government by right-wing media addicts for right-wing media addicts, aimed at producing content for right-wing media
government by right-wing media addicts for right-wing media addicts, aimed at producing content for right-wing media
hegseth has said repeatedly in public about how he is suspicious of the entire idea of Rules of Engagement
if the Hays Code didn't exist, modern fans would have invented it
Bin Day
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
I know we say "main character syndrome"a lot but watching people who genuinely cannot conceive of other people in other countries existing as anything but vectors for American vibes is surreal af to actually watch in practice
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i cannot get over how incredibly insane it is to think you can pull the same move you did on maduro against the entire regime of iran. in time this will be recognized as caligula-level insane. totally bonkers. hard to even fathom how someone could think this.
Four-byline alert: ๐จ
โ.. Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying U.S. troops on the ground inside of Iran, according to two U.S. officials, a former U.S. official and another person with knowledge of the conversations.โ
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Kinda blows that the post WWII international order might've been preserved if Israel had done a better job jailing Netanyahu and America had done a better job jailing Trump.
a fluffy grey tabby asleep with his paws up, in a cardboard box lined with a grey blanket. above him is a whiteboard reading "WRITING ASSISTANT" and an arrow pointing to him
I got a whiteboard at the dollar store the other day and finally put it up
I may not end up actually using it but in the meantime it is useful for mocking the cat
The rare song where I love the bass, guitar, and drum parts equally and can't imagine it without any of them
my cat Ginger and all of the shit she knocked over while playing at 3 am
the artist and her art
my first rec is "impossible february in d minor" by purity olympics (on @bumpy.bandcamp.com) - went to the tape release last night in minneapolis and it was a beautiful fever dream
thanks! really liking the purity olympics tape, esp the second half
The weirdly muscular Jabba from the new Star Wars movie
When I order a quarter pounder and 20 McNuggets but ask for water instead of a coke
(3) members of heavenly + dolly mixture railcardband.bandcamp.com/album/railcard
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
just gals being pals
at this rate, if I visit my mother in the next six months or so I will get to live out my dream of waiting in the car in a gas line with her for the first time since 1978
Whoa
it's not war, it's Krusty Brand Partially Gelatinated Non-Dairy Gum-Based State-on-State Military Conflict
for the second time today, I'd like to cheerfully observe that the plot setup for the 1984 UK nuclear-war film 'Threads' was the US doing regime change in Iran and Russia getting involved in response
Russia is Providing Iran Intelligence to Target U.S. Forces, Officials Say
By Noah Robertson, Ellen Nakashima and Warren P. Strobel
"The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East."
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love that one as well
45 years is crazy! But still holds up
that was also the first version of it I heard and fell in love with; interestingly, one of my favorite Galaxie 500 tracks is their cover of it