just, you know, saying this kind of thing again because it's still true dammit: while the president of the United States has various kinds of authority over tariffs that has been ceded by Congress— too much of it, in fact— none of it actually extends to anything like "25% on all non-US cars."

NEW: Inside a chaotic 48 hours of resignations and rehirings at the agency responsible for maintaining the the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Managers were given 200 characters (not words) to justify why staff shouldn't be fired.

www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...

Ft. Bragg is being renamed Ft. Bragg from Ft. Liberty but this time after a PFC who won a silver star in the Battle of the Bulge, Roland L. Bragg - not the CSA general, Braxton Bragg.

I'm all for celebrating the little guy, but some intern did a heckuva job looking thru those files to find this one

A verse from “America the Beautiful,” little sung, like all the verses except the first, but excellent and apt (like all of them):

America! America!
God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

future climate modeling in America should take into account that the government has lost the mandate of Heaven

This was surprisingly interesting reading for me. I hope folks on this site can be a bit less trigger happy in their approach to this fraught subject.

See also one of my least favorite product trends; normal products BUT FOR MEN WHO ARE MANLY MEN NOT THOSE GIRLY GIRLS, CAN'T HAVE ANYONE THINK I'M NOT A BADASS HE-MAN.

'Russia was overstretched in Ukraine and so left behind a hollowed out and vulnerable Syria' really does feel like a Twilight Struggle game report.

In the night sky, one by one, the stars were going out

This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...