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So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

here's my funny story

the us launching a regime change war on behalf of hardline pahlavi restorationists is genuinely insane, it's kind of like if china fired missiles at london tomorrow to put the jacobites back on the throne, or invaded spain until an absolute carlist monarchy ruled the country

Yeah. That’s called accessory after the fact to homicide. It’s a felony!

Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma wants to shut down airports in sanctuary cities, a move that would cause the collapse of our nation’s air travel system. What a putz.

"You're right, my answer was based on outdated information. My bad! I sincerely apologize for targeting hundreds of children, and hope you'll forgive me for the error. Upon further research, I have identified another epic target and launched missiles at the coordinates 33°48'45.9"N 117°55'08.4"W."

Are political risk insurance contracts subject to force majeure exclusions against payout (I dont think so) but if yes, what happens if the underwriting insurer is also the effective cause of the force majeure?

Fortune Magazine doesn’t understand declining marginal utility, but Senator Sanders does.

Maybe for the best.

"He does not hold nazi beliefs" is a claim that many of us started doubting when we learned of the tattoo (and the reddit posts and the alt-right podcast appearances and whatever else we'll learn about from GOP oppo research after he wins the primary...).

Mark Teixeira played on the same high school baseball team as my sister's boyfriend Ben in high school.

I remember one time Ben told me "see that guy over there?" (pointing to Mark Teixeira) "He's gonna be in the major leagues one day" and I was like "no he's not, you're full of shit"

Wasn’t Babe Ruth from Maryland?

Do you know David Byrne’s PowerPoint art? You guys should do a group show.

Color photo of the courtyard of an enormous, Spanish Revival style apartment building. The building itself is too large to get into one shot. Centered in the courtyard and bracketing either side of the sidewalk are two narrow ornamental towers, each with an arched blind window and a slate roof to match the larger building. Behind and on either side of this rises a building of tan colored brick ornamented by all manner of salmon terra cotta fanciness.

Color close-up of the mission shaped parapet atop the back courtyard building. Two windows boasting lunettes with Renaissance bullshit and twisting columns frame an elaborate center panel with a larger lunette dominated by a shell, and several panels positioned to create a diamond pattern beneath it. Above this is a set of three tiny fake windows, each topped with a brick arch. The center window has twisting salmon colored columns between it and its neighbor.

Color photo of an extremely elaborate door and window surround combo fashioned of salmon terra cotta and ornamented with foliate patterns. The window additionally has an extremely silly balconette across the bottom.

Color photo of a slightly projecting bay of tan colored brick that contains four small windows united by very elaborate spandrels arranged in a diamond pattern, and twisting columns of salmon terra cotta.

One hell of a Spanish Revival banger in South Shore. It is doing literally everything, but doing it well. Architect: Z Erol Smith, 1926

This mural slaps. Literally turned around so I could get a picture.

Pan-Latinism - Wikipedia

This is of course true. Also "Latin American" as an identity was invented by French people (!!) during their brief attempt to rebuild a new world empire in the nineteenth century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Lat...

Sometimes you need to know where to transfer to get to O'Hare and the only other person on the El platform is some white dude.

Well, did you help her? So it worked!

I don't look even remotely Latin, but I speak mediocre Spanish and I find myself giving folks directions in Spanish from time to time. It's a major global language! Lots of people speak at least a bit!

…UNHOUSED PEOPLE.

I was thinking the same thing. One can’t talk like that about any other *religious* minority, I guess, but there are other kinds of minorities that do get that treatment: trans people, Haitians, Somalis, the undocumented, arguably some disability groups…

Here’s CBS “news” casually referring to Iran’s nuclear weapons as if Iran has nuclear weapons. They couldn’t possibly sink lower.

Missile hits cloud

Yes. But also, Texas and Maine are different situations.

Also, it’s like “but he supports Medicare for All.”

My dude, what his nazi tattoo suggests is that maybe he’s lying about all of that.

“explain this atheists”

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

No, you don’t understand: I was speaking in bad faith *last time.*

Yeah, there are a lot of tweaks we could see. But I suspect that this challenge approach is how we figure out what the new rulebook zone should be with an eye to full ABS down the road.

Senate leadership elections now.