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FINANCIAL TIMES: "Putin and Trump don’t have the cards. Ukraine also has an increasingly strong hand to play with Trump. Before the Pentagon started to gallop through its stocks of missiles and battery defences in the Gulf, Ukraine had reinvented warfare. Iran is not far behind. Ukraine’s ability to shoot down costly Russian missiles with dirt-cheap homemade interceptors has revolutionised the economics of war. As has Iran’s use of drones to shut the Strait of Hormuz. Vast spending on symbols of military prestige looks increasingly wasteful. Aircraft carriers are turning into floating white elephants. Having been told by Trump that he did not have any cards, Zelenskyy has a deck of innovation the Pentagon now badly wants. Ukraine has new leverage." Article by Edward Luce, US national editor and columnist at the Financial Times. As always, I’m attaching a gift link below 👇 Please let me know in the comments if it works. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…

imagine being a soviet cartoonist and seeing this

I’d like @melissadderosa to explain in detail what it is that Platner could do as 1 senator out of 100 that would be worse than Trump having a rubber stamp senate for judges, appointments, and the 2028 election interference we know is coming.

I’d forgotten about the time that Ken Paxton stole a $1000 Mont Blanc pen, a lawyer had accidentally left at a security checkpoint, in a courthouse. Paxton denied it until he realized he was caught on a security camera, then claimed it was an accident. lol

This is objectively the worst Issues page on any campaign of all time

I disagree. I think we should STOP doing this.

This is the Be At One in Soho where Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels started to write The Communist Manifesto.

Jake Auchincloss is essentially endorsing Susan Collins in Maine. Absolutely no excuse for a Democrat in the House to back a Republican for Senate in a crucial swing seat. Auchincloss should be primaried. His primary election is September 1 in a safe, D+11 seat.

@JasonJournoDC What a dumb thing to say.

💥NEW: Dem Rep. Jake Auchincloss says Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo should be “DISQUALIFYING”🤯 “I find that tattoo and his commentary about it to be personally disqualifying. I hope Maine voters agree with me.” CNN’s Boris Sanchez: “Wow.”

@HeerJeet Once spent an uncomfortable 45 minutes with this man waiting in line for smoked meats. I praised his work, suggested a local comedy band to him that he hadn't heard of, and then forty more minutes passed slowly.

One of America's greatest educators, a man who taught many generations their cultural patrimony, is retiring. Take a moment to pay tribute to Dr. Demento.

A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize something is written by AI, it's hard not to ignore it.

@admcrlsn This would be better sorted by competitiveness instead of alphabetical.

@StevenCheung47 He's the laziest person to ever occupy the office.

It’s 9:30 PM on a Saturday night and President Trump is still in the Oval Office working hard for the American people. He’s simply one of one.

@Stoke0Newington @stanveuger @JasonKPargin His dad was the editor of The New Yorker and he grew up in elite New York society.

@stanveuger @JasonKPargin Surely Wallace Shawn is a millionaire?

Better economic analysis from Wallace Shawn than 99% of what we see here: “In a way, I’m still downwardly mobile from my parents…But I don’t think my mother ever had a cappuccino. So am I downwardly mobile or upwardly mobile? Because I can have cappuccinos all the time.” interviewmagazine.com/film/wallace-s…

@WebDesignMuseum Stuff vs facts

John Cusack website in 1996

@thinkReal @RetroNewsNow Haha I had that same switch thing. Good heavy clack when you switched one.

@RetroNewsNow This was the set up. 😆

On May 22, 1990, Microsoft released Windows 3.0

@RetroNewsNow Complex film that I watched more times than makes sense. Applies Truffaut's comment about war to drugs. Thompson was a (very) flawed genius and Depp captures it almost too well. Film runs too long, just like the book, which is not long but drags on.

🎬 ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro premiered in theaters 28 years ago, May 22, 1998

‘It’s the latest fad… tiny stereo cassette players with featherweight headphones’ — ‘CBS Evening News’ (May 22, 1981)🎶

Oh my God just lie or something

Making this long ass post about how devastating this photo has been for you while you also have the photo as your avi is one of the funniest things in the world