Tweet by “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth: “The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.” Below there is a video of the announcement for his many, many illiterate fans

Behind Hegseth’s big stupid face, a painting can be seen.

The painting is of George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is by Emanuel Leutze.

An article from the National Parks Service: Smallpox, Inoculation, and the Revolutionary War Boston National Historical Park During the 1700s, smallpox raged through the American colonies and the Continental Army. Smallpox impacted the Continental Army severely during the Revolutionary War, so much so that George Washington mandated inoculation for all Continental soldiers in 1777. Just fifty-six years earlier, in 1721, Bostonian doctors and clergy introduced the procedure to the American colonies. Without the vision and determination of these early Bostonians in normalizing inoculation, Washington may not have made the decision to mandate inoculation for the Continental Army. Though it was a controversial action, many historians credit the medical mandate with the colonists' victory in the Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States of America.

Congratulations to Tim Apple, ass-kisser.

Crazy when there’s a phenomenon known as the Ted Cruz Curse.

@jeremywhite.bsky.social is gonna go nuts tomorrow with that offside call.

I don’t know if this will be useful in any way, but Chinua Achebe wrote this and it explained grief to me in a way that helped digest its intrusiveness:

“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”

I’ve replayed this about 75 or so times this morning. The crescendoing build from the crowd as Quinn feeds Samuelsson, to the Stone Cold glass break pop on the goal, is an all-time goosebump generator

the president is committing war crimes, once eradicated diseases have returned, immigrants are being disappeared, concentration camps are back, billionaires are murdering communities with data centers, abortion is criminalized, and trans people are being erased, but at least robots can run marathons

Recall the Supreme Court held there was a constitutional right to stand on a public sidewalk and scream homophobic rants at a soldier's funeral as long as you're a bunch of right-wing religious freaks, but apparently it's a crime to stand on a public sidewalk and smirk while Black.

HANG 100 FOOT SCREENS FROM THE SKYWAY!!!!

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Giving them hope for 57 minutes was the best part. Ahahahaha

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THE SABRES TAKE THE LEAD! THE CROWD IS ELECTRIC RIGHT NOW! #STANLEYCUP PLAYOFFS HOCKEY IS SO BACK IN BUFFALO! 🤩

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if this team can get one it can get 4. so just get one

Buffalo in the postseason is good for hockey, always the case.

Go Sabs.

charles barkley one of one

The Penguins are not going to wear yellow at home all series, right? That implies the existence of a third jersey. And then why aren’t the Sabres wearing the goat head at all?

This or Tubthumping. Can’t tell me no.

I’m actually introducing my kids to this classic right now!

If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.

Those are sweet kicks

Sid Rosenberg @sidrosenberg19 X.com Figures! Mr. Met ran away from ME last season!!! And he's hugging the Mayor! Mr. Met is an Antisemite!!!!!!! katie honan @katie_honan • 6d Mr. and Mrs. Met (@MrMet) meet Mr. @nycmayor

Sid Rosenberg O @sidrosenberg19 X.com Just when you thought things couldn't get worse we found out today that Mr. Met is a raging antisemite!

Sid Rosenberg • @sidrosenberg19 X.com This was me at Citifield last season being IGNORED by Mr. Met! Yesterday Mr. AND Mrs. Met were hugging and kissing our Antisemite Mayor @NYCMayor! Easy to conclude that Mr. Met is an Antisemite!!!!!

Sid Rosenberg @sidrosenberg19 X.com l'll be 59 on Sunday:) For the first time ever I'm sporting a Yankee jersey as I make my way to the Bronx. The official transition from a life long Met fan to a Yankee fan is now underway. Like my friend @CGasparino once wrote "Go Woke, Go Broke!" The Mamdani Mets are too WOKE for me! See ya at the Stadium soon fans!

Absolutely dying at right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg getting so angry that Mr. and Mrs. Met hugged @mayor.nyc.gov that he started calling them antisemites and became a Yankees fan.

Screenshot of a tweet by Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) recounting an exchange where Trump twice tells Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo that Thom Tillis is "no longer a senator," then asks her to confirm it. The embedded video shows Bartiromo on Fox Business, with a chyron reading "Trump: If Powell Doesn't Leave I Will Fire Him."

This is certainly news to Thom Tillis and North Carolina residents.

Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"

Sabres fans: So is game 1 gonna be on Saturday, or no?

NHL:

Speaker of the House Ty Lue

Now that I’d buy!

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

Why does she look like Melissa Joan Hart?

Oh FFS. We are the stupidest country. Why not stop having speed limits, stop signs and traffic lights?! Individual autonomy! Fuck the public good!

Mad king