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Biologist bitten in head by shark hopes to meet animal again
Biologist bitten in head by shark hopes to meet animal again
Despite having worked with sharks for 30 years, Mauricio Hoyos never thought he would encounter one so close up.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Now that Democrats are actually playing hardball I expect nothing less than absolute and utter crickets from the usual detractors who demand they do this exact stuff
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Putting the abject misanthropy of this aside: How is this not just absolutely the pot calling the kettle black. This guy is like a think tanker with male pattern baldness. Somehow this doesn't make the cut for his deranged view of what constitutes the liberal elite?
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Didn't JD Vance say something specifically about how community norms of honor and prestige are more important than having ppl from McKinsey in govt?
DEI under Trump
October 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is just Bircherism except blaming the communists comes a few steps later
mr vance i'm pretty sure you've basically just hollowed the state more
October 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The idea is to be like Russia I guess. Relentlessly hack away at your own military capacity to achieve symbolic yet Phyrrhic victories, hollering all the while that this is tough guy route that the weenie liberals wouldn't do because they don't love their country enough
Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."
October 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Shooting missiles at occupied apartment buildings 1000 times daily however? Nothing wrong with that at all
Putin Calls Kirk Murder In U.S. “Disgusting”
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Most mentally stable Israel supporter
I see people are posting their fantasies of Thunberg being tortured again
October 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Manipulation and gaslighting masterclass, they confirmed him in the first place and clearly have no issues with what he's doing whatsoever
“.. This is the risk of shutting down the government and handing the keys to Russ Vought,” the Senate majority leader said ..

@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...
October 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
@wsj.com u good with this lol?
The Trump administration announced it would pause roughly $18 billion for two New York transportation projects — a move that appeared aimed at punishing Democrats for their refusal to back a plan to avert a government shutdown.
Shutdown fight halts $18B for New York’s largest subway, rail projects
The move appeared designed to pressure Senate Minority Leader Schumer and Democrats to support a GOP plan that would have averted the shutdown.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Our values are actually under attack
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Government by weird kid at your high school is crazy
“What do YOU HAVE? You have NOTHING, you are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are hatred, YOU ARE NOTHING. You can build nothing, produce nothing, create nothing."
September 25, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This is genuinely appalling. I am absolutely shocked how many otherwise head-on-straight D representatives are getting steamrolled and gaslit into abetting this pure historical revisionism on behalf of a man who opposed all of their ideals and wished them nothing but ill
Republicans just pushed a resolution to "honor the life and legacy" of anti-LGBTQ+ rights leader and extremist Charlie Kirk.

Half of the Democrats voted in favor, including transgender representative Sarah McBride.
September 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
No he wouldn't. He'd be a charlatan that Jesus owns with compassion and logic
Rep. Troy Nehls: I would say if Charlie Kirk lived in the biblical times, he'd be the 13th disciple.
September 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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September 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
RE-ENTERING?!?!?!?!?!
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau expressed regret on Sunday over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia and said those who returned home will face no disadvantage when re-entering the US
US Official Offers Regrets Over Detention of South Koreans
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Sunday expressed regret over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia.
bloom.bg
September 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Exactly. Enough with the "welp, this is it. This is now officially fascism ☝️🤓" takes. Like no it's not it's a stupid picture
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This is the most fucking inept and dumbest attempt at consolidating authoritarian power the modern world has ever seen
used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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basically unironically true
August 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Oh man. Embarrassing for Dean Cain.

ICE posting his training session like it’s some kind of “Man of Steel” flex. Although it tracks with the incompetent, undertrained ICE agents we’re seeing on the streets.
August 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
WSJ editorial board rn: 👨‍🦯👩‍🦯
Chairman Mao touts his state-run economy
August 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The sad yet relieving truth of the matter is that despite the extreme polarization, not enough people really care enough about the abstract values we are upholding as a country to go to war about it
People are so excited that we might be on the verge of civil war. I’m not. I’m a basic bitch who likes basic things like pumpkin spice lattes and not getting shot at in the grocery store.
August 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
So is Ukraine giving up territory good or bad?
Trump announces that Ukraine will not get Crimea back and and no NATO for Ukraine
August 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Oh good, so as expected they're not only nasty lunkheads, they're petty little fucking crybabies too
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.

Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?

Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Craaaazy as fuck to think you can get anything out of doing some shit like this in August 2025
Although crime is declining, Washington is still far more dangerous than it should be, Charles Fain Lehman argues. Instead of just looking tough, “the administration should focus its resources on the people and places that make the District unusually unsafe.” https://theatln.tc/6RCOGO23
August 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM