One of the brilliant things about The Diplomat is that it heavily features intelligence gathering and espionage without being a spy show. It walks that line pretty well.

I take a 5mg edible every day about an hour before bed and today shall be no different. Happy 4/20

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

The Democratic Party of the 2020s is vastly more coherent and unified in its platform and ideology than 100 years ago, and that's true even if you ignore the Jim Crow South, which is a pretty big thing to ignore.

This is not historically true, even if you take "100 years" to mean FDR's party of the 1930s.

Same.

Genuinely astonished at our good luck that the two oldest justices on the court, both MAGA fuckheads, are so egotistical they refuse to let Trump replace them with 30 year old groypers

This map is aggressively incorrect and I’m offended.

obama and mamdani hung out because they wanted to send a message to the left that you can be a fun hang

you know who enjoys loud mouth scolds at a party, exactly zero human beings

Had to stop following him yesterday. I try to seek out opinions I don’t agree with but he is absolutely insufferable.

The actual divide on this website, much like real life, is between people who are curious about the world and want to understand how it works and people who are very mad that the world doesn’t work the way they want it to

He was an antivax sex pest then too, Bob.

everything makes more sense when you realize that the average american isn’t very smart

Screenshot of an article from Bloomberg. The headline reads: IMF Sees Canada's Fiscal Position as Strongest in Group of Seven.

Our plan is creating more certainty, more security, and more prosperity for all Canadians.

If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

Randy Barnett @RandyEBarnett This is a travesty. If making allegedly questionable constitutional arguments is a disbarrable offense, bar disciplinary tribunals would be in permanent session. Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS • Apr 15 This is a travesty. John represented the President in litigation challenging an election. That's all. He lied about nothing. Reasonable minds can disagree about the 2020 election.... 11:23 AM • Apr 16, 2026 • 20.5K Views

Reasonable minds actually can’t disagree about the 2020 election, sorry senior respected law professors

My Catholic Sunday school teacher told us that our pets don’t go to heaven. She also bemoaned Halloween as demonic and openly talked about going to protest abortion at the Supreme Court (we were in Falls Church, Virginia).

Oh, this was 3rd grade btw. A real wackjob that one.

as far as i can tell pope leo has never mentioned trump by name hes just like “killing people is wrong” or “concentration camps arent good” and theyre all taking it personally

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

J.P.Keenan @ukraine.dreadcat.us A perfect example of a man that follows the teachings in the bible: genocide, xenophobia, fucking little kids, screwing everyone outside of your in group, greed, lust, immoral behavior. Anyone who says the bible is about peace and love has never bothered to read the piece of shit. 10:38 AM • Apr 15, 2026

I say this even as an atheist: what sort of response do you think youre gonna get when you post this sort of unhinged, 2015 reddit atheist bullshit in someones replies? This is just instant block type shit.

Um, Christianity for large swaths of the last two millennia did just this, dude. Ask Pete Kegstand about it.

My birthday (today) always seems to coincide with everything getting very very green everywhere. Like clockwork two days ago it was still primarily gray, now most trees are leafing out.

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Trump’s Humiliation in Orbán Defeat Stunner Is Only Just Beginning For Viktor Orbán’s epic loss in Hungary to have real meaning in America, Democrats and liberals need to proclaim themselves part of the global anti-authoritarian movement.

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/

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Buy multiple lip balms and keep them in various places (bedside, car, desk, etc) instead of carrying one around in your pocket. You’ll lose fewer over the long term.

I doubt that Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor?

Be hopeful.

Orban's defeat will weaken right wing authoritarians around the globe.

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap.

I can’t believe it 😭