Melissa Paints

On Twitter they were saying iran accidentally hit the school themselves 🙄

Additionally what so many of the "No one's talking on Bluesky" people are actually saying is "I am lost and confused when there's not an algorithm to shove content into my eyeballs with no effort on my part"

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

Very informative thread about Iran and the area, if you're needing a little clarity on the players involved here (also why arming the Kurds probably ain't it, Trump!)

The map and picture of Obiwan from when he says: It's over Anakin. I have the high ground.

Finally, here's a map of US bases in the region, concentrated near those large population centers like Manamah, Doha, and Kuwait City.

50,000 US troops

Notice that the bases are all in the south and west. Also, all the bases close to Iran are located in flat land and the Iran side elevated. 7/n

Can any reporter ask any Republican member of the Senate or House on camera what constitutes an impeachable offense under their understanding of the Constitution? Genuinely want to understand what crime, apparently yet to be committed, is the line.

I don't know what's in Platner's heart but the irony of just being charmed by a dude and then choosing to believe everything he says that is in contrast with what he does is... something. Not saying Platner does this but Jon here is demonstrating how a guy who beats his wife gets away with it

Maternal grandfather was a navy pilot and then he owned an electronic store; paternal grandfather was a farmer and eventually an independent feed salesman. Fun story he retired less than a decade ago after his last client died 🤣. I guess that was the last farmer not ordering shit online

Absolutely ridiculous that Republicans (minus Paul, plus Fetterman) all lined up to defend Trump's ability to do an end-run around Congress and just start a war unilaterally. Cowards.

What so she and all her fans can do it again?!!

That vote number....

Uhh

No. Y’all aren’t listening.

The battle northern and western states are fighting now is *just another Civil War battle*

Conservatives can’t be voted out here, they test their tactics here, perfect them here, get their judgments here.

And if you listened to Southerners, you’d have been prepared.

I cannot stress enough that the admin would still be doing the shit they are currently doing if the Epstein files never even existed.

Not everything they do is related to the Epstein files.

I'm gonna need it to fuck up gas prices then

(Only briefly bc people can barely live as it is)

Good fuck them for screwing over our culture bearers

These rumors of enshittification in the military industrial complex is making me more excited than I oughtta be

Good to know! I stopped there for coffee on a road trip a few years ago and the coffee was worse than their grounds in the store are (which I think are pretty good) and the donuts looked like shit

Like do you mean to tell me we bought a whole military industrial complex and they didn't build us a whole military?! Shocked!

This is the point. If your vaunted trillion-dollar military can't get through a few days of airstrikes because you've consolidated the industrial base so badly, then you don't have a trillion-dollar military, you just have contractors in No. Virginia getting rich

They've just been paying themselves all that money we've been giving them. I'm really annoyed that 20 year old me has been right about everything

Like military spending didn't go down after we scaled down in Iraq and Afghanistan, it went up

Is Dunkin like *better* in Massachusetts because it is... Not that good?

Like I know Popeye's is better in Louisiana

Exaaaactly

Tough talk vagueries are all over mindless action movies and shit. Or even stuff that isn't dumb but maybe has kind of dumb dialogue - Sons of Anarchy was a huge offender here of people just walking around saying tough guy one-liners

These people watch too many movies and spend time mimicking lines they think sound badass

I dated this guy once who would always just out of the blue be like "if anyone crosses you, they're gonna have to answer to me" and dumb shit like that and I would be like WHAT are you talking about

“Oh so someone who has made a bunch of mistakes in their life can’t be a Senator?”

Yes, I believe there should be much higher standards for being in the Senate than for getting a regular job. That’s not hard for me to internalize.

And that data shows that damn near as many people were turned away during those 2 hours as people that had voted earlier in the day.

Again…why are these alleged democrats celebrating this?

If they did it today, they’re damn sure gonna do it in November.

Some of y’all have no damn common sense.

Why are so many people acting like any of this is normal?

2 hours of voting ballots are being held and probably won’t be counted.

People literally had their right to cast their vote taken away and alleged democrats are taking victory laps because Black Voters were disenfranchised?