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okay I'm having a Mandela moment because I could SWEAR the Ayatollah was assassinated. like, wasn't he a supervillain from the Cold War era?

it really says a lot when your diplomats can't endorse statehood for a group of people without being punished.

and what the fuck is with this trend of "if you hold a politician accountable for their crimes, I now support them"? are we just doing away with the entire concept of corruption?

and of course it didn't.

good luck, kids with precocious puberty! and transition surgery for minors? a thing that DOES NOT EXIST BECAUSE CHILDREN CANNOT CONSENT TO ANY KIND OF ELECTIVE SURGERY? tilting at fucking windmills because your rabid base has to have some minority target to destroy

reminder that Trump has no personal values and he stands for nothing. he says whatever he thinks will win him votes. he is literally Kang & Kodos

you'd think we would take the hint to STOP DOING THAT

how al Qaeda was born

how is this any different from the way we've done things since the turn of the 20th century? pro-tip: if you don't want to be implicated in a war crime, DON'T EMPLOY WAR CRIMINALS

there's gonna be two threads today, one with general news and one on a NYT poll.

it is so insulting to Perry's memory that they're framing the ketamine as "his history of drug addiction." ketamine is also a prescription treatment for depression. instead of treating this as a relapse/OD they should be talking about safe ketamine therapy practices.

so Yorgos Lanthimos, Willem Dafoe and Emma Stone are just the 2020s version of Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter, except Tim Burton isn't a fucking pedophile

okay but having staffers who are NAZIS is STILL A PROBLEM. YOU SEE HOW THAT'S A PROBLEM, RIGHT?

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fucking Maggie Haberman at it again, how could you possibly tell when someone's "compartmentalizing" instead of sleeping?

this honestly just makes him look even better. I did not expect to end up liking Michael Cohen this much but here we are

it's not the teenagers who are walking through Walmart reeking of skunk (although there was a stinky car at the middle school drop off yesterday) but you know what? if legalization paradoxically reduces or eliminates use, then fine, legalize that shit yesterday. just do whatever will get it the fuck out of my community.

at this point there's just a global extermination campaign against migrants

"couldn't" doing a HERCULEAN amount of lifting for a guy who owns SIX HOUSES. the universe is trying to send you a message, you greedy Xoomer fuck, take the hint and let somebody else have a house

okay and the CRISPR gene to render mosquitos extinct is coming when?

BIDEN: I'm trying to put an end to the war

IDIOTS: BOO, YOU SUPPORT THE WAR!

no. it's not even legal in my state and I still can't leave my house without smelling skunk. and just because it's not fatal, doesn't mean it's harmless. the last thing this population needs is another way to obliterate the few brain cells they have left. TRY BEING SOBER FOR A GODDAMN MINUTE.