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Cross-stitch keeps me from crying; the tea keeps me from committing crimes. An American mom cheering for Mexico and Canada.
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I do not use this term with electeds easily; Ro is a fucking wrecker.

History is funny. Here we are cozying up to Japan and Germany to protect us from American Nazis.

There is literally no one who has a better bead on Alaska politics than Murkowski, so, uh.. flashing warning signs for the GOP here.

Yes. There is no ironic form of “I want to murder your family.”

Gen Z women grew up reading a good chunk of their male peers posting “I want to rape women and take away their right to vote” and it has exposed the gender divide pretty clearly.

we need benghazi style hearings into this in 2026

YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown you can SEE HIM he is playing in town you should go and have a good time

Elon is gonna be so miserable it's gonna be funny

The congress critters yearn for the stove

he is so swagless he has somehow achieved negative drip. this image is like a vortex, i can feel the swag being drained from my own body as i view this

I would like all of the people who argued that the military would just refuse an illegal nuclear launch order to weigh in on this development.

let's gooooooooo

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

somehow, DeGaulle returned

Hopefully the AfD result will also put an end to all the "Trump/Musk/Vance will boost the far right in Europe" bullshit that has been going around.

NO KINGS NO NAZIS gets you like 80% approval and does a solid 60% of what we want to do

It finally happened: one of my infusion center nurses changed her mind on congestion pricing. Her family said she must be happy about the Trump admin trying to kill it, but she said actually, she may have changed her mind, since it now only takes 25 mins to get to work compared to an hour previously

he’s seconds away from mimicking and saying “I’m rubber you’re glue “

Gaullism is the new Atlanticism - the sooner the remaining Atlanticists realise this, the better

has anyone explained to him that the winning party is the one that Vance just spent an entire FP trip giving the cold shoulder and yelling at for not being nicer to neo-Nazis? your government didn’t endorse the conservatives. you endorsed AfD.

I don’t think this is sustainable for four years. I don’t know what the new equilibrium will be. But eventually you just run out of stuff to break.

If you turn against Trump because your face got eaten, I will of course accept you into the resistance. But I will also remember that you were a selfish dupe who only truly cared when you were harmed.

Calling it now: Germany goes Gaullist after Vance or Elon hatch a too clever by half CIA scheme to bolster the AfD which gets leaked immediately.

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

Never underestimate the hatred of the resentful rich. Years ago I caught up with some people I’d known at uni and the thing they were most passionate about was the EU forcing “globalism” on them. They discussed it at greater length and with greater animation than they discussed their own children.

this is also the case for a lot of postliberal elites

The disgraced former German domestic intelligence chief who got fired for inappropriate contacts with the far right, and has gone on to agitate as a far right politician is now at an American political convention where people are making Hitler salutes from the stage.

???????????? Germany almost took most of Europe because of opinions like this, you idiot. No, the moral imperative you have as a human being is to fight the Nazis back to defend and protect the people you love. That is the moral position.

Merz has won, but what won't be mentioned by anyone at the CDU is that when he took over the party, Merz claimed he would return it to results better than anything Merkel achieved for the party in her time as Chancellor. At 29% he is still 3% below her worst result in 2017.

“The 5 bullets email was the administration’s declaration of psychological warfare: Petty on its face and lacking sufficient instructions, its one and only purpose was to scare the shit out of workers already living in peril.”

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

Why on earth would a fuckin mailman have a work email, Elon? Explain it to me. Come down to my office, follow me around for 8 hours, and tell me which function of my job necessitates me responding to a fucking email from a ketamine fiend, you stupid bitch.

what people who don't play games don't understand about him paying other people to do things which he imagines himself as having done then fumbles remarkably badly in ways apparent even to total beginners when he takes control with his unearned confidence is that's all he's ever done with everything

I mutter "a mere 8x8 grid" to myself sometimes. unforgettable words

I think the implications here are painfully and terrifyingly obvious.

Believing humans can be reduced to one "smart" score that translates across disciplines--so someone who is "smart" at, say, running a tech start-up or being a reality TV star must inherently be "smart" at international diplomacy--is one of the most childish worldviews you can have. Truly juvenile.

This isn’t drugs. This is him assuming other people don’t work because he doesn’t do that much work. Very common bad boss behavior. bsky.app/profile/rcma...

I wonder if you can guess, without reading the headlines, which TWO people in this picture just got fired from the Joint Chiefs. Go ahead, take a wild guess. Pick two.

The majority of “high agency” people historically had inherited power and wealth, and how smart they were was a random throw of the dice.

If you grant that purging the top Black and female military leaders is part of an effort to "root out...military's diversity focus," there are much clearer, more direct, and more true ways to say that.

same, DoD, same

I am not joking when I say that the security non-model that is now the present united states federal government means that any successor government, if it will even exist, will need to smoke the rats out from the walls.

"Before you’re tempted to sneer at Elon for misspelling 'Khan', remember that Genghis Khan himself was unable to spell his own name, having never learned to read or write" uhh OK how is Elon Musk at firing a composite bow from horseback at a gallop?

«To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak etc» These are in fact things we are willing to do for a son or daughter, for a close friend. «If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?»

Amazing work!

This is the exact thing democracy was supposed to innovate away, because if you’re a monarchy, you’re rolling the dice whether they’re going to be Catherine the Great or Ivan the Terrible. Incidentally, the Mongols elected their Great Khans from among the eligible clan leaders!

Elon Musk has a pathological fixation on certain movies and scenes from movies, and one of them is the "So what do you actually *do* here?" scene from *Office Space*. He thinks that scene reflects a social reality where a vast majority of people who work for any organization are dead weight.