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shrek from the movie shrek is smiling and looking down ALT: shrek from the movie shrek is smiling and looking down

At the coffee shop.

Barista: “Do you have a name for the order?”

Me: “Yes, yes I do. Lord Farquaad”

Barista: “Why are you like this?”

Walter White in the final episode, practically looking at the camera: "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And, I was really... I was alive.”

Half the internet: "I bet it's society's fault that Walt kept cooking meth. But mainly Skyler's fault, obviously."

Given that the Russians quite literally drafted our capitulation plan for Ukraine one has to wonder about whether there wasn’t at least a bit of cutting and pasting here.

Pearl Harbor: Five Things Most People Don't Know About the Attack on December 7, 1941

Video: youtu.be/XS_mA64nICI

3M-54 Kalibr/Club (SS-N-27) | Missile Threat The 3M-54 Kalibr/Klub (SS-N-27 “Sizzler”) is a Russian short-range ship-, and submarine-launched anti-ship missile. The Sizzler is part of the Kalibr family of missiles and has several export versions...

1987?

I'll be blunt; if we're wrong and they overturn birthright citizenship then my biggest fear is that we're on the path to a new civil war. After all, that's what happened with Dred Scott 1.0, and this would be Dred Scott 2.0.

Based on the facts recounted by the Senator, the two do sound “shipwrecked” for LOAC purposes.

But they were never lawful targets in the first place even if LOAC applied.

And LOAC doesn’t apply because there is no armed conflict.

Term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is murder.

To Invent Immortality Frankenstein yearns to live.

"Have the creators of each new iteration followed Mary Shelley’s Promethean lead, nurturing a beloved creation, or have they followed Victor’s, embracing their ambition above their creation’s well-being?"

The first in our series A Time Of Monsters, from
@gvaughnjoy.bsky.social

Del Toro's Frankenstein (2025) is an absolute gift for cultural analysts and really a wonderful one to help teach cultural reception studies.

Get people to actually read the NSS with one simple trick!

(make it super racist)

I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.

We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money

This year, U.S. employers announced the highest number of layoffs since the 2020 pandemic recession and the lowest number of planned hires since 2010.

This is Trump’s economy.

Gibraltar is always interesting in this scenario.

This is a hypothetical scenario Europe is flooded since all glaciers melted. The Bavarian in me isn't concerned about this at all. Source: buff.ly/qFRuZrz

Opinion | A Bad Ukraine Deal Could Spur Nuclear Proliferation From Warsaw to Seoul, allies are asking if they can rely on the U.S. to protect them against aggression.

Last time I was in Ukraine, a popular Telegram blogger gifted me a “Make Ukraine Nuclear Again” shirt. Since then, opinion polls have found a plurality of Ukrainians think nuclear weapons are the best security guarantee. Important piece from @cjcmichel.bsky.social.

The flag of the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) was a secret society founded in 1854 by American George W. L. Bickley, the objective of which was to create a new country known as the Golden Circle (Spanish: Círculo Dorado), where slavery would be legal. The country's "circle" – of 16 degrees radius, about 2,400 miles (3,900 km) in diameter – would have been centered on Havana. It would have consisted of the Southern United States, Mexico (which was to be divided into 25 new slave states), Central America, northern parts of South America, and Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and most other islands in the Caribbean.

It is just what the KGC wanted.

The official Takaichi supporter shop is selling versions of the "JAPAN IS BACK" hat she prepared for Trump's visit to Japan.
It is priced at ¥13,200 ($85), which is considerably more expensive than the $55 that Donald Trump's official shop charges for MAGA hats.
veanas.theshop.jp

I am sure the Irish UN Soldiers are going to get right on facilitating the disarming part of UNSCR 1701 with the massive power of Irelands Expeditionary Military capabilities.

Mohammad Pakpour gets a veto on who is armed south of the Litani for some reason.

Hezbollah won’t give up its weapons without a decision from Iran — Lebanese FM Youssef Rajji says terror group is 'rebuilding itself in many ways' and seeking to 'regain its power internally,' confirms speaking about disarmament with his Iranian counterpart

If you could only see my shocked face…..

Hezbollah won’t give up its weapons without a decision from Iran — Lebanese FM

www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-wo...

Karp says he "pays the price" when he's wrong.

When Palantir's algorithm gets the wrong person arrested, is he arrested? When it gets the wrong person killed, is he killed?

So no, he doesn't pay the price. He pays a tiny, inconsequential fraction of the price.

Musk's app now removing community notes on the posts of Putin's propagandists.

"For my friends EVERYTHING. For everyone else, THE LAW".

National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday The National Park Service will no longer offer free admission to Americans on Martin Luther King Jr.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service will offer free admission to U.S. residents on President Donald Trump’s birthday next year — which also happens to be Flag Day — but is eliminating the benefit for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth.

apnews.com/article/nati...

The whole point of throwing a subordinate under the bus is that you don't jump down there with them

Good job Real World Guy, due to ATC constraints at SFO my flight is delayed an hour.

It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.

Attacking Biden’s age & making up stories about his health (Parkinsons) was just one vector in attacking him. It was effective in so much it was wall to wall coverage among others.

We’ll see zero public admission of guilt from the likes of Ed O’Keefe, maybe because he was messing with Nuzzi too.

Elbridge Colby spent years shouting:
“Japan must be explicit about its Taiwan role!”

Japan: makes clearest statement in its history
China: furious
Trump administration:
enters monk-like vow of silence

That Nobel Prize for Strategic Self-Silencing?
Colby himself could present it.

I know much less about this but this is likely true across the Americas. It is a New World ethos and it should be cherished as such.

Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.