Deborah

Fire flows through gutters meant to carry water to trees in Tehran.

Death flows where life once did.

May God forgive us.

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Israel bombed the heck out of a neighborhood in Beirut, killing 41 people-- mostly civilians-- to try to get info on a solidier missing for 40 years.

His wife's reply: “We want to know what happened to him, but not at any cost. The sanctity of life comes above all certainty and closure for us.”

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

Is this the cadaver fiddler?

Is there a class action lawsuit yet or

And yet that’s not what I remember about her.

A tweet from Jessica Pin which is a poll asking if she should stop using the R word. The result was no 77 percent Yes 23 percent

The medical profession dodged a bullet by not letting this person into med school despite her own father being the chair of Baylor Plastic Surgery.

Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo

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

A pot of good news.

Switzerland does have strong protections - stronger than the US, for sure. Switzerland does not have unlimited protections. The fact that those protections are not unlimited does not mean that Proton lied or is untrustworthy.

Vibes notwithstanding.

If Obama were prosecuting this war against Iran, Democrats and the media would be cheering and half the right would be denouncing it. That’s the problem: in America today, everything gets filtered through partisan tribalism.

I think if Obama were prosecuting this war against Iran his approvals would be at 5%

If you weren't aware I spoke fluent Penguin.

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Energy insecurity. Higher bills. Exposure to catastrophic economic consequences of Trump's wars.

That's what happens when you fail to shift fast enough to renewables, and cut back on support for clean energy.

Let's cut bills & create jobs through a clean power revolution.

Because the idea is that if you focus on racial justice then you'll never get the Nazis going your way, but if you start with economic justice then maybe you can entice them into also not being racist and being class conscious instead. So putting race/gender first is anathema to them.

I don't get how these ex-ish Nazis fit into a theory of/desire for a multiracial proletariat united in class solidarity. Surely the people who want that are the anti-racist leftists and the Grimms/Taibbis of the world are dreaming of an all-white working-class "revolution." Am I missing something?

yes there are in fact many other options besides senator and genocide

Bad people can be redeemed but they probably don’t get to be United Stated Senators 2 years later.

Oof. I mean I'd love a multiracial working class coalition too. But in order to be multiracial it cannot include Nazis or racists!

The issue with him saying that, though, is he was slinging around the r-slur on his reddit account into 2024.

The domain for his senate run was created in 2023. So, not really seeing where he grew up/past anything.

He has said that about the reddit posts, which is very much to his credit! And something I deeply sympathize with, given the fact that I grew up in a far-right household and had viewpoints I consider abhorrent now.

how hard is it to say "yeah i had some shitty views but i've learned and grown," even if that growth is pretty recent (and it would have to be given the paper trail we've seen)

5/x Platner is the latest incarnation of this. The dude may not have been an outright Nazi, but he had a totenkopf for decades. It seems implausible he didn't know what it was. He expressed a lot of racist viewpoints. Now he's running as a leftist. For a leftist, Platner is their hero's journey.

4/x When Bernie won the primary in West Virginia, it became this whole huge thing about how Bernie could win the MAGA white working class even though that's just as obviously just as dumb as right-wingers trying to do a nationwide analysis based on a Republican primary in DC.

The entire operating theory of a large strain of leftist thought is that a relentless focus on class will get Nazi and Nazi-adjacent right-wing white men to turn socialist instead. Any evidence of that theory is passionately embraced as an article of faith, no matter how absurd it actually is. 2/x

The only thing I can really think of for why Ryan Grim is so desperate for Graham Platner is, I believe, the same reason why there was a massive orgiastic rush of anger about critiquing Joe Rogan when he said one nice thing about Bernie. They want there to be a right-wing-white-male to left pipeline

We didn’t confront the deep dysfunctions in our political systems, we failed to rein in our destruction. There are consequences to this failure. If one of these is we realise we must turn our attentions and efforts to radical mitigation, then we would have learnt something important. END