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Shabbat shalom!

And I have mixed feelings on trying to tie Arda's origins to Earth's.

Ah, so you're glad that Arda Transformed wasn't canonized. Got it. Personally I'm ambivalent. I don't really think there is a solid canon on questions where Tolkien's later notes disagree with the published Silmarillion.

Dwarves are explicitly ensouled, though. The real question is what happens to them when they die.

Yeah, I've mislaid my copy of Morgoth's Ring, but I've got it here somewhere. I meant "What is one supposed to be grateful for the non-canonical status of?"

Can we? They're weird and Catholic, for sure, but why discard them?

Which "it?" The weird parts or the removal?

Folks, please note this. The top military official overseeing Trump's boat bombings recently resigned with no explanation, and now Republicans in Congress are refusing to press for his testimony even in a classified setting.

Lots of new behind-the-scenes reporting in this piece:

I don't think four years counts as "long dead." It's still a bad piece, though.

You keep reposting this essay like it’s a magic bullet. Just because someone wrote an analysis, doesn’t mean it’s any good. Andrew Wakefield got published, after all.

You know... this just does not seem like a healthy campaign to me.

1) that 44% is terrifying and also unsurprising because all these college polls have basically said that many men would happily commit SA as long as the q isn’t phrased that way

2) where is the option that goes, “*all* people who might be involved in a sexual experience must actively choose it”???

No one wants this. The conservative suburbanites don't want it, the farmers don't want it, the construction guys don't want it. The people who aren't hardcore nazis voted for this because they thought mass deportations meant millions of totally hallucinated dick tracy villains getting rounded up

note how the messaging has shifting from "we're targeting criminals" to "we're deporting everyone"

One of the things about selecting for loyalty and obedience *uber alles* is that you lose any ability to be flexible. For example, you may find a policy decision is hugely unpopular and dangerous and be committed to it anyways because nobody wishes to be seen as breaking ranks.

Yashar kocheich

So if you want a sense of how insane some of the anti-Israel rhetoric from people like Ryan Grim is, Google Emad al Saraj & Cancer.

While a prisoner in Israel (for murder and attempted murder) Emad was diagnosed with cancer by Israeli doctors at Barzilai hospital & treated with chemo.

This is a longstanding, thoroughly disproven lie.

Vance is carving out a little niche for himself as the guy who tells vicious, racist lies about non-white people to massage the egos of white nationalists. And the *specific* lies he tells reveal he’s well versed in white nationalist propaganda.

Got the job, or got in contact?

I realized now that its possible that "blue collar" in US cultural imagination is similar to things in foreign media where characters wear "traditionalist" clothing that amalgamates together different periods of time into a homogeneous aesthetic. Its now a "traditional costume" in America like

It's almost as if they have nothing ready to start building and just demolished the East Wing as quickly as possible so no one could stop them.

Y’all remember what didn’t happen when Biden was president? *Any* of this shit. Tariffs, war with Venezuela, masked secret police grabbing people off the streets, people about to lose food aid, health care premiums skyrocketing, none of this.

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

The sworn affidavit submitted in support of the Criminal Complaint in this matter tells a very different—and largely fictional—story. For example, Special Agent Steven Fuentes of ICE, HSI, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) swore to the following: On June 20, 2025, [HSI, ICE-ERO, and TxDPS] were conducting surveillance at a residence on Benrus, in San Antonio, Texas, in the Western District of Texas. Database checks indicated that Jaime Albert QUINTANILLA-Chavez, with a Final Order of Removal from an Immigration Judge, was residing at the above address. At approximately 0715 a.m., QUINTANILLA exited the residence and entered a white Dodge Ram. The Dodge Ram was towing a trailer containing construction equipment. Both license plates for the truck and trailer were expired. ECF No. 1 ¶ 2 (emphasis added). Fuentes also swore that (1) the Defendant refused to “follow any commands”; (2) after the Defendant was blocked in between the officers’ vehicles, he was given “multiple verbal commands to exit the vehicle”; and (3) the Defendant “fought the law enforcement officers.” Id. ¶¶ 3–4. Fuentes further testified at the preliminary hearing that the Defendant was surveilled (and taken into custody) because he was subject to a Final Order of Removal from an Immigration Judge. See ECF No. 12, 6/26 Preliminary Hr’g Tr. at 4:20–25. Despite HSI’s sworn statement to the Magistrate Judge that the vehicle was stopped because of expired license plates, the Assistant U.S. Attorney conceded at a bond hearing in July 2025 that Fuentes had “misrepresented what was going on.” ECF No. 29, 7/10 Hr’g Tr. at 8:12–

The Defendant pulled over, came to a stop, and took out his cell phone to call a friend to come pick up the only other occupant of his vehicle: his weenie dog, Rocky. ECF No. 29, 7/10 Hr’g Tr. at 29:9–18. The Defendant’s friend saw from his video messaging application that there were men aiming guns at the Defendant and yelling at him. See id. at 25:17–21.

This dismissal opinion on a failed ICE arrest that @seamushughes.bsky.social found is worth reading in its entirety. Come for the debunking of DHS "fiction," stay for the snark about wiener dog, but definitely take time to read the 18 USC 111 analysis.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Meme showing six logical operators illustrated with jack-o’-lantern images. trick OR treat trick AND treat trick XOR treat trick NOR treat trick NAND treat trick XNOR treat

Happy logical operator Halloween! 🎃

Deplatforming Nazis is so successful that Musk purchased Twitter to replatform them.

This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

One person legitimately told me “Zionism is a death cult of total subservience to the state and its leader“ which makes it blatantly obvious that they’ve never talked to a single fucking Israeli ever once in their entire life

Nazism has a specific goal and worldview and ideology that makes it different from your regular every day ethnonationalism. And that’s entirely fucking obvious.

I think the main reason you call Zionists specifically Nazis is because you got a hard on from victim blaming genocide

Zionism is an ethnonationalist ideology. Many things are ethnonationalist ideologies.

If you think that Nazism is defined by being an ethnonationalist ideology, then you’re also calling every Palestinian group Nazis too because they’re also ethnonationalist.