I'd add that maybe positions of power shouldn't exist. Maybe no one should have the power to unleash a Gestapo on their citizens and start wars to the surprise of their entire population on a whim.
They are really hitting water infrastructure
disappointing to see how many American left outlets seem to think the appropriate response to the attack on Iran is to do a soft pro regime stance. Just like anyone else, people in Iran deserve the right to govern themselves. Seeing their freedom as tool in domestic politics is an imperialist stance
Strong suspicion being raised that all testimony given by cooperators is under duress citing horrific jail conditions
As testimony unfolds in the Prairieland case, it appears that authorities used horrific jail conditions to pressure defendants to "cooperate."
In 2018, when Russian secret police tortured political arrestees into signing false confessions, we warned that this tactic would eventually reach the US.
i love how everyone is just perfectly comfortable asserting as truth what is ultimately a conspiracy theory without a shred of substantive evidence to support it, particularly when it has jews at the center of it.
I remember that happening to me a couple years ago. All the people viewing were older people.
The list of ICE and Customs and Border Protection sex offenders and sex pests is now up to 62.
me: posts an analysis of various revolutions that were built from local councils, including the so-far uncontested fact that the Russian revolution started that way before Lenin consolidated power and disenfranchised the soviets.
bsky: "yeah makes sense"
substack: "sure"
IG: "You are the CIA."
“Zines are really like this little atomic unit of freedom of the press with simple pamphlets that you just pass around. It begs the question of whether the prosecution believes that we should have a First Amendment in the first place” #ZinesAreNotACrime
—Lydia Koza, wife of defendant Autumn Hill
I don't think people realize that Iran and its regional proxies can conceivably inflict so much damage on the US and its allies that the US will have to just declare victory to save face and come to the negotiating table for real.
20th century air war doctrine is going to fail.
I will add one last thought. Many of the responses from Democratic lawmakers and liberal commentators (even the good ones) contain some ambivalence - some hope that perhaps the fall of the Iranian regime, even at the hands of Donald Trump, will be for the best. I understand why. I am the son of an Iranian immigrant. Ultimately I want freedom, democracy, and dignity for the Iranian people. The problem is that I've seen the American government promise all of those things a hundred times, and I've never seen them deliver it once.
one more excerpt
I'm no expert since I actively choose not to use it for programming, but from what I gather it's mostly good at short problems and quick mock-ups that are pretty easy to find on the internet. It cannot do complex problems well. Writing is a complex problem almost always, so it sucks at that.
F1 was a bad movie. Even so, I like watching cars go fast. Trying to constantly explain the intricacies and strategies of the race became old quick. Just a constant drone of exposition from announcers trying to sound excited for a team that was bad for the majority of the show until the final moment
I actually really like writing unit tests. I don't know if other programmers like that sort of thing. It's just kinda fun and low-stakes, and follows a methodical pattern most of the time. Also gives me a good way to discern what is an overly complex method.
Been working with EnergyTrust of Oregon on a multiyear project about bridges from different parts of the state. The siren song of landscape painting has started to allure me, and i’ve been enjoying the change of pace playing with gouache textures.
Scene from Andor, Imperial propagandists talking about manufacturing public support for a genocide: edited on the last word. The propagandist says, with a smirk, "Hasn't there always been something slightly arrogant about the trans?"
NYT opinion page for the last decade:
Let's also see if the U.S. population will be able to 'vote out' fascism. If this doesn't happen, should other countries assume that the entire country is therefore "pro-fascism?" And if this is the determination, why shouldn't they attempt regime change through bombing the heck out of the U.S.?
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
I'm a huge fan of this musician named Simon Joyner. His albums are all intentionally sang in such a way that you can't help but fall into a state of melancholy. Probably my favorite album is Hotel Lives or The Cowardly Traveler Pays His Toll. I also like the song One for the Catholic Girls a lot.
The one thing NYT can't do is stop de-legitimizing university students' opinions. The only opinions that matter are the ones that don't protest another war. Or protest at all, but immediately fall in line.
Found graffiti in resident evil requiem where someone just spraypainted the word “graffiti“
these people do not have object permanence
Just a few weeks ago, all these European powers spoke of the threat that the US now presents to Europe. They talked about the possibility of Trump attacking Greenland, like it was an imminent and existential danger. Now Trump unilaterally bombs Iran and they all fall in lockstep
i love when people admit that they fell for the most obvious lying and propaganda campaign in history. these people are cattle and proud of it
shockingly people are capable of simultaneously,
1. Hating their government
2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more
2 min ago Timing of US-Israel attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism Tal Shalev By Tal Shalev The timing of the US and Israeli attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism. Ahead of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, worshippers read the specific portion from the Old Testament, known as Zachor. The passage from the book of Deuteronomy commands the ancient Israelites to remember an unprovoked attack by the nation of Amalek and to eradicate the memory of Amalek once the Israelites are settled in their land. The passage is read publicly before Purim to fulfil the mitzvah of remembering Amalek as Israel’s achetypical enemy.
This is what CNN is publishing even before the Ellisons come in
what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"
War is massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who do know each other but don't massacre each other.
