NASA is honestly one of the greatest things humans have ever created, the stuff of math and dreams

This was 100 percent my answer to my kids when they came home with leprechaun trap ideas: "We're Irish American. We're not messing with the fae." (Also I didn't want to do yet another make-work mommy project.)

Trump is such an asshole he’s got the Irish guy defending the English guy

Proud alum of the top name on the list. Also amused as hell that so many Jesuit universities are joining AU.

it is some consolation to me to believe in hell.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

our country was founded by outlaws

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

the sense of incredulity and comic revulsion i get every time i see a cybertruck in the wild has not been reduced by even a single degree in all the time they’ve been on the street

My parents are in Milford, died-hard GOP, and think JD Vance is a slimy little weirdo.

I'm really glad to see all the folks stepping up to try to resource the loss of SNAP but also billionaires could just pay taxes.

These protests are proving to be pretty popular as far as protests go. I do wish less of our conversation was we said/they said with Republicans and more of it was "y'all are the minority, shut up and think about your choices"

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‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like

Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'

a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'

so the funding disappeared??

and people are dying??

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Because I am an Internet Old, that's the same stupidity my username came from.

A lot of hyper-polarized Americans are going to find out the hard way that just because they [like/don't like] whoever is in the White House, other countries have their own imperatives and existential economic threats will be reacted to accordingly.

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Truly cannot drive five minutes through suburban Maryland without being assaulted by Scotiabank and RBC. Wait.

Farming, famously an industry where you can change your products and business plan with one month's notice.

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

She was the second youngest of ten, so that might've been her rationale, too!

My great aunt was quite elderly and cranky when they started the sign of peace in Vatican II. My dad says that when her neighbor turned to shake hands, she looked him dead in the eye and went "absolutely not."

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

We tried to quantify the impact of abrupt PEPFAR cuts. The results startled even us A peer reviewer questioned the premise of our study into the potential impact of abruptly ending PEPFAR funding. Then it happened.

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"We report that eliminating PEPFAR would lead to 601,000 HIV-related deaths and 565,000 new HIV infections in South Africa alone over 10 years. These are the projections for just one country."

Across 55 countries, >20 million people get HIV treatment via PEPFAR.

If you are pro Putin and anti-NATO, you are not an American patriot. You are a Russian asset.

Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.

EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.

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Tate is like Trump in this sense: the most grotesque thing is not that he exists, but that he’s hugely popular, and what that says about us as a species.