Wow, 400 Lebanese just "died" somehow, at the same time as 2 IDF war criminals were "killed".
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Wow, 400 Lebanese just "died" somehow, at the same time as 2 IDF war criminals were "killed".
All excursions are short term when you have seven days’ worth of missiles.
Another lie to justify his stupid and illegal war.
everything was hunky-dory until 1953. that’s when shit truly went sideways, after Mossadegh broke the eleventh commandment — Thou Shalt Not Fuck With Big Oil — by nationalizing Iran’s oil industry. our CIA and Britain’s MI6 got themselves worked into a Big Mad over this, and engineered a coup that overthrew Mossadegh and turned Iran back into a monarchy, restoring Reza Pahlavi as the Shah. the thing about the Shah of Iran is that he was a repressive piece of shit who was hated by his people, and his fuckery led to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 — and that’s how Iran went from being a repressive monarchy to being a repressive theocracy. meet the new boss, yadda yadda. that’s why we’re in this mess right now — because we couldn’t leave well enough alone 73 years ago.
did you know Iran used to be a western-style democracy, with an elected prime minister? but then one day in 1953, the CIA ousted him in a coup, and restored the repressive and corrupt Shah to power — that's REALLY how this mess all got started. you can read all about it in my post: bit.ly/4lfWn7c
There are many reasons to impose age (not term!) limits on elected positions.
Senility is obv #1.
But near the top? Ensure that they will likely live long enough to be forced to see the long-run costs of dumb, dangerous actions.
And reduce any panicked desire to secure “a legacy.”
The idea of the "gig economy" sold as being your own boss is laughable. Being the boss means getting to keep all money paid, not ever-shifting goalposts and smaller cuts of the money.
"The department is quickly metastasizing into a grave threat to the midterms, public safety, and our democracy — and Democrats are wasting time worried about their uniforms."
Johnson: I think what we are learning from the Epstein files was a well-coordinated act of treason. If you think about how they use blackmail to get policymakers to act outside of the best interests of this nation and our Constitution, that’s treason.
A MAGA one, probably
People think "‘I buy a Ring doorbell to put on my house, I control the footage’…But there is [an] entire secondary use of this device, which is by police that you don’t really get a lot of say in," EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social tells @Malwarebytes.com. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/podcas...
Your salted caramel mocha latte is destroying society Edmund Burke would have had thoughts about the consumption of that vanilla sweet cream nitro cold brew.
The atomization of society begins with your morning coffee. According to the National Coffee Association, last year 46 percent of Americans had some “specialty” coffee (42 percent, sensibly, still had a regular one) in the past day. Simultaneously, 54 percent of U.S. adults feel isolated and half of them feel bereft of companionship “often or some of the time,” according to the American Psychological Association. As specialty coffee consumption has surged (84 percent since 2011), so has the loneliness epidemic. Just a correlation? Consider what your coffee order reveals. The salted caramel mocha latte, the iced brown sugar soy milk shaken espresso, the white chocolate macadamia cream cold brew are the triumph of hyper-individualization over communal norms. When you order a dirty spiced chai with oat milk, you are not only wasting the time of other customers in line but also are signaling that your personal appetites demand an elaborate, customized response. You are asserting your primacy, unique in the complexity of your desires, and stand apart from your nation’s simple rituals. No wonder you’re alone.
If I had sent "specialty coffee drinks are fueling the breakdown of civil society" to any editor with whom I've worked over the previous decade, they would have gently asked if I'd recently suffered a head injury www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
When Pete Hegseth is brought to justice (as we should all demand till we breathe our final breath), prosecutors will have a readymade SOT mash of him saying he’s “about lethality, not legality.”
Old AI training data
For anyone wondering where that $6,800 number comes from, it's a study by the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University. Texas and MN are not 1:1, but those dollar values are 2019$, and researchers suggested they could be an undercount to begin with
kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/20...
I reserve the username Ron Jon
Just wanted to note for those of you (especially Francophone folks) looking for a good source of streaming music, podcasts and whatnot? Radio France is FULL of good stuff. Their Baroque channel is particularly good listening. The Android app's here... play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Nearly 6 hours since a GOP congressman said “Muslims don’t belong in American society,” not a single member of Republican leadership in the House will weigh in.
Washington State Farm workers pruning apple trees on a cold day
Farm workers in WA state are hard at work pruning apple trees in 36° temps. They tell us: This work is very hard. We spend our days going up and down ladders - that gets slippery - to cut the branches. Frozen branches are brittle. Sometimes they break unexpectedly. #WeFeedYou
Terror on the Upper East Side Two men inspired by ISIS tried to detonate homemade bombs yesterday in Manhattan. But you wouldn’t know that from New York City’s mayor.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi have been charged with committing a heinous act of terrorism and proclaiming their allegiance to ISIS. They should be held fully accountable for their actions. We will continue to keep New Yorkers safe. We will not tolerate terrorism or violence in our city.
an actual news org would update a story when it's original headline and story were proven out of date and incorrect. But this is the free press, a MAGA-coded newsletter where zinging the mayor of new york is a top priority.
Taking that 'last man on earth' joke a bit literally ....
That's the whole Republican party these days. An MLM mixed with the Mafia.
Sell you God, Magic COVID medicine, Pillows, whatever they can.
As long as they profit.
so the new objective is basically to safely open the strait of hormuz, the strait that was open before they started this war for no reason
He's still GOP, so it's unchanged. He's trying to fake a crisis of conscious to not lose his seat
We're going on almost a decade of expanding self-checkout options at US grocery spots, and we have yet to see any proof that limitless surveillance and countless data/tech costs can save more money than "paying someone ~$20/hr to manually input a person's basket" does for loss prevention.
They’re literally pushing out Black women to make sure they can try to permanently staff the federal government with white supremacists.
Well some venture capitalist gets another gem for his horde but at least the fake job to fake job pipeline remains secure.
Of course he is. He's affected by the redistricting and is pretending to change.
A real change of heart would have happened much sooner than right after it was clear he wasn't going to have his 'safe' district anymore.
Now that he's screwed, his conscience all of a sudden appears?
Horseshit
This is to say: if you're an attorney who's hesitated to take on habeas cases because you think you lack the knowledge, or you're worried about whether you'll really help, I PROMISE you can make a difference. I'm just a dipshit with a 7-year-old laptop and a bad attitude. If I can do it, so can you.
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
