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ah-na-na-na my brain is hanging upside down // member of the IAMAW // hamiltonian in exile // he/him
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I do not always, or even often agree with Jack Goldsmith—I think he’s what they mean by a rock-ribbed conservative, and I’m, uh, not—but he’s very smart and even more honourable, and operates in scrupulously good faith, so I have a lot of time for him. This is a finely honed blast of indignation.
Yet the warrior ethos has always demanded honorable conduct in warfare. The Navy Seals, for example, describe themselves as “a special breed of warrior” but the Seal Ethos thrice emphasizes the importance of honor, including “on . . . the battlefield.” And surely the warrior ethos, whatever else it means, doesn’t require killing helpless men clinging to the burning wreckage of a blown-up boat. The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: “Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.”
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Could it be anyone else?
The New York Times OPINION THE EDITORIAL BOARD The Uniquely American Heartbreak of Yet Another Shooting
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Olivia Nuzzi’s date of birth is 6 January 1993
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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…always should be someone you really love
Now Dem women look like Dem men and Dem men look like women
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Has Breslow really earned the benefit of the doubt on stuff like this?

www.sportingnews.com/ca/mlb/bosto...
But there's one aspect that looks less than ideal: Gray has been awful in his career in Fenway Park. Gray's career stats as a pitcher in Fenway Park: 0-4 record 6.84 ERA in 26.1 innings .325 opponent batting average .895 opponent OPS Now yes, a 26.1-inning sample size isn't big. So maybe this is nothing. But this is the second-worst ERA Gray has in any ballpark, only better than 9.2 innings of 9.31 ERA at Chase Field in Arizona.
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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This is so grim and horrifying and plausible
If warming the planet beyond 1 degree Celsius isn’t safe, then 3 degrees is madness. Forget coral reefs: This collapse would cascade into the broader ocean as the sea succumbs to merciless heat waves, oxygen loss, and acidification, and entire ecosystems—seagrass beds, kelp forests, mangroves—fall away. On land, this vanishing act might extend to the Amazon rainforest, which—already relentlessly pared back by deforestation—could submit to a runaway drying. In the human world, migration could be measured in billions of people, as familiar rains that water staple crops depart for distant latitudes and unprecedented heat waves in eastern China and the Indus River Valley surpass the limits of human physiology. Even the U.S. Midwest would begin to see deadly hot and humid conditions, today experienced only in extraordinarily rare heatwaves in places such as the Persian Gulf and inland Pakistan. “In the United States, just 3 degrees Celsius of warming conditions in simulations tend to be hotter—when humidity is factored in—than heat waves in North Africa today,” the Purdue climate scientist Matthew Huber wrote in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “These heat waves of the future could devastate US livestock yields, if they don’t kill the animals outright.” Humans, being animals, would also be killed by the heat. One recent study showed that in a 3 degree–warmer world, deaths resulting from a week-long exceptional heat wave, like the one that struck Europe in 2003, would rival peak-COVID mortality rates, killing 32,000 people in Europe. This would be only one in a cascade of problems facing humanity. By 2030, the global demand for fresh water is expected to outstrip supplies by 40 percent, and the shortage would be made more dire in the following decades when mountain glaciers that supply drinking water to more than 2 billion people begin to vanish at the same time that underground aquifers fail to recharge. (The recurrent droughts would push farmers to draw those aquifers down faster.) Meanwhile, as flooding and hurricanes ravage the coasts, and wildfires, flooding, and severe storms strike inland, insurance markets may all but collapse—even in supposed climate refuges such as Minnesota. Erratic weather and volatile yields will drive food prices persistently higher, and communities—whether at the municipality scale or entire countries—may go bankrupt while trying to patch up battered and strained infrastructure amid higher borrowing costs and closed lines of credit. The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not. That is, if 3 degrees warmer is indeed where we’re headed. Although many climate stories quote temperature estimates for the year 2100 down to the tenth of a degree, this betrays an unrealistic level of precision in climate forecasts. Not only is there uncertainty in our predictions about just what level of carbon emissions a specific policy might ultimately lead to, there are also uncertainties in our estimates of the climate’s sensitivity to greenhouse gases—and potentially even more worrying uncertainties about how the Earth’s carbon cycle will respond to higher CO2 and warming. The carbon cycle involves the exceedingly complex and restless planetary give-and-take of carbon as it moves among the crust, oceans, and atmosphere, and through life itself. It could be that carbon-loaded reservoirs, such as soils and permafrost, will exhale more carbon dioxide and methane back into the atmosphere than we expect in response to warming. The uncertainty around this potentially menacing feedback only becomes greater, and more worrying, the harder we push on the Earth system. The carbon sinks that have been mopping up our mess may not comply with our continued gavage of CO2, either, as forests burst into flames and the upper ocean has its fill. All of this means that, by shooting for a limit of 3 degrees Celsius, we very well may end up warming the planet by 4 degrees instead. Indeed, the same widely quoted recent UN estimate that predicts warming of 2.8 degrees Celsius under current policies also has an uncertainty range up to a perhaps unlikely but truly unthinkable 4.6 degrees Celsius. There is “no certainty that adaptation to a 4°C world is possible,” as even the starchy World Bank has warned. “The projected 4°C warming simply must not be allowed to occur.” Humanity might not roll snake eyes with the climate in this way—2.8 degrees in theory could end up meaning 2.8 degrees in practice. Still, this is an actuarial risk you wouldn’t take with a new house, much less with the only known habitable planet in the universe.
