JayAllTheEms

a contemporary illustration of the caning of Charles Sumner, 1856

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Putin is already supplying intelligence to Iran to help them target US bases and service members in the Gulf region.

Now that Trump has announced that the US will suspend sanctions on Russian oil for as long as the Strait of Hormuz is closed, look for Putin to help Iran keep it blocked.

Idiocy.

JD's a go-along-to-get-along kind of guy, just the sort of person who should be president.

Screenshot from 1960s Japanese movie Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. A serious-looking man in a suit is explaining his latest idea. Subtitle reads 'It may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we could ask Mothra to help.'

The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.

there are lots of fairly grainy black and white photos -- I thought this one might have been enhanced and/or colorized, but it seems to be authentic.

I should have credited photographer Martin Rogers. The image is from the National Institutes of Health.

'using a gravedigger's shovel' is an exquisite touch

with the middle missing, I assumed the chain here was 'for millennia, most of humanity worked until their health broke, got shit on themselves, and died.'

bleak as it is, the point still stands, even if you're actually talking about sheep.

Did Elmer Fudd write the headline?

Mayor Tommy Carcetti, from The Wire

"What do you want me to do with it?"
'You're the mayor. You gotta eat it.'

eurgh, that was wretched.

from Harry Harlow's experiments, a baby Rhesus monkey, deprived of its mother, clings to a doll, a towel wrapped around a wire frame topped with a robotic caricature of a happy face. the monkey looks desperate and unbearable sad.

We did this experiment fifty years ago. The results were miserable.

Tourist Who Sued After Being Overpowered By Salsa Hopes For Change From Popular Taco Chain “For someone like me living in Germany and eating nothing spicy, it was a very big shock physically and mentally,” the tourist wrote in his complaint.

not the onion?

in Islamic Republic of Iran, decision makes YOU!

can i get paid to pee?

The US military is great at lethality. Truly world-class. Point to something and the US military can kill everyone there.

But lethality is a means, not an end. Ends are inherently political.

Said millions of times but bears repeating, since the people who don’t get it are in charge of the country.

[choking from a failed attempt to eat a devil dog, yodel, and yankee doodle at the same time, a complicated maneuver known as the "triple drake"] i was in love with the frisson of transgression. there was an element of gnosticism to it.

Very helpful! Thank you for the clear, complete answers.

the grammar is also a mess.

'copper smelting (one of the most-used metals in the world)'

needs to be:

'the smelting of copper (one of the most-used metals in the world)'

learn where to place your noun modifiers, for god's sake!

I'd assumed the presumptive explanation was that these people would "start new lives" in Eswatini, but you mention it's a holding space until they can be repatriated -- except that in practice, they just go to prison and rot. Does the administration have a stated intention or end goal?

Just to be super clear, when we're talking about third country nationals, are talking about, say, Hondurans and Guatemalans being sent halfway around the world? Are we talking about people from African nations being sent to country not their own but more or less in their neighborhood?

really enjoying that this canal plugs into the Suez, rather than actually emptying into the Med

antipodal maps always disappoint me because it turns out the world is a lot of water so most of the world is just opposite like

somewhere in the damn ocean

it was read aloud to me (and the rest of the class) by my fifth-grade teacher, Ms. Heiss, so it exists in a hazy golden glow.

all I remember is "It had a lifetime guarantee, and now it's broken. Should I die?" and the pins-in-peas shot through peashooters.

ripe for a reread.

oh god i just looked it up and it IS "hair of the dog," not "piss of the dog." i made a real fool of myself at my wife's gallery debut this morning

Can this be a solution?

I can't speak to the article, but DAMN that's a ferocious image of Peter.

it's painted by Lippo Memmi, in the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, San Gimignano. love to see it in person!

remind me of Marie's favourtie bistro place?

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

The Pushcart War! holy moly.

probably oughtta track down a copy and reread that

After Iran assault, Russians say U.S. can’t be trusted in Ukraine talks

those pieces of shit.
making up any fucking excuse to keep doing what they're doing