Raisin’it

Trump Boat Bombings Worsen as New Horror Shakes Experts: “Alarm Bells” Remember the Southern Command admiral who resigned two weeks ago? Hill Republicans haven’t heard from him—and they don’t apparently want to.

The most important thing is to draw the obvious conclusions ourselves.
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Reminder: There’s no such thing as “a substack” and definitely no such thing as _your_ substack. www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...

Trump and the GOP have had TEN YEARS to come up with a “plan” and never done so.

ICE/CBP is rampaging through the burbs again this morning. Sightings and kidnappings reported across Bolingbrook, Summit, Addison, Bensenville, Melrose Park, Brookfield.

Vaccination and public health are at bottom gifts we give each other and ourselves. They are inherently social.

The alternative is pathological individualism, a fundamental rejection of others—one that sees humanity as an ideal gas of unconnected atoms.

Scared & lonely is no way to go thru life.

The day after Trump suggested the US would resume explosive nuclear testing "immediately," the US was the only nation to vote against a UN statement affirming the importance of the treaty that prevents it.

While this continues, people are shouting out allegations about overcrowding and medical emergencies inside the detention center from a lawsuit just filed yesterday.

Crowd has dwindled considerably. ~200 cops and feds here amassed vs ~50 protesters.

Protecting the Feds

Reporter: “There are about 10,000 US Forces in Caribbean. That is more than you just need to strike boats. What is the Pentagon gearing up for?”

Hegseth: “We take the security of our hemisphere very seriously.”

“Our hemisphere”.

Cue the wellness influencers getting even more sharks killed

The Office of Naval Research (for historical and other reasons) has been an important supporter of innovative research (including for me early in my career).

This is deeply worrisome and incredibly stupid.

File under "Shocking but not surprising"

Got it. Thanks.

A shaven-headed man in a white shirt

Ukraine’s military intelligence has caught up with another Russian war criminal who committed atrocities in the Kyiv region in 2022.

Lieutenant Colonel Veniamin Mazherin, 45, was blown up in his car in the Kemerovo region which is deep in the heart of Russia.

No Russian is safe.

Who was funding Dutch right-wing Geert Wilders?

Same guy who was funding Charlie Kirk, Laura Loomer, & Tommy Robinson: Zionist billionaire Robert Shillman

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WASHINGTON-The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create "quick reaction" forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S., according to internal Defense Department memos. The riot control units are a major shift for the Pentagon, underscoring the Trump administration's push to directly involve the military in responding to demonstrations and other domestic missions that have been off-limits except in emergencies.

A dangerous move. From the WSJ.

Good chance

Which slot?

So much cruelty

Wow!!!! Cool!!!

Not a gift link but I’m sure there’s one out there somewhere to be found.

will kim is still in ICE detention

Tee hee

As an herbalist, I love this. Too many charlatan herbalists out there who’ve gone Maga and Maha. So this warms me up.

“The [Harvard Salient] article also urged a return to values ‘rooted in blood, soil, language, and love of one’s own.’ The phrase ‘blood and soil’ was a Nazi slogan used to promote the importance of ethnic purity and territorial expansion.”

A quick reminder that the House is not in session because Speaker Johnson CANCELED it, not because of the current shutdown.

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It’s not law enforcement. It’s a deputized partisan militia.

Thank you for the gift link. And this is excellent. Truly. Just brings me more disgust with my party.