BFSCR

Sure, but then you have the Vorta, who helped even before they uplifted them, so that's one exception without even leaving the Gamma Quadrant.

If you want galaxy safe for Changelings, you want to know if that's unique vs. reproducible, & infant lowest possible bar

Seriously though if there’s a time-traveling unicorn who’d like to set things right, I’ll meet you by the star-watching rock.

Pure vendetta settling in both cases

The former African minister in ICE detention Federal agency says Ghana’s Kenneth Ofori-Atta overstayed his visa but lawyers accuse US of aiding ‘political’ extradition request

www.ft.com/content/84ea... The former African minister in ICE detention

The fact that Platner held to a plausible lie (“I had no idea what the tattoo was or meant, I just thought it looked cool”), only walking it back when that lie was no longer plausible, reads to me as someone who will tell people anything he thinks they want to hear, rather than what he believes.

Everything old is new again. This shit is straight out of the Jim Crow handbook

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A tweet from @Ahmadinejad1956: « Why is the #FrenchOpen disrespecting @serenawilliams ? Unfortunately some people in all Countries including my Country, haven't realized the true meaning of freedom. »

When he criticized the French Open for banning Serena’s catsuit:

A true poster

Oh thank FUCK.

Trump Says He Brought 'Justice' To Iran. His War Boosts Fears The U.S. Has Gone Rogue. The administration’s latest escalation is boosting the global view of the U.S. as a rogue actor, fueling instability, acting illogically and illegally and risking innocent lives.

NEW– Trump's war on Iran boosts the global view of the US as a rogue actor, fueling instability, acting illogically+illegally & risking innocent lives

Combined with his broader agenda + US record from Gaza to Iraq, international wariness of America is at new heights
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the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

Normalizing assassinations of heads of state/government is not a particularly wise thing to do for the stronger hegemon facing asymmetric conflicts.

I like how mace used her government account that’s not really supposed to be used for that shit and Omar correctly went onto her campaign account to dunk

8 months on, Iran agreed to everything and Israel wanted to bomb them because they did. The lesson here is don't negotiate, build nukes.

How the lack of newspapers feeds a rise in local corruption. Our study also found that digital media sites didn’t make much of a difference.

One large study found that when a major daily newspaper covering a federal judicial district disappears, corruption cases there—bribery, embezzlement, fraud—rise by more than 7%.

The researchers suggest officials feel emboldened when no one's looking.
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"If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?"

Worth remembering:

During the Trump v. United States oral arguments before SCOTUS, Justice Sotomayor asked if assassinating political opponents would fall within the “official acts” for which a POTUS could receive immunity.

Trump’s attorney responded that it would “depend on the hypothetical.”

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my problem with these takes, is it's like imagine if you were being attacked by a tiger at the zoo, and the zookeeper was over there kinda halfheartedly going "hey. come on now. get off him" and you went HEY WHAT THE FUCK! and the zookeeper went "uh don't oyu think you should be angry at the tiger?"

The really awesome and cool news is that carbon is about to get a lot more expensive and that will be a good reason to shift to renewables. The really bad news is that the biggest economy on earth hates that idea

Hey, I know everything’s crazy rn, But at least we don’t have to hear Charlie Kirk’s opinion about it.

When AI Decides Who Lives and Dies The Israeli military’s algorithmic targeting has created dangerous new precedents.

Israel attempted to deal with this problem through AI-supported upscaling. The result was a war crimes machine. 4/ foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/02/i...

It feels like the majority of knowledge I gained from social studies classes in middle school about civics and American government is useless now. I was promised three branches of government and checks and balances.

The closest thing to a "final warning" as possible while leaving room to escalate?

