H.L. Mencken’s Winking Ghost 🏴‍☠️

Just moving fast past this one I see…

Blogged about how people who don’t trust the Nazi tattoo guy who keeps boosting neo-Nazis actually have Platner Derangement Syndrome

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

Chlorine dioxide, a chemical used for disinfecting and bleaching.

Pressurized pure oxygen.

Raw camel milk.

Under RFK Jr., the FDA has taken down a webpage warning about these and other dangerous remedies claiming to treat autism.

Happening now- the Broadview, IL ICE facility: a few dozen people have gathered here over the bizarre situation re: a US citizen who was allegedly detained by federal immigration agents, only for agents to reportedly say she wasn't there.

Cook County Commissioner Kevin Morrison on scene as well.

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A nation of shoplifters run by a junta of philistines

*series

*another* dark day in a very long seres of dark days

Colorado governor signal he'll commute sentence of election denier. Pressured by President Trump, Gov. Jared Polis said he is considering the release of Tina Peters, the last high-profile 2020 election meddler still imprisoned. His fellow Democrats are outraged.

File this under "Why establishment Dems keep losing."

If you won't act like an opposition party, we'll replace you.

omnipresent empire who controls everything and therefore we can see ourselves as rebels to a universal evil.

You are fighting with or for a decline empire with delusions of grandeur

In a lot of analysis, both right and left, the decline of the United States hardly comes up. The Right loves to say America is the superpower to back up their belief we have a right to dominate (that’s the whole right wing ideology—the strong get to rule) and the Left plays up the evil, total, and

than major military brawls.

Since the end of WWII, the US military has had exactly one important function: to launder money and weapons. All else—winning wars, protecting trade routes etc—has been of a secondary concern. We were very lucky that our enemies were weak for so long or, like the Soviets, more reliant on covert ops

There are those who keep framing Iran as ‘another forever war’. America doesn’t have the strength for another forever war. If this war goes on long enough, the US military will fall apart completely, especially as the reserves everyone has runs out and as our make shift military begins to break.

I'll have to try that trick the next time I get a speeding ticket.

Working Families Party victory! Left to right, top to bottom: Garry McFadden, Mecklenburg County Sheriff; Alma Adams, NC-12; Renee Price, HD 50; Rodney Sadler, HD 106; Rodney Pierce, HD 106; Santana Deberry, Durham County DAWorking Families Party victory. March 3rd Primary. North Carolina.

Voters across North Carolina showed up to send leaders to office who will expand healthcare access, fight for affordable housing, prioritize community safety, and make life easier for everyday people.

The people are ready for leaders who will put working families first.

I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

It's a pretty distinct choice that one has to take responsibility for, regardless of intent, something that causes direct harm to both the child & anyone they come into contact with.

The idea of "misinformation" is moot when the options are basically a binary between Infomercials or Doctors.

Mass stranding of whales on Scottish beach caused by loyalty to their pod, report finds The 55 pilot whales, which had to be euthanised, had been following a female having a difficult birth, scientists believe The mass stranding and death of 55 whales on the Isle of Lewis in 2023 was caused by the mammals’ loyalty to their pod, a report has concluded. It had been thought that the unusually large incident on Tràigh Mhòr beach, Tolsta, could have been caused by trauma, disease or acoustic disturbance from military or industrially generated noise. Continue reading...

Mass stranding of whales on Scottish beach caused by loyalty to their pod, report finds

Reprieve for India as US eases sanctions on Russian oil sales New Delhi to benefit from 30-day waiver as energy prices soar

Reprieve for India as US eases sanctions on Russian oil sales ft.trib.al/AqSpZED

while laughing

What did I enjoy about this book? Practically everything. The prose, the observations, the fact that she could render a person, room, and atmosphere in a few sentences.

What did I learn? How absolutely absurd men (like myself) are. The work is so sharp and so funny it is like cutting your hand

‘Men I'm Not Married To’ by Dorothy Parker, 1922. I think Dorothy Parker is the greatest wit our philistine nation has produced

Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.

This is a press freedom issue.

Here’s what happened:

on this the world endures sources on making war and peace

As bombs drop,

it's illuminating, sometimes, to look at sacred text from people who lived through millennia of warmaking,

through

occupations, uprisings and slaughters from Assyria, Babylonia & Rome;

the Almohad conquest of Almoravid Córdoba;

WWI & WWII; the Qibya massacre;

& much more:

For a nation of shoplifters, this isn’t a surprise at all

This is a great article and got too little attention when it first came out. @propublica.org is doing amazing work.

Nothing so inspires someone to talk or writes as a topic which they know nothing about.

my guy literally put out a tweet explaining his whole public persona