There's long been a sub-genre of Israeli entertainment dedicated to this. "Shooting and crying" they call it. We have it here in the U.S. too of course. I'm reminded of the old joke by Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle. www.welcometohellworld.com/we-deserve-it/
WATCH: “The answer has to be a more progressive tax system. Give people the necessities of life for free — childcare, healthcare… the rich keep getting richer…”
Lloyd Blankfein, Senior Chair of Goldman Sachs, out here sounding like @aoc.bsky.social & Bernie 👀 🎯
(From @bluegeorgia.bsky.social )
Inside the Department of War are two wolves:
"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."
"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
'some creative arts graduates don’t appear to earn a significant graduate premium, but the UK’s creative industries are worth £125bn a year or, to put it another way, more than £1 in every £20 in the UK economy – a larger proportion of the nation’s wealth than almost any other country on earth.' 1/3
The US was isolated in its opposition to the adoption of agreed conclusions at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, recording the only “no” vote at the UN on Monday.
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Pete Hegseth not surprisingly is mismanaging the war, both strategically and financially as some serious misuse of funds have left our military short on munitions. But don't worry, they have plenty of lobster and King Crab legs.
This is how we treat Ukraine⬇️
No matter what…
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.
No matter what.
“The indispensability of a liberal education is the freedom from being tied to the zeitgeist of one’s age or situation to love what is true, good, and beautiful, and to be initiated into the world while cultivating a love for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/upholding-li...
Here's the truth:
Senate Republicans could pay our TSA agents and fund FEMA today. In fact, they could've funded it last week. @democrats.senate.gov brought a simple, clean bill that would fund these essential agencies while we keep negotiating on ICE and CBP.
Republicans blocked it.
New from Bellingcat - Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
Not trying to pile on you, but this is such a common confusion and it is so frustrating, if not infuriating, to see it continually employed in lumping groups of people together.
It makes it easier for "us" to kill "them" if "they" are an undifferentiated mass of humanity who're hostile to "us."
There is also a significant population of Arabic-speaking Arabs in Iran, like there's a significant population of Kurds, Armenians, etc. Ther're still native Christians and Jews and Zoroastrians and others in the Islamic Republic whose history there predates all this. No part of the world is simple.
... And this:
THANK YOU, DAVID BENTLEY HART.
(Source: afkimel.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/d... )
From your mouth to God's ears, Johnny...
CNN follows NPR and Politico in finding that DOJ scrubbed the Epstein files of evidence related to a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar X.com Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was" LIVE GREENSBORO, NC cc # 45 our Children. 5:45 PT LIVE BREAKING NEWS TRUMP SPEAKS IN NORTH CAROLINA 'UNABOMBER' TED KACZYNSKI, 81, FOUND DEAD IN PRISON. GO TO NEWS 5:49 PM • 6/10/23 • 14M Views
George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor."
Donald Trump in 2023⬇️
Kyle Bassinga, 21, was found hanging from a tree in Marietta, GA. Police quickly ruled it a suicide, yet most such acts occur privately, not in public. Why is the mainstream media silent on this? We need answers and transparency.
Trump wasn't elected in a vacuum. A horrible person became president twice because horrible people kept voting for him.
There isn’t one American citizen that can defend the actions of the United States right now, we are a lawless country because of one man at the head of the executive branch.
#USA
Do something, say something, before its too late...
U.S. Historian Robert Kagan: "We Are Watching a Country Fall Under Dictatorship Almost Without Resistance"
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The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg. But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.
A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
If your freedom comes at the price of someone else losing theirs, you don’t want freedom, you want control.
#Resist
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That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason CO @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. • 24 L7 1.8K 15K Ill 399K ... Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer
So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.