The Economics of Illegal Drugs As a teenager I saw the war on drugs up close. Then I studied it as an economist and saw it differently. Commentary by Roland Fryer Wall Street Journal Feb 25, 2026 Cartel leaders assassinated. Fast boats intercepted in the Caribbean. Coast Guard cutters in the Pacific. Vessels destroyed from the air. Last weekend, Mexican forces——with CIA intelligence support-killed "El Mencho," leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel; within hours, retaliatory violence erupted across Mexico. Since September 2025, the Pentagon's Operation Southern Spear has conducted more than 40 strikes on small boats suspected of carrying drugs, killing around 150 people. The images are designed to look decisive, muscular and tough. This approach, according to the conomics of illegal markets, is almost certainly making the problem worse. And not for the first time. Richard Nixon declared the War on Drugs. Ronald Reagan signed mandatory minimums into law. Bill Clinton launched Plan Colombia. George W. Bush doubled down on it. Barack Obama expanded border interdiction. Each administration chose supply-side enforcement. Each one failed. The current administration has simply found a more cinematic way to repeat the mistake. I know what these failures look like up close. I was a teenager when the Drug Enforcement Agency raided my great-aunt Ernestine's house in central Florida. Agents found crack, cash and guns-including an AR-15 with a laser. She ran part of a distribution operation, never dealing to users but embedded deep in the supply chain. My grandmother implored her to quit. Emestine would wave her off, saying the war on drugs was making her too much money. A decade later, I sat in a seminar room at the University of Chicago listening to Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy present their work on the economics of illegal goods. I came in skeptical. I had seen what drugs did to my grandmother's neighborhood: the violence, the fractured families, the lives swallowed whol…

No country has fully tested what the Becker-Murphy-Grossman model actually prescribes-legalization with an excise tax. Portugal and Switzerland represent partial steps: decriminalizing use while keeping supply illegal, or medicalizing supply for the most dependent users. Becker himself endorsed Portugal's approach as a moderate alternative to the drug war. But even these incomplete reforms produced dramatic results. Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001 and redirected resources to treatment. Annual drug-related deaths fell from 76 to 16 by 2012; HIV infections among users fell more than 90%; drug use didn't spike. When austerity later gutted treatment funding, outcomes reversed. Switzerland began prescribing pharmaceutical-grade heroin to its hardest cases in the 1990s. Muggings by participants dropped 70%; opioid-related criminal cases nationally declined from 20,000 a year to 5,000. Swiss voters made the program permanent by a two-thirds majority. Oregon tried decriminalization in 2020 without the treatment infrastructure and overdose deaths rose 23%. The lesson is consistent: Reform without resources fails. So what would evidence-based policy look like? The economics points to three principles, none of which involves naval blockades. First, legalize and tax. Prohibition currently functions as an implicit tax of staggering size. According to economist Jeffrey Miron, cocaine retails at 262 times its farm gate price—a markup attributable to the risk premium of illegality. A well-designed excise tax could achieve a greater reduction in consumption at a fraction of that markup, generating revenue instead of violence. Second, invest in treatment and don't let up. Reform without resources fails. Third, provide credible information about health costs. Becker and Murphy's 1988 theory of rational addiction shows that addicts respond far more to permanent price changes than to temporary ones. Cigarette consumption fell significantly -down by half by 2010-after the surge…

Once in decade I might say something nice about a WSJ editorial or the right-wing Manhattan Institute. Today is that day for both of them. This is an excellent op-ed about the failure of drug prohibition. Well worth reading! www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Rahman says after she was ejected from the event, Capitol Police officers handcuffed her, took away her cane and held her in a stairwell. They wouldn’t say if she was under arrest, and as they jerked her around by her shoulders, she repeatedly asked for her cane. One officer responded, “You are walking,” meaning she didn’t need her cane. “Bullying, intimidating, not listening,” Rahman said. “Who takes a cane away from a disabled person? I’m trying to slow them down. I’m not resisting, I’m disabled.” Officers were aggressive enough with her that she had to be taken to George Washington University Hospital for treatment after they dragged her from the event. She was later booked at U.S. Capitol Police headquarters.

Capitol Police said she was disrupting Congress, which carries up to 6 months in jail.

Woman who attended SOTU to highlight her arrest without cause arrested without cause at SOTU.
““I just stood up. I stood silently, with no signs. I was not blocking anyone’s view of the hall. And then I was arrested.”

One reason why journalists should get off Twitter is that they'll drastically overestimate the public appetite for this war, and really any of this regime's hugely unpopular policies

Classic "they've learnt nothing and forgotten nothing" score settling

The Democrat centrists won't even be able to get to use the excuse that it's Chinese brainwashing on TikTok anymore

Infographic with text: Only 4% of the world’s women and girls live in the United states, but the U.S. confines 25% of the world’s incarcerated women and girls. Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women/2025.html

The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate for women in the world.

This #WomensHistoryMonth, we're thinking of all the women locked behind bars, away from their families. They can't get lost in the fight to end mass incarceration.