Indeed. Complaints about redistricting are invalid. Republicans did it everywhere and invalidated a Constitutional Amendment so they could do it on explicitly racial lines.
There are two choices: use the same levers of power as Republicans do, or let them win. There is no "principled" opposition.
Kash Patel as Lego with big weird eyes and lots of beers
I know we’re not supposed to like the Iranian social media teen meme army seeing us for what we’ve told them we are on the Internet but I like to think this kind of thing is really just them reaching out and saying we don’t like this either and know you’ll appreciate the hilarity
A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.
Ret Logistics guy here. Wrote plans/managed logistics - Western Iraq 2004-2005.
Yes. We are normally great at logistics. Kegseth thinks we are "fluff". He only wants and respects "war fighters".
Our motto: "Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals talk logistics."
Assclowns talked then planned this.
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
Yep.
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two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
The plot to enslave America. The plot to enslave humanity. They are announcing it because they think we can no longer stop them
Tech fascism marches on
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Technocratic, Dark Enlightenment insanity straight from the deranged mind of Curtis Yarvin and coming to fruition via Peter Thiel whose plan for full implementation will come about using Thiel’s most favorite sugar baby, JD Vance.
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Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Do you eat Quaker Oats Bröther
If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball
Friend passed from pancreatic cancer in Jan 2020 and if these trials had been around …
Another fighting it now but too late for them for the trial …
Wish you’d had the chance too with your mother
Genius. Get a giant sub or three and have friends over to drink the garage fridge beers
do. you. believe. girls & women yet?
A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East.
This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family.
Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships.
Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Holy shit
LOS ANGELES: Please help these kitties Kit & Caboodle. Their owner passed away last week, and I've taken it upon myself to find them a loving forever home. They are GOOD BABIES. Can anyone *LA area only* adopt them? I just don't want them to end up in a kill shelter. Share, RT, ask around... thanks!
HOLD ME NOWWWW IM SIX FEET FROM THE EDGE
PEACHES COME FROM A CAN THEY WERE PUT THERE BY A MAN IN A FACTORY DOWN
TOWWWWNNNNNNN
"The Pope is incorrect on matters of theology" is excommunication time.
H/t @jumulojimbus.bsky.social
Doing taxes makes me want to slap someone
There's a good watch on Tubi right now. Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut) is a 6-part series covering the Pythons' entire career.
Particularly interesting is the one on the making of the Holy Grail. Full of behind the scenes footage, and hilarious insights. Total chaos.
Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
This is NUTS
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“All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame.” Isaiah 44:9
US Catholics Back Pope Leo as Trump Loses Support.
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What the actual FUCK
Yesterday
Here’s a nice picture I took of the inside of my shorts pocket yesterday