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not as bad as I'd feared! I know the rental market is receding everywhere though

could be up to $4k by now though

I'm gonna hazard it at $3500, depending on quality and whether it's near the Yellow Deli

As someone who remembers the early days of the Iraq War I will say it is interesting how *significantly* more negative the vibe is around the attacks on Iran

A black and white mixed breed dog looks at the camera with the Mets game on the TV in the background

Watching spring training baseball while a dog stares at you because he wants a piece of the cucumber you’re eating. Does life get any better than this

America can, must, and should blow up the Moon

2016 was the information security election and now its SCIF posting on X with your chief on staff wearing an apple watch.

like dawg where is the money even fucking going, if not to build enough bombs to last us until the end of time?!!?!!?!??!?!?

I know it has to more complicated than it seems to a layperson like me, but given the famously enormous military budget that the (broad-sense) left has been decrying since time immemorial, *how in the actual fuck is it even remotely possible* that we could be running out of these missiles

...like Dr. King. my grandparents' generation just couldn't bring themselves to engage with what he was telling them, but my parents and their friends did. partly due to being raised in desegregated schools, and partly due to curriculum efforts to teach them about his work. (thanks Stevie Wonder!)

the folks back home are, I will also say, devoutly Christian. and as much as people rightly point out the hypocrisy of that whole scene, it does still mean that they're actually capable of being moved by someone who shares their faith and appeals to it with top notch skill...

as a white who comes from white supremacists (see bio): you're right, *and* I am also happy to inform that desegregation is undefeated for changing hearts and minds, especially among kids. once you start tolerating that damn race mixing, it's all over for white supremacy.

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I don’t even really think this is fair. Iraq was heavily debated publicly, and there was a plan. It was a stupid and delusional plan based on unrealistic assumptions, but it was known publicly and voted on by Congress.

There was no public debate or Congressional authorization in this instance.

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

Given the public's attitude to this war, it should be the easiest thing in the world for our representatives to oppose it. There should be no excuse for Democratic lawmakers to be to the right of Rand fucking Paul on the issue.

a progressive income tax? sorry kiddo, that betrays a "utopian" desire that can only ever end in tragedy. but a relentless program of constant wars, occupations, and genocides fast and slow, for oil, land, and fulfilling the commands of a blood-hungry god? thats just Adults in the Room doing Policy

im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

looking at the average democratic frontline candidate in 2006 vs 2026 is kinda astounding

I’m *very* skeptical of any “conservative Christians want to manipulate world events to trigger the Rapture” framing.

I went to a fundamentalist Baptist grade school that leaned heavily on End Times theology in the 90s.

Tying to trigger or predict the Rapture would have been seen as sacrilegious.

well sure, but North Korea exists too right?

the task of the nascent liberal-left popular front after the midterms, and especially when we win the WH in 2028, is to get our shit together on policy to prevent this happening again - which we failed to do in 2020

if Elissa Slotkin's feed over the last few months any indicator, we'll be fine

I think that's a simplistic read. we do have an avenue of discipline that works to whip Democrats into shape, and it's the one they just got burned by in 2024: people simply staying home on election day

given the consequences, it's not a *good* method, but it does change things pretty often

another good angle on it is "everyone who is infected with the Woke Mind Virus™," which now numbers roughly 80% of the US population since the definition of it at this point is "someone who opposes Donald Trump in any way whatsoever, no matter how small, even theoretically"

and the especially nice thing about having Buteo friends nearby is that they only slightly suppress the songbird population at our backyard feeders, if at all. songbirds DGAF about those big clumsy bois. they'll keep on snacking while a red-shouldered hawk sits like twenty feet away. I have seen it!

by that I meant, I can't quite remember whether you have other progeny besides the twins (who I think of as The Lads™), so I was confused by the use of "the" baby lol

six and a half years, even. please forgive my transient, mild innumeracy

I think this is going to sound callous no matter how I put it, but: in the realm of silver linings, at least we have the example of UK Labour to demonstrate how absolutely catastrophic that strategy would be, on the off chance any Democrats were actually considering going for it in a substantive way

bringing up a post from five years ago about a left-wing politician saying something that has near-zero relevance now? instablock

he voted no on her confirmation to ODNI, for fuck's sake!