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Vance Puts MAGA Ideology Above All Else For the vice president, even white nationalists who target his Indian American wife don't merit disavowal

“I don’t know if he wants a complete regime change, but he does want an America which is much more religious, much more closed. It’s not just isolationism in the Pat Buchanan sense; it’s a superreligious project.”

07.03.2026 02:23 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 8 📌 1

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

06.03.2026 17:59 👍 365 🔁 88 💬 10 📌 4

Schumer could just channel McConnell’s brand of ratfkng, so long as he’s warning the seat. Jammit, dammit!

07.03.2026 02:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Strongly recommend calling your US senators today to tell them:

1. Publicly call for Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting a protestor.

2. DO NOT vote to confirm Mullin for DHS.

Find your senators at reps.fyi

06.03.2026 22:35 👍 335 🔁 190 💬 3 📌 4

helps quite a bit if I'm being honest

07.03.2026 00:26 👍 1029 🔁 97 💬 14 📌 3

If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know?

But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.

07.03.2026 02:25 👍 197 🔁 26 💬 6 📌 2

I just heard Maj Gen Paul Eaton on MSNOW and in a 2-minute span, he said: Trump was malignant narcissist; Trump has developed dementia; many soldiers see him as a King without clothes; problem is, many wonder who is loyal to the Constitution and who to him.

I thought I was listening to me. :)

07.03.2026 02:26 👍 61 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0

I mean, the four times thing is almost impossible to ignore. Imagine what Trump would do to an opponent he was trying to destroy with that fact.

07.03.2026 02:27 👍 69 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 0

We’ve been doing this project for three years now, without a single professional stand-up comedian, and people still keep coming. Now we’ve even launched a collaboration with a body armor manufacturer.

07.03.2026 02:20 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

omg and how did I forget ai and 2001 lmfaooo

Kubrick, buddy, you would HATE hate it here

07.03.2026 02:06 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

🤔To estimate how long it might take Iran to "surrender unconditionally," maybe we can use Afghanistan as a proxy?

Afghanistan's army was 100K people. Iran's is 600K. So maybe we should look at how long it took to get Afghanistan to surrender unconditionally, and then multiply that by 6?

07.03.2026 01:29 👍 86 🔁 21 💬 9 📌 0

Name one war fought over solar panels and/or wind turbines.

You cant, and we know why.

05.03.2026 20:01 👍 240 🔁 50 💬 9 📌 1

I bet Patton could walk a golf course.

07.03.2026 01:58 👍 238 🔁 32 💬 12 📌 1

Fkrs

07.03.2026 02:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Desultory Fridays with Tony Dokoupil

07.03.2026 01:44 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Iran Hits Key US Radar, Deepening Gulf Missile Defense Woes Iran has destroyed a key $300 million radar system crucial to directing US missile defense batteries in the Gulf that risks further straining the region’s ability to counter future attacks, according ...

Chat, is this good

archive.is/T4Oo7

07.03.2026 01:48 👍 79 🔁 17 💬 5 📌 3

Epic Furries

07.03.2026 01:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes we did! I harped about it extensively starting in like 2015 or so, and absolutely no one wanted to hear anything about it, because you ladies are just being hysterical! that could NEVER HAPPEN, we have free speech here! Etc etc

07.03.2026 01:48 👍 59 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0
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Graves: There’s been reporting that some troops have been told that this is about starting Armageddon.

Warner: I don’t know whether that’s coming from the White House or just from specific military commanders.

07.03.2026 01:48 👍 435 🔁 150 💬 42 📌 15

If you are planning on traveling anytime soon, go ahead and book those tickets tonight.

I just checked Delta, and the prices were pretty much the same as a month ago. But with oil prices skyrocketing, thanks to Donald's useless war, that is forecasted to change quickly.

07.03.2026 01:50 👍 400 🔁 79 💬 20 📌 2

I would just like to point out to the Millennial children of Iranian exiles who are all up in my feed praising Trump - and who generally I have great sympathy for - that this is the horse you’re backing.

07.03.2026 01:48 👍 115 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
ESPN push alert

ESPN
President Donald Trump plans executive order that would "solve all of the problems" facing college
sports
now

ESPN push alert ESPN President Donald Trump plans executive order that would "solve all of the problems" facing college sports now

oh ok

07.03.2026 01:34 👍 491 🔁 65 💬 48 📌 121
CNN reports that Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State under the George W. Bush administration, was seen walking into the White House moments ago.

CNN reports that Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State under the George W. Bush administration, was seen walking into the White House moments ago.

07.03.2026 01:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*dancing Elon dot gif*

07.03.2026 01:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump’s good for it! He’ll draw up a contract right away!

07.03.2026 01:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee-who is also a Christian Zionist that believes Israel plays a key role in fulfilling Biblical end times prophecy-brags about weapons production as Pete Hegseth signs missiles...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee-who is also a Christian Zionist that believes Israel plays a key role in fulfilling Biblical end times prophecy-brags about weapons production as Pete Hegseth signs missiles...

“Sarah Huckabee Sanders, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee-who is also a Christian Zionist that believes Israel plays a key role in fulfilling Biblical end times prophecy-brags about weapons production as Pete Hegseth signs missiles”

07.03.2026 01:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Look upon these faces

07.03.2026 01:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“NOTUS Media in February filed an application to trademark a new name — The Washington Sun.”

07.03.2026 00:37 👍 120 🔁 39 💬 4 📌 3

Folks, we still have troops in DC. They never left. What are they doing here? Being intimating bullies over people doing their ordinary things in public spaces. That’s the whole point of them & why Trump is squandering your money on them.

06.03.2026 21:23 👍 125 🔁 48 💬 5 📌 1

Sociopaths are often terrifying.

07.03.2026 00:41 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0