Liam Harwood

Fool Me Twice: The Case for War With Iran Is Even Thinner Than It Was for Iraq The Trump admin can't seem to settle on a reason for war with Iran. That hasn't stopped them from planning a war without a "why."

The case for invading Iraq was based on lies. The Trump administration’s case for war with Iran hardly exists at all.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

I spent the weekend trying to process what's happening in my city of Minneapolis, Minnesota by creating this video. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.

NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

Latin American Coups promoted by the United States

One last silkpost to ring in the new year 🙏

*(in alphabetical order)* - **Hell Followed With Us** by Andrew Joseph White - **The House in the Cerulean Sea** by TJ Klune - **Interior Chinatown** by Charles Yu - **Martyr!** by Kaveh Akbar - **Piranesi** by Susanna Clarke - **Play Nice** by Jason Schreier - **Sword and Citadel** by Gene Wolfe - **The Sympathizer** by Viet Thanh Nguyen - **This Must be the Place** by Maggie O’Farrell - **Yellowface** by RF Kuang

Favorite Books I Read in 2025:

🔟 **Daredevil: Born Again** (season 1) 9️⃣ **Peacemaker** (season 2) 8️⃣ **The White Lotus** (season 3) 7️⃣ **Slow Horses** (season 5) 6️⃣ **Severance** (season 2) 5️⃣ **The Studio** (season 1) 4️⃣ **The Chair Company** (season 1) 3️⃣ **Pluribus** (season 1) 2️⃣ **The Rehearsal** (season 2) 1️⃣ **Andor** (season 2) Honorable Mentions: - **The Bear** (season 4) - **The Paper** (season 1) - **Futurama** (season 13) - **Poker Face** (season 2) David Lynch Memorial Rewatch: - **Twin Peaks**

Favorite TV Shows of 2025:

🔟 **28 Years Later** (dir. Danny Boyle) 9️⃣ **Wake Up Dead Man** (dir. Rian Johnson) 8️⃣ **Superman** (dir. James Gunn) 7️⃣ **Friendship** (dir. Andrew DeYoung) 6️⃣ **Companion** (dir. Drew Hancock) 5️⃣ **Frankenstein** (dir. Guillermo del Toro) 4️⃣ **Sinners** (dir. Ryan Coogler) 3️⃣ **Bugonia** (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) 2️⃣ **Weapons** (dir. Zach Cregger) 1️⃣ **One Battle After Another** (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) Honorable Mentions: - **KPop Demon Hunters** (dir. Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans) - **The Naked Gun** (dir. Akiva Schaffer) Favorite Movies That Didn’t Come Out This Year: - **Nosferatu** (dir. Robert Eggers) - **Hundreds of Beavers** (dir. Mike Cheslik) Amazon Presents: Bad Movie of the Year (of the Decade?): - **War of the Worlds** (dir. Rich Lee)

Favorite Movies of 2025:

🔟 Bon Iver - **SABLE, fABLE** 9️⃣ Billy Woods - **GOLLIWOG** 8️⃣ Turnstile - **NEVER ENOUGH** 7️⃣ Danny Brown - **Stardust** 6️⃣ Model/Actriz - **Pirouette** 5️⃣ Black Country, New Road - **Forever Howlong** 4️⃣ Clipse - **Let God Sort Em Out** 3️⃣ clipping. - **Dead Channel Sky** 2️⃣ Viagra Boys - **viagr aboys** 1️⃣ Geese - **Getting Killed** Favorite Album That Technically Came Out In 2024: - Cameron Winter - **Heavy Metal** Game Score of the Year: - Lorien Testard - **Clair Obscur: Expedition 33** Movie Score of the Year: - Jonny Greenwood - **One Battle After Another**

Favorite Albums of 2025:

🔟 **Skin Deep** (Blendo Games, PC) 9️⃣ **Death Stranding 2: On the Beach** (Kojima Productions, PS5) 8️⃣ **despelote** (Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena, PC) 7️⃣ **Split Fiction** (Hazelight Studios, PS5) 6️⃣ **Baby Steps** (Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, Bennett Foddy, PC) 5️⃣ **Donkey Kong Bananza** (Nintendo, Switch 2) 4️⃣ **Hollow Knight: Silksong** (Team Cherry, PC) 3️⃣ **Clair Obscur: Expedition 33** (Sandfall Interactive, PC) 2️⃣ **Blue Prince** (Dogubomb, PC) 1️⃣ **Hades II** (Supergiant Games, PC) Game I Just Started But Is Good So Far: - **The Séance of Blake Manor** (Spooky Doorway, PC) The PUBG Memorial “Sweaty Hands” Award: - **ARC Raiders** (Embark Studios, PC) Obligatory Fromsoft Award: - **Elden Ring: Nightreign** (From Software, PC)

Favorite Games of 2025:

Cover photo with Hades 2, Andor, One Battle After Another, Getting Killed, and Piranesi

LIAM'S FAVORITE 2025 THINGS:
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I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

Live: Rep. Melissa Hortman killed, Sen. John Hoffman shot in ‘targeted shootings’ Gov. Tim Walz said there were targeted shootings in both Brooklyn Park and Champlin on Saturday.

Strib coverage is in front of their paywall. Please follow their coverage and resist the urge to speculate about *anything* about the attack itself.

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Reports of Giant Bomb's death were greatly exaggerated. 🤘

Giant Bomb is now independent

"Giant Bomb has new owners, and you're looking at them" - Jeff Grubb

To have both Giant Bomb and Polygon dismantled in the same week is an enormous loss. Healthy games media is crucial for a healthy games industry, and right now both are being stripped for parts by faceless corporate vultures.

Giant Bomb Forever. <>

These modern day billionaire oligarchs should try being more like the wealthy industry tycoons of the past (dead).

Time to revive Super Pancake

My day-to-day is pretty similar, though I work primarily in Unreal Blueprint. We create and maintain many dynamic narrative systems as well as handle the core quest implementation. Often, this involves implementing scripts written by our writing team.

Hey! Great to meet all you tech narrative folks. 🤘

Tagging @brianmccarthy.bsky.social as well!

Did Elon Actually Do A Nazi Salute? Here’s What We Know Yes

Did Elon Actually Do A Nazi Salute? Here’s What We Know

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