Oh I would recognize that vinh long stew ANYWHERE

Once more, with feeling

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TEXT: In 1973 Air Force major Harola Hering posed a question to his superiors during training to become a Minuteman missile launch officer: HOW CAN I KNOW THAT AN ORDER I RECEIVE TO LAUNCH MY MISSILES CAME FROM A SANE PRESIDENT? Hering posed this question as the Watergate scandal was unfolding. And yet, on grounds of asking this question, the Air Force issued an administrative discharge, stating that: IMAGE: a small man in uniform stands before a towering array of generals

Thinking, as I often do, about this missileer's dilemma as drawn by Emil Friis Ernst
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Getting John Hodgman and Justin Long back together for an "I'm Ozempic"/"I'm other GLP-1s" commercial is a great example of how there are no highly esteemed deeds commemorated here, nothing valued is here, and what is here is dangerous and repulsive to us

Phil has the videos Kid Rock posted.

Why did two military helicopters buzz the No Kings protest in Nashville today, then pay tribute to Kid Rick at his home?

Pope Leo says aerial bombing should be banned in fresh condemnation of war Pontiff tells Italian airline staff planes ‘should always be carriers of peace, never of war’

ngl I like this pope

The LaGuardia Crash Will Be Blamed on One Controller. That's Not the Whole Story. 3,000 controllers short. WWII-era radar still in use. And a lone controller managing two emergencies at midnight. This was preventable.

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system.
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i was a full adult when tsa started and watched people get numb/accustomed to having them there in real time … we cannot let this happen with ice. all kinds of sky cops are bad and also this is a definite escalation

This is incomplete because they are IAH, George Bush Houston Airport, as well

"nobody is doing anything" remains a lie meant to soothe the person saying the words. It's not true. YOU may not be doing anything but a lot of people are.

ProPublica Guild

The ProPublica union has voted to authorize a strike.

Around 150 journalists, videographers, copy editors and more voted to authorize, with 92% of the union voting yes.

ProPublica allegedly rejected restrictions on replacing jobs with AI, and hasn't met other union concerns.

Record high support for abolishing ICE in latest YouGov/Economist data

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

A screenshot from Twin Peaks. An FBI agent driving in a car is saying "Diane, 11:30am, February 24th. I'm entering the town of Twin Peaks" into a dictaphone.

Happy 'entering the town of Twin Peaks' day to those that celebrate 🥳

evil data viz!!!!!!!!

omg incredible catch

Hot take buried deep in here that you are anti mystery dungeon!!! Controversy!!

"Popularism is a politics for people who have given up on persuasion, argument, and intersubjectivity"

Yes yes yes!!!

The GWB swing explains so much about the millennial political experience

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.

DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”

@tnimmigrant.bsky.social sharing the call for a remote candlelit vigil.

SHINE A LIGHT FOR MINNESOTA TONIGHT AT 7:00PM CT STEP OUTSIDE AND LIGHT A CANDLE ON OUR STREET CORNERS. WITH OUR NEIGHBORS. FOR OUR COMMUNITIES AND ALEX. ICE OUT NOW SAT. JAN 24, 7:00 PM (CST)

Tonight, shine a light for Minnesota.

not from Indiana but I did my undergrad there! actually, going to school in bloomington and having the US National Championships happen in Indiana is how I got into the scene

okay definitely never expected my alma mater to be college football champs literally ever