Mark Aldrich

Yabba dabba don't.

The Beach Boys.

Our foreign policy has long been an effort at producing a better yesterday. Our foreign policy right now isn't even THAT.

We've spent five decades pretending that this wannabe mob boss' attempts at mob boss threats are everything other than attempts by a wannabe mob boss at mob boss threats.

Man.

The world fucking is on fire.

So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people.

Live whats left of your only life.

If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul.

Fuck the haters.

Many great lines from her.

An old time-y illustration of a Twine.

Today is Décadi the 20th of Ventôse in the year 234.
Ventôse is the month of wind.
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This book and Milgram's "Obedience to Authority."

We've spent five decades pretending that this wannabe mob boss' attempts at mob boss threats are everything other than attempts by a wannabe mob boss at mob boss threats.

This book and Milgram's "Obedience to Authority."

Amazing book

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Incredible sunset alert for Chicago 🚨

An old time-y illustration of a Chervil.

Today is Nonidi the 19th of Ventôse in the year 234.
Ventôse is the month of wind.
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Trump’s war on Iran is taking place What's it like to re-read Baudrillard as bombs fall on Tehran?

Baudrillard on Trump's wars

Daniel Pipes is a polymath of getting things wrong.

Yabba dabba don't.

The Beach Boys.

Our foreign policy has long been an effort at producing a better yesterday. Our foreign policy right now isn't even THAT.

Daniel Pipes specifically exists to find Muslims anywhere to be anything from inferior to a grave threat. No one should ever believe him when he pretends to be interested in their liberation.

islamophobia.org/islamophobic...

Daniel Pipes is a polymath of getting things wrong.

that green nut ice cream

gotta get some of

This repeats yet another pattern from the Iraq War. When the Iraqis did not behave as the Americans wanted — without the deference and gratitude that a foreign military occupier felt it was due — they became targets.

An old time-y illustration of a Pimpernel.

Today is Octidi the 18th of Ventôse in the year 234.
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it’s always so embarrassing when Fancy Children try to pretend they’re the salt of the earth, but its extra embarrassing when those Fancy Children decide to complete their romp through the world of the common people with a cheeky working-class Nazi tattoo

Rubio's plans for 2026:
January: Invade Venezuela
February: Invade Iran
March: Invade Ecuador
April: Invade Cuba

He's expressed it in public, too.

THIS IS THE PART DRIVING ME MOST CRAZY.
He worked for effing Blackwater.
I agree the tattoo is bad & his response to it makes it worse.
But how was his Blackwater employment not the end of all discussions and his political career?!

Pod Save America, Oct 20, 2025, blaming his sleeve tattoos Marine Corps, "Think Before You Ink", MARADMIN 198-07 for forcing him out of the Marines "If you are grandfathered, all doors are open" 1. Summary - lies about tattoos Graham Platner, running for Senate in Maine, has told two major lies about his tattoos and his departure from the Marine Corps. Both are easily fact-checked and would surely be used against him in a general election. In 2009, five years after Platner enlisted, he sought to return to active duty in the Marine Corps but was denied. At this time, during the Iraq War, the Marine Corps was so desperate for manpower that servicemen were being forcibly recalled to active duty - but they did not want Platner. Platner then left the Marine Corps and joined the Maryland National Guard instead. Platner has repeatedly blamed his expulsion on a new Marines tattoo policy which banned forearm sleeve tattoos. This is his first lie. While Marine Corps policy did change in 2007 to bar sleeve tattoos, all currently serving Marines were exempt. All of Platner's existing tattoos would be grandfathered in. The only non-exempt tattoos were those in a new prohibited category: tattoos that were racist or associated with extremist groups. That is, the only tattoo Platner had in 2009 that would bar him from the Marines was the Nazi Totenkopf on his chest." Platner's second lie is that he did not know that he was wearing a Nazi symbol until 2025. Platner's tattoos would have been formally reviewed twice: in March-June 2007, when the new policy went into effect, and in 2009, when he sought to return to active duty. In 2007, his commanding officer was required to produce a photographic documentation of all his existing tattoos; Platner would have signed it. In 2009, an officer at the enlistment office would have reviewed his tattoos for compliance. Even if Platner did not know the Totenkopf's significance when he got the tattoo in 2007, he would have been told its meaning b…

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An old time-y illustration of a Doronicum.

Today is Septidi the 17th of Ventôse in the year 234.
Ventôse is the month of wind.
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This particular trend in transphobia (requiring licenses to match sex at birth) is the equivalent of insisting we have to call a butterfly a caterpillar.