About 1,100 Afghans who supported US forces, including interpreters and their families, are being held at a US-run facility in Doha. They may be offered relocation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo or return to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan after US resettlement was halted.-ABC News
If you want to get a sense of how thin the GOP's national security bench is, the 29-year-old CT official at DHS who was suspended for seeking sugar daddies was their first pick.
There is a necessary cultural project we must undertake that will have to extend after all of us (except me) are dead and it will be the reconstruction and reinforcement of the social contract as a duty each and every person is born into.
Nothing we do to save our nation will matter otherwise.
Imagine every interaction with a public official—from people working lines at the airports, to cops, to the people responsible for keeping your power on at your job—requires an exchange of some petty cash.
Just the constant friction of graft to not get fucked over.
It's bad.
I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society.
You do not want to live in that kind of society.
Anyone who shows up for this travesty is knowingly choosing to act as a prop for authoritarian kabuki because they’re too cowardly or amoral to pass up vapid schmoozing and free drinks. They deserve your contempt, and possibly a few pieces of rotting produce.
Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—
AOC: Wah wah wah.
We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.
What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.
Phelan is out
I’m choosing me and my loved ones over Hickface McYokel who would put us in a death camp if given the chance, personally - call me crazy, call me selfish, but I no longer care.
Shoutout to this guy on the metro in a suit with an embassy lanyard, idol trading card and uma musume plushie clipped to his backpack. We gotta keep whimsy alive in this town. #WashingtonDC #metrolife
its time we listen to Real America and their complaints about living under the tyranny of the hill people
A flyer for Jadzia's signing with big picture of the cover of GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN and smaller picture of Jadzia's face. The text of the flyer reads: SIGNING WITH WRITER JADZIA AXELROD SAT 5.23.26 | 1PM-3PM MULTIVERSE, 8026 GERMANTOWN AVE
Local folks (and folks willing to travel)! I'm doing a signing at Multiverse here in Philly on 5/23!
www.multiversephilly.com/events/jadzi...
the fascists have been lying, cheating and changing the rules to their benefit for years. turnabout isn't just fair play, it's the only way to maintain some semblance of a civil society.
I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue
a while ago a friend of mine posted this Thrawn meme in my Discord server and I had to post it here, it's so damn funny lmao
He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence
Screenshot from DMC5. Vergil and Dante about to strike each other with their swords. Overlaid on the image of Nero is a tiny dog with its paws out from the STOP FIGHTING meme
Finally finished Devil May Cry 5 and I can't believe this was actually how it ended. I thought this was just a meme.
When it happens is just the mods finally banning him permanantly
The midterm gerrymandering war and the Iran war alike show Trump's inability to imagine that the people he's picking fights with have any agency, any ability to respond.
He loves his "you don't have the cards" metaphor but he's amazingly terrible at actually thinking about whether they do.
we all know I have no life, so:
GREEK CAPTAIN OF A PANAMANIAN-FLAGGED MALAYSIAN OIL TANKER EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA WITH IRAQI CRUDE: "So is the Strait open or not?"
IRGC COMMANDER, REFRESHING TRUTH SOCIAL: "Look here man, I know just as much as you do, ok?"
Anyway, its been out of his hands since he murdered their high command and shattered their state. I wonder, grimly, what the civilian death toll of our aerial campaign was.
Oh, his whole thing is writing an alternate World War II where the modern US 7th Fleet shows up in the past and all the knock-on effects it had. I believe it will be a book?
The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them.
We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.
@unavaleable.bsky.social I believe this is your time. :)
So today on Gone Medieval I have that rare thing - a medievalist emergency - wherein I had to explain the Avignon Papacy because a lot of people know the phrase *cough* the Trump administration *cough* but they don't actually know what it means. Don't let it be you.
open.spotify.com/episode/7bsa...
"[We] tried to mollify the restrictionists, but nothing was ever enough ... for immigration restrictionists. They wanted mass, indiscriminate deportations. They wanted to impose a specific demographic configuration by force. All justified by the ideological framework of 'border security.'"
Democrats getting more backlash for attempting redistricting in Virginia in response to completely unprecedented GOP powergrabs than Republicans have gotten for gerrymandering for decades is extremely grim shit ngl.
this but not only this — the wider ecosystem — public and private institutions, culture and society writ large, and dedicated individuals that all need each other to succeed
