Ray Pride

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

I've now printed and shipped over 20,000 whistles, sent across the country to groups that need em. That's 20,000 off a single 3d printer that has basically run continuously in my basement since about mid-January. The crew I print with has sent out over 1M now, and we can send to you too. toot.supply

It is wild to me that DOGE/Musk could dismantle so much of the government in just a few months from a combination of anti-regulatory personal greed and fascism-tinged stupidity and no one will ever face any consequence for it.

Why is this monstrous excuse for a human being on our payroll??

Is anyone hearing of US citizens actually getting on these charter flights / commercial flights out of the Middle East booked via the state department?

This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

The Pentagon is rapidly burning through its stocks of precision weapons at a rate that puts the U.S. military potentially “days away” from having to prioritize which targets to intercept, according to three people familiar with the matter.-WSJ

LIEU: Will you commit to stopping ICE from doing operations at or near school bus stops, school drop off locations, and school campuses?

NOEM: Our ICE officers do targeted enforcement operations

That 38 percent never budges. 38 percent of us are terrible people.

New YouGov poll finds that for the first time, a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump *strongly.* His overall approval is down to 38%, a new second-term low.

When is the last time a majority has disapproved strongly of a president?

House intel member: There'll be an Iran investigation if Democrats win the midterms "There are things we have to look at that people don't even know about."

House intel member: There'll be an Iran investigation if Democrats win the midterms.

"There are things we have to look at that people don't even know about," @gomez.house.gov.

Heh

Pete Hegseth is every Karate Kid bad guy in one ill-fitting suit.

Bessent on "fantastical media accounts": "The region is not on fire. What's happening is that somebody with an iPhone -- and look, it's terrible when a hotel gets hit -- but those are one offs."

politics aside for a second: he probably could've used a few more hours of metronome practice on this one. you can hear the drummer's silent internal screams

Hegseth and Trump are having open wargasms and the Dems “we demand answers” talking point is grossly inadequate

Berlin Film Festival Boss to Accept New Advisory Board and “Antisemitism Code of Conduct” (Report) Tricia Tuttle came under fire following pro-Palestinian speeches by Berlinale award winners at this year's awards gala.

GERMANY WILL POLICE PARTICIPANT SPEECH AT BERLINALE

Most telling part of this rant: That the war will go on until "we decide it is over," not until the aims of the war are achieved - because there are no stated aims; and Trump prefers having none, so any result will allow him to try to claim a "win."

The truth is liberal

I have never been more convinced that Hegseth suffers from a crippling sense of inferiority and low self-confidence than I do right now.

What an unbelievable dork.

That's how you do it.

The Iran War’s Most Precious Commodity Isn’t Oil The CIA calls it the “strategic commodity” of the Middle East. But it’s not referring to oil or natural gas. What the American spy agency has in mind is far more prosaic: drinking water. Don’t underes...

“But the risk is real — whether by targeting desalination plants deliberately, or by accident due to a stray missile or drone. Oil is essential; but water is irreplaceable.”

Water, not oil, is Iran’s most precious commodity.
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I don't think it's a coincidence Talarico and Mamdani cobbled together basically the same demographic coalition in two very disparate areas of the country, and both present coherent worldviews not defined solely by Orange Man Bad

Bessent Says Trump’s Tariff Hike to 15% Likely Coming This Week Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that President Donald Trump’s plan to increase a 10% universal tariff up to 15% will likely be done this week.

Words cannot express the insanity of slapping across-the-board inflationary tariffs in the middle of waging an inflationary war. It’s like they’re trying to crash the market or someth— ah, I see now

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This seems worth noticing: Israel's military leader actually says they get to kill every Iranian leader. That's a quote, from a statement, that he himself made.

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Jorts Fetterman is readily confounded.

There Are 47,635 Epstein Files Offline for Review, DOJ Says Among the unreleased documents are a woman’s unverified allegations against President Trump.

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Polymarket and Kalshi’s Iran War Wagers Are Ghoulish — and Troubling As bad behavior in finance goes, the idea of insiders betting on the US and Israel attacking Iran is about as appalling as it gets. Cashing in on death and destruction across the Middle East — or anyw...

Polymarket and Kalshi gamifying war and death seems pretty sociopathic to me and the idea of insiders betting on Iran strikes is appalling. But there’s real security risk is sending these price signals too. Seriously, just stop.

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