The Amazing Prizzini

I don’t see how you can look at the infernos raging in Tehran right now and say we’re just trying to do right by the Iranian people.

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

If you want to do on scale without nukes, that’s the weak point of the country.

(And a monstrous crime against the planet and humanity.)

And the ruins of the grand White House ballroom (never finished)

This is really bad, and I’m a little terrified it will get worse if we and Israel start attacking more of their water infrastructure.

That’s probably the key way to turn Iran into a nightmare failed state.

It’s a fascinating case, and it seems very likely that the program drove her to this obsession.

Renee Good was also shot at point-blank range through her side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger

Alex Pretti wasn’t in a car, but he too was shot at point-blank range by an ICE agent who was in no danger

It seems every time ICE kills someone they lie to cover up shooting innocent people

These places attract the worst people, and bring out the worst in them.

The history of the post John Monarchy is the King having to deal with a bunch of greedy and ambitious lords who the King couldn’t afford war without most of them being on board.

Yeah, that was the philosophy behind his many, many, many fuck-ups. He wanted to be a God-Emperor, and the English system was not set up for that kind of nonsense. (It never really was, given who controlled most of the purse strings).

Sorry, Frederick, not Kaiser Bill. It’s easy to forget Fred, since he was the middle part of the year of 3 Emperors.

No, I understand all of that. But I think that misreads both countries to suggest that the crowns would have merged. (Or that the Princess Victoria would have been allowed to wed the future Kaiser Bill in the first place)

I…what?

As it turns out, he did not have to fight (and lose) either the first or second bishops war.

God, Charles was a fuck up, who, really, really, really believed that he was divinely empowered.

That’s pretty much true of Charles I of England too. He was given a lot of off ramps, and he just kept on fucking up.

So almost exactly how Renee Good was executed

Not to repeat myself but: DHS lies brazenly because lying brazenly works

It's what police depts around the country do on a regular basis when they have unfavorable facts. Honed to perfection, amplified by media stenographers.

Recall, this is how they initially described George Floyd's murder:

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

Congrats!

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

How Long Has This Been Going On? How long has the government Delaware been dependent on corporate franchise fees? I investigate.

I love it when @dael.bsky.social dives deep.

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

Goldberg learned nothing from the Iraq war he cheered for, but since he suffered no consequences for his idiocy, he remains, somehow, a respected figure.

Despite being, objectively, an idiot.

One of my favorite lines from Russell Hoban's novel The Medusa Frequency: "In the morning I came awake as I always do, like a man trapped in a car going over a cliff."

Holy shit, the dude was a scammer involved in a pump and dump scheme?

What the fuck?

I genuinely love the movie Rudy (like any good Notre Dame football fan) but the cynical part of me always thinks that it is a dark fable about how a person should have better dreams than getting to be on the field for a single play in a football game.

“Every child killed is the greatest war crime in the world. There is no ifs, ands, or buts about it, and no policy can force me to selectively condemn war crimes against children.

That children are killed by bombs in the 21st century is humanity's greatest defeat.”

BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon

At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me

helps quite a bit if I'm being honest