Thursday, January 15, 2026
Projection
It is possible to believe both that military action against Greenland is very unlikely and also that this administration’s unhinged obsession with it has already done serious long term damage to relations with European nations that will take generations to repair.
We obviously don't think it's vital to our national security or else we wouldn't have closed all the bases we used to have there.
I would also point out that ratified treaties, such as the North Atlantic Treaty, have the force of law in the US.
So any order of hostilities against Danish territory is prima facie, de facto and de jure, cut and dried, no two ways around it and any way you slice it, definitionally an illegal order.
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We obviously don't think it's vital to our national security or else we wouldn't have closed all the bases we used to have there.
(Meanwhile, if you checked Marco Rubio's browser search history, I guarantee you'd find "map projection that makes cuba look huge".)
I would also point out that ratified treaties, such as the North Atlantic Treaty, have the force of law in the US.
So any order of hostilities against Danish territory is prima facie, de facto and de jure, cut and dried, no two ways around it and any way you slice it, definitionally an illegal order.
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Butt wait, there's more!
The Department of Defense has requested that a Canadian sex toy vendor stop fulfilling orders placed by U.S. service members stationed in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Hand to God this is a thing that happened.
@grace.bonjibon Made my week. Think I’m gonna frame this in a PINK frame. #dod #goodvibesonly #soldier #canadianbusiness ♬ Piano famous song Chopin Deep deep clear beauty - RYOpianoforte
Special Edition Tab Clearing...
- We're the Only Ones Disorganized Enough: ICE accidentally extends job offer to Slate reporter
- We're the Only Ones Authoritarian Enough: Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows
- We're the Only Ones Warrantless Enough: Federal Agents Used a Battering Ram to Enter a Minneapolis Home Without Valid Warrant, Video Shows
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
You keep using that word...
...I do not think it means what you think it means.
“Globalization of the intifada“? In Jackson, Mississippi?
If you handed that Pittman kid a Zippo and a jerry can and positioned him in the center of a quadrangle equidistant from a synagogue, a mosque, a Black church, and a gay bar, he’d be as effectively pinned in place as if there were a force field. He’d starve.
“Globalization of the intifada“? In Jackson, Mississippi?
If you handed that Pittman kid a Zippo and a jerry can and positioned him in the center of a quadrangle equidistant from a synagogue, a mosque, a Black church, and a gay bar, he’d be as effectively pinned in place as if there were a force field. He’d starve.
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Monday, January 12, 2026
Cult of the Victim
What is it with these Right wing snowflakes and all their imaginary persecutions?
The "war on protein" is as much made-up ragebait as are the ones on Christmas or Christians.
You can’t swing a Happy Meal in this country without hitting a burger joint or a barbecue shack or a steakhouse. (And thank heavens for that.)
If there was a war on protein, then protein won a crushing, lopsided, complete victory sometime before I was born. I mean, Dr. Atkins wrote his book while we still had boots on the ground in Vietnam.
And why are they using a photo of RFK, Jr. that makes him look like the bad guy from a low-budget Saw ripoff?
The "war on protein" is as much made-up ragebait as are the ones on Christmas or Christians.
You can’t swing a Happy Meal in this country without hitting a burger joint or a barbecue shack or a steakhouse. (And thank heavens for that.)
If there was a war on protein, then protein won a crushing, lopsided, complete victory sometime before I was born. I mean, Dr. Atkins wrote his book while we still had boots on the ground in Vietnam.
And why are they using a photo of RFK, Jr. that makes him look like the bad guy from a low-budget Saw ripoff?
WH Comms Director: "Did you get that picture of Bobby for the socials?"Photographer: "Sure did, boss. All creepy and sinister just like you asked."WH Comms Director: "What?"
Sunday, January 11, 2026
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Oh. Duh.
I am embarrassed to say that I was today years old when the etymology of "iglesia" suddenly popped into view, like staring at the same picture of a candlestick your whole life and all of a sudden realizing it was two faces in profile.
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QotD: Gaucherie Edition
"Now I will not lie, it feels kind of like cheating making fun of this Ready-Player-One-ass car. Can you imagine rolling up to the club in this shit? The wealthy of our era are so jaw-droppingly tasteless they have finally invented a Rolls-Royce that you could not get laid in."
-sometime automotive journalist Victoria Scott on a Bespoke program Rolls-Royce
Just some excellent writing there. Like, John-Phillips-at-the-1990s-height-of-his-powers cackle-out-loud funny. I'm legitimately envious of a few of those turns of phrase.
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Friday, January 09, 2026
Tab Clearing...
- Elon's deepfake non-consensual porn and CSAM generator catches even more heat.
- Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI
- The Most Underrated Sports Car of the 2000s
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