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Screenshot from article: Well, we are also assassinating the heads of the regime. Well, the head of the regime was, in this case, the Ayatollah, who is the chief military commander who also happens to be a theocrat with apocalyptic plans for the world.

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Alright time for the ritual. Time to post our favorite part

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

Dogs may be humans’ best friends, but they’re also kind of our greatest invention. www.iflscience.com/the-rise-and...

Children who have directly experienced the effects of climate change were among the worst affected by what the study calls "eco-emotions". www.iflscience.com/what-the-cli...

Cillian Murphy in Breakfast at Pluto

Cillian Murphy in Peacock

Fun fact: these images are from two different cillian murphy movies

This is why the fight over puberty blockers was always absurd. They were the compromise to make cis people comfortable. Otherwise, trans youth will just jump to HRT to transition.

"We have to remember, the founding era, if you want to invoke the founding era, to be a *habitual* drunkard you had to do *double* that."

Habitual drunkard laws are the historical analogue being pushed by DOJ to support prohibiting marijuana users from possessing guns

Interesting historical comparisons from Gorsuch in the marijuana argument, making the point that smoking every other day wouldn't cut it in the founding era:

"The American Temperance Society back in the day said that 8 shots of whiskey a day only made you an *occasional* drunkard..."

all-timer sports graphic dropped

The migrant workers/slaves who built the city is geopolitics. The dirty money, the sanctions evasion, the uneasy relationships with neighbours, the war UAE funds in Sudan... Anyone living there is exposed to geopolitics. Just now they can't pretend otherwise.

"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."

Well, yes, trans people are getting drugs; yes, from entirely unregulated sources; yes, without counselling; yes, without blood tests; yes, they are self-administering; yes, without clinical oversight; yes, risking long term harm; yes, it is highly suboptimal.

What did you think would happen?

It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer.

In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

There are a lot of British foreign policy positions that make me wish key figures had a toddler accompanying them at all times asking “but why?” to every explanation

I somewhat understand the rational argument for, like, “this war has started and we’re in no position to undo it, so we have to protect our citizens/bases/allies”, but, I mean, for fuck’s sake, we’re gonna be actively aiding the belligerents in this war

Procedural liberalism on display. We support the murder of innocents, the immoral and demonic violence, but the President didn't fill out the right paperwork.

The same logic that calls for higher police training budgets and more diversity among prison guards. Polishing the bars of the cage.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

This aged well. Note the author.

I assume you saw this too

What "it's a distraction" people fundamentally need to understand about fascism is that fascism's entire mode of operation is diverting popular anger/anxiety/despair into channels of violence against the Other (both internal and external).

It's not flailing, it's the whole strategy.

I am already seeing "it's a distraction!" takes and please fucking kill me

These people are the enemies of humanity, it’s not more complex than this.

Israeli media reporting that the US and Israel have divided up the Iran attack thus: the US is targeting infrastructure, Israel is focussed on taking out Iran's leadership

It should go without saying that the aim here is to collapse Iran - a country of ninety million people - into ungovernable chaos and Mad Max-style warlord catastrophe, much as they have every other country from Libya to Afghanistan that they could not buy off.

It's easy to forget, but the Vietnam and Iraq wars were fairly popular with the general public before they became total quagmires.

This war, on the other hand, seems to be deeply unpopular from the very start.

The logical consequences Support independent media Congress gave Trump a free pass for bombing Iran – his attack on Venezuela is the logical consequence  by Alex Rikleen As a teacher, part of my job was responding when a ...

As I wrote after the Venezuela attack, Congress had a constitutional duty to impeach in that moment.
Anything less invited further attacks.
Congress neglected their oaths.
Not only did they fail to impeach, they barely responded at all.

www.welcometohellworld.com/the-logical-...

Iran launches retaliatory strikes across the Middle East after US and Israel attack – live Iran targets US military bases and Israel as Donald Trump says ‘major combat operation’ under way

"UK, Germany and France have condemned Iranian attacks on countries in the region saying Iran must refrain from indiscriminate military strikes"

They did not comment on US and Israeli attacks

Beggars belief, but just what you would expect from these US lapdogs

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

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