Under the leadership of people like Trump and Hegseth I can only say that sending in ground troops to Iran would be a very effective way to bring about the end of an empire.
Like the oracle's words to Croesus, go to war with Cyrus and you will bring about the end of a kingdom.
Platner would have an easy run as a Republican, he could even push a "you can't even have Nazis in the Marines any more" cancel culture angle.
would love to go back to literally never thinking about Maine, but this dumbshit keeps popping up
*Add to cart*
This appalling White House video game imagery on Iran illustrates what @teotten1.bsky.social and I discuss on today's pod: The role of fantasy, unreality and sadism-as-entertainment in MAGA politics.
newrepublic.com/article/2074...
A large group of athletes wearing matching red and black Team Canada jackets and knit hats gather outdoors, many smiling and raising their arms. Several athletes in the front sit in wheelchairs, while others stand behind them holding small Canadian flags. The jackets display the word “CANADA” across the chest along with team logos. The group appears to be participating in a team procession or public event, with tents and signage visible in the background.
Canada's most successful Winter Paralympics was in 2018. During the Games, Canadian athletes won 28 medals (eight gold, four silver, 16 bronze). Canada was tied for second in gold medals, and won the most bronze medals of any nation at the Games that year.
nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....
going to introduce Bluesky devs to this revolutionary software platform I discovered recently: Slack. It's like Bluesky, but just with people you work with.
When humans string words together from past predictions of what you would like the most, we call them charlatans. But when machines do it, we call them gods.
1. So sad too bad.
2. I think smoking out the implementation problems is a really good reason for the Judge to have entered his order requiring refunds immediately.
3. I'd forgotten about interest!
one time my aunt stopped speaking to me for six months bc i dropped in the chat that chick-fil-a is closed on sundays so their employees can go get their abortions
Headline: A 30-year high!
Story: Still smaller than it was before the austerity of the 80s, 90s and 2000s.
thehub.ca/2026/03/06/t...
The original story, which the NYT had the good grace to link to, is so much worse than the Times makes it sound:
Are you telling me that the guy who bankrupted a casino is demonstrating a complete and utter lack of competence in administering a government?
"It's so embarrassing, our country is so broken that we can't even operate a functional concentration camp!"
Claude is more worried about ending up in the Hague than the people running it
The mass exodus at the Toronto Film Critics Association is gathering pace after indigenous actress and filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her award trophy following the alleged censorship of her video acceptance speech, which included remarks in support of Palestine.
Somebody was telling me the plot of Scythe the other day and I said "oh, so it's just a re-write of Logan's Run" and it killed the conversation immediately because what we have here is a failure to communicate.
Saw the "OMG why are 40 & 50 year old people even ON social media?" post & my first thought was, "What do you think *should* happen, kid? Should we all just do a Logan's Run?" & then I realized this child has never once in their life heard of Logan's Run & I turned to dust & my ghost is typing this.
Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
#BrainrotPropaganda: You take the patriotic imagery of the past and strip it of all content. There's no narrative left, no promise of meaning, only vibes. The total destruction of meaning is the content, no matter if it's AI generated or manually stitched together from YouTube clips
#MemeFascism
a collage of these three tweets https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24 https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o
i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api
No matter how many times it's reported on, the collective decision seems to be ignoring that Republicans are outright fascist nazis now. This is the umpteenth time something like this has been reported on, that would have caused a nationwide fire forty years ago. Now it's just...sorta ignored.
BREAKING from Julie K Brown
Trump accuser's FBI statements made public
Woman claims she was 13-15 years old when she was assaulted
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@jkbjournalist.bsky.social
"Conservatives" speak of being better with money by not spending it on people and instead funneling it to the companies that give they and their friends the best profit.
Money spent on services for people is considered wasted because it didn't end up on a quarterly profit report.
This whole notion of the US not fighting a war to win comes from Vietnam and people mad we didn't just invade and/or nuke Hanoi, and has become a perpetuated inter-generational brainworm even though it makes no sense for any US war in over 50 years. It's the US version of the stab in the back myth.
As Rachel points out on her Instagram, notice that the guy at the front has a Totenkopf on his quarter zip.
That's why Maine Democrats should not let anyone displaying Nazi symbols near the United States Senate
this is the clearest black and white picture of how the US is fucked. illegal unprovoked war at the height of financial, healthcare and employment crises by a rogue pedophile president and it has 3/4ths approval from the "opposition" party.
Baghdad Bob must be spitting mad in his grave that he never had this kind of material to use on W.
