Carly Putnam 🦖

Headline and subhead: U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Good for the hed/dek writers at @nytimes.com just now:

Not "appears to contradict" or "is at odds with" or "may give rise to suspicions that."

Flat out: "Contradicts." "Video shows." About the US blowing up a school full of little girls.

And of course, terrible for the world.

‪15/ "Americans have no idea how much the world is shook, folks. Here in Thailand they have a running tally of how many days' worth of fuel the country has left" -@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Asian markets CRASHING as oil prices shot up 30%!
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Seriously believe he should run (for real) for president

I love Econ-positng. Dan Habsmith of Guttermeyer Associates posts the most confusing chart you've ever seen and says "Quite surprising VARG numbers, SPLG index showing movement" and you get the context by one of his mutuals quoting it with "Buy a fucking gun and head for the hills. Right now."

"DHS insists they are targeting criminals. But all I see here are mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers...they are transferred from detention center to detention center. It is human trafficking, by another name...Listen to our words. Demand accountability."

I am not fan of the WSJ because they are so hard right, so holy crap. This quote in particular shocks me coming from them: "But oil markets are global, and prices at the pump are expected to keep rising, acting as a tax on consumers."

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i will say I watched this with a smile that grew wider and wider with the realization that always makes me love something: “I could not have made this in a hundred years.”

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

How will this affect the Riyadh comedy scene

Me before bed tonight:

“Please don’t let tomorrow be one of those days that gets a proper noun in textbooks. Please please please.”

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When I was 8 or 9 I bought a cooler full of sodas and upsold them to people in line to buy gas. I should look into that again, more dignified than lawyering.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

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Ken White posted this over a year ago, I think about this often.

When all the other time travelers are busy killing Hitler, I’m gonna take out Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Never miss a chance to tell my favourite science joke:

Q: What did Crick & Watson discover?

A: Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.

As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.

This is an excellent rule for storytelling but also implies that Philip Pullman witnessed the death of God as a boy.

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

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How Trump’s War in Iran Has Echoes of Putin and Ukraine

The Trump administration keeps using Putin's language. from Anton Troianovski @nytimes.com

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Philip Pullman said that anything that a child might encounter in their childhood is appropriate material for a children's story.

In other words Trump-Netanyahu have effectively carried out massive uncontained poison gas attacks on Tehran and its people.

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Look, if there’s one thing the Saudis and UAE want to do, it’s promote democracy in the Middle East. This is a natural match.

"Canada is America if its parents had loved it" -- Jess Salomon

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

War is climate violence.

I mean beyond all of the loathsome obvious shit about allllll of this, the director of the fucking INSIDE fucking OUT movies saying “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy" is a level of self-unawareness I can only marvel at

Did they bomb the elementary school twice, 40 minutes apart, to make sure to kill any surviving kids and to kill the rescue workers who were trying to save kids’ lives?

The president who took us to a war nobody wanted (and is covering for powerful pedophiles) is now holding our government hostage until Congress passes a law that makes it easier for him to maintain power

Imagine if this were happening in another country

this part TOO