J. M. Justice

‘Sense of doom’: fear and foreboding over Iran war among London’s divided diaspora While some Iranian exiles took to the streets in support of the US and Israeli attacks, not all are in celebratory mood Sara* arranged slices of watermelon on a plate and poured mint tea into glass mugs. Outside her window, in north Finchley, lies the stretch of London known affectionately as Little Tehran, home to one of the UK’s largest Iranian communities. “When the bombing happened, the streets here went crazy,” she said. “People were covering themselves in flags and chanting for the king to come back.” Continue reading...

‘Sense of doom’: fear and foreboding over Iran war among London’s divided diaspora

I've said it many times: it is striking how many of the GOP pathologies that currently dominate public life were effectively test-run in the hothouse environment of climate debate.

"The Peace President." [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]

The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

Heard from the living room while I'm air- frying wings in the kitchen:

"Why? Why?! My kids play better than y'all!"

- my (not-Southern) wife, an elementary school teacher from India, watching the Super Bowl

My work here is done

I always think of that Nasser quote, that “the genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.”

Shocking video shows ICE agent fatally shooting woman in south Minneapolis The Department of Homeland Security says the agent was protecting himself. The video appears to show something different.

Regardless of how much the Department of Homeland Security is trying to claim that the shooting was justified, the video doesn’t lie. Just watch the video.

www.advocate.com/news/ice-kil...

this is actually much more important video

This is the video.

This Needs To Stop!🛑

Peeps, you DO realize that our non-white friends and neighbors...are now carrying their birth certificates and passports so they can PROVE they are US citizens "just in case"?

There is NO version of America where this is OK. Defund ICE. Restore due process and rule of law.

Could “can’t be done at scale = can’t be done“ be taken to mean that “at scale” just needs to mean something smaller? Recalling the 2008 recession and how “too big to fail” institutions forced debate over whether they therefore required bailing out or “so maybe let’s just make them smaller?”

SUV marked for Canton (MA) Animal Control parked in a driveway. A large tabby housecat with a collar is hanging on the rear passenger door and peering in suspiciously at the inside of the cabin.

Become ungovernable

Always shocking, never surprising

I took it as pointing out the hypocrisy of his anti-immigrant policies

Trump’s mother immigrated from Scotland. He’s first generation

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

1491 by Charles Mann

So… a modest proposal, you say? I’ll get my flatware 🍽️

My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.

Gerrymandering, sadly. Drawn into a safe district with surgical precision

Does this go back to the time those photos came out of them dropping bags out of the window a month or two ago? Or was that a different part of the White House?

And may the salvaged ballroom building materials be put to use in hallways houses, refugee centers, and homeless shelters.

I think six-seven hobbit-sized meals sounds like the ticket!
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(also a great way to use up the accumulated glut of produce from our CSA shares)

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Nooo, that’s where all of our saved seeds are

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Nimesh has backed out and cancelled his performance.

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.

What if the rapture happened a long time ago but only Amelia Earhart made the cut?