we all know I have no life, so:

Jesus Christ

Delighted by this episode of Star Trek TNG where the away team is trapped in an alien hotel but it just looks like they don’t know how to use revolving doors

the core dynamic hasn't changed

Iran wants a deal because getting rid of sanctions is a massive win and the war creates risks to regime stability

Trump needs a deal because the war will wreck the global economy and with it his popularity

but they both need to sell a win against the other

Trump posted chart from Cato institute shown sharp decline in legal entries into US.

CATO INSTITUTE CATO AT LIBERTY APRIL 13, 2026 2:56PM Trump Has Cut Legal Immigration More Than Illegal Immigration

This mf didn't include headline of the article this chart is from, but the chart is self-explanatory. It literally says "legal entries"

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

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

This has to be chilling for all those goblins surrounding Trump that were so sure that Orban had cracked the code.

Look it’s either this or a cruel unfair system of taxation where Jeff Bezos goes from having 419 billion dollars to 417 billion dollars

Just teleported to Waffle House. It works. Stop being mean to that guy.

The seas have boiled and almost all life is gone.

Three data centers remain, solar-powered, in continuous relay with one another.

They continuously transfer electronic funds back and forth with one another, silently.

At long last, the economy is perfect.

1000%! Yes, 1k%!

I assure you that if 8 million right leaning protesters had turned out against Obama it the NYT would have given it banner treatment eg POPULIST REVOLT

👍

Seems like a bad angle. Point out it’s not legal, sure, but the emphasis should be:

Why now? If he thinks this is legal, why didn’t he do it from the start?

Why did he use TSA workers’ suffering as leverage to try to increase ICE funding?

This is why I unapologetically tell the economics students to change their major to something respectable.

And TRAIN stations!

I think we're going win, but I want to win hard enough that we start paying artists to paint murals in post offices again. (This time the post offices are also banks.)

Got my scuffed up sl1200 for -I think- $350 twenty years ago and it’s still going strong after at least 4 or 5 moves.
It’s a tank.

Beat me to it. lol. Literally typed the same thing before seeing this.

To be fair, that’s some real Old Testament stuff there.

Yeah. I like the idea of term limits only because it might get more people involved in the political process. But age shouldn’t matter.

Oh My Fucking God. I manually created the quoted meme, but translate.kagi.com can do it for real.

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

We are very far from normal, my friends, but the language the judge uses here is shocking.

Any other time, this would fly through legal commentators with a collective gasp. Here and now, it's a Monday.

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons.

could a dying empire do THIS