Me: surely, he didn't actually say the words in the quotes in that order. this is cartoon villain level stuff... [looks it up, confirms that he did, in fact, say this] Jesus Christ.

Hmm. It turns out that all those Gen X movies about high school being a nightmare were because our generation sucks.

That is so ridiculous. How can you believe in an omniscient, omnipotent God and yet also believe you can gaslight that same God into doing something because you have lots of exploding metal?

“What is most repugnant to me in America is not the extreme freedom that reigns there, it is the lack of a guarantee against tyranny.” – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835/40)

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

You dont need to compare the treatment of trans people in America to the treatment of Jews by Nazis when Nazis came for the trans people first

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The illiterate soldier described is the future Shah Reza Pahlavi, father of the Shah deposed by the Iranian Revolution, and grandfather of the man who calls himself the rightful heir to the throne today.

I mentioned Reza Aslan’s “An American Martyr in Persia” the other day, and wanted to share this passage. It’s 1909, and the city of Tabriz is the center of a popular democratic revolution against the monarchy. The Cossack Brigade is led by Russian officers propping up the regime.

after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

Sci Fi Writers: In the 21st century the wars will be fought over water America’s white people: yes eventually perhaps, but first we want to fight a few wars to defend pedophiles with oceangoing yachts

What exactly is Christian Zionism, you ask. This article from Encyclopedia Brittanica is very thorough - history, theology, key players, foreign policy. An excellent primer www.britannica.com/topic/Christ...

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

This is in fact a perfect cartoon

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Chaos at Dallas polling places tonight. I'm supporting Talarico, but if these polling hours aren't extended after the issues earlier today - and at the hands of Ken Paxton no less - that is incredibly unfair to Jasmine Crockett.

Marjorie taylor Greene has strongly implied she resigned her seat because of death threats. It seems possible Romney chose not to run again because of death threats...

We have done this *multiple* times with different middle eastern groups and *every time* is has ended up making thing horrifically worse. Osama Bin Laden didn't come from fucking nowhere ...

These people are batshit and belong nowhere near weapons … or other people

Out: Vote Blue No Matter Who In: PRIMARY THAT FUCKER OR YOU'RE A SUCKER

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

The United States gave Netanyahu over $24 billion in taxpayer dollars to fund his horrific war in Gaza. That wasn't enough. Netanyahu wanted war with Iran. Trump gave him one. The American people — not Netanyahu’s right-wing government — should determine U.S. foreign policy.

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Even more important for people to read this, today.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

This is right. And people hate to hear it, but Joe Biden’s single most important task was to Trump-proof the US. His task was to destroy the Republican Party to punish them for Trump, salt the earth over them, and implement big structural reforms to stop future R minority extremism. And he failed.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Short version: the Persian people, with as rich a cultural inheritance as the Greeks or Italians/Romans, and who dreamed of ruling over themselves as an independent modern state, but the Western powers had other plans.

For a long time, I thought the modern history of Iran began with the CIA overthrowing Mossadegh and installing the Shah in the early 50s. But the tragedies of that poor country go back much further. Read “An American Martyr in Persia” by Reza Aslan for an excellent introduction.

Where they lying then, or are they lying now? Honestly it's probably somehow both lol

Your “boos” don’t bother me; I’ve seen what you cheer

The 53 cars at the Hagerstown Maryland warehouse this morning, appearing a few hours after we left, are NOT the 100 on their way from Minneapolis. Detention center is more MASSIVE than you can imagine. All this “moving in” while there’s a law suit from MD & other actions to keep from opening.

Exactly. This. No imminent threat!!

We've entered a new phase of our history. What happens in the next few days could shape a generation. All I can say is that we must hold the line, stay the course, and love our country enough to regain control of her destiny.

DOGE never left

"During the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, Ayatollah Khomeini decided to release the African American hostages first as a demonstration of solidarity with the world’s oppressed peoples. "

If you want to learn a little bit more about the history of Iran and why things are the way they are right now, throughline from @npr.org did a great episode series a while back. Take a listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6KA...

AI could never

There’s a pretty robust case to make that the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979, the revolution itself, and the policies of the Iranian government towards the US since, was all blowback from the CIA’s decision to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953. www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...

If you wanna be radicalized against GenAI, try running an online business while these thieving shitbricks try to scrape your site at all hours of the day, creating a looping, endless DDoS. Fuck generative "AI." It's all slop built on wholesale theft.