The person negotiating in the Middle East on behalf of the United States does not technically work for the United States.

H.R. 1897 is moving fast in the House and could hit the floor for a full vote as soon as tomorrow. This bill would gut the Endangered Species Act forcing economic impact considerations into listing decisions, limiting your ability to challenge bad science in court,

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1 hour delay at the airport: guess I have some time to kill. Should I go get a cocktail or perhaps a soft pretzel from Auntie Annie’s?

1 hour traffic delay: great, another frustrating hour of this tedious, extremely dangerous chore that demands my full attention.

i guess the point is that the speed, scale, and methods of modern ultrawealth accumulation are so new to us that, with that in mind, it's not surprising at all that societies — including the wealthy, the poor and everyone else alike — have absolutely no idea what to do with or about it

You watch Jon Ossoff speak like this about the actual stakes & then you watch Andy Beshear speak about Funny Words, & the abject poverty of the latter approach to Democratic politics in 2026 is so stark that you don't know whether to laugh or cry about the latter.

My dad once had this gigantic Rottie-mix who steadfastly ignored the neighbor’s hysterical male Sheltie. Then one day the Sheltie got loose and went at him in full view of like ten people and the Rottie sighed, grabbed the Sheltie, and dragged him into the barn.

Just remembering that for no reason.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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There are many reasons I believe in the separation of Church and State and "you can't disagree with the head of state, that's against theology" is probably the most prominent "absolutely not" scenario.

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

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Okay, on the one hand, running upright is hard! The designers did a genuinely impressive thing here!

On the other, I’m not sure “look how much faster than a human it can go” is terribly interesting framing. Lots of things go faster than humans, and it just gets people’s backs up.

The thing I am getting from this is that human beings can run a half-marathon in an hour which is fucking amazing, hurrah human beings

FBI Director says arrests ‘coming soon’ on 2020 rigged election conspiracy FBI Director Kash Patel: "We have the information that backs President Trump's claim.”

🚨BREAKING: FBI director Kash Patel said that his agency will soon make arrests – maybe this week – in connection to the 2020 presidential election, which he claims was rigged. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Oh so this guy's in TROUBLE in trouble

I think you have to be drunk to use logic this poorly

Damn, that's a lot of cop speak for, "He hurt my feelings so I arrested him."

NFL Network has obtained the police report on the misdemeanor charges against Zachariah Branch, who was arrested while standing on a public sidewalk for not moving far enough when a police officer asked him to move:

The US Navy fired on and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship today.
That's not blockade enforcement. That's a kinetic act on a sovereign vessel.
Anyone still calling this a "limited operation" isn't paying attention.
#HoldFast

📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.

The crucial thing to understand about Peter Thiel is that he adores "The Lord of the Rings" and no one in human history has ever so utterly completely missed all the salient points of what a book is about.

Another case of Elon's Disease

Repeated COVID (infections) are ruining education.

People like to attribute kids failing to do the work to the few months they spent at home in 2020. Choosing to ignore that Covid causes measurable brain impairment and cumulative cognitive deficits in not only adults, but children too.

An important thing to note when discussing this topic is that NASA has a MANDATE to do outreach and education and messaging about its science. It’s a core principle for them. And as such that outreach is FUNDED.

What we need is for more agencies to be rewritten to add mandates like this!

If you TRULY care about the world and people in it, you realize that WE'RE A RICH COUNTRY and have no excuse to be miserly cheap motherfuckers with our own citizens (and help abroad) and that's true asshole shit. Cheap racist sacks of shit. Fiscally conservative, you're a selfish prick

Whatever peckerwood said "you get more conservative the older you get" was huffing paint. He was just a racist bitch that needed an excuse to be more racist. I'm old as hell and have been getting more radicalized every year.

All you Dem MFs running in the midterms, you can't point to polling anymore as your reason for being wishy-washy on this right here. So we'll know damn well where your bread is buttered if you do

This is so true. I was worried I would move to the center but hoo boy, I'm so left now I can't move any more

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

During the entire insane scene where he yelled at aides, blamed Europe for not helping, and worried about comparisons to Carter's Iran crisis, Donald Trump continued to obsess about his ballroom, and mused about giving himself the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration in US history.