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![Comic. Confusion matrix showing renditions of different combinations, colored yellow, tan, or gray. [Air: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Lead: gamma rays G, neutrons T, alpha particles G, light G, Sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust T, radio G, sharks G] [Water: gamma rays T, neutrons G, alpha particles G, light T, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Vacuum: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound G, heat T, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Oven mitts: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound T, heat G, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks Y] [Armor: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks T] [Biohazard suit: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust G, radio Y, sharks Y] [Faraday cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Shark cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreib7rzofmrqb5cvnyccnb7ftj6qroxtp55i4dqqnbp2ozun6gaxbkm@jpeg)
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.
October 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.
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What if China doesn’t invade Taiwan the way we expect?
A Wargame to Take Taiwan, from China’s Perspective
In August 2025, 25 international experts gathered at Syracuse University to do something unusual: plan China's invasion of Taiwan. For two days,
warontherocks.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
What if China doesn’t invade Taiwan the way we expect?
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i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.
October 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.
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![3-panel comic. (1) [two people laying on the grass on a curved surface, oriented vertically] PERSON 1: I don’t like being stuck to this orb, but I guess falling off would be worse. (2) [the surface has rotated slightly] PERSON 2: I wouldn’t mind if it pulled a little less hard, though. I have places to be. I shouldn’t just lie around in the grass. (3) [the surface has rotated a little further] PERSON 1: Maybe the pull will weaken if you wait a little longer. PERSON 2: Good idea. I’ll give it another five minutes.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreialozggxrphnx7hphjslr736vy2qrl2qn2j6szyouhgbsd3eqwhfi@jpeg)
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it's weird being part of a global laughingstock nation www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Trump cold-called Norwegian minister to ask about Nobel Peace Prize
American president angles for top diplomatic award while world watches his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
www.politico.eu
August 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
it's weird being part of a global laughingstock nation www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.
July 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.
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Bondi reportedly put 1,000 people in 24-hour shifts for two weeks in March to review the Epstein files. She made them flag mentions of Trump.
And then ...
She decided she couldn't release anything. 😯
And then ...
She decided she couldn't release anything. 😯
Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Dan Bongino have made a mess of the Epstein files.
It’s time to clear it up once and for all for the American people.
It’s time to clear it up once and for all for the American people.
July 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Bondi reportedly put 1,000 people in 24-hour shifts for two weeks in March to review the Epstein files. She made them flag mentions of Trump.
And then ...
She decided she couldn't release anything. 😯
And then ...
She decided she couldn't release anything. 😯
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Exclusive: For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump.
Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.
The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’
on.wsj.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Exclusive: For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump.
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Great stuff.
www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
July 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Great stuff.
www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
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The Coldplay Kiss-Cam Incident Proves What I Have Said For Decades: Rock Music Undermines Morals. Tomorrow in the NYT by Ross Douthat
July 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The Coldplay Kiss-Cam Incident Proves What I Have Said For Decades: Rock Music Undermines Morals. Tomorrow in the NYT by Ross Douthat
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Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
July 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
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The threat to Jewish Americans comes from the people who think no one deserves rights, not the people who think everyone deserves rights.
July 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The threat to Jewish Americans comes from the people who think no one deserves rights, not the people who think everyone deserves rights.
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Apparently, Abbott signed this bill. It is now illegal to talk, after sunset, on a college campus in Texas.
I thought the headline was exaggerating but it’s not. This is legitimately insane www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Texas is about to ban talking on college campuses at night | Opinion
If signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, this bill will ban speech at night — from study groups to newspaper reporting — at the state's public universities.
www.houstonchronicle.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Apparently, Abbott signed this bill. It is now illegal to talk, after sunset, on a college campus in Texas.
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NEW: “They won’t shut the fuck up about it,” Trump privately vented — referring to conservative influencers and media types lashing out over the Epstein memo — according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
Inside Trump's Frantic, Failing Mission to Crush the Epstein 'MAGA Rebellion'
President Donald Trump and his administration are doing everything they can to make MAGA forget about Jeffrey Epstein. They are failing.
www.rollingstone.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
NEW: “They won’t shut the fuck up about it,” Trump privately vented — referring to conservative influencers and media types lashing out over the Epstein memo — according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
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![Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidexczuo22iq6o77sexfgdpvgx6baetimwtkzoeb7h7glon7enx4y@jpeg)
July 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
June 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
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Leavitt without a trace of irony: "When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful."
June 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Leavitt without a trace of irony: "When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful."
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![Comic. Thought Process While Reading A Big Number: 54,000,000,000,000,000,000,0000,0000,054,000"000,00c2ef46
[comments progress along the line, approximately every 3 digits] (1) 54! Great! I know that number. Solid start. (2) Oh, a comma and some zeros. Cool. Must be at least 54 thousand. (3) A second comma! I wonder if we’re talking population or money. (4) Yikes! If this is money, it’s a *lot* of money. (5) Why am I reading this? Whatever this number is, I’m not going to be able to visualize it. (6) All right, either someone made a unit conversion error or this is one of those incomprehensible astronomy numbers. (7) [4 zeroes between commas instead of 3]] Oh no. Is this a misplaced comma or an extra zero? I guess we’ll see if the next group has two zeros or three. If it’s two, we can at least hope the digits are right. (8) [4 zeroes between commas] Oh *no*. (9) [repeat of the digits 54] What is happening. (10) [a quotation mark in place of comma] Someone messed up real bad. (11) [final digits are c2ef46, cut off] Someone messed up real bad and I hope it wasn’t me.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreih3hirktm65hdw44t573arldaizpyect42tpkiochyewbagbj5gh4@jpeg)
June 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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On the one hand, this is beautiful, heartfelt, and deeply humane attempt to find common humanity in the midst of violent tragedy.
On the other hand, I wish Democrats in Congress came to understand that Mike Lee and the rest of MAGA don’t care if they get killed.
On the other hand, I wish Democrats in Congress came to understand that Mike Lee and the rest of MAGA don’t care if they get killed.
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Full emails below
Full emails below
June 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
On the one hand, this is beautiful, heartfelt, and deeply humane attempt to find common humanity in the midst of violent tragedy.
On the other hand, I wish Democrats in Congress came to understand that Mike Lee and the rest of MAGA don’t care if they get killed.
On the other hand, I wish Democrats in Congress came to understand that Mike Lee and the rest of MAGA don’t care if they get killed.
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Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
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"The Answer Is Zero:" When Fragile White Supremacists Discover ... They Aren't
www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/15/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/15/t...
"The Answer Is Zero:" When Fragile White Supremacists Discover ... They Aren't - emptywheel
Because Pete Hegseth cannot admit who he is -- and more importantly, that he is not superior or even competent -- he is demanding that the men and women who serve under him be something they are not.
www.emptywheel.net
June 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"The Answer Is Zero:" When Fragile White Supremacists Discover ... They Aren't
www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/15/t...
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Democracy dies in billionaire control.
Planes roared over D.C. on Saturday, tanks rolled along the National Mall, brass bands resounded and thousands of soldiers marched past cheering crowds, as the Army put on the largest show of military might in the capital in more than three decades. wapo.st/4dYFOck
June 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Democracy dies in billionaire control.