Benj

Oh.

Obligatory, if a Dem did it...

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that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be

That tracks...

These boys are on their 11th installment of the Jackass franchise series, too.

Fast and Furious, EPIC!

Flashback to the GOP in 2024 saying Kamala is going to get your rust belt sons and daughters killed.

The casual sports hat is a classy touch for the Farquaad speech...

In building code, depending on the type of construction, ingress/egress routes are protected from fire, with bearing components independently wrapped, with equal fire resistance as the firewall it is within.
What I'm trying to say is, "preemtive" should be given its own parentheses within the quote.

It is really something that he uses the phrase "major combat operations."

I still hear that phrase from George W. Bush aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

This piece has now been updated with with QAnon figure Juan O. Savin's alleged involvement with the proposed Trump executive order.

It has also been updated with multiple more election deniers calling for Trump to declare a "national emergency" in order to control elections.

To recap:
Anthropic refused to do killbots or mass surveillance. DOD trying to destroy company.
Altman: we are now working with DOD, who totally respect safety and oppose mass surveillance!
Why would anyone trust a word Altman says after this?

The government illegally took your money.

They won’t give it back.

This is Trump's former AI adviser

What Trump has done to schools like Columbia is wrong, but it would be nice if so many of them weren't already garbage fires run by contemptible people with no principles.

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

Trump's war on national park signs is even dumber than you think Inside the administration's covert campaign against "negative" placards.

As Trump’s clandestine censorship campaign proceeds, displays that focus on persecution and environmental degradation have become particular targets.

But the Park Service is also planning to remove signs that merely acknowledge the existence of controversy or conflict.

Paramount Wins Warner Bros. What’s Next? Plus: A shocking assignment!

"Any regulatory concerns I have about monopolies pale in comparison to the political concerns I have about an administration monkeying with the process for its own nefarious ends."

Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog Remember when they spent years telling us to panic over the hole in the ozone layer and then suddenly just stopped talking about it and nobody ever mentioned the ozone layer Derek Thompson @DKThomp What happened is scientists discovered chlorofluorocarbons were bad for the ozone, countries believed them, the Montreal Protocol was signed, and CFC use fell by 99.7%, leading to the stabilization of the ozone layer, perhaps the greatest example of global cooperation in history.

🤦🏾👇😆

Dude thinks the greatest fuck off letter in American history was a letter of unity and love...

He is quite simply the dumbest man alive.

Opinion | America’s least American president Donald Trump isn’t making America great again. He’s making it into something else entirely.

This column of mine from last year aged perfectly. (Gift link.)
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Confused Trump Says the Civil War and Reconstruction Were the Same Thing: ‘A Fancy Way of Saying the Civil War’ President Donald Trump botched 19th-century U.S. history on Friday, telling a crowd of supporters that the Civil War and Reconstruction were the same thing.

I don’t know how much less surprised I could be that Trump isn’t familiar with Reconstruction.

Friday roundup

- Defense Secretary rips best-performing AI out of defense systems; pulls military personnel from receiving top education

- DHS Secretary created security vulnerabilities at airports (WSJ report)

- HHS Secretary is detached from reality⬇️

Voting rights groups sue Georgia for refusing to release voter purge records Without full access to the records, plaintiffs say they cannot determine whether eligible voters were wrongly removed.

NEW: Georgia removed nearly 471,000 voters from its rolls last summer — roughly 6% of all the state’s registered voters.

Now voting rights groups are suing, arguing the state is illegally hiding records about how the purge was carried out.

Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.

Tafoya has always come across as a grossly stupid person.
She's basically the equivalent of a doilie.

Sideline reporters in American sports tend to come across the dumbest people in media.

Pentagon to cut ties with Ivy League and other top universities, Hegseth says Hegseth accused Columbia, Yale, Brown and other universities of being "breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination.”

The other thing that drives me batsh*t crazy about this is the blatant pull-up-the-ladder-after-me part of 👇. You went to Princeton & Harvard, man. Surely, if they were good enough for you, the guy who passed up West Point for the Ivy League, they’re good enough for everyone else in the military.

So let’s think about this.

A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands.

The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it

The party of limited government, free markets, & the marketplace of ideas, folks.

Fare THE NATIONAL EAGLE Aug, 1962 Word of the Lord Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge A INTER-MARRIAGE IS SUBTLE SCHEME TO END INDIVIDUALITY Intermarriage of the races is a communist-not a Christian-proposal. COMMUNISM DENIES THERE IS A GOD. COM- MUNISM DECLARES MAN TO BE NOTHING BUT AN ARAN MORONRE MAT IN AN EFFORT DEGRADE MAN INTO A STATUS OF NONENTITY, INTER-MAR-IAGE IS PROPOSED. One of the most: rabid communist voices for such an unthinkable proposal is Tom Mboya of Africa. Speaking recently at con- cial inter-marriage. ATOR OF ALL RACES, TRAT EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING SHOULD PRODUCE AFTER ITS OWN KIND. TO DO OTHERWISE IS TO PRODUCE A FREAK. IT IS TO BE EXPECTED THAT GODLESS COMMUNISM WOULD SEEK OUT ALL OF GOD'S LAWS AND ADVOCATE THE OPPO- SITE. THE SHAME OF IT IS THAT THERE ARE ONLY A FEW VOICES EXPOSING AND OPPOSING SUCH CHAOS AS IS PROPOSED BY SUBVERSIVES ANDE MARTIN LUTHER munist subversive agent AND MARTIN KING IN AMERICA !! said: "The different races of this country should in-ter-marry. It is not e nough for them to meet occasionally at cocktail Talk One Way, Act Another or tea parties." e A 0一 D W ri th A al 01 DTT T in W er m SmOt at at Ve hi

To repeat, this is the newspaper edited by the person who would be elected chair of the OR GOP in 1978.

White Christian Nationalism has been with us a long time folks.

This 1963 report on CBS about the Operation Water Moccasin hoax was pretty amazing...back when outlets like CBS would report on how batshit crazy American right wing cranks were, rather than just reporting their batshit as if it was foie gras. bsky.app/profile/seth...