im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality
Issuance of F-1 student visas by the United States, to all countries, monthly through August 2025 (latest available).
The red line shows the start of the current US Administration.
Shutting out the world's talented young people will impoverish the future of every Conservative and Liberal American.
I’m sorry, the suffering is infinite and things are genuinely fucking dire, but it is truly hilarious that the nazis ran into the middle east while screaming “logistics and diplomacy are fake and gay” and now they’re trying to ask everyone else to fix the strait of hormuz because tfw no more THAADs
It's awesome that people still like to say that this is some liberal democracy with an independent justice system that holds people accountable
Showing this to myself in 2022 and having an aneurysm
This is a thing that is within their control and they absolutely should make their negotiating position
lol, his nonprofit is called "Mad"
I mean, he's german, so it's possible that this is the first time he's ever eaten something with more than single digit scoville units
That or she just really likes getting yelled at
Brent Crude sounds like a gay porn guy who gets arrested
when you’re arguing about politics here on bluesky just remember there’s a young sheldon spinoff called george and mandy’s first marriage that’s watched by millions of people
Gotta consolidate behind Stratton, the only one with a puncher's chance of beating this freak of nature.
It's easier to believe in the end of American democracy than it is to believe in the end of the Sixth Party System
"Big tent" seems, for some ppl, to mean "has as few principles as I do"
And even if they could stop themselves from provoking Iran, they can't stop Israel, so
The administration can't stop itself from provoking Iran from going big, so eventually they're going to land on invading bandar abbas
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Kat's campaign if nothing else has convinced me that a version of Kat who wasn't a streamer my age who had just moved into the district would be absolutely dog-walking Biss and Fine
Yea, like, it seems like Iran can fire something at anything in the strait if they within [x] distance of the coast. And I'm a dumbass who knows nothing about military stuff, so maybe it's more complex than that, but the smart ppl seem to be saying, no, it really is that simple
To be blunt a lot of these groups should've thought about the consequences of supporting attempts to suppress pro-Palestinian freedom of speech and even in some cases supporting the kidnapping of Arab students for their speech. *You* helped make him a cause celebre among liberals and left-liberals.
"Just about" all of their mine ships
the tankers yearn for the mines
The way we'll stay a hegemon: everyone else either doesn't have the will or doesn't have the capacity to do it
This isn't funny. My CENTCOM gets very anxious when he has to do something besides hit empty patches of desert with TLAMs.
We literally just learned that Trump will get credit for this a few years ago. I knew the median voter forgot who was president in 2020; I didn't think senate dems had as well
I understand the political theory behind this - “look, we’re on your side re: affordable gas” - I just think it’s a stupid fucking theory
let them touch the stove, press their hand on it good and hard
this conflict is stupid, wrong, and infuriating
Nasdaq is changing its rules to "entice" the SpaceX IPO to its exchange, which will fast-track the stock's inclusion in index funds... this effectively dumps Elon Musk's unprofitable garbage on vulnerable passive investors, and ensures new retirement accounts have to buy in.
