Hegseth: "The only ones who need to be worried right now are Iranians who think they're going to live"
Hegseth: "The only ones who need to be worried right now are Iranians who think they're going to live"
βA country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn't have a budget issue--it has a values issue."
A billion dollars a day going towards the war in Iran so far.
The fuck kind of answer is this
We just dropped episode 1 of the new season of the Quinns Quest actual play show. Who wants to hear me GM the official Ghostbusters RPG from 1986? open.spotify.com/episode/4hdy...
Former Middle East adviser at the US Department of Defense, Jasmine El-Gamal, has it exactly right.
When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards
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People are just assets to use and discard
kat abughazaleh lands a jim-style camera take during the debate
@katmabu.bsky.social lands a well-timed "do you believe this shit?" camera take while biss and fine bicker about ad spends
The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for commentβ¦.
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This is a really good debate format for like 50 different reasons, but especially at this moment. There's a lot of equivocating over stuff that is not that complicated.
Katyal: "I was able to go to court - the son of immigrants-- & say on behalf of small businesses, 'Hey, this president is acting illegally.' I was able to present my case, have them ask really hard questions, & at the end of it they voted & we won. That is something extraordinary about this country"
WATCH β Rep. @yassaminansari.bsky.social: βThe Department of Justice never even questioned Les Wexner, the person who financed Jeffrey Epstein. That is a 5-alarm fireπ₯to me.β
(H/T @couriernewsroom.bsky.social )
this is a good idea that could actually perform well in terms of usage and impact.
Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional.
Dems, pay attention. This is your midterms message.
While I'm sure the woman who found it and the geologists who verified it are all lovely people, I confess I'll be disappointed if they aren't all mysteriously killed with tiny bite marks all over their bodies.
The Nibbler Curse demands it to happen.
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Just watched Stephen Colbert's officially-censored interview with Rep. James Talarico and was quite impressed. As a Presbyterian Seminarian, Talarico has clearly spent much time and effort contemplating the scripture and has concluded that so-called "Christian Nationalism" is clearly not Christian.
Two big stone heads with ruby eyes. Text: "Tabletop Gaming Convention. Between Two Cons. Norse Hall, Portland OR. June 26 - 27 2026. Betweentwocons.com for more information".
Between Two Cairns is organizing a gaming convention in Portland, OR. Please come! betweentwocons.com @betterlegends.bsky.social @yochaigal.bsky.social
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. Itβs always a matter of will not resources.
I don't know who keeps doing this but you have to stop I'm begging you
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Trump's approval ratings are low so... they're going to stop reporting his approval rating.
Can't make this complict shit up any more.
Gotta love @bookersquared.bsky.social
Dude, I think some right-winger stole my photo...
Well, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Yeah hey JD remember that? What ever happened with that?
ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glassβfrom car windows to store fronts to homes. Itβs an expression of unchecked power and dominance: βWeβre in charge. We break and shatter what we want.β
And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.