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Carlin interviewed @wellerstein.bsky.social about his new book, which makes the argument that Truman was very uninvolved in the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, and completely uninvolved in the decision to drop it on Nagasaki using newly uncovered evidence to justify the claim.

@iwriteok.bsky.social I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on @dancarlin.bsky.social's latest Hardcore History Addendum episode, which is about how Truman handled US nuclear policy. It dropped last week, the same week your BTB episodes on nuclear policy dropped.

But we swear Iraq definitely has WMDs

The year is 2003. The US government is lying to its people to manufacture consent for an unprovoked war.

The year is 2025. The US government is lying to its people to manufacture consent for an unprovoked war.

The year is 1898. The US government is lying to its people to manufacture consent for an unprovoked war.

The year is 1964. The US government is lying to its people to manufacture consent for an unprovoked war.

The year is 1812. The US government is lying to its people to manufacture consent for an unprovoked war.

The year is 1846. The US government is lying to its people to manufacture consent for an unprovoked war.

They're already not in LA. It takes time to move big tanks and whatnot. We've been seeing them come into the DC area for a couple of week now.

I'm sure there'll be SOME protests going on, but I'm wondering if it's more worth my time to go to one of the planned events elsewhere...?

I live in the DC area (other side of the Potomac from you) and am planning to be in the streets on Saturday. But it looks like not a lot is planned for in DC that day specifically to avoid conflict with the big parade.

Because that's how anarchist collectives roll?

I wonder how it would effect the political and electoral landscape if this feud drove Musk to censor/limit MAGA content on Twitter.

Does suicide count as an extrajudicial murder?

What the fuck was with "how mean were they?"

I'm down to go with whatever works, but gods dammit, TACO is such a dumb insult.

Escalator out of order, temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

How many times can he do these blatant market manipulation schemes before investors bake in that he'll do this and the market stops reacting as he wants?

In season 1 of The Rehearsal when the kid thought Nathan Fielder was going to be his real dad.

Isn't that kinda the point?

How many times does he get to do these market manipulation threats before the market stops taking them seriously and stops reacting as he wants?

50 year old school board meeting? Let me guess, you're researching about how the people pissed about forced school desegregation partnered with the religious right to change their argument from an explicitly racist one to one about parental choice, prayers in school, and religious schools?

This house is an anti-Paw Patrol house!

From my understanding, the loans he took to but X were based on his Tesla stock as collateral. If Tesla stock evaporates, his lenders can force a sale of X.

Pope Leo says family based on union between man and woman in first address In his first meeting with the Vatican diplomatic corps, Pope Leo XIV said family is based on the 'stable union between a man and a woman' and that the unborn and elderly enjoy dignity as God's creatur...

To quote the late great Brittany Murphy, "You're a virgin who can't drive." Who gives a fuck what you think?

The era of 'we have all human knowledge at our fingertips' will be replaced with 'nobody can tell objective reality because any attempt to search for real truth gets flooded with more fake AI bullshit than actual evidence of anything.'

Someday very very soon generative AI is going to end up at the point where literally anything and everything you search for will be 'confirmed' with images, text, and even video that 'proves' it's real.

Except Rogue One is not a bad movie.

Definitely not a plot hole. 3PO is defined by his anxiety all the time. Of course he thinks he's terrible at things he's objectively been programmed to be good at.

Even the Space Wizard wasn't involved until day 10, and he died on day 11. The evil space wizards (Vader & Palpy) were involved much more than Kenobi. And they lost.

It's absolutely wild that from the first moment any Rebel even heard the term 'Death Star' (Lonni reading Dedra's files) it only took 12 days for the Rebels to blow it up, and Luke wasn't even in the picture until the last 4 of those days.

I have a 3 yo and 5 yo, both of whom love Ms Rachel (especially the 3 yo). I've been watching her a lot over the past few years. The NYT is absolutely disgusting with this 'reporting'. Clearly she's a woman who feels very deeply for all children, and nothing she said showed any support for Hamas.