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Prop rolling backpack

KNOCKING BACK PINTS OF ALE.

Waco, America’s Fiume

Upturning the collar on my wool coat

SoCal constructs

The idea that things do or do not “work”, social construct.

Need ragu di cavallo

My name is Edoardo Quarantamani

highly predictable if you watch how that government and its (media and political) allies behaved for years. It was uniquely repellent to normal people, and telling them that you’re anti-Semitic for disliking it was akin to screeching for decades at moderately pro choice women that they hated God

That trump campaign video with Mitski’s “Your best American girl”

“She was a neocon in her personal affairs, ending peace at every turn”

My name is Administrative Assistant

Snack time

They’re useful when you get to the publication stage but I think the “please provide a non-technical description of the significance of your work” submission requirement that many journals have adopted is a waste of time and, frankly, a sign of encroaching fascism

10+ years of “pivoting to Asia” failing because both political parties are addicted to fucking around in the Middle East, cheered on by our “ally”

there are a disgusting amount of Americans who think this.

charlie kirk didn't kill himself

Every third hetero couple but it's Goldberry and Tom Bombadil

There's a lot of sanewashing that's done for Israeli politicians which isn't really done for anyone else. For example the idea that it is just nationalist intra-factional signaling from Bennett to make the explicit comparison of Türkiye to Iran is genuinely absurd. Everyone knows what that means.

YouTube video by episode one A Confederate Soldier's Letter to His Wife

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Some observers were also unnerved by Ocasio-Cortez's decision to level an accusation toward Israel of genocide while in Germany, seen as insensitive to the history of the Holocaust. Jewish Democrats say they have been unsettled by the growing ease with which anti-Israel critics have invoked charged claims of genocide without understanding its meaning or historical significance. "The genocide conversation," according to Steve Fulop, the former mayor of Jersey City who now leads the Partnership for New York City, an influential business advocacy group, "has unfortunately monopolized the left and has become more commonplace and accepted."

AOC thinks Israel committed genocide, just like every major human rights organization on the planet does and just like how 75% of Democratic voters do and just like how a dozen countries filing at the ICJ think so too.

This is a stupid hill for these strategists to die on.

the commuter train is fun because i feel like it is a sacred place of everyone being tired, quiet, and accustomed to the routine, but ocassionally you see someone who clearly has never been on the train before who is entirely unsure of how to act. it makes me laugh because i was once foolish too.

literally knowing how to install Python and open up a terminal in the mid-2010s was enough to justify a wage premium

Overheard in this trattoria just now: "Barack Obama è la Sardegna"

“Nasrallah Abu Siyam is at least the seventh American killed by Israeli settlers or soldiers in the West Bank since October 7. No one has been arrested in any of the cases. No one has been held accountable.”

After Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner joined "The Gang of 8" he told reporters "this is an extraordinary serious time, serious moment in the Middle East, serious moment for America." Warner called on the President to make the case of "what our country's goals are, what our country's interests are and how we're going to protect American interests in the region." He added "Maybe we'll hear that tonight, but if we don't hear it tonight, we need to hear it very, very soon."

I seriously don't get why "no war with Iran" is so difficult to say.

What case could possibly be made by USG to satisfy these Democrats who should absolutely know better? I don't blame them for where we are but the point of being the opposition is to clearly oppose.