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Donald Trump on Truth Social on March 7th: The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump Truth Social post on March 14th begging nations (including the UK) to send ships: Many Countries, especially those who are affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe. We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability, but it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are. Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated. In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian Boats and Ships out of the water. One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE! President DONALD J. TRUMP

A story in two farcical acts.

Would be nice to have a President who has reached the stage where he has object permanence.

DOGE was a huge win for the Effective Sociopathy movement

I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran).
The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.

His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

You can indeed declare "We're winning this war" and get some people to believe it and repeat it despite the evidence but you cannot in fact *actually win a war* simply by declaring "We're winning this war."

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

BuzzFeed dying after chasing profits into a sinkhole vs. Gawker getting killed for challenging entrenched power is the perfect conclusion to the 2010s content philosophy wars.

Well then welcome to the Streisand effect

Curious: What else would have to happen to make you call THIS the beginning of World War III?

Not a rhetorical question. I think for me China would have to make a move on Taiwan or *possibly* North Korea on South Korea.

one more note here: we are currently running absolutely astronomical deficits at the federal level, and nobody cares because a Republican is president

but the second a Dem gets back in the Very Serious Debt People will be back in force demanding safety net cuts

not a lot of room for tax cuts there

I would follow this zamboni through the gates of hell

On this year’s long covid awareness day, I want more people to read and think about what the late Shafiqah Hudson said before it killed her. Because she was right, as usual, and also early, as usual. Perhaps too early for a lot of people to listen.

objection your honor, my client is being brutally owned online

Fuck yeah WOKE ZAMBONI

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I am going to throw a PBS style push into the TPM membership drive.

If you are coming to NYC soon and purchase a TPM Ad Free membership by Monday, I will craft a list of personalized recommendations for your journey

I am really good at this. It will be incredible. talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships

More American soldiers died just today than at Benghazi.

Enhance.

your vote is rarely the single decisive vote

but sometimes it is! and you never know when that might be

note Tuberville smuggling in “Islamists” in place of “Muslims”

Yeah you should probably not be using meta for anything if you can avoid it.

the proud boys' lawyer thinks he redacted the email addresses of the over 2000 people who donated to the fundraiser for the lawsuit, but here's the thing: no he did not lol

• The vehicle is registered to a man in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, who was originally from Lebanon, law enforcement sources told CNN. Authorities are investigating reports that the man told people that he had family members who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon in recent days, those officials said.

It is horrific what happened to this man’s family. But some Jewish American children worshipping at a synagogue in Michigan are not fucking responsible. This is another case of blaming all Jews for the actions of Israel. This is why we constantly beg you not to do that.

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Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."

No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

Picture of Whitehouse in "article" thumbnail from Gambling News Joe Rogan Fears Iran Might Target the UFC White House Event

Materializing nude from a bolt of lightning in 2005 to show my younger self this image

I don’t think that people have really absorbed the consequences of the death of a global order.

this would be true if after “we’re taking the opposite approach…” he had simply said “we don’t have a mission. We haven’t defined *any* mission and therefore it cannot creep."

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

No one: *

Cargo Bike People:

"I don't know what weapons the next war will be fought with, but the one after that will be with sticks."
"Because of nukes, right?"
"No, because we decided logistics was woke."

seems normal