There’s a hole in the White House, dear Liza, dear Liza…

There’s a hole in the White House, dear Liza, a hole

A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without being charged or having access to legal counsel under the Trump administration’s third-country program.

lol going full Marxist

👀👀👀

I don't know who decided that sports wanted to see and hear interviews during games but it is a trend that needs to be fired into the sun.

oops we don't have a Constitutional republic any more

Basically all US policy is at this point about indulging Trump’s irrational obsessions, petty grudges, and corrupt grifts, and then taking secondary and tertiary measures to mask the consequences of those policies.

I have a college minor in geology. If I'd still had all of my math skills when I'd finally gone back to college, I probably would've been a geologist - probably specializing in plate tectonics. Still, I think paleogeography would be a fun niche sub-field to break into. 🤔

With ALT-text.

Teach this wisdom to your friends and to the young people around you.

the American century of humiliation is in full swing

I assume that's what the $230 million is for....

This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.

You can't replace a window in a New York City brownstone without hiring four engineers and a signoff from three preservation committees, but you can just knock down half the White House with a bulldozer and no permits?

Breaking News: President Trump is having the White House’s entire East Wing demolished to make way for his $200 million ballroom. The project is far more extensive than he initially let on.

Barbara Starr, who covered the Pentagon for decades, says the announcement is "beyond odd" and that the preexisting press corps "still is working every day no matter how afraid of it you all seem to be"

I doubt it'll last. How will Hegseth strike a dramatic pose in front of the cameras if there are no cameras to dramatically pose in front of?

Very big news. Awesome for Ukraine. Gripen is as far as I understand perfect for them.
Also very good for Sweden.

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying.

Job interviews in 2025

Submitting this as commentary for no specific reason

I don't get all the wasted energy defending a nazi. You didn't know he was, you do now, walk away and leave him to the wind. It's easy. He's not even the Dem candidate! And if he was? He's not anymore. He's out. Drop him. There's no room for nazis here. Sunk cost fallacy need not apply. He's out.

did we not learn this lesson with MeToo

"oh well he just drunkenly harassed a woman one time, surely it was a unique circumstance" was always inevitably followed up by 47 other such incidents

it's never just the one thing

Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith

"When all hope was gone, you called for Granny Weatherwax, because she was the best.

And she always came. Always. But popular? No. Need is not the same as like."