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I woke up alarmed
I didn't know where I was at first
Just that I woke up in your arms
And almost immediately I felt sorry
'Cause I didn't think this would happen again
No matter what I could do or say
Just that I didn't think this would happen again
With or without my best intentions
Pope Leo XIV, speaking or singing into a microphone. He’s a Chicago guy, right?
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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This is always true but seems especially apt today
Miss O'Kistic @missokistic *wakes up and looks at phone* ah let's see what fresh horrors await me on the fresh horrors device
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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So her defence is that it doesn't count as sleeping with "someone she was covering" because they didn't start fucking until after her article was published?

Good luck with that.
Ms. Nuzzi’s article on Mr. Sanford was published in September 2019, and she appeared to have started a relationship with him months after that, Mr. Lizza wrote. In response to the allegations in Mr. Lizza’s post, Ms. Nuzzi’s lawyer, Ari Wilkenfeld, said in a statement, “In ‘American Canto,’ Ms. Nuzzi discusses the only instance in her long career as a journalist in which she had an improper relationship with someone she was covering.” He added that his client would “not dignify efforts to impugn her character with any future response.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Also I think I want one of these Houston Dunkstronaut caps.
A white baseball cap with a red visor. On the front of the cap is a red astronaut outlined in blue, dunking a basketball, surrounded by red and blue five-pointed stars. On the side is the word H-Town in red, outlined in blue.
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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In 2010, a sixteen-year-old Olivia Nuzzi attempted a pop career under the name Livvy, with the unfortunately titled single "Jailbait" (sample lyric: Bad things happen when you hear my name/Deny your attraction but I've got no shame/16 will get you 20).

Popjustice rendered its verdict: "Oh dear."
That's Livvy alright February 15, 2010 by Popjustice They say you should never judge a book by its cover and the same, sometimes, goes for songs. Well, meet Livvy. Livvy is proof that in some circumstances, presented only with a cover, it actually is quite possible to get a fairly good feel of things. We got an email from Livvy over the weekend. It's one of those emails you finish reading with a sense that the only positive outcome will be if it turns out to be a viral. Here's how her biog starts. "Offensive", "vapid", "frothy", "bubblegum", "outrageous", "morally bankrupt" and "undeniably infectious"… these are just some of the words that have been used to describe "Jailbait", and the not-yet-legal mind behind it, sixteen year old singer/songwriter, Livvy. It continues: Of her debut single, she says, "'Jailbait' is about the role of the underaged, hyper-sexualized girl in society. That girl who takes half naked photos of herself in the mirror with her camera phone. It's about pornographic ideals infiltrating our collective consciousness — this obsession with youth and beauty. I'm not saying that any of this is wrong, I'm simply stating that it is. This song is me coming to a societal realization." Well let's see how this 'societal realization' makes itself known through the song's lyrics. Bad things happen when you hear my name Deny your attraction but I've got no shame 16 will get you 20 Don't even think about it because baby I'm Not your girlfriend Not the girl next door Not your girlfriend I'll give you just enough then leave you wanting more Jailbait I'm jailbait You try to stay away but you can't obey Oh dear. Our favourite thing about the email is that after treating us to a song celebrating the lighter side of paedophilia with a social conscience and lightness of touch that makes Ke$ha seem almost sentient, Livvy leaves us with this splendidly formal signoff. Thank you in advance for any consideration and for your time, feel free to contact me at your convenience.
