Another word you might use for it is "looting".
"This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..."
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Great daily updates about the Strait of Hormuz, particularly the details of insurance.
I mean it's no "swimming in shit water"
It's quite normal for young soldiers to get dumb tattoos. It is not quite normal for young soldiers to get Nazi tattoos.
Source: I was a young soldier and saw many of my fellow soldiers' dumb tattoos.
Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.so... • 3h Who got us into "a situation like this?" Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com • 4h Comer on "boots on the ground" in Iran: "Sometimes that's unavoidable in a situation like this"
Sometimes one can only look at a post and marvel.
According to the US and Israeli right wings, Iran has been in the last mile of their nuclear weapons program for my entire adult life.
Netanyahu drew his red line at the UN nearly 14 years ago.
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
god help me and fuck Chuck Schumer, but it's genuinely bullshit that Schumer is the key image here. it was a party line vote, with Schumer voting against. only Dem that broke ranks was Fetterman, of course.
Who else might that be said of?
He demanded that she send him nude pictures and bullied her into a relationship. This is called sexual harassment. It was not “an affair”. RESIGN NOW.
That’s precisely how advanced the AI is
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
If the Washington Post story above sounds like PR for Anthropic, that's because it is! Amazon has invested billions of dollars in Anthropic. Jeff Bezos, of course, owns both the Washington Post and Amazon.
The reason they’re called human rights is all human beings have them. If you’re talking about the supposed exclusive rights of the herrenvolk you should use another term or just switch to German entirely.
it's a real achievement to develop a policy that so many macroeconomists could agree on
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
At least 175 people, many of them children, were killed in an airstrike Saturday on a girls' elementary school in Iran www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
And to make things crazier, once that happens, consumers are going to figure out they're being taxed to pay for the tax they were illegally taxed.
every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally
Reminder that Trump gutted VOA Farsi.
Remember, ICE only goes after "the worst of the worst" -- murderers, rapists, drug traffickers and, apparently, Ivy League students cramming for a Genetics exam.
I have two important questions about this: 1) How is that post still up an hour later? 2) How did a Stew Peters tweet even make its way onto the feed of either Platner or his digital director?
I'll say this: I've never heard of this many staff resignations on a campaign up in the polls before.
Why isn't this a WAY bigger story? Planning to be retired in 2040? Or still alive and on Medicare any time after that? Good luck with your healthcare.
I believe he was talking about his personal wealth.
Its not just guns: its the purchasing of warehouses to be turned into prisons. These are capacities that are meant to be used, and we have already seen they won't be limited to non-citizens. This is enabling a government that labels observers and protestors as terrorists.
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It’s a Big Herrenvolk and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the Big Herrenvolk.
I’m sure if Joe Biden had called white Americans “pirates” who had “ransacked” Alabama, the NYT would write that he “put on a show” 🤷♂️🤦♂️
I'm so old I remember when a lot of pundit energy went into the question of whether Joe Biden, and before him, Barack Obama, was doing enough to "bring the country together."
