Russell the Love Muscle 💪

This is like animal abuse.

No, yeah, this is some fucked up shit.

Pretty much the only thing my dad let himself spend money on in the 1980s was Red Wings or Thom McAn’s and even then I remember him re-gluing the soles with spring clamps.

One of my ironclad pieces of advice to men would be when graduating college, find the highest quality American shoe manufacturer you can, and buy two pair each brown and black cap-toe oxfords. Keep them clean, polished, and resole. Congratulations, you’re set for dress shoes until your 40s.

Back in 2005 I probably paid $200-300 per pair for some good Johnston and Murphy’s and they definitely lasted into the 2020s, getting resoled every couple of years apiece. Their quality has since gone down so they’re no longer comparable, but buying Alden today would be the same.

Brother, it’s a 25-year investment. $28 a year.

This is a room in the Lumon Corporation’s headquarters.

This is a room in the Lumon Corporation’s headquarters.

At 45, I think this might be the setback that makes me just give up on life and start leaving insane comments on hot local news personalities’ instagrams under my government name.

‘Little’ Marco ain’t beating the charges.

You can literally go to Alden on F Street and for like $700 get the best dress shoes handmade in America that, with proper care and resoling, will last you 25 years or so.

You don’t even have to be a bitch-ass weasel or Secretary of State like Little Marco.

i can't catch a fucking break, man

wtf

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

Is anyone else experiencing debilitating amounts of dread?

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

as I've said for a while now, the entire plan and theory of victory is, 100% accurately, described as "I dunno bomb stuff I guess"

near perfect tactical execution all things considered, operationally incoherent, and strategically vacant, that's the DoD/USG promise

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

you ever think how this is all because america elected a centre-left black president once, and the right never forgave the left for it

Oof.

Damn these Adventurefuls be hitting.

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that “it’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

international women’s day

Everyone thinks this is Tapper misreading the situation and everyone is wrong.

This is likely Tapper warning Murphy this is how he will cover it. Tapper’s ‘journalism’ is exactly that facile.

Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

Voting against Tapper’s vague notion of “The Troops” is our collective responsibility.

A grand strategy of laying waste to other countries to make ourselves feel strong, to revel in the fear and pain of others, is immoral, will be counter productive long term, violates fundamental American values. It sure ain't what I signed up to teach.