Feebly Inhibited

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

kid-in-the-brown-hoodie is a whole-ass ideology

Officer allowed men to pray before they were removed from rally, police say A group of Muslim men had already received police permission to worship during a Sydney protest before they were disrupted mid-prayer by officers, NSW Police Force confirms.

'Pray? Oh yeah, sure.'
*snorts*
'You can pray. Go right ahead.'
*sniggers*

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Mystery of the missing minute from Epstein jail solved Documents that were part of the Epstein files release help explain why a video released from the night of Epstein's death was missing one minute close to midnight.

Newly released documents show the FBI's scramble to explain last year why it released a screen recording with a missing minute from the night Jeffrey Epstein died, instead of the original footage.

This is just unconscionable man

Sens Jon Husted (R-OH) & Bernie Moreno (R-OH) both got big payments from Les Wexner and then on cue started to disparage investigations into the Epstein files. This is how the corrupt system works.

lol

Very sad to share the news of this legend of Australian political cartooning, and art. Dear Jon Kudelka has died, and we will be the poorer and more dull for his passing.
Sending love and condolences to his family.
What a legacy of scorching wit and joyful capturing of life he leaves.

Scene is Julia Gillard and Chris Bowen (then Min for Immigration) in a lighthouse with "Light on the Hill: written under the bulb. Gillard is turning the light off, saying 'It was attracting the boats"

I have many, many favourite Kudelka cartoons but this, from 2011, is possibly one of the best Aus pol cartoons ever drawn.

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.

The ‘You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore’ guys have now made it against the law to use the word Black at college.

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Concentration camps:

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

ahh.... womens ski jump. so pure, untainted by textile chicanery or penis enlargement tactics

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans To Focus on Moon Elon Musk’s rocket company had aimed to reach the red planet in 2026

BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK TO FOCUS ON MARSHMALLOW FARM INSTEAD OF GUMDROP CITY

www.wsj.com/science/spac...

The difference between anarchism and liberalism on this front is that anarchism has never been successful at anything. Anarchists have barely mastered "running an off-putting bookstore"

He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.

once again these things boil down to “is your group a bohemian cultural identity” or “is your group actually trying to do things?” and the key tell is whether your activity centers on policing of in-group behavior or whether it centers on, again, tangible goals

Yeah apparently I was not informed of the Organizing Rule that when masked men start burning down random stuff in the middle of your neighborhood, the correct, comradely response is to turn your camera off and look the other way. That’s why we have experts like you!

I don’t want ICE in my community.

I don’t want strange masked men taking my neighbors.

I don’t want strange masked men lighting fires in my city.

I want the world to see what’s happening in my community.

I want Minneapolis to be left alone and not made into a war zone.

"WE NEED TO MAN THE BARRICADES, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS"

wait, what are we barricading against?

"SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU STUPID LIB WRECKER"

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.

Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

I never claimed to be a leader of anything, and I’m not, I’ve been doing what thousands of other Minnesotans have been doing. With that said I know why it’s working because I SEE IT WORK: because the observers are disciplined, committed, nonviolent, and open. Their channels are open and HUGE.

I was extremely naive in my twenties and early thirties, took people very much at their word when it came to values, and absolutely destroyed my mental health (and my career) thinking I could publicly demand accountability and survive it whole.

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The Russian dictator himself must be at least somewhat shocked to see NATO countries still refusing to seize Russian oil tankers, despite knowing that the financing for his war against them comes directly from these very ships.

Nonetheless, they refuse to act, while Ukrainians pay the price.

China’s Renewable Energy Revolution Is a Huge Mess That Might Save the World A global onslaught of cheap Chinese green power is upending everything in its path. No one is ready for its repercussions.

The real abundance agenda is socialism with Chinese characteristics www.wired.com/story/china-...

The priest at my church got beat up at an anti-ICE protest on the peninsula this week, and when he showed up for Mass today with a black eye all the church ladies swooned like they had seen a Backstreet Boy.

Hard to overstate the damage to US-Israel relations done by the sense of entitlement and ingratitude reflected in comments like these and Netanyahu's own recent statements. Baseless misdirection to suggest that Israeli soldiers' deaths in Gaza we caused by some phantom US "embargo" (when in fact Biden resisted enormous pressure to condition aid, as required by U.S. law, even as Israel rebuffed calls to facilitate more humanitarian assistance and reduce civilian casualties), and insulting to suggest that U.S. concern for people of Gaza was driven by "Michigan," as if no other possible basis for concern comes to mind. If goal of Netanyahu and his partisans is to accelerate the sharp decline in U.S. public support for Israel, and to further undermine the bipartisan character of that support, this seems like good way to go about it.

Interesting admission by Biden administration official and Kamala Harris NSC advisor earlier today

some are pointing out the “as required by US law” part of this statement. Yes.

I’d also highlight how this statement shows incredible naivety, bordering on stupidity, about Netanyahu and the Israeli right. They were never our friends! They hate US liberals!

That was a core Biden error.

Begin forwarded message: > From: Richard Dawkins < > Date: July 4, 2011 5:42:43 PM EDT > To: John Brockman .‘Z > > Subject: Lawrence > John • > 1. I hope you recovered well from your operation. > 2. There is a rather nasty young woman called Rebecca Watson, who seems to be running some kind of a witch-hunt against Lawrence Krauss because of his defence of Jeffrey Epstein. > http://skepchick.org/2011/04/lawrence-krauss-defends-a-sex-offender-embarrasses-scientists- everywhere/ > There are people on her blog talking about organising a walkout when Lawrence speaks at TAM in Las Vegas. I remember that you told me something of the circumstances of Jeffrey's arrest, and that his case is not as black as painted. Might you possibly remind of it. > Thanks (and greetings from Jackson Hole, Wyoming) > Richard

From: John Brockman < INIMI> To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> Cc: Lesley Groff <MIElla> Subject: Fwd: Lawrence Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:21:56 +0000 Attachments: Jaron.NYorker.pdf Eastover Farm 203-266-5930 JE, Fyi - see Richard Dawkins's email below alerting me to a campaign against our friend LMK re his friendship with you. (I'll deal with Richard). At the farm this week 203-266-5930. JB p.s. Here's a pdf of a the New Yorker profile of Jaron - just out today.

This email from Dawkins in the latest Epstein documents is a kind of perfect glimpse into the psychology of old boys club: Dawkins whinges about the "nasty young woman", but also has an undercurrent of unease, and seeks reassurance from Brockman that the child sex trafficker wasn't all *that* bad