This is actually a relevant factor here: it's been pretty clear SOUTHCOM, whose commander resigned, has been pushing back, at least somewhat. They're putting it under the operational command of SOCOM specifically because that's the most already rotten place you'll find people happy to do crimes.

unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

What do you think Tom Landry’s favorite slur was?

In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

You can fuck right off, NYTimes

Every American should have this in their wallet:

Come to this Pen and Pencil event I'm organizing with novelist Liz Moore in conversation with the great Dave Davies! It's the Thursday after Thanksgiving. Sign up on our janky website here: penandpencil.org/content.aspx...

Swiss Cheese Pervert

Say what you will, she managed to resolve two cases simultaneously!

The airlines literally give you slippers if you spend enough money on your ticket. Wear your damn slippers on a plane. bsky.app/profile/atru...

In an interview today, Netanyahu says the following •There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia •Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories •Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran

More evidence for abolishing ICE at the first opportunity.

Jeet Heer's essay on Jeffrey Epstein's role as a foreign policy influence agent is eye-opening and an essential read. It's remarkable that given all the ink spilled over this man—most of it simple scandal-mongering—we still have such a feint understanding of his project. This clarifies a great deal.

Maybe cyber charter schools can spend down some of their massive reserves... www.researchforaction.org/wp-content/u...

i get that the past two popes also had cranky uncle energy but this still whips

It would be cool if SEPTA ran shuttles up and down Market Street for Marathon weekend since the 4 inch slider idea was a bust

Teens from juvenile diversion program MileUp will be among the thousands of athletes participating in this weekend’s races. They’re running for more than accolades.

Activists rallied outside the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center on Thursday to press their assertion that ICE has been allowed to turn the courthouse into “a hunting ground” for immigrants. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/ice-arr...

Amazing story. Imagine a world with: More time for Wordle bc you’re not driving Less traffic Cleaner air

"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.

You can turn school buildings into (affordable) housing, and the parallels between the Riverview Wellness Village and schools to housing idea seem dense

Even the murderer, the guy who ordered the journalist to be executed and dismembered with a bone saw, looks a bit embarassed for our American president.

Our next bath of 3D printed whistles are in process, and we have requests to supply multiple large trainings over the next 2 weeks. We’ll also hand out hundreds of whistles (for free!) in heavily immigrant communities this week.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

The U.S. intelligence community concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing and dismemberment of a Post columnist, making President Trump's formal dinner for the prince on Tuesday a dramatic step in public rehabilitation. https://wapo.st/3LOwEFn

It's fucked up that people only take London's werewolf problem seriously for one month out of the year.

Here is where we are, so clearly stated, as always, you should thank Audrey Watters for creating the words to meet the moment

"Uh, yeah, hi Mr. President. Thank you for taking my call. You see, I am in class right now and a student has asked an astute question about race. Can you please let me know if I can answer? Thanks..."

And to be sure! We can quibble about intention and what it means and no, that's not *really* a book banning but ... it is. Because of a podcast, there are teachers who are breaking the law if they encourage a student to use context clues to determine the meaning of a word.

Every Marcus Hayes article should have to link to the “have another light” video

For every Stringer Bell, a hundred Shamrocks

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar: "So I'm putting a team together..." Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

Great scoop! www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

John Fetterman is out on Twitter/X trying to use @pghguild.com’s win to launder the personal and political reputation he rapidly squandered by outing himself as a genocidal loser who pulled a bait-and-switch on his constituents once his term started

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Today’s must read

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

David Guinn’s “Schuylkill Falls” is located on JFK a half block west from 30th Street. David created the project with Justin Geller, 10th Floor Productions, Sid, and Le Josh for Brandywine Realty at Schuylkill Yards.

Fetterman's office doesn't even let you leave voicemails anymore. What an absolute piece of shit senator.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

This feels like the Sixers arena debacle all over again. Via @jakeblumgart www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Supreme Court issues a stay, with three dissenting and Brett Kavanaugh concurring separate to note that hunger tends to be brief

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

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im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.