"If you give the bully your lunch money they'll eventually stop taking it"

actually, doing a revenge gerrymander is the moderate compromise position. hope this helps

Stupid goo goo nonsense. The only way to get fair districting is to pinch republicans in the mouth enough until they agree to fairness. Doing this with Callais days away from ripping up the VRA is so stupid I don’t know where to begin.

Opinion: As boomers die off, America's anti-Israeli tilt is likely to harden. Fewer and fewer Americans think of Israel as David standing up to the Arab world's Goliath. More and more associate it with heavy-handed militarism.

Very funny how FT is actually the only newspaper on the planet

I admittedly haven't kept on my Minions-verse lore, but I distinctly recall they were shown as having been frozen in ice from Napoleon to the present day, as an obvious way to dodge the implications of them "looking for another evil boss to serve" in the 20th C.

Incredible headline

An onion will do well for such a shift

The Democrats are doing everything possible to hurt the very strong position we are in with respect to Iran. Despite World War I lasting 4 years, 3 months, and 14 days, World War II lasting 6 years and 1 day, the Korean War lasting 3 years, 1 month, and 2 days, the Vietnam War lasting 19 years, 5 months, and 29 days, and Iraq lasting 8 years, 8 months, and 28 days, they like to say that I promised 6 weeks to defeat Iran, and actually, from the Military standpoint, it was far faster than that, but I’m not going to let them rush the United States into making a Deal that is not as good as it could have been. I read the Fake News saying that I am under “pressure” to make a Deal. THIS IS NOT TRUE! I am under no pressure whatsoever, although, it will all happen, relatively quickly! Time is not my adversary, the only thing that matters is that we finally, after 47 years, straighten out the MESS that other Presidents let happen because they didn’t have the Courage or Foresight to do what had to be done with respect to Iran. We’re in it, and it will be done RIGHT, and we won’t let the Weak and Pathetic Democrats, TRAITORS ALL, who for years have been talking about the Dangers of Iran, and that something has to be done, but now, since I’m the one doing it, belittle the accomplishments of our Military and the Trump Administration. This is being perfectly executed, on the scale of Venezuela, just a bigger, more complex operation. The result will be the same. In my First Term, I built the Greatest Military our Country has ever seen, including adding Space Force. In my Second Term, I am properly and judiciously using our Military to solve problems left to us by others of far less understanding or competence. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

lol he's having a war meltdown

does make you love parliamentary democracy a bit. if you wanna be PM you really have to be ok with standing in the middle of a room and being bullied by 650 people. that's intense!

doing A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones reread. Will start with the main series, then dunk and egg novellas, the fire & blood and then whatever supplemental books/novellas there are left.

The political press has been and will continue to lie to you and say that liberals are too skeptical of new technology, because they consider LLMs to be real technology and mRNA vaccines are some kind of witchcraft that should be viewed with suspicion.

I don't want to hear Americans start smol beaning when people outside of the US understandably get angry at Americans whining when the consequences start hitting.

The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

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Never forget that a war that the US started is going to devastate the global South first and foremost. The US will face higher prices and mild disruption; the rest of the world will suffer *considerably* more.

all seasons of How It's Made are on HBO Max. Well, I know what I'll be watching for the next few months.

A smiling mascot with a monkey’s head and a tiger’s body stands in front of a supermarket.

Nuezaemon, from Izunokuni City in Shizuoka, is a “nue”, a legendary supernatural beast which has the head of a monkey, the body of a tiger, and the tail of a snake.

Me, enlightened: the Strait of Hormuz is a social construct and we need to collectively work to redefine what it means to even be a strait in 2026 to encompass other routes

Iran claims ‘strict control’ of Strait of Hormuz and says it will not be fully reopened Donald Trump warns Tehran not to ‘blackmail’ Washington

You, dumb: the strait is closed and that's bad.
Me, an intellectual: the strait is wide open! Shipping through it is completely uninterrupted!

Iran claims ‘strict control’ of Strait of Hormuz and says it will not be fully reopened Donald Trump warns Tehran not to ‘blackmail’ Washington

We definitely aren't increasing the risk of an economic cataclysm and a bunch of horrible political aftershocks every day, because the strait of Hormuz is open for business!

Iran claims ‘strict control’ of Strait of Hormuz and says it will not be fully reopened Donald Trump warns Tehran not to ‘blackmail’ Washington

Think I've decided to become a straits of Hormuz denier. Sorry, don't care what our (very good) write-up says. The straits are open. Things are gonna be fiiine.

I don't believe any of these numbers because they throw out a new one every three days, literally. That's not even an exaggeration. These people have no idea.

The first time I'm aware of was here

Lmao he said it again

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.

She missed these trials by a few months.

One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.

I feel such a hole inside.

In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

a 26 year old half filipino nazi. only in america baby!

This is why you're starting to see a lot of sulking about "Israel all of a sudden being the important important issue in American politics" from people who were perfectly happy to keep kicking the can down the road indefinitely and don't understand why that's not an option anymore.

I think a lot of people are in denial about the fact that we're now in an era where just saying "i support a two state solution" and then providing nothing in the way of policy means nothing anymore

Much open. Very flow. Such commerce. Wow.

The Iranian military says the Strait of Hormuz is closed again. Ships are turning back.

Patel has publicly proclaimed that the FBI needs to demonstrate that it is “fierce,” and officials I spoke with said he was fixated on that image in private, as well. He recently expressed frustration with the look of FBI merchandise, complaining that it isn’t intimidating enough. Officials have grown accustomed to such behavior, and they have learned to roll their eyes at it. But they said the absurdity masks real concerns about what Patel’s leadership has meant for an institution that the country relies on for national security and the safety of its citizens. “Part of me is glad he’s wasting his time on bullshit, because it’s less dangerous for rule of law, for the American public,” one official told me, “but it also means we don’t have a real functioning FBI director.”

also notable that FBI officials share my take on Kash, which is that him being a drunken party animal is actually sort of the best case scenario in terms of what else he could be doing with his time