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Oh my bad

submitted 22 hours ago • 11 comments

Something sort of grimly funny about these old judges who aren't savvy enough to know that the rules of the game have changed out from underneath them while they weren't looking.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Please pardon my language, but what the fuck (at the headline, not the OP)? Cyrus II, the founder of the Achaemenids (the first Persian Empire) gets really good press in Jewish scripture, because he allowed the exiles to return and rebuild the temple; they benefited from Achaemenid tolerance.

submitted 19 hours ago • 19 comments

I would not actually interpret it as indicative of anything more than that Trump is watching explosions on FOX news right now.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

It is extremely important to treat moral outrages as though they are morally outrageous. If you want a society where this sort of grotesque behavior, then you need to act like it is already is.

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

This like the worst possible time for literally everyone for the US to jump into this, so I assume that we're going to.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

choose your own adventure style foreign policy

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

shot/chaser

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

This summer's wackiest comedy is OVER THEIR HEADS! Hegseth! Kavanaugh! Poppin' brews, makin' news! One has a constitutional crisis! The other has a war in the Middle East! Neither has any business being anywhere near their jobs, but hey, beer don't buy iteself! Together they're…OVER THEIR HEADS!

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Why I Love The Repair Shop Jay: What have we here? Guest: It's me nan's Victorian clockwork rooksplodger. Steven: Ooh, it's seen better days. I hope I'll be able to twiddle the flanges. Five minutes later, the sparkling rooksplodger is flying around the room. Steven: Yeah, I'm happy with that.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The first time I saw a cruise ship it really unsettled me, they're so huge, bigger than you'd ever imagine them to be. I think that's how I'd feel if I ever saw Reacher

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Somebody is upset that his parade got upstaged and wants to reset the narrative by lighting fires in major cities. I think @jamellebouie.net has been correct to argue that, in fact, this tactic is hurting Trump, not helping him.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Trump says, "it's possible we could get involved" in the Iran-Israel conflict and also that he's 'open to Putin serving as a mediator in the conflict' (abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...) and I can only describe my reaction in gif form.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Me: take hours to read a book You: have your super hot ChatGPT girlfriend download a million books, read them, then summarize them all to you in a barrage of lies that you can't even tell are lies because you don't read books; also you have the critical thinking skills of a shovel-struck donkey

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

There's an traditional heckle for shit marching that basically goes "Right! Right! Right right right!", but I never thought I'd see it genuinely in action...

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Say what you will about the Boomers. They are SHOWING UP to this #NoKings protest in Los Feliz. #IndivisibleHollywood

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

A lot of dipshit intellectuals, from across the ideological spectrum, are going to meme themselves into being unironic monarchists in response to civic republicanism becoming a popular normie position.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

They think you're stupid.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Extremely complex and over intellectualised way of saying "say what's actually happening with context and don't sanitise it"

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Not every Republican wants to kill you, but none of them will ever do anything about the ones who do.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

So, I watched bits of the parade and I guess my takeaway was, "confused looking 79 year-old unsatisfied by birthday party?" Like, he looked unhappy. Which, I mean, good.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

I didn't get a picture of it, but a woman at the Los Feliz #NoKings protest had what may be my favorite sign of all time. It was just a piece of cardboard that read "Donald Fart."

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We spent $45 million on a poorly attended sad-sack wanna-be dictator parade that rolled tanks through the streets of DC when he could have just gotten some fucking therapy.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I was in front of the federal building when this happened and while I admittedly wasn’t at the front of the line closest to the cops, I didn’t hear a dispersal order. We just saw people starting to run towards us followed by cops on horses and cops shooting munitions of some kind.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

gizmodo.com/jeffrey-epst...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote a thing! In part responding to Emma Ashford's "Four Explanatory Models" (also at FP) for Trump's foreign policy, I propose a fifth model: that the administration is best understood as heavily ideological along personalist, authoritarian far-right lines. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/13/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Thank you all SO MUCH for your support. Our incredible Bargaining Committee worked into the night for us and reached a Tentative Agreement at around 5am! 🙏💪🥳🎉 As of now there will be NO STRIKE! Please continue enjoying all our work, knowing you all helped us get here! #unionstrong #voxunion #1u

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

ICYMI: I talk about a man who managed to embody almost all of the complexities of 20th century Chinese politics, despite spending more than half of the century under house arrest.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"What traditions?" "Oh, you know the ones."

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

The American people will rise up with one voice in the next election, and declaim proudly and true: "We demand a militarized universal deportation program that involves no violence and has no economic impact! And we want it NOW!"

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

"A critical element of that is that elected officials cannot back down. They must continue to act like Americans. If the President wants to rule by tackling senators or arresting governors, make him do it. Elected officials owe us that. We should accept it individually ourselves as well."

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is what you do when you think they'll be worth more in the future btw

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Mike Johnson does not think that elected officials should be treated with a certain amount of respect. Noted.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If Vox does not give them this contract I am unleashing hell on this company

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

You, a peasant, go to the beach and make sand castles. Me, a man with humanitas, makes a sand Roman playing-card fort, with fossa et agger.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

They are extremely clear about the fact that they consider themselves to be at war with you. They do not equivocate about it. It's their stated policy.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

Mentality of whipped dogs.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed. (video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)

submitted 4 days ago • 210 comments