Kent Osborne

Sitting in his Senate office this week with canisters of Planters peanuts and hundreds of scattered papers on his desk and signed MAGA hats on his shelves, Graham was almost giddy about persuading Trump to bomb Iran. One of the newer hats reads "Make Iran Great Again." "What are they going to do to me?" he said of critics who opposed his efforts. The senator said he was already talking with Trump about further military interventions in Lebanon and potentially Cuba, which he said would happen soon. He wasn't particularly concerned about what was next in Iran, he said.

These lunatics should live in a zoo

amazing from start to finish (and of course I'm stoked about the name check)

A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

Great thread. Read & share.

This was so cool

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

Wait until DOGE hears about this!

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.

ilhan omar might be the bravest american in congress right now. solidarity to her forever, i wish she could be president

1976 North Valley Little League runners up, sponsored by Chico's Bail Bonds. #BadNewsBears

Nobody could have predicted our current predicament, except for everyone, and nobody knows how to fix it now, except for everyone! Yeeeee-hawwwwwww!

yeehaw

I watched it the other night and have been walking around my house saying “Hi. I’m the narrator” in my best Marge voice every ten minutes or so

House Democrats try to shut down disruptions at Trump's State of the Union Jeffries told his members to either show "silent defiance" or boycott the speech.

Trump is in the Epstein files thousands of times, he is shredding the first amendment, he is brazenly corrupt, he is opening concentration camps in their districts, and he is starting an unprovoked war with Iran. WHY WOULD YOU NOT DISRUPT THE STATE OF THE UNION.

The whole D leadership needs to go.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested.

South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.

Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.

USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

collection of dishonest headlines

Google search, "would the us commit troops to defend taiwan" AI answer: Whether the U.S. would commit troops to defend Taiwan is officially governed by a policy of "strategic ambiguity," designed to deter both a Chinese invasion and Taiwanese independence. While the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act mandates providing defensive arms, it does not legally guarantee direct military intervention.

Deplorable state of U.S. media on display here, deliberately misleading the public. You can literally type into Google the same question @aoc.bsky.social was asked and the AI will give you her same answer because "strategic ambiguity" has been official U.S. policy her whole life.

Buncha dumb shit about AOC like she's a FP waif when she's not

I see they settled on a framing in the donor group chat

An illustration of items on a shelf from the movie I’m Thinking of Ending Things

this is such a great video. i talk a lot about tech skepticism, and bad assumptions about advances in tech, but: this video shows how technology can aid human efforts, and how well-used tech is a deeply human process, an extension of ourselves, not a replacement.

IMDb had a bunch of incorrect credits for me, I had to request changes. They said I created Strawberry Shortcake!

I’ll never forget where I was when I saw this

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

The pair have lately been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country, according to people familiar with the matter. DHS is leasing the plane but is in the process of acquiring it for approximately $70 million. DHS has previously used other planes through the Coast Guard or other agencies for the secretary's use. The purchase would be double the cost of each of seven other commercial planes the department is also buying at the pair's direction to carry out deportations. In official documents, the luxury plane is earmarked for "high-profile deportations," the people said. Staff have jokingly started referring to it as the secretary's "big, beautiful jet," after the bill that provided the funding for it.

The DHS spokeswoman said the plane was used for both deportations and cabinet-level travel. She said it was cheaper than military aircraft for deportations and saved American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. The department rarely uses military flights for deportations because they are instead using chartered planes.

the scuttlebutt about noem and lewandowski’s relationship is fun, but don’t miss that they used OBBA money to lease/buy an expensive private plane that said was for deportations but are instead using to jet around the country

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Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.

Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Aaron Rupar@@atrupar.com •41m • Joined Apr '23 RON JOHNSON: In Central America, if you become a police chief, the drug cartels send you a DVD w/ a video of your family going to church or school...that's what ICE agents are facing SORKIN: But these people are allowed to protest J: They want their activists to dox them & put families at risk sdaq SQUAWK BOX D.C. STANDOFF OVER FUNDING ICE ID Pf2:56 zi Internet Technology (GI AZI 1.66 - 0.08 / NVIDIA NVDA 191,19 64.60 to be scared at all342 IMPLIED DOW OPEN -48.8 K 133 $ 95 241 ...

Elliott Payne • @elliottpayne.org • 14h Joined Dec '23 Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won't be intimidated and we won't stop until DHS is abolished. 0:36 90 ฿ 2.9K 8.3K 贝 ...

Cmon now guys. If any Dem says anything besides shut down until this is all gone then there's no need for federal government at all. These are concentration camps. If you're too scared to say so then you're part of the problem.

"What we're seeing ... in hotels that have these types of contracts with the federal government is at night, when agents come back from their being out and about, beating people up, separating families and abducting people for fun all day, they drink heavily at the bar and have weapons on them."