Organizing books by colour is pervert shit.
the more I think about it the more I think @eschatonblog.com was right. In your mid 40's you either start to like to bird watch or think about trees or shit like that or you become an angry at the world fucking bitter right wing crank.
Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
This was a SERIOUS IMAGE discussed in hushed tones
Everyone has one Mitch Hedberg joke stashed in their brain like a squirrel to sustain them whenever they need to feel joy for 30 seconds and mine is “they say the recipe for Sprite is Lemon and Lime but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that”
We need to bring back 1st wave coffee shops. Draw the menu on a blackboard, fill the place with mismatched thrift store furniture and fill a cup with the most burned-ass drip french roast for $2. Have a high school kid out front playing chess with a homeless guy. Bonus if a stray cat wanders around.
People think of California as a very liberal place bc Dems own the state government but actually it’s a fairly center left place with a Republican Party that is completely unhinged.
i don’t want to belabor the point but it is worth noting that Biden’s underlying assumptions about the US political system were completely, categorically wrong and are likely what motivated his Administration’s “high road, consensus-oriented approach to Trump
the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
In May 2017, Trump fired the FBI Director for investigating some of Trumpworld’s corrupt foreign ties. Then Trump brought the Russian foreign minister into the Oval Office and told him that’s why he’d done it.
Congress should have impeached, removed, and disqualified him in 2017. But here we are.
Pete Hegseth is now known as “whiskileaks” #petehegseth #topsecret
Okay, as a D-Day historian, this wins the day for me:
All fed employees should add “I didn’t share classified targeting info over an unclassified system with a reporter on it” to their “what I did this week” emails
If this were a Le Carre novel and Karla’s mole became President of the United States, he wouldn’t do ninety percent of what Trump’s doing out of fear of being discovered.
Ahhh... If dreams could become true!! 🤗
seen in newark, new jersey
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Direct to consumer drug ads were illegal in this country until Bill Clinton signed a law legalizing them.
This is such a funny phone call for a chief whip to get, because the situation being described doubles in badness every four or so words.
A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.
I wonder if they have a Gaelic society or similar. I bet St Pats day celebrations will go on unimpeded.
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
“What’s the first order of business Mr. President?”
“We need to disable the oversight body that ensures U.S. spy agencies operate lawfully and respect citizens’ civil liberties.”
“Uh… why?”
“Oh, you know. No reason.”
Sorry to be a downer but this year kinda sucks so far!
Sometimes it is entirely inadequate to describe a movie as “good” or “bad.” There are those special ones that are “insane.” #noiralley #TCMParty
manipulating wikipedia has been a longstanding project of the nazi alt-right. on 4chan they used to post instructions about how to use scripts to fix typos on wikipedia to create a helpful-looking history and parlay that into moderator privileges so you can insert nazi stuff onto the platform
Recently I've seen a lot – and I mean a LOT – of discourse about not just male loneliness but male radicalization and why that may be. One of the things that comes up occasionally is how little men tend to read these days and, if I'm being honest, I think that's actually a big part of it. 🧵
Not relevant to the pardon, but I would have liked to see more Democrats respond to the Republican obsession to Hunter with "So you agree that tax evasion and improperly accessing firearms are bad? Will you finally stop blocking legislation to address them?"
The legacy press is not able to say the following: Judgements found that Trump's Coffee Boy, his National Security Advisor, his Campaign Manager, his personal lawyer, and his rat-fucker lied to cover up what happened with Russia in 2016. After they lied, he pardoned all but the lawyer, Michael Cohen
