Not Overheard at the Pentagon (b/c I am not allowed to go there anymore), from GWOT vet in response to the proposed Global War on Terror war memorial, unveiled today: "My idea was to have an eternal flame at the bottom of a big hole that you could just throw money at. That would reenact the war for me."
🚨NOW: Rep. Thomas Massie just stood on the House floor and named what every politician in DC has spent 58 years pretending did not happen
The USS Liberty. June 8, 1967.
34 dead American sailors. 174 wounded. Over 70% casualty rate on a virtually unarmed US ship.
25 minutes of Israeli jets, Israeli rockets, Israeli 30mm cannon fire, and ISRAELI NAPALM ON THE BRIDGE. Then Israeli torpedoes. Then Israel machine-gunned the lifeboats.
MASSIE: "They were intent on leaving no survivor."
Then the part nobody wants you to think about: the Saratoga and the America launched planes to help. The planes were RECALLED. The crew sat there bleeding for 17 hours.
Dean Rusk. Richard Helms. Admiral Moaner. The chief counsel of the Court of Inquiry himself. None of them believed the "mistaken identity" story.
And now you understand exactly why the entire DC machine and Israel lobby has spent the last year trying to primary this man out of existence.
You are not allowed to say the quiet part. He said it anyway.
Honor the crew. https://t.co/XuDLeFF4gJ.
someone complaining about the jackass float at pride and i was like jackass has always been for the gays and someone else goes DAMN RIGHT. it was steveo lmao
Hard truth…
I can speak freely because I’m 65 years old and my pocketful of fucks is seriously depleted.
Working as a paralegal at various studios in LA for thirty years…I had the opportunity to observe studio executives closely.
They’re generally a slippery and clueless bunch who shouldn’t be allowed near anything remotely creative…but the new regime at Paramount is straight up evil.
I assure you.
These soulless bastards have nothing but contempt for a show about grace and redemption and the struggle against fascism.
ATLA is a mystery to them.
They. Do. Not. Value. The. Franchise.
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
When I told my Dad I was gay in 1995 he said something that will always stay with me. He told me about his best friend in the army that was in the closet and had children and was from a deeply religious family where the “Gay was prayed away.” My father started crying (he has only ever cried twice in my presence) and said that he found his friend hanging from the rafters in the barracks. Suicide at aged 29, three kids, an oblivious wife. He said “As long as you are safe, happy and loved that is all I want for you son. I would prefer an alive gay son to one that kills himself because he is gay.” #PrideMonth2026
We gamers just wanted one good launcher and to play games without the launcher/account wars you and other competitors brought into the hobby because you wanted the same success without putting in the work connecting with the gamer community.
Steam EARNED its spot by building and nurturing a client that actually catered to the PC community with features and social tools when everyone else ignored them.
As opposed to Epic and EGS which rely on Fortnite-funded bribes, timed exclusives, and service fragmentation to stay relevant.
Your cries of monopoly are pure projection and wounded pride after your catch-up strategies failed time and time again.
When people say "I'd do anything for my child," everyone praises them, but when a parent risks crossing a border to save their child from war, poverty, or danger, suddenly they're treated like criminals.
The University of Michigan has tracked consumer sentiment since 1946.
80 years of monthly surveys.
Through World War Two.
Through the Korean War.
Through Vietnam.
Through the 1980 interest rate crisis.
Through 9/11. Through 2008.
Through COVID.
The reading today is the lowest ever recorded in 80 years of data.
Americans have never been this angry about the cost of living.
Not once in eight decades.
And the people in charge are still telling them the economy is strong.
@blackishpress This is why I’ll never believe the rhetoric that older people being homophobic is just them “being from a different time”. It’s a choice to be hateful, it always is. His family chose to continue living him exactly the way they should