also you do not have to think like a political operative, you aren't one and honestly most political operatives are wrong about stuff, just care about what you care about and care loudly
Notably, the first times Section 31 shows up in DS9, *this is not true!* Bashir is given a very clear position as our protagonist to express real, genuine moral repugnance and the show is deeply ambiguous and even straight up doubtful that what Section 31 does is good or even effective.
Wisdom, let us attend
Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)
it has always been a long reaction to the New Deal. from then to now, capital had seen the New Deal as the sin that must be purged so that the rest of us understand our place as grist for their mills
Christmas shopping & realizing how much I hate the Great Beigeification—please, a color, I beg of thee!
I do and have also written for Earth and Altar!
fwiw I think Trump is sui generis in some ways but not in the ways some people (esp centrists) want him to be. The bigotry, fascism, etc, that’s all cooked into the GOP now. The charisma that people respond to, the humor, etc, the GOP doesn’t have anyone else with that juice.
I was going to make a Star Trek joke but you said somewhere you haven’t seen it!
Tea always - if hot, earl grey with milk and sugar. If iced, something fruity with lemon.
What is bringing you joy right now?
perfect coda to the merrick garland era at DOJ. complying in advance
I think this is right. Also, if anyone is looking for someone to blame, it should be focused on the people who looked exactly at what Trump was selling and said "yes."
An incredible new interactive piece from @propublica.org -- What really gets taken when a city sweeps a homeless encampment? A tent, seizure medication, an ex boyfriend's shirt, photos, baby shoes, a tiara, a husband's ashes. Devastating and illuminating
projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...
DiscussingFilm post: Studios are assembling superfan focus groups to assess various materials for a franchise project to avoid social media backlash. “They will just tell us, ‘If you do that, fans are going to retaliate’ … If it’s early enough & the movie isn’t finished yet, we can make those kinds of changes.”
Parents to let toddlers decide what’s for din-din every night
The best way we can all honor the memory of Pete Rose is by banning sports betting again
Of the many things that enrage me about the Supreme Court’s death penalty docket is its bloodlessness. You shouldn’t be able to order a death without saying anything. You should have to justify what you’re doing, or fail spectacularly while trying. You should have to sign your name to this shit.
If you want to imagine the future, imagine the Hawk Tuah girl interviewing a guy wearing dress sneakers, a blazer that's two sizes too small, and an eerily smooth face on a web show sponsored by Grok — forever.
*whispers* harris should do rogan
this is exactly the performance he gave in june and against a competent opponent he looks as insane as he is
We kidnapped a dean, and within a year or so a number of our protest leaders declared war on the US government and started blowing things up, and though they claim they were nice and only bombed buildings, they wanted to kill people until their friends blew themselves up.
But KIDS THESE DAYS!!!
What's cool about looking back at the history of college protests is that 19 year old students have been right about every single American war, and the esteemed Harvard educated opinion writers at the New York Times have been wrong about every single American war.
Consider this alongside the decision in Citizens United, and you can derive a number of lessons about the nature of power.
Court rules 6-3 that homeless people have a constitutional obligation not to exist, with Thomas and Alito concurring separately to point out that traditionally people froze to death and ongoing homelessness is a function of expanding into “traditionally Spaniard regions”
The Hollywood Reporter headline: The High Highs and Low Lows of Alan Ritchson. There's a photo of Ritchson on a motorcycle
“I’m a Christian quite simply because of what Jesus calls us to do. Love other people until death. It doesn’t mean we’re all to be hung on a cross, but how can I suffer for you? That is a beautiful thing.”
“Cops get away with murder all the time, and the fact that we can’t really hold them accountable for their improprieties is disturbing to me. We should completely reform the way that we do it. I mean, you shouldn’t have to spend more time getting an education as a hairstylist than as a cop who’s armed with a deadly weapon. We should make it very hard for people to make mistakes or abuse power in our institutions.”
That simple message, he says, has become twisted in today’s fraught political landscape. “Christians today have become the most vitriolic tribe. It is so antithetical to what Jesus was calling us to be and to do,” he explains. It also upsets him that some Christians have so closely aligned with former President Donald Trump. “Trump is a rapist and a con man, and yet the entire Christian church seems to be treat him like he’s their poster child and it’s unreal. I don’t understand it.”
ok the Reacher guy keeps it real as hell
So here's the Israeli explanation for the WCK attack.
Spoiler: Even if every word here is true (and it probably is given the referenced video) it's still a war crime
