It really is wild shit that Revelation was 50/50 to even be canon and damn near all modern American Christianity is predicated upon it
(This leaves aside how they could have ever thought John the Apostle wrote the thing, which is the only reason it was canonized)
Trump wants to get out of the Middle East, unlike his predecessors he is eliminating the Iran threat instead of managing it. He sees the region as a business project for America which is why this administration is promoting things such as India-Middle East-Europe Corridor for trade and logistics and Pax Silica, which is a framework to secure supply chains and other technologies. This is the big picture when we take into consideration what he was actually doing. zinebriboua.com/p/trumps-middl.. Trump's Middle East IMEC, the Pax Silica Declaration, and the Abraham Accords - three U.S.-led frameworks reshaping
You can be a think tanker in America so long as you've voluntarily undergone lobotomization. Bonus points if you're brown and they'll hire you to be their little Ruckus from the Boondocks
'Very isolating': Israel's anti-war minority bucks national mood
The Israel Democracy Institute found 93% of Jewish Israelis back the strikes on Iran, with a majority of support across the political spectrum. www.courthousenews.com/very-isolati...
Reminds me of Eddie Izzard's bit about Americans short historical memories:
"We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!"
"No, surely not! No one was alive then!"
It's quite an annoying skill.
If only the opposition party's lawmakers wouldn't allow unanimous consent in the Senate.
AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?
The part where St. Nicholas punched someone?
This has just reframed my thinking of why Australia invited Herzog to "comfort Jewish people" after the Bondi attacks because he is seen as a 'leader of Jewish people'. We all thought it was tone deaf and doing nothing to promote "social cohesion". Now I see it as a form of othering. Xx stay safe.
“To believe in laws over belief in people is to be colonized.”
Thanks for the recommendation!
Fucking crying, this is SO FUN. This is Mystery Search for 2026. (I say this as someone who spent many an hour singing Disney songs into strangers' voicemails through the magic of Mystery Search)
How is Vladimir? I would probably watch anything with Rachel Weisz.
Iran has hit an oil refinery in Bahrain and forced them to invoke force majeure. x.com/MarketIntl_/...
It's actually interesting how they are overtly doing what many folks who want to control discourse around Jews do.
When they don't like what other Jews believe, they find ways not just to invalidate their views, but to invalidate their very Jewish identity.
And now they are doing it with polling.
The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.
Some of you think this is about AFT, and all shade to their president, but I regret to inform you that some union locals outside of AFT are also using AI as though it were not a big deal. (Spoiler: it is a big deal.)
But Israel (along with the US, UAE, and Saudis) did start a war that raised gas prices while weaponizing antisemitism concerns to kill more. Shouldn't the bigger concern be association of the diaspora with a Hate and Pedophilia State that would nuke NYC if they thought they could get away with it?
Apparently Eugenio Suarez had his citizenship application taken off the books because he's Venezuelan and his response was "it is what it is."
this is fine
On a somewhat unrelated note, has there ever been worse line reading in an Oscar nominated movie than that one with Kevin O'Leary trying to trash talk about being a vampire in Marty Supreme?
The first is a timeless classic. A masterpiece. The second is timely. Mon Mothma calling a genocide a genocide would not have hit the same way five years ago (and hopefully it won't hit the same way fifty years from now). But it was necessary now. Just like seeing a concentration camp liberated.
Marty Supreme and Sinners are objectively better movies than OBAA. But, I still hope the latter wins every award, because mainstreaming images of left wing violence (without metaphor) is more important right now. It's like the difference between seasons 1 and 2 of Andor.
islam is really the only religion that takes cats seriously enough.
Let me tell you about the time that a literal labor union used AI images in a teach-in (I did not know this was going to be the case when encouraging members to attend) and members understandably messaged me during the teach-in to be like "hey, WTF."
The "wokelash" was entirely a media-created phenomenon. Just like the 2020 Biden campaign, all crime panics, and hatred of immigrants. Disinformation is a domestic industry.
biden and trump had the exact same covid policy and i know a lot of retail and service employees who got fucked over by all the libs deciding they didn't need masks any more and the companies deciding they didn't need to give time off for covid any more after biden told us all to go back to work
Larissa, a therapist from D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. They were all fed once: a baloney sandwich per person.
She was there for her trans patients. They're being hurt by this administration, she said.
Those of us who have Palestinians & Lebanese in our lives have been trying to make the supposed good party see this for years with no avail.
My friends' loved ones in Palestine are not less dead, tortured, detained, & homeless because the US president who helped Israel was a Democrat.
