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  1. The hackers got me. Oh no! Did they steal your identity? Did they rack up credit card charges? No. Worse. ??? They followed so many accounts on Twitter. Accounts I have no interest in. Disgusting things like “voluptuous lonely college babes.” “Voluptuous college babe sapphic fantasy.” “Voluptuous sapphic college babes so lonely they’re looking for overweight middle age daddies.” “Voluptuous college babe-loving daddy tries out gay stuff, not because he’s gay or anything but just to be sure he’s really straight.” “Middle aged daddy convinces wife to play with his butt, not because he’s gay though.” Things I would NEVER follow. Oh shit. That sucks? Did they try to blackmail you? Tell business associates or friends and family? No, they just waited until I became IRS commissioner nominee and then reporters and vetters found their dirty tricks!
  2. That Quilette article is entirely too long and needed a better editor. Here is the r key takeaway which speaks for itself and perfectly encapsulates the UATX ethos: ”I firmly believed in UATX’s stated mission of fostering free exchange of ideas, academic debate, and constantly challenging members of the academy to defend and discuss their beliefs and principles. I created an entire institute dedicated to these ideals and partnered with them to advance that mission. Then I made a LinkedIn post about DEI that upset one of the institution’s wealthy financiers and they fired me.”
  3. Lulz at how they introduce the academic luminaries that have flocked to UATX:
  4. This person got a doctorate of education from Harvard and elsewhere in that article she explains that getting an MBA was what really opened horizons for her intellectually. So yes she is very stupid and it reflects poorly on Harvard that they gave a PhD to someone who appears completely incapable of recognizing grifting charlatans when she sees them and who also thinks she really got challenged ethically and intellectually at fucking business school.
  5. Libertarians everywhere are finding out every single day except they will never admit it because Libertarianism is a personality disorder and not a political philosophy.
  6. Bringing up Jill Biden’s use of the title “Dr.” is such room-temp IQ discourse.
  7. There is no other jet that is as capable of being the quarterback for a whole air dominance system as the F-35. There are also more of them in service and planned for delivery to us and allies than any fifth-gen platform. In this era the package of sensors and the airplane’s integration with everything else is at least as important as low visibility and far more important than performance stats. The B-21 Raider will also be able to perform these quarterback functions and both will integrate with and direct the unmanned, less exquisite platforms rolling out.
  8. Hilary Clinton and Joe Biden are the eternal enemies.
  9. No matter how impaired Biden got, he never managed to equal a single random day’s worth of deranged rambling and behavior by Donald Trump. Half of his statements are the ravings of a street person. They are grounds for institutionalization and not a quiet retirement.
  10. Helpful contribution from Putin’s lead propagandist. Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift can cause a full-on meltdown but the capacity to eat endless shit when it’s served by the Kremlin is unmatched.
  11. Honestly, because the whole thing falls apart once you introduce an ounce of decency or critical thought. The lessons embedded in Orwell have been absorbed, just as an instruction manual.
  12. Doing this on the same day they pay out that dead traitor’s family.
  13. It cannot be overstated enough that all Trump really wants is to be adored and respected by showbiz people and we should have let that happen so he didn’t feel like he had to become president. I mean it, if Spielberg offers to do a fawning all-star cast biopic about him that will win an Oscar in 2016 then we avoid all this.
  14. Putin got Trump to chase his tail a little more by floating the idea of agreeing to begin work on working on a memo. And apparently volunteered Pope Leo as mediator because he’s getting bored with the whole thing.
  15. Per online sleuthing she was at Pier 17. There is not much distance between the pier and the bridge and from the video it looks like her screws won’t come out of reverse and she is moving backwards fast. Very likely would have been far more dangerous to try and scramble everyone down by the time it became clear it was going to happen. These ships are diplomatic and educational symbols and when they are in a port, they offer free tours and stuff for the public. Super shitty and sad all around.
  16. From my understanding the Mexican, Colombian, and Peruvian ships are all sister ships built in the same yard in Spain. And that they are themselves basically templates of the USCG Eagle which was seized from Nazi Germany at the end of the war and turned into the Coast Guard’s tall training ship.
  17. Trump going to the Kennedy center and demanding more “Cats” from the new board will never not be hilarious.
  18. Two elections right now with high-level Trump regime interest: Romania and Poland presidential elections. In Romania the hard-right candidate (Simion) is likely to win the second round. This comes after Trump had a temper tantrum when Romania re-ran elections and disqualified a more blatant pro-Russia candidate following a clearly illegal, Kremlin tied influence campaign. Trump later yanked Romania’s Visa Waiver status in what was widely seen as a political move designed to up pressure and spark anger to get Simion over the line. In Poland big-tent centrist movement Civic Platform candidate, Warsaw’s liberal mayor Trzaskowski is the front runner in the first round. The Trump regime has openly tried to boost populist Law and Justice candidate Nawrocki, giving him an Oval visit shortly before the elections. They will likely face off in a second round. There is already a conspiracy theory bubbling in Polish right wing spaces about how Soros and Obama tied NGOs are boosting Trzaskowski. I expect it to get boosted further in MAGA-world after the first round. The regime is very invested in building a populist Europe and intervening into elections in a way we have not seen before.
  19. The orders have come down across government: the goal is to ape the worst rhetoric of the administration, not to actually accomplish the administration’s purported goal. There is no space to try and get your way to Trump’s destination by a different path than the one Trump has laid out.
  20. A Bachelor-style contest but for fiery Latinas where you get a green-card but have to marry the incel who puts the ladies through their paces.
  21. Talks in Istanbul revealing just how far away Russia is from any serious effort. The low-level delegation headed by a man with no real clout in Putin’s inner circle demanded that Ukraine withdraw from territories Russia has “annexed” but does not control and threatened to seize two more. Usual banging on about demilitarizing Ukraine and ensuring the “Kyiv regime” can’t threaten Russia. None of this acceptable to Kyiv in any way. The admin decided to take the line that this cannot be solved unless Trump and Putin meet. This gives Putin quite a lot and Trump very little and so it will probably happen. I don’t expect a lot from Russia as sprint and summer make for a good time for fighting and trying to seize more. Internally Russia is uninterested in consumer welfare and remains fully committed to reconstitution.
  22. Wow, so many misogynists in there. Dems are so terrible at weaponizing government. Tulsi should have been booted from the Guard and had security clearances removed. It would have happened to any other 05 who acted like she did. And it would have maybe been enough to keep her from being DNI. It was her political activities that saved her because Biden and Co were terrified to be seen as “weaponizing” government so the more of a loudmouth political asshole you were, the safer you were.
  23. Few ideologies really are. There has emerged one on the foreign policy front: neo-isolationism militarily, neo-mercantilism economically, and a willingness to use diplomatic tools to advance right-wing populism and nationalism in the Western world, transactional everywhere else. Its not one that he will apply coherently or that he formed, but that is what coalesced among his viziers.
  24. I’m not super excised about removing the designation for Syria, although of course the business deal is gross. But, I think even a Harris admin would have been moving this way: 1. There really is a window here to roll back Iranian and Russian influence in the region and with it a lot of the cover for terrorism. 2. You have to give a path off of a designation if behavior really changes. Otherwise there’s no incentive to change. A chance here to show the region that there is a way to reform and rejoin the world. 3. It will cause Anastasis to melt down. Announcing that you think the Syrian guy is really hot is super weird though.
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