Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.

*taps the sign*

NYTImes calls NATO the “North American treaty organization”

It’s a real problem that our elite institutions are just much stupider now than they used to be

the opposite of 06-08!

The only concern I have with a congressional candidate who wants to back Ukraine to the hilt, defend Taiwan, and impose costs on Israel for gross civilian harm is how much money I can donate to them.

You fucking losers.

quite frankly these scenarios are useless because if they are true there is absolutely nothing you can do about them besides adapt to society collapsing. which, again, little to none of the people raising them really believe will happen

as a proud american i do have a birthright steeped in western values: my god-given right, enshrined in the motherfuckin constitution, to hate the clowns and bums in washington and vote them out on their asses. you can pry that from my cold dead hands, g-men

So if I’m understanding this sequence correctly, from Thanksgiving to Christmas 2012, Elon Musk was essentially pestering registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to throw him a wild party on the island.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

WTF is she talking about? Our country opposed the creation of a national police force into the 20th century, largely for the reasons we are seeing now. Congress didn’t even give the FBI arrest powers or the ability to carry firearms until 1934 (it was created in 1908)

This is not what "we're supposed to do."

You don't need a concealed carry permit in Texas. Texans do not have to show our IDs to police unless we are lawfully detained (reasonable suspicion) or arrested (probable cause).

This guy would rather sacrifice his own rights than break the party line.

This situation is not, in fact, evolving. It’s over. This is not fog of war. It’s “who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

I think it means the dollar is falling

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

Good, but stop using the word "graft". It sounds wonky and technical.

"Tom Homan took bribes. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel covered it up. Why? Are they also for sale to the highest bidder? Maybe even foreign governments?"

Unfortunately I don't think the kids are alright

I don’t feel safe, so let’s explicitly nullify the contract between the states and the federal government and between the government and the governed. That’s the sort of thing that will lower the temperature.

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the trump team even admits it and that we're gonna give the PRC access to americans' data to train the algo hahahahAahahhahah ah ah ah ah ha ah ah i give up www.ft.com/content/550e...

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

The President of the United States said, on TV today, that the U.S. should have a justice system more like China's, with quick trials that happen the next day. And most of the media decided that wasn't news, because .... you know what he's like.

I’m not saying y’all have it wrong or need to change your system but it is important to me, as an American, not to live in a ‘papers please’ country

The police can detain whoever they want. If you didn’t commit any crimes, they have to let you go. What’s the problem?

I love how deeply committed to the constitution our textualist judges are.

t is simply difficult to discuss China with even a modicum of seriousness when the President could try to sell the entire island of Taiwan to China tomorrow on a whim

I offer some theory from a dude who faced an ethical dilemma and guess what, resigned and publicly spoke out! (by writing)

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

And now America has its own class of reactionary Junkers, except they are far worse. Many of them are obsessed with destroying the very institutions that allowed them to build their power, wealth, and influence in the first place. How that gets fixed...idk