Dan Martineau

As always the problem with the Republican Party is that it’s full of Republicans.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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My annual reminder that Columbus was considered savage and cruel enough to be fired and sent home in chains by the people who did the Spanish Inquisition.

Happy Indigenous People’s Day.

The reasonable conclusion to draw from the poll (and all the other polls, and everything else we know) is that rural Americans are -- not all, but mostly -- ignorant & bigoted.

But America's own noble-savage mythology does not permit anyone, on either side, to say that out loud.

New poll of rural Americans shows deep cultural divide with urban residents Big-city and small-town Americans have vastly different views on issues like immigration and religion, helping to explain President Trump’s election

Remembering this story from 8 years ago, about the differing values of rural & urban people. One reason I remember it is that every single factual assertion made by a rural person in the piece is false.

from wikipedia: The imperial boomerang or Foucault's boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.

putting this here for no reason at all

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

WELCOME BACK STARBOY! ❤️🤍

Welcome back Starboy!

South Korea, China, Japan agree to promote regional trade as Trump tariffs loom South Korea, China and Japan held their first economic dialogue in five years on Sunday, seeking to facilitate regional trade as the three Asian export powers brace from U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.

How bad do you have to screw up to get these 3 countries to cooperate against you?

Shell, BP have big plans for TT - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday TWO major oil and gas companies, Shell TT and bpTT, have expressed big plans for TT over the past few weeks.

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“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence!” 😂

YouTube video by Ger C.P. Throne of Blood

Celebrating the 115th birthday of Akira Kurosawa

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The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

I will just reiterate -- even though doing so has long since become pointless -- that keeping these current lunatics out of office was an entirely sufficient argument for voting Dem up and down the ballot. People who didn't do so should feel bad about themselves.

Four panel Superman comic: 1) Superman walking down the street in Superman outfit 2) Superman sees a burning Tesla dealership 3) Superman runs to a phone booth to change 4) Clark Kent walks past the burning building, whistling and ignoring the fire

*chefs kiss*

Covie @covie_93 Follow Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better

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Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

Why are Caribbean leaders fighting Trump to keep Cuban doctors? Cuban medical missions provide crucial support to several Caribbean healthcare systems, especially in times of crisis.

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Miss penalty. Throw away. Everybody’s afraid of Arsenal.

If we want to rename the Gulf of Mexico this might just be more accurate

1. It’s the weekend, and if you’re like me, you’re tired. Not only is there an endless stream of chaos and dysfunction coming out of the White House, most of it is illegal, illiberal, destructive and immoral.

The Rat Caucus.

Opinion | Trump’s Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target (Gift Article) It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY.
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”