like I said, the MAGA fascists always and inevitably grossly underestimate the resolve of women

The MAGA regime is currently doubling down on its tactical stance of “we will kill women like dogs for merely displeasing us.”

things go into my concepts without leaving a remainder but that’s just me so

It's funny how Le grand cahier and The Honourable Schoolboy have the same plot

To serve man ...

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While Waterman’s naive assumptions about which provinces will be “red” or “blue“ states can be roundly mocked, the game plan here is deadly serious. Waterman is, bluntly, correct about the massive upheaval Albertan separation would create, especially under American political and military pressure.

PSA it’s ok to turn off autoplay so you have a little bit of choice about which videos you see

the ICE officer calling a woman he just murdered a “fucking bitch” is visceral, but imo the most material new information in the latest video is that she very clearly turns the wheel away from the officer right before it happens

Part of the reason why this moment is so disorienting is that we are constantly absolving the past to condemn the present. We do this with Trump, too. It's rhetorically satisfying, but it makes understanding or appropriately responding to anything impossible.

I need to watch the fourth series of Babylon Berlin.

elon musk trying his best to turn twitter into a 1998 AOL groomer chatroom, down to the manipulated photos.

Basically impossible to overstate the extent to which public masturbation over the idea of getting to kill people has been the dominant mode of communication from the right-wing media and intellectual sphere for years now.

the fash do not like queer women! lesbians are opting out of a central system of control (heterosexual marriage to a man) and it makes them furious

The Israeli view on intervening in Iran - that this is even a topic of debate is stomach churning

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My predictions: 1. The bastards will get away with it 2. Their lies will be repeated often enough to become the folk memory

The New York Times is going to run this under a headline like “Video shows Renee Good trying to flee. Trump says she threatened an agent. The truth may lie somewhere in between.” Or “In video, a question: what is truth?” or “ICE shooting video raises questions about nature of evidence”

The thing these losers have figured out is that absolutely nobody with a megaphone is willing to just say they’re lying. So if they keep saying the “right” things even when it’s visibly false, they’ll get away with it.

If the video Hayes is referencing here is authentic, then Good was murdered in cold blood by a man who had no reason to be afraid because he was angry at her for talking back.

If it isn't clear already, this guy clearly had a fantasy of murdering some 'bitch lib' for many many years and as of now it looks like he's gonna get away with it! I hope I'm wrong but I have zero confidence anything is gonna happen

Charles Haywood loves Franco. His Foundation recently donated to The Claremont Institute, which helped propel Vance’s career American Reformer, whose director is Chris Buskirk, who co-founded the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network w/ Vance American Moment whose advisory board has included Vance. 1/

one net effect of this will just be to make life a little harder for Americans in ways, they can’t quite put their finger on, because some of these organizations do the invisible work of multilateralism that enables contemporary life; another will be to hold up progress on most shared global goal…

The Trump War Room thinks it’s exculpatory:

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

The democratic collapse of my country is making it hard to focus on the collapse of my profession

God, we've been going through this for so long now. Ten years deep mpw. if you're on Twitter (yes, I know, crucify us, westerners), there are people reporting on what feels like a new lynching every few hours in India. It's absolutely horrifying. Ethnonationalism is a curse, a plague.

"bearing witness" is the dumbest most online nonsense concept ive ever heard. if you feel like you absolutely need to traumatize yourself for personal beatification do it by going to a protest and getting teargassed by the cops rather than sitting alone watching snuff at home for no reason

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We have to return to understanding journalism not as Serious Men (and Joan Didion) Holding Power To Account as in the self-flattering image of the Cold War but as 'You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war'

i have spent a lot of time studying how journalists and newsrooms report under persistent threats of violence from repressive states and armed non-state actors. the legacy US political press is probably the worst group of people on the planet for fulfilling that role.

Boar's Head, again. Listeria, again. Pecorino cheese

These always seem to elicit references to obsolete technologies, but I was just thinking how alphabetizing and looking something up in an actual dictionary must have suffered in the same way handwriting and cursive have in the internet age.

encouraging signs this isn't going to be easily buried

i'm glad intentionally ugly glasses are right-coded now.

This is just embarrassing. If the Royal Society is not going to make a stand on CSAM, what would it ever take a stand on?

They are losing support to the broader right bloc. Their stupid advisers view this as losing support to Reform - rather than Surrey estate agents having voted Labour last year and still despising Nigel, seeing no reason to bother next time but maybe Tory as a protest if LDs look too high-taxing

Anyway, Iranians have fairly consistently demonstrated throughout the last century a very strong territorial national identity that transcends ethnic boundaries. Balkanisation would be, to be quite frank, just not a very popular proposition almost anywhere.

Lmao. A federation of North and South Azerbaijan would be easily one of the least stable countries imaginable.

If you look at the feed of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies staffers you'll see that they're just straight up agitating for balkanization, in the exact same way they want Syria to be broken up into three to five states

i think it’s crazy that we still let Evan Urquhart write about trans women

"Long Live the Shah"? Oh no

my entire timeline is going to hauve covid for a month.

i have a kind of joke theory that the freudian subject was decomposed by the collapse of classical education, and the forms of inferiority it produced and metaphors it entrained.

remember how the image of heather heyer was recuperated after years of doing nothing.

Jesus wept. I literally cannot fathom the liberal IR mind. "I totally approve of the fascist regime bombing Iran, because that'll lead to freedom. Wait, the fascist regime bombed Venezuela? That's horrible!"

increasingly feel the geopolitical vision of the revisionist powers can be compared not unfairly to liquid snake's monologue

The value of a million dollars decreases ever further over time via inflation, thus reducing the incentive to solve the Millennium Prize problems. They may never be solved.

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