unpair malnourished peasant spear levies circa 1000 ad: can form and hold a line these overpaid over equipped chuds: cant form line apparently

Ross knew that and yet he casually walked by the front, back, and front of the car, phone out, so that if Good moved the car he could shoot her. He did this in a way CBP has been found to do before because they know they get away with it

For a literal decade the official CBP policy has been “don’t stand in front of or behind vehicles” because the decade before that their internally commissioned studies found that agents were putting themselves in front of vehicles so as to shoot the occupants

This is extremely important

but to see a woman say with kindness "I'm not mad at you" before being murdered by state authorities, who have now gone on to claim her killing was just and right, and we're here making the case she was acting with righteousness and killed unjustly this is just Martyrdom

it was both a set of religious-political claims about the meaning of a death and a moral vision of how to be in the world obviously it has been wildly influential through the ages, it's still a part of our present, it's been in various refracted ways in the background of nonviolent resistance etc

I wrote a book about ancient Christian martyrdom and this is really sticking with me the stories of martyrs emphasized their righteousness and self-control in the face of state authorities who lacked both early Christians sought to train themselves to replicate that way of being from the stories

It took several years for my first wife (from Portugal) to recognize the smell of a skunk - before that she thought Americans just smoked the worse weed imaginable by the side of the highway a lot

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

There was maybe a time in the past century that a person of good conscience could convince themselves that membership in the Republican Party was not a stain on their immortal soul but that hasn’t been true for a long time

The right wing position is if you are queer in any way, or signal support for the queer community, you deserve it when they kill you

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

This is a favorite one shared by a friend. The outdoors are of course political for *many* reasons.

Still, the raid is by any measure a success. The Continental Army has burned eight of the houses, killed one redcoat and taken five prisoners—and the large quantity of ammunition fired at them inflicts not one casualty. They have the added satisfaction of ruining their enemy’s date night. 6/6

The raiders reach their targets without being detected. But some of the soldiers begin to torch the houses before Knowlton’s signal, and they have to double back to their lines prematurely under fire from the British cannon on Bunker Hill. 5/6

The raid that spurs the alarm is led by Maj. Thomas Knowlton, who takes 200 soldiers from Cobble Hill into empty Charlestown. This town was destroyed by the British in June, but 14 houses still stand. The redcoats have been stripping them for firewood and the patriots want to deny them the fuel. 4/6

The audience laughs, thinking it’s part of the performance. But British commander Gen. Richard Howe, who’s in the seats, realizes the news is real. “Officers to your alarm posts,” he orders, and actors rush to change from costumes into uniforms. Amid a charge for the exits, some women faint. 3/6

The play, written by Maj. Gen. John Burgoyne, portrays the Yankees as rustic fools led by bumblers. A British officer playing the part of George Washington, in an oversized wig and rusty sword, has just taken the stage when a shout goes up: “The Yankees are attacking our works on Bunker Hill! 2/6

Jan. 8, 1776: In Boston, a pretend war is interrupted by the real thing. Officers of the British Army and their escorts are watching a farce play entitled “The Blockade of Boston,” unaware that their American enemies are about to launch a night attack behind the siege lines at Charlestown. 1/6

manifesting

1. ICE will kill you. 2. Trumpists will lie to justify it. 3. Because they are all thug trash.

Mayor Jacob Frey: “There’s little I can say again that will make this situation better, but I do have a message for our community, for our city, and I have a message for ICE — To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis” I wish more officials would abandon decorum when situations are truly egregious

ice agents simply aren't trained well enough to be on the street. they are a genuine danger to citizens

Which brings us around to my ultimate thesis, which is that the Roman Republic conquered the entire world it knew...because of woke.

Glory to the Republic and those who defended her

Centrists: I'm sure TX 'gender ideology' ban will only apply to a few polemic women's studies books that went too far Texas: You can't assign Plato in a philosophy class anymore

Okay, I did it New at The Evening Constitutional! Why Donald Trump is an actual factual traitor, within the meaning of the Treason Clause eveningconstitutional.net/donald-trump...

Evolution doesn’t always take thousands or millions of years. Sometimes it happens right before our eyes. Such is the case with the Anna’s hummingbird, a species that has undergone a dramatic transformation in a few generations, thanks to the advent of hummingbird feeders: https://scim.ag/3YMuQQu

the Greenland shit is 'a distraction' in the sense that putting an IED in a preschool to get the cops away from your bank robbery is a distraction: it will probably work in the near term, it's massively stupid as a strategy in the long term in terms of heat on you, and the stakes are deadly serious

not beating the allegations that antivax beliefs are downstream of being afwaid of needles

The reality is that a lot of SSA clients need specialist help. They are older, many have low computer literacy or in poor health.

The Trump administration's key changes have been a) to add more burdens to SSA clients, increasing frictions and b) to expect that SSA clients will be able to manage those burdens via online processes without help. Recipe for failure.

The Trump administration has said it was improving the SSA. A year in, it looks like the mess that everyone else predicted. Not enough staff, manipulation of numbers and declining performance. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

the terracotta warriors are literally painted, by the way, it's why most of them remain in the pits - they lost their color when exposed, and Chinese archaeologists and other scientists have been trying to figure out a way to excavate the rest while keeping the paint intact

Historians also debate the proliferation of this cultic figure, whom many believe to have been a tutelary spirit

Proud to present this pictorial thread of Jamelle Bouie insulting you #1: You're a dumbass

Right. If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests

So Hitler's position in 1940/1941 is not a good position ruined by foolish decisions, but in fact a deceptively weak position that is almost certainly doomed, leading to insane gambles that only make it worse. The catastrophic mistake was having a war, a result of the worse mistake of being a Nazi.

The thing is that he does not retain any options regarding this. Even if you accept that there was legal precedent to rendition Maduro—there is no possible AUMF that covers the military occupation of Venezuela. There is straightforwardly no legal authorization for the President to do any of this.

I spoke with our local librarian when he instituted the policy, and he told me what often happened was kids just stopped taking out books forever because they did not want to tell parents about fines, and once they get in the habit of never taking anything out, that habit lasts a lifetime.

the legal framework against CSAM was strong and well-established, and the Trump administration has effectively destroyed it because one of their own makes it.

Would like to take this moment for us to appreciate the contrast with Biden admin Latin America policy which at least featured attempts to make things more democratic and helped ensure a smooth transition of power in Brazil.

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

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