And so is the entire global economy and the food security of millions. What an absolute mess.

Meme of Bill Murray from the movie Groundhog's Day, holding up a news microphone and addressing the camera. Text says: Well, it's Taco Tuesday...again."

Trump's indefinite extension of the ceasefire with Iran can only mean one thing:

🚨 Voyager 1 now only has two instruments still operating

• One that listens to plasma waves and one that measures magnetic fields — the rest have been turned off to conserve power

• It's been flying through space for almost 49 years

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

A snail gliding across a lawn.

Beauty all around us, especially among the lowly creatures of the earth.

"We tried to fight a war we thought would be very easy and instead gave one of the countries in the world most hostile to America the greatest hostage they could possibly imagine" is such a perfect MAGA-style foreign policy disaster, in that its idiocy is only rivaled by its absurdity

A photo of a print NYT headline saying the strait is open next to an IPhone NYT headline saying it’s closed

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

X post by user Gina Milan saying that she stands with President Trump and that Pope Leo does not represent her or the Catholic Church.

"Wake up, babe. New Reformation just dropped."

Just admit y'all made a mistake already.

Over the past week, the president posted an image of himself as Jesus, the vice president challenged the pope on Catholic doctrine, and the secretary of defense quoted the speech of a fictional hit man and presented it as scripture.

Last month in The Onion:

Best Star Trek captain.

Wrong answers only

Midweek Update #6: The Blockade: Fact And Fiction There Can Only Be One; Do Not Pretend This Has Been “Precise” Or “Surgical”

"[T]he US and Israel in six weeks have killed almost three times as many Iranian civilians...as Russia has killed Ukrainian civilians...in all of 2025."

"The US is going to have to have a reckoning for its open embrace of war crimes...Admitting what we have become is the only way to correct it."

Happy National Gardening Day! Hope you're growing something good.

Beautiful city!

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

Imagine going back in time to 2014 and telling yourself there will be a single day in which the POTUS blockades a blockade, insults the pope, and posts pictures both of himself as Jesus and of a hotel with his name on it set on the surface of the Moon.

@www.jrrjokien.com posted this in The Other Place

DC Metro sign for the “Pentagon City” station.

Where the grass is [redacted] and the girls are [redacted].

In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Dear GI How are you? Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great on the picture. I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY. Have a great time! Love, Melania

Melania: “I never had a relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.”

This is what we get when the head of state is functionally illiterate.

An Interim Report Card for the Iran War The war has stopped. At least for now. And we have some idea of what the sides have achieved and how they measure up. So who won and who lost?

"The United States military currently spends more than a trillion dollars a year. It employs 1.3 million active-duty personnel...It is, by almost every quantitative measure, the largest, most expensive military force ever assembled.

"It cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz."

a group of cartoon characters sitting around a table with the words well that was a disaster ALT: a group of cartoon characters sitting around a table with the words well that was a disaster

The Iran War, summarized

So Trump agrees a deal where Iran gets to keep charging tolls, gets to keep its nuclear program, and of course, keeps the same regime in power.

This was all a terrible waste and so far a catastrophic defeat for the USA.