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Having spent the first 30 years of my life in the Northeast Corridor, including a decade in the Ivy League, & now 20 years in Wisconsin, I have come to view this deep “flyover country” parochialism at the heart of the Fourth Estate as one of the central pathologies threatening 🇺🇸 democracy.
Basically, all of US political life & discourse is premised on the illusion of symmetry between the parties, which requires vastly overstating the flaws of liberals & studiously ingoring the true nature of MAGA.
Establishment journos & pundits will maintain that illusion at any cost.
"Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades."
Don’t look away: this atrocity was carried out with our tax dollars. Trump's attempts to misplace fault won't wash away the blood on his hands. Or, alas, on ours.
conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity
welp.
Attacks leave dead vs killed
The US and Israel are bombing schools, hospitals (nine hospitals) and other civilian facilities in Iran. They have massacred over 700 civilians, including nearly 200 children. Absolute genocidal monsters.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
They’d like to make sure their tax $$$ is going to bombs, not healthcare and public education
lmao people worrying about an apple watch in a SCIF when these guys are drawing up war plans in claude and placing side bets with online bookies
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Epstein had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case | Miami Herald share.google/5l80KTHCwcf1...
hey gen z welcome to republican governance
Well, it was either world war three or letting black people have jobs, so I see why people just went with the world war
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
the former host of celebrity apprentice and the former host of fox & friends weekend are launching bombs and destabilizing the world for generations all because voters decided their biggest issue was a trans kid playing jv tennis with their friends 4 states over
It’s not lost on me that this is happening during Ramadan and during fasting hrs.
For the first time in 25 years of Gallup polling, more Americans say they sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis.
💯💯💯I subscribed after reading
Still seems crazy that Richard Hanania wrote for years under a white power banner and is just like, part of the media landscape.
V. interesting
Advait Palival the dipshit desi techbro behind Einstein AI has changed the text on his website (what is in the post Im quoting below is what it looked like a day ago), after giving a very defensive interview to Futurism.
The truth is AI bros do not care what harm they cause.
A wonderful piece by Victor Ray and, as always, Du Bois gave us insight decades ago:
“It is curious to see America, the United States, looking on herself, first, as a sort of natural peacemaker, then as a moral protagonist in this terrible time. No nation is less fitted for this role.”
This guy gets it.
In the end, as the professoriate collapses, we will be speaking to those precious few who really want to learn and think and reason, who are told every day by our vacuous corporate overlords that the life of the mind is for chumps.
The self-destructive stupidity that AI celebrates hurts us all.
Me with a scoop/exclusive
Five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, federal authorities “directed” NY law enforcement authorities to “stand down” their investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by the Department of Justice show.
Part of new Timeline on NY and Epstein.
I'M NOT GIVING 'BENEFITS OF DOUBT' DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH
everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine
