La vache est fachée

This is the kind of evil the Bible is talking about.

Perfect for the Easter season. Maybe they gamble on the meager possessions they leave behind, too?

I mean one of @mikeduncan.bsky.social's big takeaways from years of writing the Revolutions pod is that the Great Man Theory of Historical Change is overrated but the Great Idiot Theory holds considerable explanatory power

The thread where Senator Kim details a bit about what the career experts at State are doing, and praises the effort, while being critical of the executive.

Also, the thread where we learn we have no real concept of how many Americans are in that region.

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.

Obviously *far* from the most important thing here, but the fact that oil prices are shooting up has in fact meant that I just spent the last couple hours purchasing flights for a Dutch friend's wedding this summer *way* sooner than I was anticipating doing that before flight prices skyrocket

we are going to win.

chat is it a bad sign if the economists are like "we're hurdling off a cliff", the IR scholars are like "this is august 1914 redux", and the military analysts are like "there's no way for anyone to win without escalating"

how bad can it be, it only fuels half the world's population

Someone trying to devise the best possible stop-him-with-time-travel AU, perhaps?

“I have no intention of starting a war with you” I say as I airstrike your entire government into dust, sink your whole navy, destroy your air force, and demand your unconditional surrender

Gosh if only someone had loudly warned about how an entire popular "left" influencer scene was a pipeline to the far right.

I'm sure if that person had existed she definitely would not have faced a year of misogynistic harassment and ridicule from much of the rest of the online left.

You won't be able
to fix it all.
You will be able
to love.

- Helms Jarrell

man if only a massive green energy infrastructure package had been passed like five years ago

on of the oil bros points out to me: "you know what an energy crisis is really bad news for? AI"

Oil up 13% just today.

Trump did that!

If other people's children are fair targets in war, then so are yours.

zero percent chance that Susan Collins doesn't immediately drop all of this the second the general election starts if this guy wins the primary - the DoD is 100% sitting on the file on this guy and will send it to her the second he wins the nomination

I mean, my default position is that an 80 year old should not be starting a first term in the Senate, and probably not up for reelection either. But that's a preference, not an ironclad rule like the one about guys who had a Nazi tattoo for decades that only ended within the latest electoral cycle.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

I’ve started sayin “He’s wearing a wire!” when I see these glasses.

One man overheard and pulled them off. 😭😭😭

Chat, is it good that everyone in the oil industry seems to be freaking the fuck out?

Waiting for the administration to say the spike in gas prices isn't actually a big deal because so many Americans are losing their jobs and won't have to drive to work anymore.

We’re 7 days into something that looks like a war, feels like a war, costs like a war, has the same economic effects of a war, but we’re not supposed to call it a war because it would require the President to follow that annoying thing called the United States Constitution.

I’m a little confused because the economists on my timeline are like “oh yeah we’re facing a generational energy crisis because Trump is a madman who started a war he can’t control” while the politicians are like “it’s important to make clear we support the troops until it all blows over next week”

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

That Trump repeats calls for Iran's unconditional surrender on same day he's got the defence industrial chiefs round for an emergency meeting on military supplies perfectly sums up his grasp of ends & means.

mr president, i think we’ve found a way to combine the iraq war with hurricane katrina

Nintendo also probably has better health care policy; Dr Mario believes in germ theory