Neil Abrams

Would you trust this guy to walk your dog?

No. Iran cannot keep the US military trapped in the Gulf.

It's not up to them.

As of right now, oil is up 36% on the week. Trump doesn't have the balls to withstand this.

As soon as Trump starts feeling the heat over Iran - probably within the next two weeks - he's gonna declare victory (easy to do when you have no identifiable objective) and pull out.

As always, he got into it because he's a reckless dumbass and he'll get out of it because he's a coward.

"I could be that guy, by the way."

“If we too want to occupy the White House, we clearly need a deeply unpopular openly corrupt violently racist backstabbing off putting orange piece of shit of our own.”

Anyone who questions the Trump/Netanyahu war with Iran threatens my personal safety as an American Jew.

by Bret Stephens

The Fix: The Real Cause of the Iran War The stated pretext is absurd. Here's why the US really attacked.

Unlocking this post I wrote this back in June. I think it still applies. Among other things, it lays out in detail the likely consequences of a regime collapse.

Spoiler alert: It’s not pretty.
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This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”

Just a reminder that pastor Steven Furtick has never done cocaine...

Oz Katerji on X: "Fuck it, in commemoration of the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, here is my feature length documentary filmed during the opening weeks of the war, uploaded completely free on Twitter. Will keep this online for the next 48 hours, feel free to share! https://t.co/uUyV7aMSYu" / X Fuck it, in commemoration of the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, here is my feature length documentary filmed during the opening weeks of the war, uploaded completely free on Twitter. Will keep this online for the next 48 hours, feel free to share! https://t.co/uUyV7aMSYu

I know everyone rightly hates Twitter, and they are right to, but if you want to watch my feature length documentary on the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, filmed in Kyiv during the first weeks of the war, I have uploaded it here entirely free for the next 48 hours.
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Why Genocide? Russia has waged many wars since 1991. Only this one is genocidal. Here's why.

Russia has waged many wars since 1991. Only this one is genocidal. Thus arises the obvious question: Why? What makes Ukraine different?

In this piece from 2024, I offered an answer.

Yep.

At this late date, any dude who spends inordinate amounts of time attacking LGBTQ+ people should immediately get the side-eye.

How to Overthrow a Dictator (Full Version) In 1986, Filipinos took on a despot and won. Americans will have to do the same.

40 years ago tomorrow, Filipinos ousted a dictator who tried to steal an election.

Unless you think that Trump (or Vance) will just cede power voluntarily in 2029, then Americans will have to do the same.

The good news? It’s eminently doable. In my latest, I explain how.

Which is how we should *really* feel about organized crime. That said, it seems you got far out of the film than I ever could!

If you're puzzled by Michael Tracey defending Epstein, note that it's a small step from denying atrocities on behalf of foreign powers to denying atrocities on behalf of rich guys.

Here's a thread I did on Tracey (and Aaron Maté's) ludicrous denial of Russia's mass child abductions in Ukraine.

If most of those implicated in the Epstein scandal happened to be liberals, I can assure you that Matt Taibbi would find it *very* interesting. But because they're not, he thinks it's boring.

Taibbi becomes easier to get once you understand that he just hates liberals, like the kind he used to be.

In 1999, I had a happy hour with 2 friends. We got to talking about how evil Sodexo-Marriott was (they were the biggest investors in private prisons). One friend ran with the idea & launched a huge nationwide campus campaign (they also ran the dining halls) to force them to divest & eventually won.

Yes, "religious discourse" - that famously effective shield against sexual predation.

I still don't understand what the hell happened in that movie, though.

Gomorrah (2008). Like, totally fucking bewildered about the ostensible story that just unfolded.

Uh, I'm *not* talking about the 1930s.

How to Overthrow a Dictator, Part 2 The ground beneath the temple shakes.

And part two: www.readthedetox.com/p/how-to-ove...

How to Overthrow a Dictator, Part 1 Despots are more vulnerable than you think.

Part one, if you're interested: www.readthedetox.com/p/how-to-ove...

How to Overthrow a Dictator, Part 3 The pillars fall—and take the temple with it.

A question not enough people are thinking about:

What are Americans going to do when the GOP incumbent tries to stay in power after an election loss in 2029?

40 years ago, Filipinos faced that very problem - and won. Here's how they did it.

(Pt. 3 can be read as a stand-alone essay.)

Minneapolis: Fatal shootings may amount to extrajudicial killing, warn UN experts GENEVA - The use of lethal force by U.S. immigration enforcement in Minneapolis may amount to arbitrary deprivation of life and other gross violations of international human rights law, and could cons...

On that note: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Not only should the engineers of this policy face prosecution under U.S. law, but there might be a case for ICC prosecution for crimes against humanity. (1/2)

There's a reason why I fled to Canada with my family: I am absolutely convinced that these people in the US decided that the final solution to the transgender question was rounding them all up and putting them in mental institutions from which they would never emerge alive as far back as late 2022.