HEH:
I would like to point out that Starmer has now managed to alienate the extreme centre
His plans for the evisceration of English culture will be outlined in a new Labour publication called 'Der Starmer' https://t.co/qG3YSLDcMi
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) March 8, 2026
THEY’LL KNOW THE ONE WHO ISN’T WHACKED IS THE ONE WHO WAS WORKING FOR US ALL ALONG:
New ayatollah, new target!
BBC re Mojtaba Khamenei "the power behind the robes … capable but forceful."
"Yet his selection could still prove controversial."
Uh, sure. If he lasts more than a day or two. Does anyone else want that bullseye on them?https://t.co/IX6uWC8ATd
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) March 9, 2026
LOL, GEORGE CONWAY:
Never forget this guy was an avowed Trump supporter until he learned that Trump was not going to name him to be Solicitor General in the first Administration. https://t.co/aRcv5DCvqD
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) March 8, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
HAHA:
One of the more creative aspects of the demonstration by the Iranian community in Dublin yesterday is that they started chanting ‘your sugar daddy’s dead’ at the Paddystinians who came to harass them.
— Rachel Moiselle (@RachelMoiselle) March 8, 2026
BACK WHEN I WAS ON THE NASA PLANETARY PROTECTION SUBCOMMITTEE, IT WAS ACCEPTED THAT THIS COULD HAPPEN: Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid impacts could let microbes planet-hop, study suggests.
#JOURNALISM:
Just because the jihadis were incompetent bomb-makers, @nytimes pretends it was not really a bomb (and that they weren’t really jihadis).
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) March 8, 2026
THEY MEAN, BESIDES A SPACECRAFT: Confirmed: Humanity Changed an Object’s Orbit Around The Sun For The First Time. “n 2022, NASA made history, deliberately smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter the object’s orbit around its larger companion asteroid. We already knew that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was wildly successful, reducing the orbital period of the asteroid pair Didymos and Dimorphos by an astonishing 33 minutes. But new measurements have revealed something even bigger: The impact also changed the entire orbital path of the Didymos-Dimorphos system through space.”
TREAT THE PAIN: Shoulder-Heating-Pad-Heated-Wrap. #CommissionEarned
I WONDERED AT FIRST IF MAYBE THIS WAS AI, BUT NO:
After Trump said that Tucker is "Not MAGA," & "not smart," Tucker responsds by releasing an interview critisising Trump's war.
Tucker allegeds that Trump wants American soldiers to "rape" Iranian women, and that Trump is "moving towards" using nuclear weapons in Iran. pic.twitter.com/pjTK8zeeFl
— H.A. Hazony (@HAHazony) March 8, 2026
Who’s buying this stuff?
HOWEVER MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:
We’ve seen it all now. What any honest person would call an IED, the New York Times calls “smoking jars of metal and fuses.” pic.twitter.com/7DZxcv5u7w
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 8, 2026
FLASHBACK: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital. “Not so long ago, if I wanted to adjust the heat in my car, or the volume on my car radio, I could grab a nice, simple knob. Turn it to the right, and the car got warmer, or the radio got louder. Turn it the other way, and the opposite occurred. I could always sense how far I was adjusting things—without ever taking my eyes off the road—because millions of years of evolution have produced a neurological feedback mechanism that lets me know just how much I’m turning my wrist. Easy, effective, intuitive. That’s simply good design, right? You’d think. But in most late-model cars, making those kinds of adjustments requires pushing buttons multiple times, or navigating menus within menus, and—almost always—taking your eyes off the road.”
This is a column I wrote for Popular Mechanics in 2009. But if you follow the original URL, instead of the archived one above, you get a new column on the same theme by someone else, from 2025. Why?
Sure, ladies, scream your lungs out, it just drives more people away from you. This "rage" only fuels your sense of entitlement in an already female-centered society. https://t.co/dghVpKF4BD
— Helen Smith (@HelenSmithPhD) March 8, 2026
I NEVER THOUGHT OF NICK SEARCY AS FLUENT IN THE LANGUAGE OF DIPLOMACY, BUT HE HAS THIS ONE RIGHT:
They were meant to be insulting, you pissant. https://t.co/odBkrLAuPy
— Nick Searcy, Actor/Director/Producer/Author (@yesnicksearcy) March 8, 2026
PALESTINIANS ARE ENTITLED LOSERS AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH:
This is so funny! Qatar is angry that the Palestinians won't condemn Iran for bombing Qatar even after everything Qatar has done for them. This reminds me of the Palestinians in Kuwait during Saddam Hussein's invasion. Spoiler: there are no longer Palestinians in Kuwait.
— Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) March 8, 2026
REAL PROGRESS IN FIXING SSA: Biden era Social Security Administration Commissioner Peter O’Malley said that agency was “on the brink of collapse,” and a recent Inspector-General report pointed to dozens of unimplemented reforms that if implemented would save an estimated $4.9 billion.
The truth about SSA provides a much more encouraging portrait of the state of management of the federal agency that runs the biggest entitlement program in America, as I report today on The Washington Stand.
In fact, SSA under Commissioner Frank Bisignano is moving quickly to act on the dozens of outstanding recommendations, even as great progress is being made in shortening wait times for customers calling the agency and eliminating backlogged disability applications.
True Classic Mens T-Shirts #CommissionEarned
SORRY, TOO BUSY LOOKING AT MORGANTOWN REAL ESTATE TO ANSWER: How Many People Will Move to West Virginia Just to Buy a Machine Gun?
THIS MONTH, FREE IRAN. NEXT MONTH, FREE CUBA:
This photo won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize. A priest gives the last rites to a Cuban farmer, the owner of his land, who refused to work for the Castro regime.
He was executed without being given the right to defend himself.
The murderous regime that started with Castro will soon… pic.twitter.com/9rYg8xNisZ
— BowTiedMara (@BowTiedMara) March 8, 2026
Related:
Just heard from my husband's family in Cuba. 5 cities of people protesting against the Cuban regime. Begging for Trump not to take another week. Help them now.
It's crazy how our own American citizens hate President Trump, while other countries look at him as a savior.
This is…
— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) March 7, 2026
GET TWO OF THEM AND YOU HAVE A GREAT BAND: Digital reconstruction reveals the face of ‘Little Foot,’ a nearly 4 million-year-old human ancestor.
Early in the morning on Mar. 8, 2026, the IDF announced that Iranian Air Force F-14 Tomcats at the 8th Tactical Fighter Base in Isfahan (or Esfahan), in central Iran, home to the 81st, 82nd and 83rd Tactical Fighter Squadrons, had been obliterated in an air strike part of the Operation Roaring Lion.
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However, the latest attack is something different: the 8th Tactical Fighter Base, which was also targeted last year, is believed to host all the remaining F-14s in Iranian service, meaning no Tomcat (or very few, maybe hidden in some underground facility) may have survived anywhere in the world.
Well, only in museums:
The IDF says it has destroyed ALL IRIAF F-14 Tomcats. No footage yet, but if true… goodbye, sweet prince 😞 pic.twitter.com/ukvxVk7OIw
— Air Power (@RealAirPower1) March 8, 2026
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