Patrick A. Reed

This is an actual Pentagon press release. “An Army believed to be casualty…the believed to be death”

She should be remembered as a vicious fascist who had no qualms about terrorizing, killing, and defaming people while running an agency that should not exist.

This complex move, known as the "Humpty Kinsley Gaffe" - when one both tortures the plain meaning of words AND reveals the obvious lie about grandiose policy claims one has absolutely no intention of fulfilling - regularly receives a 9.85 from the East German judge.

My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.

Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.

Good thing he didn't say the Beatles we're more popular than Jesus.

Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 - Bolts After flipping the court in 2023, Wisconsin liberals now hope to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential election.

Wisconsin liberals have a chance next month to go up 5-2 on the state supreme court for the first time in modern history. If they succeed, they'll also block conservatives from earning a court majority through the next presidential election and until at least 2030.

New preview in @boltsmag.org:

The Iran War ends when Trump gets bored

It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".

I maintain that simply arresting Elon musk and making a real example of him is the quickest way to global stability

The White House position is that it is no big deal that Putin is helping Iran try to kill US soldiers.

Always remember rule #1. Putin can do no wrong in Trump’s eyes.

Wonder why that is?

Yes, I know I'm a broken record on this. But it is ~impossible to overstate the degree to which we are right here, right now, because no senior White House staff or Cabinet officials went to jail for the rest of their lives after either Iran-Contra or the entire GWB administration.

I keep seeing people say that this won't affect them because they don't drive and an oil shock is way, way more than just the cost of putting gas in your car.

Me, dumb and politically correct: Firing on unarmed ships or double-tap military strikes on schools are bad things.

“When I think about navigating the start of the year here, especially in our hometown in Minneapolis, the thing that we have kept front and center every single day is the safety of our team.” – Target CEO Michael Fiddelke

Will never forget that these fuckers let ICE use their stores as bathroom breaks while every mom & pop store in downtown Ann Arbor has signs in the window telling ICE they can’t come in. No.

JUST IN: US customs agency says it cannot comply with tariff refund order reut.rs/3NjQxW0

I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.

“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

Always relevant, but esp. in the comics world during Will Eisner week.

he had it for 20 years and he bragged and asked people if they wanted to see “my totenkopf”

just say you love Nazis. the apologism is boring.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

You know how American intelligence was pretty excited to do to the USSR in Afghanistan what Soviet intelligence did to the US in Vietnam?

Look, on the one hand, there’s a wildly illegal war going on & we’re murdering people on the high seas & it should immediately end this presidency. But on the other hand, now we’re really facing the “stagflation” that never existed but we pretended to be obsessed with when Joe Biden was president.

You’ll never guess when in this chart we were obsessed with recession, stagflation, & the terrible economy…

but it’s good at surveilling you and feeding your voice and data into its slop banks

Why Is Alexa+ So Bad? I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

By building their voice assistant around generative AI, Amazon has created an Alexa that simply doesn’t work.

Easy tasks, like playing music or pulling up YouTube videos, go haywire.

It’s an AI flop.

www.wired.com/story/why-is...

Why Target is the Center of an ICE-Out Campaign in Minnesota - Workday Magazine ICE Out of MN, a coalition of unions, worker centers, and community organizations, is putting pressure on Minnesota’s corporations that stayed silent as thousands of federal immigration agents wreaked...

Target has allowed ICE to abduct its workers and use its property for staging. Now Minnesota organizers are building a pressure campaign against the company. "There is no neutral here," says labor organizer Veronica Mendez Moore. Vital reporting by Isabela Escalona.

Stephen Miller sinks to new level of white supremacy President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller spoke at the Americas Counter Cartel Conference Thursday, addressing an audience of defense and security leaders from the Caribbean, ...

Funny how selective Miller is about the crimes of torture, rape and murder. And his idea of what "order" looks like.

“The human rights that we are going to protect are not of the savages that torture and rape and murder,” he spewed."

Hospitals.

This is the kind of “leader” that historically views “glory and honor” as the amount of casualties racked up.

Absolutely unfit to lead a drunken conga line, let alone this nation.