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This is everything

But does she speak Gelsh?

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character(s). Wrong answers only.

This. The punishment must fit the crime. It's got to hurt.

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

I can see it's falling in the hair tonight.

The way things are going, we're going to have to flip around "no taxation without representation" to "no representation without taxation," because the only people being represented in government today are the wealthy, and they aren't paying taxes.

The fact that Jeff Bezos pays a lower tax rate than I do does not mean that my taxes are too high. It means his are too low.

(And above a certain income level, the income tax becomes a useless vehicle for creating equity in taxation. The wealthy don't have high salaries if they're smart.)

Institutional Democrats are misreading the moment. Unlike the donor class, average Americans aren't clammoring for lower tax rates for themselves. We are calling for everyone to pay their fair share, *especially* the wealthy who already pay low-to-no taxes and want even more cuts.

oh noes who could have foreseen this.

(Hint: anyone with a map.)

Start at the top, please.

The outcome of vibe presidenting.

Link to the original post on Wayback machine (Reddit took it down). web.archive.org/web/20260313...

Wayback link: web.archive.org/web/20260313...

No. Stop covering for him. Trump's only goal is to get people to stop paying attention to the unreleased Epstein files. That's it. He is only concerned with saving his own skin, and doesn't care about anything else unless it helps him first, including Israel.

It's worth noting that humanism of the Renaissance was a reaction to medieval religious dogma that consigned the role of humanity to one of subservience to an absolutist authoritarian power (who, by the way, had no compunctions about abusing that authority for personal gain.)

This. Offshoring critical thinking to a profit-driven enterprise is a reversal of all human progress since the Renaissance. It's the antithesis of humanism and individuality.

Trump Endorses Jake Paul (Who Isn’t Running for Office)

This'll get out the vote! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

If we're charitable and assume they found *24* (technically "dozens") cases, that's a minuscule amount out of 173.85 million registered voters.
We're talking one one-hundred-thousandth of 1%.
My guess, they say "dozens" because "tens" would be even more laugh-worthy.

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

It was not enough for Elon Musk's minions to gut the Social Security Agency.

An ex-DOGE engineer allegedly took SSA's master databases of personal information to a job in the private sector.

DOGE was never about fighting fraud. It was about exposing Americans to more of it.

Only if he keeps falling down.

Apparently sacrificing a modern social safety net and universal health care wasn't enough.

They’ve been working overtime to come up with a single sliver of doubt they could use to undermine the entire narrative, and they’ve got bupkis. So does the NYT.
“Are you sure it wasn’t an accidental, admiral?”
“Take a look at these targeting coordinates. Do they look accidental?”

Judge Is Skeptical of Penn’s Argument Against Trump Demand for List of Jews

Nothing to see here, folks, especially when you consider the government is being run by Stephen Miller. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

Waiting for someone to do second person plural-southern. The only pronoun is Allyall.

It raises the question of if he's ever seen a map.

My house is small enough to qualify as a cottage, I think... And I have two trees. And a cat. (Not a ghost cat, though. Not even that curious. She naps all day and is no help solving local mysteries. Not even the "Mystery of the Missing Sewer Easement."

"The Straits Must Flow"

Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor @KhalafAlHabtoor X.com • Translated from Arabic by Grok I heard the statements of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, in which he calls on the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to enter this war, saying that we are also under attack and that we must join the fight. And I say to him clearly: We know full well why we are under attack, and we also know who dragged the entire region into this dangerous escalation without consulting those he calls his "allies" in the region. We thank God that the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries are doing well, and we have no need for someone who claims he came to the Middle East to save us. The truth is that hasty American decisions are what embroiled the region in a war whose peoples were not party to its decision-making, and its local allies were not consulted before it was launched. We do not deny the Iranian threat to the region, which has become clear in recent days. We do not trust Iran. But this is a dirty game in which several powers clash at the expense of our region, with no honor in it and no transparency. In this scene, Iran, Israel, and the United States all move according to their own interests, not according to the interests of the peoples of the Middle Eastern Arab countries. And for this reason, we say it clearly: We will not enter this war to serve the interests of others, nor will we sacrifice our sons in a conflict that could have been avoided through diplomacy and political solutions. We value the lives of our sons, and we do not treat their souls as "collateral damage" as some do. Nothing in this world is more precious than the lives of our sons, and no alliance with any country in the world is worth risking these lives. If President Donald Trump and Senator Graham are prepared to risk their country and the lives of Americans for Israel's interests, that is their choice. As for us, we will not do the same.

UAE billionaire Khalaf Al Habtoor wrote an interesting post on X criticizing Lindsey Graham and Trump.

“We...know who dragged the entire region into this dangerous escalation without consulting those he calls his ‘allies’ in the region.”

Hours later, it was deleted.

It's worth reading in full: