Who dares eat the sidewalk planter corn? A feast awaits the bold.
The thing I'm maddest about re:Platner are all the people who never served in the military who told me that it was perfectly normal for enlisted military people to get Nazi tattoos. NO IT FUCKING ISN'T.
okay reading up on these folks and here’s my initial assessment
Israel treats American presidents exactly like how police departments treat big city mayors
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2mo agoAccording to Israeli sources, in a conversation with Trump, Netanyahu clarified that Israel does not consider itself bound by the Lebanese clause in the American-Iranian agreement.
This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...
One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!
Imagine telling everyone on the internet you're soft as hell while believing it makes you look tough.
Pretty much no matter how this turns out, aside from Iran's unconditional surrender, we're getting some version of a stabbed-in-the-back myth
When we require years of environmental review to build apartments on a parking lot, this is what gets built instead:
Open New York@opennewyork.org · 5mo agoAt 627 Lily Lake Rd in Fulton County, this house sits on 7 acres of freshly-cleared forest land on a 126 acre lot. It also has a 5,000 sqft accessory garage. Because SEQRA presumes that single-family homes have no significant environmental impact, no review was necessary.
The Consumer, famously an expendable piece of the American economy
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoHassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."
The guy on the left was arrested and convicted for illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan Administration. The guy on the right is a Fox News "military analyst" who thinks Iran shouldn't have missiles Yes, same guy.
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social · 5mo agoI was just watching some of the Bill and Hillary deposition footage and its really striking/disturbing how much the Clintons clearly come off younger and in better shape than either of our two recent presidents.
UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
Also, I am not a moderate Democrat. One of the most irritating and destructive habits of the online left is acting as if progressives who urge other progressives to work in a coalition with more moderate Dems, are THEMSELVES moderate Dems. No! We are progressives who are not acting like children!
High-info ppl chastising lower-info ppl for becoming sympathetic higher-info ppl has got to be the WORST form of “I don’t actually want to win, I just want to be smugly condescending to everyone bc I’m empty inside” anti-politics that there is.
The letter the Oregon TAG (top National Guard General in the state) sent to his troops needs more visibility on Bluesky.
This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
So there's this thing where I'm generally anti-carceralist, but sometimes you have to send a message that certain behavior is just completely off limits in society, and this is one of those cases. This guy needs to be made an example of.