So when it comes to beards and hairstyles, discipline requires strict conformity. When it comes to contracting and spreading a preventable illness that directly affects unit readiness, follow your bliss, man.
About 1 in 5 US adults reports currently having or being treated for depression news.gallup.com/poll/708221/...
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Very good: “This confederacy of goons think that their wealth and whiteness and maleness conveys automatic competence, so they never bothered to learn anything about anything, and they fired everyone who knew anything about anything, and dismantled all the programs that helped make anything work ….”
Heartbreaking, and so brave of her to tell her story here. I despair of our country when people just don't care.
Abdulla is a prominent and well-respected voice with deep connections in the UAE whom I’ve followed for many years. His statement here is significant:
As I think @mollyjongfast.bsky.social said, there's only peace when the markets are open.
And, you know, he doesn't buy gas, so it's not expensive.
well glad that was settled
how is this literally happening in real life
yeeahh there's a reason why he's targeting places like Detroit and Georgia
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I will absolutrly criticize people for attending. It’s a grotesque spectacle nobody who cares about press freedom should dignify with their presence.
Anti-semitic dogwhistles aside, just because you sing a jesus song at the talent show doesn’t mean you’re a good singer. bsky.app/profile/atru...
What’s interesting here is they say “culture” when they mean “people” but they think that this maintains a veneer of deniability about what they’re really saying. In any case it’s true that the “culture” of the tech billionaires is morally and intellectually depraved rot bsky.app/profile/elio...
Happy Sunday, was just travelling in Morocco and was so impressed with how safe I felt the entire time. Not one person asked my religion, oh except for someone who asked are you a Christian. He was from Oklahoma a faux acolyte. A much bigger threat
"What consumers can do as the Iran war impacts the cost and availability of flights" - 🙄. I love how every advice column of this genre boils down to, "Have you tried having more money, or a wealthy benefactor, or more time, or fewer responsibilities, or a big house and garden, or a 1680s skill set?"
This is just not true! Some of it is Warren Burger’s fault! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
You always have to pay attention to what is actually happening, not what Trump says is happening. Because Trump lies about everything. Too often media serves as Trump’s daily stenographer, passing along his propaganda verbatim.
seriously hope when dems get back in power they go after every single fuck involved with DOGE
Me.
This is so terrifyingly true.
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
Orbán rode to power on resentment over the economic stagnation that developed under center-left governments. But he leaves office with Hungarians facing falling wages and higher inflation than similar countries are experiencing. Orbán’s sectarianism and intolerance have sparked neither a religious revival nor a fertility bump; Hungary’s population is shrinking and has become more irreligious, even as Orbán has demonized LGBTQ people, “Muslim invaders,” and Jews. Orbánism, in short, did not make Hungarians more rich, Christian, or free—unless you happened to be one of Orbán’s buddies, in which case you may have gotten rich. As most Hungarians felt their economic circumstances worsen, Orbán provided them with relatively powerless targets to hate.
Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
What a doll.
Varietal? It looks good!
I’ve been promised a new recipe for pumpkin coffee cake on Sunday. But that seems like a long way away.
We will need at least weekly photos, clearly. 💛
John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang ... Being mad that the Pope won't endorse your war is like being mad that your doctor won't endorse your cocaine habit. 2:29 PM • Apr 13, 2026 • 83.2K Views
darth, do we all have to go find our blusky numbers again?
I swear she looks like Milk Dud.
Also she once got in a twitter fight with me and lost.