Southern Jacobin

This Hit Series Wasn’t Created for Black Fans. We Made It Our Own Anyway. Our long and complicated relationship with the late Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball.

Akira Toriyama died two years ago today. When he passed, I explained how Black American fans of Dragon Ball reinterpreted the series into a contemporary pillar of our culture.

I loved writing this essay, and I hope you enjoy it, too. Piccolo is wearing a wave cap.

slate.com/culture/2024...

Ignoring the obvious left wing reasons to prosecute these insiders even as a CIA Democrat you can justify prosecutions based on illegal use of highly classified information and profligate use of your security clearance.

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Wearing my Ilhan FAFO campaign shirt in honor of this nuclear weapons test

The U.S. Lost a (Fictional) War With Iran 18 Years Ago Millennium Challenge 2002 was a military exercise that reminded the U.S. military that the enemy doesn't always do what you want it to do.

Real heads know

www.popularmechanics.com/military/a30...

Brokers have told the FT that war risk insurers have submitted cancellation notices for policies covering ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil chokepoint, with prices set to rise as much as 50% in the coming days ft.trib.al/Dc82Tff

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.

I had two Captains while I served in the Navy that were foaming at the mouth Millinerian evangelicals. I hope they're currently stationed in the ME and can see their apocalypse first hand

Operation Woot Groupon

All I can think about is all the 18-22 year old service members who are going to die so this cabal of pedophiles can delay their reckoning.

Breaking: Explosions are being heard in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, according to initial reports.

BREAKING: Iran retaliates targeting US military bases across the Middle East.

one of gods most cursed cities

"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true."
John Steinbeck, born on this day in 1902

Updating the Poverty of Philosophy to accommodate Ayn Rand devotees who apparently are the vanguard of the ML US left

I spent over a month outside the US last year. Greece, Portugal, Mexico. All of them were great and welcome changes from day-to-day. But living in a place that’s growing like a weed, full of friendly & polite people, and lots of opportunities to touch grass makes this kind of post hard to relate to

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

no man that's That Guy in particular and that's why the bouncers of all the bars around here have been given a picture and physical description of him. be fucking for real

AI but it publishes your search history every time you say some shit like this

he's gonna at least have endurance down (walkable big city) and de-escalating violence (public transit). The rest is just trial and error with tools

Intimacy

Is it a bad sign how long it took me to find this word

Cocaine levels in Nantucket's wastewater are growing exponentially. No one is sure exactly why. After measuring 50% above national levels in September, the island saw even steeper increases later in the year.

no one is sure exactly why

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it's not too late to stop this

act.dsausa.org/s/4536.Xd0xHm

Gadsden flag. But it's "lock in or die"

Working up to the 100lb dumbbells for chest press, I threw my back out once just trying to figure out my stabilizing muscles working my way up from 90s

Today it was snowballs. Tomorrow, someone could paint a black circle on the side of a mountain, causing our officers to drive the train into the mountain, turning the train into an accordian that plays a sad little tune indicating that the officer has been seriously injured

Wow

On one hand, at least 80% of residents polled said they hate the cameras which appeared out of no where all of the sudden but on the other hand, this PR release says they're safe, cool and trendy. Who's to say what's right

You know that thing everyone loves, defined an era, and forever changed the paradigm. Well actually here's why it sucks
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