David Kissling

This is an incredibly stupid idea that will principally function to defund the welfare state and public schools.

Khamenei was on death's door, an empty shell of a leader whose last years saw the collapse of the Iranian Axis with comparatively minimal direct intervention on our own part.

Assassinating him guaranteed a changing of the guard under a banner of war and martyrdom.

What could have been:

He thinks it will all be worth it when he’s Viceroy of Cuba

Team USA’s problems are an interesting look at what the culture of America without immigration is like. America’s a cool place because we allow people to come here and make their culture part of ours, and without that we’re getting out asses kicked by everyone in the having a good time department.

Absolute dorks all around

I get that schools aren't funded by federal taxes, but even if they personally benefit from the income tax cut, I don't think teachers should want to get in the game of rooting for less tax revenue, it's only going to hurt them in the long run

it's not just going to be serious debt people, tbh, like, it is actually going to a capital P problem by the time a dem takes office, not a made-up one, and anyone running for office this year or in two years is going to have to be part of a solution, we actually *can't* kick the can much further

Every state needs to have some levels of property/land, income and sales taxes (with varying levels of progressiveness)

What's especially aggravating is that you actually can make tax policy part of a general We're Gonna Fight the Bastards message. "Elon Musk pays a lower tax rate than you do because he makes all his money from stocks and we're gonna close that loophole" would be a popular message!

looking out for working class Twitch streamers, alt-media owners and their investor friends

what if we just do Kaiser for All?

California's experiment in trying to build a Nordic-style safety net on a Norquist-style tax system is not working and I don't think it's responsible for gubernatorial candidates to call for taking it to the next level

There’s gotta be some Shor memo or something that is telling everyone that Trump running on “no tax on tips” won him his working class votes

NEW: Senate Democrats have filed legislation that would prevent the U.S. from attacking Cuba without congressional approval as they seek to force a vote on President Trump's stated goal of a "takeover" of the Caribbean country 9:59 AM • 3/13/26 • 8.9K Views

See now this should actually be given some praise, getting ahead of the possibility and raising the alarm about another war of aggression based on the president's own words

same thing with the sports leagues who embraced it because of the collapse of the regional sports networks and the revenue they drove

the senate needs to haul hegseth in for hearings, because he will crack under detailed questioning about the rank and deadly incompetence of his leadership of the DOD

Bluesky Trending: 1. World Baseball Classic 2. Epstein Files 3. Media Criticism 4. KC-135 Crash 5. ICE Policies

Media Criticism? Trending on my Bluesky?

i agree, and still think that would have been a better outcome here than what we have now

yeah the assumption was the UK-style "betting shop next to every pub" not casino in your pocket

Fun fact: Tim Walz has not gone along with sports betting. Sports betting is illegal in Minnesota, even at tribal casinos.

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

they're gonna say 'plane crashes happen, it could've happened anywhere, it wasn't combat.' It's bullshit. Massive numbers of tankers running massive numbers of in-flight refuelings for weeks on end in combat conditions with minimal, afterthought coordination with allies all make crashes more likely.

the bosses are living in absolute fear of it ever being June 2020 again

They’re trying to figure out how to sell Solano County sprawl to knowledge workers who can’t afford the West Bay or Walnut Creek, they don’t care where the help lives

it's also the best elder care money can buy. you get careerist high-SES strivers to wheel you around all day and make sure you're functioning rather than the mostly-immigrant care workers that everyone else gets

Riggedy rao is coming

Not sure if the degree to which many, many synagogues have daycares in them is widely known. For a lot of people involved in the institutional community, "gunman attacks synagogue on a Thursday" reads as basically "gunman attacks preschool," if you're wondering why i almost threw up this afternoon

I think that AI can do a lot, and it's going to empower a lot of workers to do even more. But it's not going to make June 2020 never happen again, which is what a lot of these VCs and 'founders' are obsessed with

General Westmoreland requesting more troops despite it being a futile effort

Vietnam War history in meme format:

Huge relief to hear nobody was lost.

*SUSPECT AT LARGE AFTER ATTACK ON A MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP
*NO DEATHS AFTER ATTACK ON MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP