very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation
It’s not a war crime, it’s a “hallucination”
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
Myths about Passover by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (excerpt) A lot of literalist religious perspectives, both Jewish and Christian, presume that the Exodus story is a faithful recording of historical fact. But the historical accuracy of the Exodus is hotly debated among scholars. Archeologists and Egyptologists have never found evidence that could be directly connected to Israelites' enslavement or departure, or of a large group of people-600,000 men, plus women and children—wandering the Sinai Peninsula for 40 years. Regardless, some truths are deeper than history: The story of enslavement and liberation is a deep, indelible facet of Jewish theology. And a mature faith can hold an expansive understanding of God and holy texts that embraces the ways this story—no matter whether it happened historically—helps us see who we are and the nature of our obligations to those oppressed today.
From my family’s homebrew haggadah:
Also a reminder of how rapidly the political right is radicalizing
My hottest take as an atheist Jew is my belief that progressive Christianity is the only movement capable of achieving the profound reconstruction of American society that leftists desire
Great piece by @lgtobin.bsky.social in today’s News-Miner!
The university that taught me who I am is now turning its back on inclusion www.newsminer.com/opinion/comm...
Damn
I’m over in the SSB, where is this??
This is why I’m very adamant about refusing to accept the slippage in terms like “identity politics” and “woke” I simply cannot accept the idea that decades of theory and work can simply be rewritten by dipshits on the internet bowing to peer pressure.
god THIS right here! if you accept that the people who are temporarily wielding political power get to refine the words you use to think and communicate, then maybe you had no business doing liberatory work in the first place
These repeated attempts to "communicate" with AI left me feeling adrift from my own language. I thought of the opposite of poetry. Poetry sets you adrift from language in service of connection to meaning and other people; this is how it recreates language. This set me adrift in service of nothing.
Agreed, and I think the current media/information environment is so bad that holding any bad actors accountable is pretty unlikely
truth before reconciliation, a concept
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.
Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim, The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war, No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights; Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms, Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me, This incredible rush and heat, this strange ecstatic fever of dreams O years! Your dreams O years, how they penetrate through me! (I know not whether I sleep or wake;) The perform'd America and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me, The unperform'd, more gigantic than ever, advance, advance upon me.
Whitman, “Years of the Modern”
Eisenhower
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
If kids are old enough to play war games they’re old enough to struggle with the politics of war games
People hate on Toys (1992) for being a weird film (it is!) but we had it on VHS and this scene had a real impact on me as a kid
Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.
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We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
Being important and popular in New York City means more to Trump than anything in the world, and Mamdani knows it.
my uncle runs a place in Anchorage that serves fish and chips, and he named the half portion the "Texas size" which is just an incredible troll
1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e
It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT.
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yeah to the degree that“AI psychosis” describes impaired reality-testing as consequence of technology use, it’s a spectrum of impairment and everyone who uses social media is somewhere on that spectrum
Text message screenshot: Not for nothing, but Spanberger looks like who you would cast to play the governor of the Atlantic territories in civil war 2
My Spanberger take remains unchanged
