30 years ago today, Principal Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers.
#TheSimpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired April 14, 1996.
Keep in mind the terrible irony that NM is the 2nd biggest crude oil producing state in the nation.
Apart from the profanity and planning to do some war crimes (civilian power plants are not generally valid military targets), if you had told folks that the President would be posting 'Praise be to Allah' on Easter Sunday, they'd assume we'd lost a war.
And be right, I guess.
Can you imagine how apoplectic the right would be if Obama said "praise be to Allah", even if he said it exactly like DJT?
Two chained women are inspected before being loaded onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP.
Empty shackles, returning from El Paso, will be brought to Whipple.
The number of people loaded here this week, 67, is the highest since Feb 7-13, when Homan announced the end of Metro Surge.
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so our president is just a psychopath, got it
Never heard of a bigger paradox than “growing the workforce through AI”
yes, we have the most powerful navy in the world, but even we havent sent them there cuz we werent prepared, so our allies must be failing us cuz they arent prepared even tho we didnt even tell them we were going to war
maybe he aint drinking these days, but he sure sounds like he's mid-binge
Hegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that."
Also, here's a great explainer from the AP that answers the questions from my original post last night and confirms everything I suspected about how poorly conceived and ill-advised seizing Kharg would be.
Staff Sergeant Tom Lovell, USMCR (1909-1997), “Combat Artist”
Contemplating the impermanence of life.
We are 100% going to send under-supplied troops into the line of fire to try and create a beachhead with half-assed planning.
This is tragedy in the making.
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This is the legislature fully and voluntarily relinquishing its constitutional power to the executive.
You want dictatorships? Because that's how you get dictatorships.
The Trump administration is considering purchasing a number of private immigrant detention centers across the US.
Doing so may allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to bypass state laws geared at curbing abuses in the facilities.
Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.”
That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear
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SCOOP — Select State Department offices will start moving into the US Institute of Peace building as early as next week, The Handbasket is first to report, with Kristi Noem’s “Shield of the Americas” among them.
This is despite ongoing litigation since the DOGE raid on the building last March.
This is zuck one month after going on Rogan podcast claiming he would never takedown content based on government requests ever again
This
whoopsie daisy
Or as Google translate says in Russian: Ой-ёй!
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They can't afford a prolonged conflict, though. Unlike Ukraine, which damaged grain supply, oil cannot be readily reapportioned like grain can. China and India will have to mediate.
The only common ground for everyone (except Russia) is to end this fast. That's a positive.
So the bystanders will ultimately be more inclined to support Iran. China and India in particular, because they need that oil badly. So we have a potential proxy war between those two and the US, with Russia nominally on Iran's side as well.
It boils down to a battle over regime change in Iran and the need for oil. The latter, though, is all the rest of the world cares about, and that will define how they act. They don't super care about the ideological rationale of the three participants.
The US and Israel both have agency, and choose to be allies. Both want to cause regime change in Iran. Both have failed spectacularly to accomplish that through force of arms and death, so far. Both of them and Iran (it too has agency) are causing and will continue to cause misery on a global scale.
It will be years before international travel is as accessible as it was just a month ago.
🌍 The amount of heat trapped by the Earth reached record levels in 2025, with the consequences of such warming feared to last for thousands of years, the UN warned Monday.
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Cleanest way this ends is Trump convinces himself that he's achieved some sort of victory (immaterial as to what) and withdraws forces. The strait moves from "peacefully open but contested" before the war to "Iran has permanent ability to close safe passage" but Trump can fake new normal is better.
A painting of a bird next to the words "what the fuck was I supposed to be doing?"
