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Regular everyday folks are gonna love spending $175 billion on something that won't matter if it doesn't work. Especially since we're already gonna spend $140 billion on missiles that also won't matter if they do work.

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I just think it’s hilarious that people went to college with the Pope. “What’s Ken up to these days? Partner at a law firm outside Pittsburgh, that’s nice. And Bob? Oh, he’s the Pope.”

submitted 15 days ago • 66 comments

India and Pakistan are fueling each other's extremism—and veering toward catastrophe—without an off-ramp in sight, Vaibhav Vats writes:

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The Atlantic wins the ASME 2025 Best Cover Award for our October 2024 issue. Inspired by the visual language of old Ray Bradbury and Stephen King paperbacks, Justin Metz created this illustration—among the only covers without a headline or typography in our history. https://theatln.tc/o0BM860L

submitted 15 days ago • 66 comments

Thrilled that our rather prescient October issue has just won the ASME award for Cover of the Year.

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Apart from … ALL THE THINGS shaking up assumptions about geopolitics right now, this is amazing and would otherwise be headline news: apnews.com/article/japa...

submitted 44 days ago • 27 comments

Elon Musk Rage Quits Gaming Livestream After Repeatedly Dying, Gets Mercilessly Mocked by Viewers futurism.com/elon-musk-ra...

submitted 46 days ago • 110 comments

In addition to her expert mousing, Lily is investigating reports of Soviet propaganda

submitted 47 days ago • 42 comments

I remember when the Dow was over 40,000. It seems like it was just a few months ago.

submitted 49 days ago • 81 comments

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

submitted 51 days ago • 869 comments

A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.

submitted 51 days ago • 70 comments

Anyway, here's Lily snarfing treats

submitted 62 days ago • 100 comments

But I know what love is, Jenny

submitted 66 days ago • 29 comments

This is the kind of thing Trump can do even if he can't pull us out of NATO. He can render our membership in it almost trivial by using his Article II powers.

submitted 66 days ago • 54 comments

This is significant.

submitted 79 days ago • 89 comments

Replaying #Fallout 4 with some of the new content. It's a nice graphic upgrade and while some of the new content isn't that wild, it was fun to drop a Minutemen artillery strike on an Enclave camp.

submitted 93 days ago • 26 comments

Lynn and I are disagreeing about where this would go, but I want one. She, oddly, does not.

submitted 94 days ago • 130 comments

If movies and television have taught me anything, it's that I can totally outrun an explosion.

submitted 96 days ago • 72 comments

I've watched Administrations go from DEM to GOP & back & forth. Even during worst of times in our country we didn't see career employees resign en masse. Especially not from being told to do so. This is what authoritarian regimes do. Brain power & experience loss will be devastating for decades.

submitted 124 days ago • 44 comments

October 27, 1962, was arguably the most dangerous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a day when human error, rushed preparations, aggressive tactics, and sky-high tensions could have set off World War III intentionally or by accident at least four separate times. Here is what happened (a long thread):

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One Russian paper today: “Assad’s fall confirms the indisputable fact that the percentage of votes won by a dictator/autocrat/usurper at an election before he falls means absolutely nothing. None of that ‘95% support’ came out to defend him.” #ReadingRussia

submitted 151 days ago • 68 comments

🚨The Arms Control Person(s) of the Year contest kicks off! #ACPOY2024 aims to highlight initiatives designed to advance disarmament, nuclear security, and international peace, security, and justice. Get to know the nominees and cast your vote: 👉 www.armscontrol.org/...

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

Beautiful submarine cable and long-range wireless map (1930s)

submitted 160 days ago • 2 comments

No undeserved praise No obeying in advance No normalization No sane washing Just calling out a failed businessman, exceedingly corrupt president and convicted criminal for what he is And-although you left out the $454 fraud judgment and sexual abuse verdict Well done, @vanityfair.com

submitted 161 days ago • 156 comments

Umm this bus stop bench in Seoul is heated and has free public wifi. So luxurious ✨

submitted 164 days ago • 14 comments

“In Assad’s abandoned office, his desk and floor were littered with books and papers: a history of the Russian military, a map of northeastern Syria, a biography of himself. Strips of antianxiety pills were in their packaging on the desktop.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...

submitted 164 days ago • 1 comment

This is very interesting. Call to de-escalate? Gift link "Russian General Calls U.S. Chairman of Joint Chiefs" www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/u...

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When the Russian government paper features headlines like “Panic attack for Russia’s currency market” you know there’s a problem. Today’s Russian papers focus on the falling rouble. One paper notes that “news from the currency markets resembled reports from a war zone.” #ReadingRussia

submitted 177 days ago • 50 comments

Putin has no real options for nuclear use, no matter how hard he thumps his chest. And the history of nuclear crises - and there aren't many - is not that they happen because one side has decided on war, but because of miscalculations that have to be walked back. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

submitted 177 days ago • 79 comments

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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He’s not here yet but I can’t wait for the Fonz!! Henry Winkler. Let’s go !

submitted 185 days ago • 86 comments

Performed in waters off the south coast of England, the activity showcased the Herne XLAUV in an operational ‘vignette’ designed to demonstrate an ISR mission. Representatives from 10 nations – including both NATO and Five Eyes partners – were invited to observe 🇬🇧 www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

submitted 177 days ago • 3 comments

Evening Snack anyone ?

submitted 180 days ago • 443 comments

😻😻😻CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FORE IS FURTHER CANCELED FOR THE EVENING! FOSTER/FOREVER(?) KITTEN IS 3 WEEKS OLD AND WARM AND FED AND LOVED!😻😻😻

submitted 179 days ago • 0 comments

Ok who did this? 😂

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'“Why do we call it hybrid? Because basically when you call it hybrid you don’t need to do anything about it,” [Lithuania's FM] Landsbergis told a security conference in Riga last month. “If you call it terrorism, then it implies reaction.”' www.politico.eu/article/euro...

submitted 179 days ago • 1 comment

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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