New Orleans white culture is apparently just being 32 forever.

Immediate jailtime for anyone that brings their dog to the dance bar.

The za got me jiggying to Breakdown Street like Mr. Bean.

It's a brutal time for young men. Napoleon is master of Europe. Only the British fleet stands before him. Oceans are now battlefields.

Trying to explain why something is wrong to the right: 'this is like something a minority would do'

VOICE ON THE RADIO: Trump says the economy is good ME: Wow. Guess the economy’s good VOICE ON THE RADIO: Gavin Newsom says trans kids are a menace ME: Wow. They do seem pretty menacing when you think about it VOICE ON THE RADIO: 🎵Call me Mr. Flintstone🎵 ME: Wow. I bet he can make my bed rock

They think they can do a Canary Mission/Hollywood blacklist type name-and-shame operation, but critically those disgusting little campaigns only worked when the culture was sympathetic/apathetic to the underlying cause. Going to be difficult to get people fired when everyone thinks they're heroes.

Just for reference, they are at a wildly popular location that draws a huge crowds to purchase king cakes in an area that is heavily populated by Vietnamese and Laotian residents.

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This not breaking at least top 10?? Philistines. Philistines everywhere I look.

This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.

Chinese Century tonite Chinese Century tonight queen? American Century of Humiliation x Chinese Century double feature tonite? 👀

personally I think that in a world with reproductive freedom, there will always be a majority of people who are deeply genuinely drawn to have kids and who love children, and there will also always be a large minority of people who go “nah, no thanks, I would prefer to do other things”

and it would probably be best to just adapt to this instead of the human rights horrors of forcing the issue

One thing this article does not really tackle is women workforce participation. Even in economically developing/culturally conservative countries, women's workforce participation is increasing. Sure, maybe a major factor is The Phones, but it could also just me a story of economic independence.

Journalists often go on hand-fed ride-alongs with agents. Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents. We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:

When I carry all the grocery bags in from the car in one trip

Damn Alan Palomo makes some absolutely killer dance pop. It's a shame his hibernation gaps between albums have been doubling with each passing project.

Absolutely lost it at the Joey-Yugi mid-season pre-battle No Matter What montage. Straight up doing a whole 90-second knockoff Creed song set to clips from just the first 30 episodes of this show like this was some epic brotherly relationship that we'd seen built up over seasons.

The trick with this is finding actual anti-ICE pols who say "training reform" but mean "hamstring ICE" and not the (far more historically common) pols who say "training reform" but mean "do nothing which effectively restrains ICE in any way" a la the perennial politics around "police training."

Of the list here, only Deus Ex is in my personal pantheon. But ranking the games I've played and completed from this list: 1. Deus Ex [pending completion, likely BG3 here] 2. HL2 (tho HL1 is better) 3. Star Wars: KOTOR 4. Mass Effect 5. Wolfenstein: TNO 6. Oblivion 7. Dark Souls 8. Dishonored

Local security services have sided with those of the central government, in defiance of local civilian politicians, against the populace

It's not an excuse, but it is worth remembering that mayors in most cities very much do not have control over their police departments if the mayor doesn't like something the cops want to do, a phenomenon that would be a red alert civ-mil alarm with the military but something we all accept w/cops

my man, you’re talking about the people who killed George Floyd

We live under the tyrannical rule of the loathsome Janissary Corps. What I would give for a Dem mayor/governor with the determination of Sultan Mahmud II.

Those of you who still insist on drawing a distinction between ICE and police should be aware that the police are not drawing that distinction.

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

Max Rebo:

You do not hate ICE enough

The only thing the newest video does is confirms what many know to be true and many more must internalize: these guys in uniform are titillated at the thought of gunning down unarmed libs. This is what they wake up hoping for. They regret their actions only insofar as they face potential punishment.

they made a whole website for people who used to carry their backpacks with one strap only

*Newsroom theme plays as The Great White Moderate stand-in character incoherently monologues about nothing for 2 minutes*

Security forces in Iran are now firing on protesters in cities like Tehran and Khorramabad. In Tehran, demonstrators reportedly set fire to the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Anyway ICE was filmed desecrating Renee Nicole Good’s memorial & doing violence to people who found that distasteful. Might be too soon to say if this falls into some kind of pattern of behavior if you’re the stupidest motherfucker on earth.

It would appear that uncritically funding the people that hate us so much that they mint coins commemorating body counts instead of listening to the people who said that the institutional rot within the police is so deeply engrained that they represent a danger to us all has mysteriously backfired.

It seems it's always a "Oops No Bones" Day when you ask Walz or the myriad of other Dem executives and leaders whether they can grow a spine to meet the moment. Not all of em, but too many aren't exactly demonstrating profiles in courage this week.

Gem alert

Scully let's split up. I'll interview this beautiful botanist and you go check out the sewer system full of human bones

Two Kurdish-majority cities, as I understand it. Also some major fighting in Northern Khorasan, Bojnurd specifically, but still mostly Kurdish metros (everyone, including me, always forgets the Khorasani Kurds).

I iced so many guys who looked exactly like these AI goons in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Tbh maybe worth a replay.

يحيا الشهداء

Pondering Ken Jennings' famous 'Businessmen' comment from his June 4, 2004 Jeopardy episode today.

There's no way to spin this story with a digital rant when the video showing what clearly happened reaches the hands of millions of Americans long before the post drops.

Cannot be overstated that among conservative gun owners and the cops, there is no mournful acknowledgment that the dangers of this world might force them to use a gun in self-defense. There is gleeful longing for a situation where they would get to use their guns to kill and claim self-defense.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.