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

(I’m not sure if the first one counts as a meme, so.)
A sign in the style of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign materials that days “I LONG FOR OBLIVION’S SWEET EMBRACE” Homer Simpson wearing a top hat, sitting at the bar at Moe’s Tavern, speaking to Moe on the other side of the bar. The text underneath says “TUBORG, THE BEER OF DANISH KINGS”
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Dril tweet "Hello Alan this is your lawyer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit."
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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literally lol
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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This is art
Comparing Drake to The Smiths? That just warms my heart. Both Drake and Morrissey are whiny, unlikeable cunts who rizzed their way into becoming generational icons while stumbling face first into making highly influential music off the back of far more talented collaborators before then becoming utter parodies of themselves in middle age. They’re probably the most accurate 1:1 on this list.
November 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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A screenshot from The Thick Of It showing Nicola Murray standing in front of the letters I AM BENT, which are part of an inadvertently cropped and obscured LIAM BENTLY campaign sign.
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Fucking hell Larry
I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population…..
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Gotta say I was not expecting this at number one

#SavedYouAClick
A poster for the film HATED: GG ALLIN AND THE MURDER JUNKIES
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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“I long for oblivion’s sweet embrace” in the style of a Zohran Mamdani campaign sign
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Homer Simpson wearing a top hat, on a bar stool at Moe’s Tavern, speaking to Moe on the other side of the bar. The caption is “Tuborg, The Beer of Danish Kings”
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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See you in hell, ostriches
Dismissed Animal Law: Mandatory Slaughter Policy Universal Ostrich Farms Inc. v. Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 2025 FCA 164 (41992) The Fed. Court dismissed applications for J.R. filed by the plaintiff, Universal Ostrich Farms Inc., regarding two related decisions of the Respondent, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (“CFIA”). The first decision, a notice of disposition issued on December 31, 2024, required the plaintiff to cull all the ostriches on its farm by February 1, 2025, after laboratory tests confirmed the detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in two dead ostriches. The second decision, a denial of exemption dated January 10, 2025, rejected the plaintiff’s application for an exemption to spare at least some of the ostriches in the flock. Both decisions were made under section 48 of the Health of Animals Act and in accordance with the CFIA's sanitary slaughter policy, which was implemented following the CFIA's 2022 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Event Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Event Response Plan. The Applicant failed to comply with the decision regarding the notice of disposition, as the Fed. Court stayed its execution pending a decision on the application for J.R. filed with it. Following this, a judge of the Fed. C.A., sitting alone, granted a further stay of execution of the decision until the Applicant's appeal to the Fed. C.A. was decided. The Fed. C.A. unanimously dismissed the Applicant's motion to present new evidence and the Applicant's appeal, concluding the sanitary slaughter policy, the notice of disposition, and the refusal of exemption were all reasonable in accordance with applicable case law. "The motion for a stay of execution is dismissed. The application for leave to appeal...is dismissed with costs."
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Curious who CBS News sent to Zohran’s victory party? That’s right, it’s the original Hot Girl For Capitalism, the Free Press’s own Olivia Reingold, who definitely does not have Zohran living rent-free in her head.
A screenshot of Olivia Reingold’s instagram story. It is of her face talking to the camera. The text reads: WALKING INTO… DRUMROLL PLEASE… THE OFFICIAL ZOHRAN MAMDANI CAMPAIGN WATCH HQ FOR @thefreepress AND @cbsnews streaming! Olivia Reingold wearing a t-shirt that reads HOT GIRLS FOR CAPITALISM. It uses the same colour scheme and typefaces as Zohran Mamdani’s campaign materials. A screenshot of Olivia Reingold’s instagram grid. One item is a video with the title “chasing zohran mamdani.” Another is a video entitled “WHO IS ZOHRAN MAMDANI?” A third video does not have a written title, but its thumbnail image is a black and white photo of Mamdani over a white, blue and green background. More of Reingold’s instagram grid: one entry is Reingold wearing a HOT GIRLS FOR CAPITALISM t-shirt in the same colour scheme and typefaces as Zohran’s campaign materials. One video is entitled “Zohran’s Big Tent of HOTNESS!!!” Another video is entitled “Zohran Mamdani Fans vs. Billionaires.” Two other videos have titles written in a font that approximates Mamdani’s campaign materials: “internet jail :(“ and “can I ask you a question?”
