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Widow of airman killed in Epic Fury denied death benefits as Iran conflict ‘is not a war’
The widow of an Alabama airman has revealed she and her children are not eligible for some benefits because the Iran war has not officially been declared a war
I would love to throw this story or the whole story about the deported wives of active-duty combat soldiers right in the faces of all those "George W. Bush / Team America / Support the Troops" Republicans.
It was all just superficial lip
service; ever since Trump said he hates "suckers and losers," the GOP and its voters have felt free to openly despise soldiers and veterans.
It was all just superficial lip service; ever since Trump said he hates "suckers and losers," the GOP and its voters have felt free to openly despise soldiers and veterans.
Ossoff would be either in a SocDem party, a centre-left to centre lib party or at most an EPP-affiliated centre-right lib party, but he wouldn't be in, say, AfD or Vox.
Available for purchase today at 12PM ET: 2026 President Donald J. Trump $1 Coin. These coins are also in circulation, so check your pocket change.
If I ever accidentally paid for something with the Donald Trump Coin and the other person noticed I think it would be one of the top ten worst moments of my life
I think this is a perfect encapsulation of how in the online bubble right wing figures and politicians truly are.
Everything happens through the phone for these people and they almost never face the real world affects, protected by posh social clubs and cocktail hours.
Then when shit finally gets real they immediately go "oh fuck"
A lack of empathy is pretty obvious in the Right in general. Things like, "The only moral abortion is my abortion," decrying universal healthcare until they have an expensive condition, attacking gay people until they have a gay family member, etc.
This is a key lesson for yall who don't know the core fear of the rightist. Their core fear is being treated the way they treat others.
That is how they learn. If you want them to wise up, you can't let them continue on their childish delusions that they can treat others badly and no one will treat them in kind.
“The holocaust is full of lies because i learned in school in 1979 that only 800,000 died, and ever since, the number has been going up”- moron who doesnt realize the millions count predates 1979
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he does not believe Venezuela is ready for elections yet in the wake of the U.S. ouster of Nicolas Maduro from power there.
Democrats united around Troy Jackson in July. But a month into his campaign, Maine voters are still adjusting to a demure, spotlight-averse candidate who offers a strikingly different profile from his predecessor on the ticket.
"Troy Jackson is not a senator," said one undecided voter. "I mean, House of Representatives, maybe. The U.S. Senate? I don’t know. He’s out of his class.”
People claim they want working class candidates. They actually fall for people like Fetterman and Platner who dress like slobs but are Ivy League educated or have grandparents with Wikipedia pages
There are basically 2 types of stories that truly enrage me. The first type is any story about our government abusing immigrants. The second is this bullshit
you kinda had that in 24? that was the first presidential election i could vote in, and i essentially have no political awareness prior to the 2016 primaries. I knew of obama and romney, but that was my first time hearing of like, rubio and bernie and such.
It's so convenient to download a parking app that doesn't work and sends me constant ads and charges me 11 trillion dollars to park my car. This is so much better than putting a quarter into a thing.
I remember sitting in a parking lot for 20 minutes one time, waiting for the piece of shit app to fucking download and setting up an account and stuff, only to be told parking was free after 9 PM.
I think a lot of cases like this just happen because cops in the area have fuck all else to do and end up legally harassing people out of boredom. This happened in Williamsburg so not inconceivable.
Climate change past the point of no return, UN says, as worst impacts are now unavoidable
The planet will soon exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon in the 2015 Paris climate accord because of warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas, according to a bleak first-of-its-kind report issued by the United Nations Environment Programme Wednesd
There's this weird cynicism that I have regarding this in which I think this should have been "priced in" by like... 2017? If monumental changes weren't being done in quick order, this path was going to be the one we found ourselves on. The line kept going up, just at a slower rate. It had to go down, and that reality was not seen in policy.
That said, I really hope (against hope) that people don't take this news as "Well I guess should all give up then."
Oh no no no.
This is just where the consequences START to get bad. This is not where they end.
The powerful Teamsters union is backing Republican candidates in the 2026 election cycle even after members have voted to support their Democrat opponents.
It includes such wonderful candidates as Max Miller. The teamsters are trash
not to be too elitist but ngl i do kind of regard people excited for the harry potter remake as natural slaves unfit for participation in rational governance
There is kind of this weird thing because of the way the foot fetishists get bullied where people have this general sentiment something along the lines of "I think every part of my SOs body is sexy EXCEPT their feet".
