John Ford

we've been having a great moon recently

Citizenship+? oh you mean "drinking directly from one (1) Golden Corral Chocolate Fountain per calendar year (12 months) on or near the date November 11th."

military service does not get you "citizenship+"

Request for #AfghanEvac help.

One of my interpreters is in bureaucratic limbo with his SIV to enter the US. I'm running the traps on that.

Where he needs help: Organizations that fund the execution of leaving the country - medical exams, visas to get his family to Pakistan, etc.

Any ideas?

Baking cakes that depict military campaigns and battles

@gregdoucette.bsky.social we just might be getting that puritanical anti-corruption backlash I've been hoping for.

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As someone who thinks Harris would have been a pretty great president overall, it has never been more obvious how ”courage“ and “willingness to take a risk” are values, beliefs largely absent from the democratic leadership

Number 1939 will SHOCK you

finally, something i can set on repeat and zone out to for hours while i achieve oneness with satellite imagery

a photo of RFK Sr

RFK Sr: "I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering."

fighting under a Man Show banner

you should auction the delete rights

Ricardo's Curse

fwiw i still think the defining scandal of our age is Iran-CONTRA

is it DARKHORSE?

its weird because growing up we were taught the myth of watergate and that is simply not true

they thought the presidency was "theirs" and it was "stolen" from them by greedy power hungry dems in the house who abused the system to get rid of someone they couldn't defeat electorally

its gender

Certain Americans did not experience the 20th century and have doomed themselves to repeating it

i always thought this was attributable to his "online-ness" but i like the idea that it has religious origins much better

I think the experience of this spring taught them that there is no first mover benefit. So when it goes, it will go all at once.

The correct answer here is the Know Your Enemy podcast. Many of the episodes, especially the early ones, are more historical, tracing the evolution of Conservative ideas in the US. For a true understanding the context is really valuable. They do comment on topical issues as well.

they didnt understand it 20 years ago!

Deep down, what I fear most is that Ezra Klein truly does not get that our current moment is not merely about policy disagreements, but about the fundamental shape of political life in America

its why men arent attending college either

Its a kind of antipolitics. I trace the genesis from the association of tech and libertarian political-economic movements, but what do i know.

flows from a political and legal culture holding that white collar crime isn't real in general