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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The Guardian appears to have assigned its entire schadenfreude bureau to cover the downfall of the former Prince Andrew and frankly I’m enjoying every word of it
Richard Fitzwilliams, a royal author and commentator, told the Guardian: “I think it will be pretty well a living hell for him, given his particular fondness for titles and his entitled attitude.” Andrew had never done himself any favours, Fitzwilliams said. The public have rarely warmed to him. “One of the troubles with him is that he has proven to be so greedy,” he said. “People see him as entitled, greedy and also unbelievably bovine because of that extraordinary Newsnight interview.” Titles are rarely taken away, and the history of it will surely burn hard on Andrew’s pride. The last men to be stripped of their princehood were the Dukes of Cumberland and Albany, in 1919, after they fought for Germany in the first world war. Observers say that when he was a prince, Andrew particularly enjoyed going to the annual and lavish Garter Day ceremony at Windsor Castle in June. But he has been stripped of the Order of the Garter, too, just as Emperor Hirohito of Japan was during the second world war. “He has been treated as an enemy of the state, effectively,” the royal biographer Robert Hardman told Sky News. Andrew is banished and has no chance of being invited to the king’s Christmas celebrations – or any royal event, save perhaps royal funerals, said Fitzwilliams. But questions remain – including why Andrew remains eighth in line to the throne.
November 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Ernest Goes To Russia, if Ernest were an Infowars-addled homophobe
Another family, the Hares, also moved from Abilene, Texas, to Russia to shield their three sons from what they say are harmful elements of American culture. “It was the promise of a country that would not promote the LGBT agenda. We liked the fact that LGBT is basically outlawed here in official ways,” Leo Hare, 62, told NBC News via a video call from the family’s new home in Ivanovo, Russia. Russia has strict laws against the “promotion of nontraditional sexual relationships,” which have in practice banned public displays of LGBTQ identity, including wearing or posting the rainbow flag on social media. His wife Chantelle Hare, 53, says in a video on the family's own YouTube channel that when they lived the U.S., she and her husband preferred to get their news from Alex Jones and Mike Adams, who are far-right commentators and conspiracy theorists. They felt particularly disillusioned with American politics after the 2020 election, and don’t believe Donald Trump’s return to power will change the country enough to convince them to return. “When we left, it was final. We don’t plan to come back. There will not be anything to come back to,” Chantelle Hare said. The Hares have endured their share of hardship trying to build a new life in Russia. They say their initial plan to rent an apartment in Moscow fell through just as they boarded the plane from Texas, and the family spent a bitterly cold winter caring for chickens, horses and rabbits on a farm 70 miles south of Moscow in exchange for free board. At one point, they even had to bring the goats and their newborns inside their cabin to keep the animals from dying. Leo Hare thought their troubles were over when their landlord’s son offered a generous interest rate for investing their $50,000 nest egg in what he described as a car import business. But they only saw one payment before he stopped sending them money and refused to return their money, Leo Hare said. The couple went to the police and the local court to file complaints about their lost money and with their concerns that they had been swindled, but say they have received no help from law enforcement officials. NBC News contacted Domodedovo police for comment but did not receive a reply. The Hares’ sons, 17, 15, and 12, have had difficulty adapting to life in Russia, and the two older boys want to return to America, according to their father. They feel isolated and are disappointed that school is not an option since Russia requires students to pass a language test to study in public schools. Leo and Chantelle, who ran a carpet cleaning business and a mobile snack business back in the U.S., are now working as English tutors. They have found an apartment in Ivanovo, northeast of Moscow, and “are living really comfortably now.” They are currently homeschooling their children. Leo Hare said it probably “would have been a dealbreaker” if they knew about the school restrictions. The Hares have not met the Huffmans. Leo Hare says he never considered joining the army because of his age and safety concerns, and says that Derek Huffman “assumed a little too much” about life in the Russian military. "We assumed a lot, too," he admitted. "But we do have a faith in Christ and He is leading us, even though we’ve made mistakes."
November 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Google….thank u
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