Bill Cole

It's great for firing up your troops of semi-nomadic pastoralists into attacking cities in prime grazing regions, but it does not generalize without sanctioning indiscriminate genocide.

And they were doing it in a particularly fighty period in the end of the Bronze Age when the big empires were falling apart.

The whole idea that a particular set of people have a divinely decreed right to any particular piece of land is morally bankrupt. It's a concept invented by Bronze Age pols

I'm sorry but you have to be super, extra antisemitic to claim that the original Israelites were illegitimate because they won their land in a conflict with another Bronze Age civilization. Like in those days everyone was peaceful, the Jews were the only cultural group that won land in a war.

Tweet by Senator Patty Murray criticizing Trump’s Iran war, saying the narrative has shifted from “this isn’t a war” to fighting until unconditional surrender while Americans die and prices rise, arguing Congress must stop it.

Vote in the midterms like your children’s and grandchildren’s lives depend on it. Because they do.

But that would make sense, so we're not gonna do that

Panic! At The Fertilizer Desk, US Edition

Americans: this is your regular reminder that maybe 0.01% of people who write for the news actually understand how fertilizer works.

But their editors all found out that scary headlines about "GLOBAL SHORTAGE??" get clicks.

Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that “it’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

international women’s day

In continuing proof that the universe rewards complaining, my bag appeared as soon as I hit submit

There is no farm suicide epidemic.

If you line up rural & blue collar occupations by suicide rate, farmers are way (WAY) down the list.

It's a good talking point for shaking money out of the gov't though, so the farm lobby keeps talking about it.

Debunk video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rvi...

“International Women’s Day” ending up on the only 23 hour day of the year.

It’s too easy to go to war

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

republicans have literally made everything worse and harder and more terrible over the course of my entire life and somehow* they keep coming back to power bc of our feckless corporate press and a weak willed opposition 😒

*sob

posit: kevin mitnick would be a slopbro

They like to trot out stats about how most small farms lose money.

They leave out the part about "Who can afford to own farms that keep losing money? Not poor people!"

It's kinda wild how the US Dept of Labor fully understands farmers are business owners & management. (That's how farmers are classed in labor stats.)

But somehow, "Farmers own a business & property, that means we're mgmt!" is still total news to lots of the folks who Care A Lot About Labor. 🤷‍♀️

This is the ultimate form of the sport. No brooms, no yelling, just a seated man pushing a rock at a target.

Not Canadian geese, Canada Geese. The country is named after them. They recognize no borders.

ASSMANNHAUSEN

ah yeah this is my house

why can’t tankers simply go really fast and four wheel drift around the strait of hormuz

just eat more beans, people

I have never experienced DST angst.

Maybe it’s that I don’t have a schedule on Sunday mornings. Never have, & since the last kid got old enough that he always sleeps in weekends, I almost never have anything likely to wake me early.
I also actually appreciate the purpose of DST. My locale […]

YES!!! COURT HOLDS KARI LAKE HAD AND HAS NO AUTHORITY AND ALL HER ACTIONS ARE VOID!

This is going to be short because... Sunday, but I didn't want you to have to wait until Monday for this.

There’s something gripping about Dolores O’Riordan’s self-harmonizing.

But, you see it's not me
It's not my family
In your head, in your head
They are fighting
With their tanks and their bombs
And their bombs and their guns
In your head in your head they are crying

Wanting to eliminate a nationality is bigotry.

What if individuals of that nationality do horrific crimes though?
Still bigotry.

What if some individuals of that nationality are themselves bigots?
Still bigotry.

There's no "one weird trick to justify eliminationism" here.

A makeshift mural on the fence at Broadview’s ICE concentration camp showing those publicly known to be killed by ICE.

Back at Broadview.

It was only a year ago that Elon Musk and DOGE were dominating the daily narrative. Now we're at war with Iran. In between we've had masked secret police in the streets killing people and well ... everything else.

One year.