JFK once invited to dinner 49 Nobel laureates, Robert Frost, William Styron, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, James Farrell and Lionel and Diana Trilling, and others. His line on the occasion became famous: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Some of you were alive when that happened.

Are you telling me my tax dollars are being sent to rebuild all the shit that Pete Hegseth blew up also with my tax dollars

“Why are Liberals afraid of the thing that turned the Republican Party into a personality cult with no real values” big mystery dude

A lot of people are unfortunately stuck in a taste gap relationship

The USAID cuts are one of the worst things America has ever done in its history It could have even been a slow phase out to let non profits take its place. But instead, it was purposely chaotic. They purposely made the state of it ambiguous before suddenly pulling all funding

Rightoids when they don't have 10k foreign accounts with AI generated profile pictures to back them up.

The best analysis of Sorkin was whoever on here said that what he’s truly gifted at writing isn’t sweeping political epics but “best friends having a fight”

She’s always right. I think nominating him is very risky, but it’s done. If I lived in Maine I’d vote for him.

We had a soft landing and the best economic recovery in the world

The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out." Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it." The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened. When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time. The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie." This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.

Wow, if you read this you might get the impression that trump is getting ready to steal the next election! And you’d be right.

Congress has given ICE a budget larger than the U.S. Marine Corps. Think about that.

men were claiming women liked kratos because he’s a hot big muscled man, but the truth is women like kratos because he softly whispered “i would have you close to me” to his wife he adores.

This is all because he got booed last night. What an absolute chode.

As a soft westerner, I must admit that I have a hard time watching the drone videos killing Russian invaders. Such tactics are necessary and it is good the Ukraine is deploying them. That being said, there is a helplessness to them that has always left me feeling that a combatant’s ability to surrender in the face of certain death is being removed. I am glad to see videos like this, not only because it means that surrender for those who do not wish to fight is an option, but as an example of the humanity of Ukrainians. Knowing only a fraction of the pain they have suffered at the hands of Russians, I could not and would not ask them to show such grace, yet they do so. They show restraint, a respect for life, and civility that they never could expect from their enemy in this war. My support for Ukraine will never waiver, and I feel as though Ukraine and its people continue to validate that support.

This is as close as you’ll get to a right-winger just admitting that they are totally uninterested in what is true or false; they simply demand to be assuaged. They must *feel* calmed and satisfied. In their view, we all exist only to serve their feelings.

I mean if we’re going to do this, why not just buy ads of Donald Trump on video saying he wants to rape kids or whatever? They wanna play the game, let’s play the game.

Gas prices are going down a bit and this country’s voters are genuinely cattle