Rick Perlstein

"an independent commission...concluded that the IDF, as the then occupying power over Sabra and Shatila, bore responsibility...a form of genocide."

While we learned the equivalent of what Southern schoolkids were taught about happy slaves and sadistic Yankees.

"Israeli troops were stationed at the exits of the area to prevent the camp's residents from leaving and, at the request of the Lebanese Forces, shot flares to illuminate...the massacre....

Sabra and Shatila massacre - Wikipedia

Was around our bar/bat mitzvah time that Reagan told Begin that what Israel was doing in Lebanon was Nazi-like. And when one of the main Christian militias in Lebanon, and supported by the Israel Defense Forces...[killed] 1,300 and 3,500 civilians" in Beirut.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_a...

Harrowing how many otherwise liberal U.S. Jews, as sampled from those I grew up with in the '70s and '80s, believe Israel is as they learned in temple. Have no idea how many there think like Nazis. Desperately want to believe that lies were not lies.

From the most watched in the Middle East:

Nice. I use Mepps #2. No trout near me. Swedish Pimple, by the way. Funny misremember!

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Some yes, some no.

The most fun lures in bass fishing are pretend frogs you hop over the surface of the water. The bass attacks rom below on a great explosion of water and sound and fish: a "topwater explosion," the most highly prized thrill in angling.

Hello!

Half the fun. Like Matchbox cars.

Pornographic!

Marx Brothers. Kafka. Philip K. Dick. Etc.

That's it.

I imagine more of my bsky followers share my appreciation for gorgeous industrial design then my love of cool bass- fishing lures. Well, here's a two-bagger. Merimekko energy.

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Pedophile sex trafficker is elected dictator by people who worship him as their savior against pedophile sex traffickers. Take a bow, America!

The US right simply does not care. Like literally everything else, pedophilia matters to them only insofar as it hurts their enemies. They do not have any principles or values that transcend tribalism & do not recognize (are incapable of recognizing) that others do.

You're obviously not a musician.

What do you think of Sinatra's vocal range and songwriting?

Well that's absolute bullshit.

I can't imagine that would be possible.

Fresh Air for July 31, 2025: Understanding Elvis' relationship with his longtime manager Hear the Fresh Air program for Jul 31, 2025

Fascinating to learn that the cliche that Elvis would have turned into an artiste were it not for Col. Parker forcing him to record schlock, who then worked him to death while keeping him drugged is complete and utter bullshit. www.npr.org/programs/fre...

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Adding, for the record, before giving you the opportunity to help him by some $200/kilo flour for his children that used to be $1/kilo, because clows always ask, that he hates Hamas.

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"Today, I didn't just lose faith in life, I lost a part of my humanity, because I saw how a person turns into a monster when besieged by hunger, and how dignity is stolen in broad daylight, while the world watches in utter silence."

"People, like swarms of locusts, raced toward the food boxes as if they were their salvation certificates, even if the price was their lives. This wasn't a passing chaos; it was an organized crime committed under the guise of humanitarianism....

"Then the first truck arrived like a thunderbolt, hurtling at breakneck speed, laden with aid that became a prize for the hungry to fight over. The trucks didn't slow down, paying no attention to bodies that might be crushed by their wheels....

"and people jostling like the waves of a raging sea, each trying to grab a morsel of food that might be their last in this life.

"For three long hours, I stood between the blazing sky and the eagerness of the hungry, between the screams of the desperate and the indiscriminate sound of bullets...

"The scenario seems simple enough: wait for the aid, take what you need, and leave. But the reality was a different kind of hell. From the first moment, I was greeted by the whizzing of bullets as if welcoming death, the scorching sun melting bodies beneath it...

"This place, cloaked in a glittering name, is in reality a slaughterhouse for the weak, where lives are lost under a merciless sun, and values are destroyed amidst a crowd like a herd being led to slaughter...

I'm making the banner image on my profile a picture he sent me today of an aid truck. He writes of the experience:

"Today, I went for the fourth time to a place where dignity is stolen and humanity is destroyed: to the so-called 'American aid' provided by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation....

Since 2021 I've had an online friendship with a Gazan named Ahmed. Back then, confirming his identiy before sending him some $$, I learned from a UN human rights report how the IDF picked him up during a miltiary operation he was fleeing and made him a human shield.

www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/w...

All the top Democrats read him respectfully.