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These videos were deleted for fear of “reputational damage”

And after seeing the videos…. Their reputations should be damaged

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."

That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

how is "mayor chooses his words carefully" a NYT story but "president chooses his words like a haunted magic 8 ball on meth" not

"But you'd have to be a subliterate, brainless, incurious, uninformed moron with the mind of a small child to think that's how the world works." Yes, have you not been paying attention to LITERALLY EVERYTHING THE PRESIDENT DOES AND SAYS, IN PUBLIC, ALL THE TIME, FOR A DECADE

I’m so fucking angry about this. I know they are killing people here too but the sheer scale of the cruelty and death that we are inflicting on the rest of the world NOT EVEN INCLUDING THE BOMBS WE ARE DROPPING is something we should never stop talking about

I’ve thought this for a year but since John Oliver is bringing it up again I just want to say that everyone involved in shutting this agency down should be in jail for the rest of their lives and that includes Joe Rogan

The right is also heavily invested in the myth that raining bombs on a country and creating a power vacuum by destroying their conventional military is equivalent to "freeing" the people of that country.

It worked so well in Iraq after all.

I loved them plans... i wanted them plans!

4/ In response to our reporting, a senior State Department official said that the changes to foreign aid were necessary and would better serve the U.S. and its allies over time.

“There are people who are dying in horrible situations all around the world, all of the time,” he said.

US Employers Unexpectedly Cut Jobs, Unemployment Rises February data call labor market stabilization narrative into question

Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump and a Republican Congress "for the economy." This is what you get, a sputtering job creation engine that can't make progress like before and keeps rolling backwards.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hilarious to fire one moron and replace her with an even bigger one though, they really can’t find anyone else who wants that job huh

The people of Oklahoma have the opportunity to do the funniest thing here.

On the one hand, Markwayne Mullin is a big stupid idiot and should not be DHS Secretary. On the other hand, please do take him and let his career die in 3 years, I’m sick of this dumbass representing my state

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.

We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

Hey man can I have one fucking Saturday where I don’t wake up to this fucking administration being like, “Hur dur we’re at war in the Middle East again for no fucking reason,” or “Just killed a US citizen for funsies, lol.” Like can we have one weekend off from the horrors you absolute shitstains

It’s not that the Christian Nationalists propping up Trump want to force everyone into their (non-Christian) religion.

It’s that they want no one else around.

This is a politics of burning heretics, not converting followers.

Everything from ICE to billionaire power to corruption comes to that.

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

Hilarious that the reward for the US men’s hockey team getting a gold medal is to be invited to sit through what is already promised to be a long and deathly boring speech. Congrats fellas, enjoy 2 hours of sitting still and quiet after your incredible athletic victory.

if you read nothing else from rodger sherman in your entire life please read these paragraphs from the end of his newsletter, possibly the most important paragraphs anyone has ever written about Team USA

As I told my undergrads at the start of the semester, I'm not asking you to write a paper about Little Rock's school desegregation because I don't know what happened there.

Little Rock is just the topic. The act of researching, writing and editing the paper is the whole point.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

Me explaining why I’ve been a Mariners fan for most of my life

"so you're telling me i CAN rain down nuclear hellfire on the entire globe, but i CANNOT arbitrarily impose crippling sales tax on bananas because guys were mean to my friend??" sir we've run the legal analysis several times and yes this appears to accurately sum up the state of play

Alyssa fkn Liu, absolute queen 🥇