not your mom

almost literally Trump tonight

reality is a simulation in which some asshole typed "give that ben affleck character from mall rats earth's biggest military"

you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths

from this recent Dorsey interview:

The largest payment eliminated by DOGE was $38,468,659 to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for transition support services to adulthood for disabled children served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

The missles in this video cost more than that.

Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

that asshole is probably a senior administration official at this point

this was like, almost literally what they said to justify Japanese internment camps (or it was what the nazi in my law school cited - balloons carrying bombs coming for the west coast made korematsu totally defensible) 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

like michael cohen before him, super solid chance that corey may have overestimated the durability and depth of the esteem in which he is held by his benefactor.

or that’s what the birds whispering to the post hope, anyway.

why does pete get to keep his fugly brown ones though?!

If you are a friend, family member, or casual acquaintance of Julie Le, I’m putting this on your shoulders: make her stop. This shit isn’t funny. The transcript is so unfunny to me and shows how deeply she lacks integrity, and this move makes it so much fucking worse

The system works as the system is designed.

The problem is, everyone I’ve spoken to in MAGAworld content creation — comms staff, influencers, whomever — knows their identity. In off-the-record conversations, people will simply tell me their name as soon as I ask the question, as they’re familiar with the memelord’s style from interactions in the disappearing MAGA group chats. (I do have to pause for a second and acknowledge that the meme zoomers have better opsec than the senior officials who did Signalgate a year ago.) But the moment I ask if they’d be willing to go on background about it — surely they aren’t Nazis, and shouldn’t they call out behavior in their own ranks? — sources immediately clam up. If I prod, they’ll shrug it off as everyone’s just having fun.

So @tinanguyen.bsky.social has spent weeks trying to identify the person at DHS who posts all the racist memes, and instead uncovered a fascinating code of silence: everyone in Trump's Washington knows who it is, but refuses to say. Gift link! -> www.theverge.com/column/89298...

Why the Other Guys Keep Winning Originally published in the September, 2015 issue of Playboy  The mightiest superpower on Earth hasn’t won a war in decades. Jt doesn’t have to be that way. More than 200,000 American s…

Apropos of nothing at all, here’s a feature article I wrote for Playboy in 2015, about why America can’t win wars anymore. I cover pundits, yes, but also poor planning, strategic missteps, and a breakdown of politics. I was forced out of national security work three months after this got published.

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

As someone who once co-authored two books in support of nuclear energy: this is likely the kiss of death to nuclear power.

It is a risky long term investment that is uniquely dependent on social acceptance. An incompetent, very unpopular government slashing safety rules leads to a reaction.

her? come on.

“I don’t know anything about that”

-every cis American

omg if this restarted before my parents had to clear customs this morning i will be so pissed off because i want them to feel the slightest fucking inconvenience from this shit, please god steal their time and patience!

A tweet of mine from May 9, 2017: This is going to be the dumbest dystopia.

[taps sign]

I mean, what do you even do with this…?

You think it’s bad that everyone in natsec had tom Clancy as a formative experience? It’s worse if they didn’t!!!

lmaooooo sloppelganger

Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com

Renfer: the document I filed was intended to be a draft. Once I came back from my vacation I did the final document.

Judge: you're going to have to walk me through that. I understand the meaning of the words you are saying but it doesn't make any sense.

Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.

Search result for Brian McGinnis, the Marine whose arm was broken by Sen. Sheehy, yields "No articles or videos have been found."

It's pretty amazing how Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) breaking a Marine's arm while the Marine was protesting (ironically what he gets paid to defend) barely registers.

The NYT and WaPo each had a write up, though no follow yet. The WSJ has nothing.

Imagine a Dem Senator in this situation...

VA plans to scan a million veterans claims for signs of fraud The tool can quickly review submitted questionnaires that document medical evidence to determine a disability rating and monthly compensation.

VA, deprived of one way of fucking over veterans, plans to now fuck over every veteran who used a doctor 100 miles from their house and/or whose doctor is lazy.

This will hit homeless vets hardest - who won’t get notification of their new C&P and may lose benefits.

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

Today in 1977 astronomers discovered a faint but distinct ring around Uranus, which is a true sentence I want you to enjoy.

"god, why am I so tired today", I continue to think on National Everyone Is Tired Day