Not to play down the horrors & violence of the Western Front of WWII, but it is always funny seeing just how people almost universally would rather fight there than the Pacific
Like do you wanna get smooched by pretty Dutch ladies or do you wanna knifefight on Malaria Rape Atoll
Powerful piece, highly recommend reading. Democrats need people like Platner if they are going to come to terms with the true nature of our country, with what we have done to people at home and abroad, and pull together the coalition needed to heal and reshape it.
“A tiny minority of Americans (6%) ever serve in the military. Of these, only 40% of veterans have ever deployed to a combat zone. And of those deployed, only about 10% participated in actual ground combat. I am one of those, and so is Platner. His pathology: a combination of traumatic stress, substance abuse, impulsive decision-making in the past, and deep anger at the moral injury he sustained wearing the cloth of this nation, is something this country ought to consider when it sends its young men and women to war. The question before Maine is not whether Graham Platner is perfect. The question is whether the United States Senate, the state of Maine, and the country as a whole would benefit from having his voice in the room when decisions are made. The answer is yes…”
“A democracy that insists on perfection will eventually find itself represented only by people skilled at hiding their flaws.”
Ranchers need to be arrested if they do this. I’m sorry, I’m usually a decently freedom maximalist but this is actually societally existential. I am not being dramatic. This is life and death. This is how societies collapse their food systems. Texas declared a state of emergency for a reason
Okay. So for those asking, Tom Whalley, the former Warner Bros Music Executive and the executive who signed Tupac to Interscope Records, is the one in charge of the estate and not his sister. So he gave the approval to RGG to use Tupac's likeness for Stranger Than Heaven
I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.
That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.
You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.
On June 8, 2026, I’ll speak on the floor of the House to honor and memorialize the brave crew of the 🇺🇸 USS Liberty who died and were wounded in an unprovoked attack by 🇮🇱 Israel on June 8, 1967. Catch my speech on @cspan.
I’ve been close friends with @lyndseyfifield for fifteen years. I’ve known about Graham since they began dating. She carried a lot of trauma from their time together. I’m so proud of her for her bravery in coming forward.
No sexual assault allegations. Basically just negative character assessments from 3 exes. One uncorroborated claim of intimidation but heavily caveated and the ex seems to make pretty clear she doesn’t consider it DV. If this is all it is, I can’t imagine it moves the needle tbh
So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”
Please.
DOGE cut 15K USDA jobs that included monitoring of screwworms in Mexico.
They also cut funding for a project, that released sterile flies, that helped maintain a buffer between Latin American cattle and our domestic cattle.
Make sure to thank a Republican.
This is just so incredibly depressing. A corrupt, 80 year old president has hijacked what should be a joyous celebration of our country into a cult of personality festival of personal idolatry. History will judge us harshly.
Person who has an elevator that goes directly into the living room of their NYC apartment:
Israel must exist as an ethnostate because nowhere is safe for me i am a uniquely oppressed person
@mattxweltner Someone made a good point that it was only held together by the threat of the dragons. Once those were gone it started to erode pretty quickly