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If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
If your defense of a public figure hinges on the distinction between pedophilia, hebophilia, and ephebophilia, you might want to reconsider where you're standing.
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If your defense of a public figure hinges on the distinction between pedophilia, hebophilia, and ephebophilia, you might want to reconsider where you're standing.
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I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
Workplace mantra for today: I can do anything, but I can't do everything.
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Workplace mantra for today: I can do anything, but I can't do everything.
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
Halloween money-saving tip: if you think stopping SNAP benefits is a good thing, you need no costume since you're already a ghoul.
October 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Halloween money-saving tip: if you think stopping SNAP benefits is a good thing, you need no costume since you're already a ghoul.
The sun rises, the sun falls, the earth freezes, the earth thaws, but one thing remains the same: Ross Douthat will have the most impossibly stupid take on the pressing issue of the day.
October 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The sun rises, the sun falls, the earth freezes, the earth thaws, but one thing remains the same: Ross Douthat will have the most impossibly stupid take on the pressing issue of the day.
gods help me, but I think I'm really coming to enjoy Python.
October 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
gods help me, but I think I'm really coming to enjoy Python.
Yesterday, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a press briefing: "One of the individuals we arrested recently in Portland was the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa."
Does anybody *NOT* understand why this is a profoundly ridiculous thing to say? I'm happy to provide clarity, if so.
Does anybody *NOT* understand why this is a profoundly ridiculous thing to say? I'm happy to provide clarity, if so.
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Yesterday, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a press briefing: "One of the individuals we arrested recently in Portland was the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa."
Does anybody *NOT* understand why this is a profoundly ridiculous thing to say? I'm happy to provide clarity, if so.
Does anybody *NOT* understand why this is a profoundly ridiculous thing to say? I'm happy to provide clarity, if so.
Could ICE possibly be any more cartoonishly evil than this? What the hell happened to America?
NEW: A copy of the arrangement with Eswatini that Mother Jones reviewed shows that the US has agreed to pay the only absolute monarchy in Africa $5.1 million to take in up to 160 ICE detainees.
ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy
Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.
www.motherjones.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Could ICE possibly be any more cartoonishly evil than this? What the hell happened to America?
If in any political conversation, someone says "Both sides...", you're talking with someone whose thinking is inadequate for this moment *and* who wants you to accept that inadequacy as valid conversational coin.
October 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If in any political conversation, someone says "Both sides...", you're talking with someone whose thinking is inadequate for this moment *and* who wants you to accept that inadequacy as valid conversational coin.
Shorter Pete Hegseth: the Pentagon is now the Mojo Dojo Casa House. Hoorah.
September 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Shorter Pete Hegseth: the Pentagon is now the Mojo Dojo Casa House. Hoorah.
Our five-year-old Samsung refrigerator developed cracks in the ice cube tray, which is only available as part of the $200 backordered ice maker assembly. OK fine, today will be iterating on a replacement.
September 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Our five-year-old Samsung refrigerator developed cracks in the ice cube tray, which is only available as part of the $200 backordered ice maker assembly. OK fine, today will be iterating on a replacement.
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Dear gestapo trash:
September 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Dear gestapo trash:
Someone's exercise of their Second Amendment rights just terminated Charlie Kirk's First Amendment rights, and I can't bring myself to be happy about that outcome.
September 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Someone's exercise of their Second Amendment rights just terminated Charlie Kirk's First Amendment rights, and I can't bring myself to be happy about that outcome.
This is absolutely true. Never mind GitHub or Sourceforge, find Joe.
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
September 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This is absolutely true. Never mind GitHub or Sourceforge, find Joe.
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My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; generate less electricity; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a cloud of uncertainty.
July 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; generate less electricity; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a cloud of uncertainty.
Reminder: "supporting the troops" does not mean "supporting those who put them in harm's way". If "supporting the troops" doesn't include fully funding veterans' benefits + doing the utmost to prevent conflict through statecraft & humanitarian aid, that's no support at all.
June 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Reminder: "supporting the troops" does not mean "supporting those who put them in harm's way". If "supporting the troops" doesn't include fully funding veterans' benefits + doing the utmost to prevent conflict through statecraft & humanitarian aid, that's no support at all.
As a Gen-Xer who voted Nader in 2000 and was horrified to see the US lurch into war in Iraq under false pretenses, I'm having serious deja vu.
Those of you who didn't want Kamala Harris: this is why I agitated for *everyone* on the left to vote for her. I remember what it cost us last time.
Those of you who didn't want Kamala Harris: this is why I agitated for *everyone* on the left to vote for her. I remember what it cost us last time.
June 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
As a Gen-Xer who voted Nader in 2000 and was horrified to see the US lurch into war in Iraq under false pretenses, I'm having serious deja vu.
Those of you who didn't want Kamala Harris: this is why I agitated for *everyone* on the left to vote for her. I remember what it cost us last time.
Those of you who didn't want Kamala Harris: this is why I agitated for *everyone* on the left to vote for her. I remember what it cost us last time.
First thing I thought...
June 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
First thing I thought...
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From Minas Tirith to Minas Morgul, Competing Visions for Middle-earth Take to the Streets
June 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
From Minas Tirith to Minas Morgul, Competing Visions for Middle-earth Take to the Streets
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This is so much funnier when you realize that the city he's talking about becoming a "failed third world nation" here is *Santa Monica*
June 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is so much funnier when you realize that the city he's talking about becoming a "failed third world nation" here is *Santa Monica*
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Today, with the House having passed a garbage spending bill, would have been a terrific day for a Democratic-led shadow government to hit every news outlet.
May 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Today, with the House having passed a garbage spending bill, would have been a terrific day for a Democratic-led shadow government to hit every news outlet.
Surely nobody had *this* on their Trump II bingo card, did they?
Despite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.
April 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Surely nobody had *this* on their Trump II bingo card, did they?