's potentially Jewish surname as raised by Ryan Grim and the white supremacist founder of VDARE.

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literally my life rn under the 6yo's tyrannical regime

"what if 2003 were unfuckable photorealistic ISO 400"

every time I see a photo of him my brain kind of refuses to process that he's an actual person who exists

Exclusive | FDA’s Controversial Vaccines Chief Will Leave the Agency Dr. Vinay Prasad will depart in April, after a year leading the division that approves vaccines and biotech drugs.

Vinay Prasad is out again at FDA in April.

www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war.

“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.

Iran hits Amazon data centres in jolt to Gulf AI drive First known military strike on a US hyperscaler rattles regional ambitions to build multibillion-dollar cloud facilities

"The strikes mark what is believed to be the world’s first military attack against the US “hyperscalers” that dominate the global cloud computing market."

www.ft.com/content/09fa...

as a millennial can i just please get it on the record that i am sick to death of these reboots

Special Birthday Boy theory or just self-soothing. But, also, most analysts have no idea how to meaningfully address the risk of protracted economic pain and are therefore hesitant to stick their necks out. You can always put food on the table by peddling consensus stupidity.

Say what you like about Trump but he is 100% in sync with his loser ass base

Whatever their goals/fantasies, these dipshits—and the rest of the world—will have to deal with the fallout for a generation to come

finally a tool that knows how to stop spelling banana

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

wouldn't wanna be gauche

Weigh in: Should this NYT article about Trump’s corrupt “pardon industry” have called out the extreme perversion of justice? Or is it better left unsaid? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/us/politics/schwartz-trump-pardon-industry.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RFA.JwF1.cR6ZsIPqXn55&smid=url-share