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The buzzer to Frank Sinatra’s home at 2666 Bowmont Drive, circa 1962.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

everyone in the natsec and FP community increasingly just losing their minds as the topical questions in US FP and natsec these days increasingly devolve to the level of "should we lick this toaster while it is on? some experts weigh in"

submitted 17 hours ago • 26 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

I don't want to get drafted, T. I ain't even tried Thai food yet.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Depressing time to be a law professor whose entire job hinges on law existing and being meaningful in some way

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic No such luck

submitted 1 day ago • 1004 comments

Feeling a little nostalgic for the blood-for-oil days, in the "at least it's an ethos" sense

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Did you know that NOT all the atmosphere is warming?Greenhouse gases are trapping excess heat in the lower atm & oceans. To compensate (energy balance) the upper atm is emitting more heat, thus cooling. This was all predicted decades ago by models. It happening. #ShowYourStripes

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

this is all happening because we bullied vance on here

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

this post is in a criminal indictment

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Would maybe not have phrased it quite like that?

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

Not sure I can think of another movie in which the cast are having quite so much obvious fun. Rickman, Weaver, Rockwell, Shalhoub - and Allen! - all just shooting sparks off each other. If for some reason you haven’t seen it, you should

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

the main difference between the bush administration and this one is that the neoconservative ideologues have been replaced with people who want to see explosions on the tv

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 4 days ago • 441 comments

The first rule of Chatham house is you dont talk about what goes on in chatham house

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art sweaty and uncomfortable

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I'll give SpaceX this: that was a sweet explosion. If you're going to catastrophically fail and burn billions of tax dollars, that's the way to do it. 100/10 on the explosions rating scale.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

it is hard to convey in words how bad the bloodbath has been for professionals working in the "not evil" sectors

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

What happens when a political agenda takes over any semblance of journalistic standards Telegraph admits its story about private school family not being able to go on five holidays was complete nonsense and not remotely fact-checked Beyond embarrassing www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/the-t...

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

I shit you not, people

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She inhaled trace amounts of empathy and her body went into anaphylactic shock.

submitted 5 days ago • 309 comments

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

submitted 6 days ago • 88 comments

oh shit

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

submitted 7 days ago • 235 comments

the NY editorial board moves in circles in which 'known harasser of women' is socially acceptable but 'younger left-winger' is somebody who might embarrass you.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

"pro-vaccine groups" NYT editors are the fucking enemy

submitted 11 days ago • 122 comments

I couldn't NOT do this.

submitted 12 days ago • 104 comments

The real enemy of this administration is cosmopolitanism. Whether in Los Angeles or South Africa, multiracial pluralistic democracy is a threat to them because it means their “us or them” model of the world is wrong. So they stir up trouble on purpose and gleefully lie.

submitted 13 days ago • 139 comments