Jake Wright

Whenever I feel like I need to get away from everything or remember what we're capable of in a good way, I check in. I have the tab permanently open on my browser.

Right now, in this very moment, we're receiving data from *both* Voyager probes. Think about how incredible that is.

Saddam Hussein was a monster. An unprovoked attack to depose him was a moral and strategic disaster.

Nicholas Maduro is a monster. An unprovoked attack to depose him has been a moral and strategic disaster.

Ayatollah Khamenei was a monster. An unprovoked attack to depose him is a moral and…

Trump has ordered a land invasion of Wakanda.

The waffles/pancakes tweet remains undefeated.

I saw a post from Mamdani where he was like "This war is stupid" and someone responded "NYPD makes us less safe."

Parenting

SCHUMER AND JEFFRIES: Trump acted without congressional authorization. Congress must immediately vote on whether we should kill small children with missiles.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Picture of an aircraft carrier, The Onion Magazine Cover October 2006: WHY AMERICAN HUBRIS WILL NEVER CATCH UP TO US Richard Perkins On Our Permanent And Unassailable Dominance Of Everything Page 14

My all-time fav

I’m going to St. Louis in June while the Cards are on a road trip to… Minnesota. I will miss them. I’m not sure yet if this is a good thing or not.

Why is he SO BAD at this?

Eichmann in Jerusalem is hundreds of pages of Arendt discussing how Israel is having an enormous show trial for the biggest goober you’ll ever meet. At some level I think her view was only a goober could do what Eichmann did because anyone with a shred of self-respect got hired to do other things.

I always have one or two reservists, veterans, etc. in my classes each semester. Last semester, I had an unusually large number who were, of course, stellar. All I could think, all semester, was how unworthy senior leadership like Hegseth was of these incredible, thoughtful individuals.

A graph where the good things and bad things invert when Reagan becomes president.

My students often don’t believe me because it seems like the most ridiculous explanation possible—like, no country could possibly be stupid enough to elect someone who would do that because Trump is sui generis—and yet!

I cannot stress enough (and make this the focus of my teaching when I assign this) that Arendt’s central thesis isn’t “grave evil slyly masquerades as normality;” it’s “the most deprived, evil people you know are enormous dipshits.”

Not true! One of the Republican presidents in my lifetime… [checks notes]… illegally sold weapons to far-right Central American antigovernment militias to *fund* armed resistance to a Middle Eastern… okay, that’s not better.

My wife played it on Apple Arcade. I think PWS1 comes with a lot of the DLC.

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

Both are free on Game Pass, if you have that.

There is an achievement in Power Wash 2 for petting every cat.

[creeps into your timeline]

Have you played Power Wash Simulator?

Trump wearing a fuckass USA hat. He looks like a joke, because he is.

It’s the least important thing, but I can’t believe our pedophile president just declared an illegal war at 3am in this fuckass hat.

My god, it’s been at least a couple months since Trump started some dumbshit war while I was sleeping.

The last time that happened, Stephen Hawking spent a poker game making fun on Newton.

most shockingly of all, the alien craft was reportedly adorned with a sort of bumper sticker that said "Earth Hoes Cant Fuck"

Starfleet Academy but it’s actually just about the classes. Like, “In this week’s episode: Temporal dynamics.”

Tumblr post from larkstonguesinaspicpart1 Picture of Gul Dukat in Sisko's office, sitting in Sisko's chair and staring curiously and pensively at the baseball on his desk as he holds it. Text "gul dukat thinks that this is sisko's egg and its going to hatch into another sisko

In a long tweet about Anthropic, Pete Hegseth, through the offical "SecWar" Twitter account says "the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic."

Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.