Democrats want to c9nnect with working folks. They should avoid Hasan Piker. A nepo-baby racist and anti-Semite can only hurt them in the long run.

Hasan Piker is a fascist. He wouldn't just have been a camp guard, he'd have volunteered to join the Einsatzgruppen.

Still in awe that the ILA strike has leadership speaking near-tears about the backbreaking effort of dock work, so they demanded that this never be automated so generations of laborers would continue to break their bodies for their leader's inherited 750K/job.

And people ate it up.

Vampire fangs

He is home!

While I do not believe it is the primary factor, I wonder how much of Trump's pathological hatred of Zelenskyy is due to him cutting a more heroic figure. He's younger, better looking, funnier, and has a higher approval rating. That has to stick in Trump's craw something fierce.

Trump and co. are defending Russia giving Iran intelligence to attack Americans.

Four full years of war in Ukraine. We said we couldn't send more because it was escalatory. Putin murdered people in Bucha and we worried about how best to manage Russian fifi's. We elected a man who lavished praise on Putin and he has delivered nothing but failure.

A reminder that Trump doesn't know how to negotiate, or that he is compromised by Russia.

Khamenei is a Shi'a where most of the Islamic world follows Sunni traditions. Even among Shi'a, Khameni is (rightly) despised.

If there would be a war, it would be waged with the tepidest of finger-wags while laughing in secret.

Fuck, I just remembered that there were members of the ASOIAF fandom that said Doran was justified in sending troops to murder the Starks because a Martell grandchild is worth any price.

If Trump gets the left to abandon economic populism I don't know what will happen

There's a lot of things I won't trust Elizabeth Warren on, but delivering on a message of affordability is something I especially wouldn't trust her on.

Man fetishizing over war on another continent says war on another continent is not our problem.

Revoking treaties because people said mean things. Do you need a safe space?

Russia literally trafficked Indian men to fight in Ukraine and Modi responds by rolling over and showing his belly.

If my superiors are so focused on pleasing the boss's need for strength that they're willing to commit a war crime, that means I can become an unwitting participant to an atrocity. They take advantage of the chain of command that the military requires to function. 3/3

So if I get a radio in telling me that we need another strike, I'm going to do it because I trust my superior to take in the intel. But if my superior is feeding me bad intel, now I don't know if I'm actually committing a lawful combat action. That's a hesitation that can cost lives. 2/3

One of the things that makes the whole second-strike on the boat worse is that it significantly undermines trust in the field. If I'm flying an attack aircraft, I have to rely on others to tell me that my target requires a second strike; I can't see it on my own. 1/3

Venezuelan oil is among the densest and highest in sulfur content in the world. Going to war for oil reserves that are exceptionally expensive to refine (and must be refined to be shipped) to the point where we would need to import diluent or light oil to blend it is...

There's some slow-mo.

Oh, I'm golden.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

Can confirm. No better way to establish gamer cred and hotness at the same time.

We're calling the operation Southern Spear because Operation "Distract Everyone From the Epstein Files" doesn't really roll off the tongue.

"I support police brutality." @wendynerd.bsky.social

Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...

They tried this before and it didn't work. But maybe this time it will be different (it won't). Tax land, you cheebs. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Gerold Dayne: "I am Darkstar, and I'm of the night!"
Myrcella: "K..."

Sacs and Zucman aren't economists that you need to take seriously.

Finished Delta. I forgot how epic the final battle is.