Palantir: National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. Translation: We’re going to bring back the draft. Our vision of permanent war only works if we courageously volunteer people 40 years younger than us to die for oil.

Palantir: Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. Translation: Which cultures? Oh, you know the ones.

We translated each part of Palantir's 22-point manifesto because public service is our passion
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Normal people: the courts are very serious interpreters of the law

The courts: go ahead, impersonate the feds

"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now

Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"

Evergreen

Thus guaranteeing nobody will ever voluntarily work with us against a hostile government ever again. Cool. Winning.

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Should be a crime.

OMFG

This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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Anyone wanna know what Republicans are saying to the rest of the country and world? Just turn the poll results 90 degrees.

🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

“The MAGA crowd is made of dumb people — like, SUPER dumb people. And they fall for it.”

For my @wired.com feature debut, I talked to Sam, a guy who made thousands of dollars on Instagram by scamming MAGA men with Emily Hart, an AI generated, Trump-loving influencer. www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...

"Gilded age*" FTFY.

*arguably more like a regression towards serfdom 2.0

Literally evil

Robert Reich 29K likes, 2.2K comments. "Could This Actually End Citizens United?"

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.

No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed.

Here's how it works. https://youtu.be/p1fPbGHe3xE?si=QZRQImV8KYD5Y90r

/2 Also, the White House Correspondents Dinner was gross even when normal people were in power; a Trump White House Correspondents’ Dinner is merely the satirical expression of how gross it is.

Dude said "my job is to hurt you". Cool. Very cool. Very normal.

That's ok, Hannity, Jesus doesn't know you either.

Matthew 25:34-46

Oil Prices Plummet In Big Fuck-You To Americans Who Got Gas Yesterday WASHINGTON—In what is being characterized as a massive middle finger to millions of furious motorists, oil prices plummeted Friday, delivering a big fuck-you to all the Americans who gassed up their v...

“Nobody was hit harder than the suckers who filled their tanks mere hours before the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon caused the price of a barrel of crude to plunge 10%,” said Georgetown University economics professor Elizabeth Murphy

Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

Don't fucking conflate people who do their jobs well (i.e., our service members) with their corrupt, rapist boss who didn't get the job on merits. No, there's no way to tell if I'm talking about Trump or Hegseth.

Yeah I remember his confirmation hearings and how conservatives spent all their time trying to rationalize what Anita Hill was saying just to force his placement anyway.

ICE is still here. The Feds are still prosecuting and harassing protesters and observers. The evictions and income loss are pressing hard on community. We are in this for the long haul. Keep doing what you can. Hold fast to one another. 💜

So impeachment for this clown when?

Conditions like these will reliably cause occasional deaths and the ICE agents culpable should face capital trials.

President Manbaby lashes out at the Pope by harming children.

Oh look, someone who is the type of authoritarian that forms the HISTORICAL REASON THE PROCESS EXISTS thinks the process shouldn't exist. I'm shocked.

Next you're going to tell me that bank robbers think that cash should just be left in convenient bags near the sidewalk instead of in vaults.

IT ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK IS NOT

Here is another WTA trip report featuring a trip reporter reporting on a work party. This trail, on Tiger mountain (about 20 miles east of Seattle) is a family-friendly trail with a view of a very big tree.
@washingtontrails.bsky.social

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DeployBar — Free CI monitoring. Unsolicited platypus included. A free macOS menu bar app that monitors your deploys. Includes Billie the Platypus, who has opinions about your branch names.

DeployBar is on the Mac App Store. Free CI monitoring with a platypus that judges your branch names. deploybar.app

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