Keith Harris

Project Renesmee

Department of Major Combat Operations

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

It's always weird seeing that other habitual posters are married with kids and everything. I always think of you as sad loners like me.

I should stop now before I post the Fearless Iranians from Hell EP

rigorous scientific testing continues to indicate there is no circumstance under which this site is not Like This

YouTube video by Butthole Surfers - Topic The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave

anyway, now playing

this showed up today as a FB memory from 11 years ago

a certain age cohort has really doubled down on its parents' demographic Calvinism

But as I stood side by side with protesters on the streets of Minneapolis and opposite dozens of armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the Whipple Federal Building after Renee Good's killing - and again after the killing of Alex Pretti - I couldn't help but question whether I made the right call last year.

ok carrie bradshaw

1) citizens united fully taking the leash off buying political influence
2) the legalization of gambling
3) funding explosion for an executive goon squad

think these are the three pillars of the Final Mafiafication of the united states. predatory vice funds the purchase of political power/violence

every generation of old stingy cranks thinks it invented the sun belt

amazing

what

"the problem with bluesky" skeets are annoying I know but I would like this place better if we talked about the Times, like, even 20% less

How Minnesotans can watch the ‘Blood Moon’ before it disappears until 2028 The moon will tint red for nearly an hour on March 3 as the Earth gets between the moon and the sun.

one thing younger generations will never understand is how much less we talked about the moon in the past

Yeah less "robust case" than "common knowledge"?

Sorry, Babies: In 2025’s Best Movies, the Kids Were on Their Own  - Racket Let's take a long look at the abandoned children, bad dads, and harried moms of film from last year.

hm I think this holds up

"Mom! Dad won't stop talking about the lead up to the Iraq War again."

Was hoping for a Baz Luhrmann ELVIS CONCERT FILM but of course it was a BAZ LUHRMANN Elvis concert film.

Thank you Minneapolis for our 300+ audience for WTO/99 which raised thousands of $$$ for Neighbors Helping Neighbors. Incredible city and community. Got to meet @normcharlatan.bsky.social, @usefulnoise.bsky.social, and so many more stars. Y’all are the best and I hope to bring the film back soon.

Some conservatives here think that secular young Iranians would be happy if America would come and liberate them. What would you say to them? Democracy, contrary to what they try to tell us, it’s not a paper that you hang on the wall and then you have a democracy. Democracy is a social evolution. It is something cultural. Iranians, they have become much more secular, and they are ready for democracy, but they have to fight themselves for democracy, and the only thing that other countries can do is to understand their fight and help them in their fight. They [America] talk about the human rights in Iran … how is it that the United States makes the biggest deals with China, and China is far from respecting human rights? What about Saudi Arabia? If you want to talk about an inquisition, the Iranian regime is far from being an inquisition. We have almost a free press, people leave, women have the right to study, they drive, they work. Saudi Arabia, they don’t have anything like that! Talk about human rights in Saudi Arabia! Why doesn’t anyone go and put a bomb in Saudi Arabia and kill the king?

Do you think it’s ironic that, in the face of American threats, you almost find yourself defending the Iranian regime? Absolutely, but if we want a democracy, the Iranian people have to do it themselves. The Americans say they want a democracy in Iran, and at the same time, when the Iranians wanted to become democratic in 1953 with [Mohammad] Mosaddeq and to nationalize our oil, the CIA came and made a coup d’état in my country. Why do you want me to believe that they want to come and make a democracy? We have to make our democracy! There are many things that I wish for in my country — I want my country to be free, I want my country to be democratic, I don’t want any journalists to go to jail because of an article they wrote in my country. But if the United States of America attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the United States.

Do you see similarities between the Christian fundamentalists in our government and the mullahs in Iran? They’re the same! George Bush and the mullahs of Iran, they use the same words! The mullahs of Iran say we have God on our side; he has God on his side, too. Both of them are convinced that they are going to eradicate evil in the world. But when these words come out of the mouth of a mullah, it’s normal. It’s a shame that the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world talks with the same words as the mullahs. It’s extremely scary.

Do you have any advice for secular Americans who are faced with living in a country that’s increasingly governed by religious fundamentalists? If I have any advice, it’s that every day that you wake up, don’t say, “This is normal.” Every day, wake up with this idea that you have to defend your freedom. Nobody has the right to take from women the right to abortion, nobody has the right to take from homosexuals the right to be homosexual, nobody has the right to stop people laughing, to stop people thinking, to stop people talking. If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.

The full 2005 interview it's from is well worth a read btw. Sadly just as relevant today as it was 20+ years ago—moreso, in fact. www.salon.com/2005/04/24/s...

"There are many things I wish for my country . . . But if the USA attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the US."

damn where's the party?

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The St. Paul Corduroy Jacket Is Bruce Springsteen. Let Me Explain. On October 27, 1975, despite being a relative unknown to the general public, Bruce Springsteen appeared on the covers of Time and Newsweek. People under 35 reading this: Those were print magazines. Pe...

Friday's Midwest Excellence tries to squeeze a little more juice out of The Jacket. Mentioned: @bringmethenews.bsky.social, @racketmn.com, @danawessel.bsky.social, J. Edgar Hoover, Watergate.

the gap between how much my brothers kids wanted to FaceTime and how little they had to say was always huuuuge

Just got a message from South High saying “We currently have requests totaling $33,965 for rent and we have $7500 available tomorrow. Please try to share the gofundme widely! Thanks”

Well, that simply will not do. I'll match the first $900. Please help my fellow South High families if you can! 🖤🧡🖤

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Armstrong and the Hot Five

Feb. 26, 1926: Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five record “Heebie Jeebies,” the song that will make him a star. At some point during the Okeh Records session in Chicago, the 24-year-old bandleader drops his sheet with the lyrics, and he improvises with scat singing. 1/6