I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit
the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also
Yet again:
theonion.com/this-war-wil...
But has he considered posting "this is not okay" on Instagram
What jumps out at me from this chart is the negative relationship between mortality and cheese intake. Finally some good news
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
This is basically how I view the subject. Like, no duh, the United States has done some incredibly awful stuff over the centuries. But we also have a very powerful strand of humanitarianism, especially in the post World War II era, and I will damn well lean into that part of our national identity.
This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a poll like this in my life.
1️⃣ He didn't say that.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.
Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...
The lady in this photo is autistic and ICE agents dragged her out of her car as she tried to go to the doctor.
The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously:
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
Venezuela may seem like a tactical loss for Russia, but in fact it's a strategic win for Putin's vision of the world. new essay:
hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
some thoughts on all of this madness from earlier in the morning youtu.be/-yUi-0vNlDA
Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
Well worth a read -- I'll admit I was pretty much convinced
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
Dept of No Comment
EXACTLY
Baba O’Riley
Sympathy for the Devil
It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll)
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Respect
Just perfectly captured the 2020s
Doesn’t matter what your message is if no one hears it
Definitely not someone who should be allowed to carry around a gun, much less a badge.
why are these guys sending so many fucking emails
Fun fact: When the Department of Defense got its name in 1947, the U.S. was led by people who actually knew war, and how to win them, firsthand. Now...
What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?
This.
This is what you get.