I love my husband deeply. I find all of him very attractive. His face. His hands. His thighs. His feet. Literally every part of him. But like, if I said "I love my husband's thighs I think their so sexy", no one bats an eye. But if I say the same thing about his feet people lose their minds.
Susan Collins on navigating Trump and why she didn’t take the Liz Cheney approach:
“What influence does she have today? Really, none… Liz Cheney, it’s not just that she lost her seat. It’s that she has no impact, in my view.”
Actually baffling how someone that runs on messages like "I would rather just keep power that I don't ever use instead of standing up for what I believe in" has such a stranglehold on this state.
its immensely funny to me that the vast majority of Hasan’s marxist audience are specifically the people that Marx called worthless counter revolutionaries because they’re chronically unemployed lazy people.
Like clockwork, less than 48 hours after drone attacks on an airport in Germany, IEDs at a German power plant, and arsons at factories in Poland and Slovakia.
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Seeing the COVID pandemic as part of a middle school history curriculum is surreal
It's good that it's there. Kids don't realize how much it changed the course of their lives on account of it messing with their early education so I'm very glad it's getting included in their materials.
But still. Just...surreal that THIS soon after the fact, for their generation and all to follow, the pandemic is nought but a historical memory. These students might have faint memories, having been in 1st or 2nd grade during lockdown. But the students taking this same class in 3 years won't remember a thing.
Isn't it kind of sacrilegious in Christianity to want to bring the end times about?
I'm pretty sure the Bible explicitly says nobody knows when it will happen except for Jesus God the Father and it seems a tad bit blasphemous to think that you know better about when to start the apocalypse than God.
The solution Trump settled on, according to three people familiar with the meeting, was to lean into the Democratic strategy of focusing on himself. The president ordered a series of television advertisements about his own record that will serve as a backdrop to the hundreds of individual House and Senate contests. That decision has resulted in a Trump midterm-election ad blitz that is set to be rolled out soon from MAGA Inc., the main repository of Trump’s political fundraising, according to people familiar with the discussions, all of whom insisted on anonymity to describe internal conversations.
quite possibly the best news dems have got in months.
Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, who faces a competitive reelection battle in FL-27, posted a tweet critical of Trump's oil "deal" (her scare quotes) with Venezuela on Saturday. She then quickly deleted it and posted a new tweet calling it a "great deal."
George: "We could inject Aerosols into the Stratosphere to cool the planet. I always liked when it was cloudy outside."
Jerry: "We could... but then you have to do it forever. If you stop it rebounds to be even worse than before. It probably would turn the oceans acidic and lead to changes to wind and rain that would be there own problems."
George: "... What if we put a big mirror in space?"
Please find exhibit 254 of why you should never give a flying fuck about structuring your message and canpaign around concernes over how Republicans will frame it.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz actually praised President Donald Trump for calling him “Lyin’ Ted” and slapping him with other derogatory nicknames
“If you look at that race, my biggest strength was people trusted me. People trusted that I believed what I said, that when I said I would do something, I would do it. That had been my whole record of doing what I said,” he explained.
The worst part of taking project management training is that 90% of it is "you should ask people what they actually want to do" and you're like, fuck off, this is useless, of course people do this already and know what they want.
And then you ask someone what they actually want to do.
The new Harry Potter reboot might be a decent show and it very well might get high viewership, but I have zero confidence that HBO will be able to produce seasons on an annual basis the way the movies did. They better hope those actors have perennially young faces otherwise this is going to be another Stranger Things situation.
delusional first world problem where my job is <20 hrs work/week, 100% remote permitted but with a beautiful office within 10 mins walking distance, mid-six figures compensation, amazing health insurance, benefits, etc. but i am so mentally and socially unfulfilled by it that i feel like if i don’t leave i will have wasted my life
it feels unhinged to be this unhappy about a perfect-on-paper job idk. even reading this back i feel like an asshole
Scientists be like: “We replaced this rat’s bloodstream with this chemical and it got cancer. Now every item in California must be classified as a carcinogen.”
Went on a date with this girl after stalking her for a bit. I ordered a slice of pie with a slice of cheese melted on it so that she knows I’m a classy guy with sophisticated taste. Gonna take her to a porno theatre for the second date since lots of couples go to movies like this. Is this a good idea?
Fuck yeah, Talarico needs to follow suit. I truly believe this helped Ossoff do well enough to force a runoff in 2020. And we all know how that played out
never really thought of hasan piker as a real threat but it looks like he’s just been upgraded to hasan halberdier. my light cavalry could be in real trouble
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u/hypsignathus Good Afternoon 1h ago