Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
The Scarlet Letter wins the lifetime achievement award for abuse of the English subjunctive
Dr. Manhattan on Mars in the comic
It is February 2022. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.
It is February 2026. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.
helps quite a bit if I'm being honest
I am so sick of being told I live in a bubble because I live in populated urban centers while simultaneously being expected to be accommodating of the most pathetic willful ignorance of others
Every single time a new outlet feels compelled to interview an unremarkable billionaire they should pause and ask themselves if there isn't an under-represented artist, scientist, activist, engineer, or academic actually doing useful/interesting things that's more deserving of your readership's time
Real talk tho, anyone else find putting their bike on the front of the bus to be stressful af? Captive audience is always staring my ass down
a way to lend legitimacy to future war crimes tribunals against the Trump administration is to also charge Biden officials for abetting war crimes in Gaza. Also letβs put finally try John Yoo.
"Guys, guys, guys... we have massive war debts, I keep firing my ministers, the peasants and workers have no bread, but have you SEEN Versailles lately?"
(Louis XVI, probably)
whatβs even more extraordinary is that the economy was mostly doing okay despite his absolute best efforts - as damaging as his tariffs and immigration policies are, we hadnβt tipped over into a recession
and so, unsatisfied, he decided to kick the economy in the dick with a huge oil shock
"you best start believing in catastrophic energy shocks - you're in one"
quote from the Catechism of the Catholic Church 239: "We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood."
re: Talarico getting attacked for "God is nonbinary"; wait till they hear about the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
back on reddit there was a guy on /r/neoliberal who got a Angela Merkel tattoo on his ass
All these motherfuckers from trump on down being like "well erm hrm hrm we never said it was gonna be a bed of roses!!" as though we were all begging for a big beautiful war and just didn't understand the consequences are making me lose my mind. We told you! WE told YOU, you shitbags!
Das Finanzkapital... Das Finanzkapital never changes
We know this administration loves to lie, they claimed theyβve pulled out of Minneapolis but things have largely stayed the same if not gotten worse. Theyβre still bringing in more vehicles, the same ones weβve seen them cause crashes with.
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"
We should never ever forget why they did it
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
a lot of what has made discourse insane is that there's an entire crop of guys who live in dc, do a ton of uppers, and have massive gender insecurity around the fact that they're soft-handed scribes
Aside from the childish unseriousness, the thing that just really stands out to be here is just the artistic and cultural leeching. They can't produce anything anyone actually wants to watch themselves so they just pinch a load of clips to repurpose.
Iβve said it before, Iβll say it again. Everyone who voted for him needs to hang as a war criminal
Along with at least 13 hospitals and health clinics.
Taking a page right out of the Gaza playbook.
An elementary school in the Iranian capital Tehranβs Niloufar Square has been struck in US-Israeli attacks, according to Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei. Baghaei on Friday shared a video on X, purportedly showing Shahid Hamedani School with students before and after the attack, without elaborating on the circumstances or the number of casualties.
The US and Israel have apparently attacked another elementary school in Iran, this one in Tehran.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
Remember when words communicated concepts which could be combined to express ideas? Those were the days. I miss language.
βMy total and utter victory over my ex-wife will be signified by her moving in with that guy Rick.β
Earlier generations practiced a form of doom scrolling called "channel surfing."
meme of ron paul gesticulating with a nuclear explosion superimposed on him and the text "WIDESPREAD DEATH AND SUFFERING" across it
temperature check: i asked a friend of mine in the oil industry what she (GASP A GIRL? IN OIL??) thinks the market is gonna look like by the end of the month and she just sent me this in response with no other text. [I have no idea if she is serious]
one of my strongest beliefs is that continuing to learn new things as you age is essential -- no matter what you decide to learn about.
There is a kind of death that begins when you decide you know all that you need to know about the world.
My entire lifetime has been a republican fuckin up and a dem to come clean up the mess over and over and over.
