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Musk promoting a post of the EU flag turning into the Nazi flag

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.

It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel

HOPE WALZ: “What world are we f*cking living in? I draw the line at Gus. You people are f*cking disgraceful.”

She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.

I don't think she counted on her utter lack of name recognition outside Xitter et al.

Ohhhhhhh, Daddy's not gonna like that at ALL.

Art of the Deal

Another thought:

He possibly acted that way as a put-on specifically so Palantir could lure people into this horseshit "fellowship."

Neurodivergent folks his age with his accomplishments and his career history do not act like this. We can't.

This isn't ADHD or autism or anything else except he was f'king tweaking.

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

Big "if you want to prove you're not a witch you'll drown when we dunk you" energy.

"I'll dream tonight of storms at sea--
Be sure your sins will find you out."

"Try to praise the mutilated world."

"I’m with you in Rockland

where you bang on the catatonic piano the soul is innocent and immortal it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse"

"I believe that no one is spared the darkness, and no one gets all of it.

I believe we all drown eventually in a sea of our making, but that the land belongs to someone else.

I believe in destiny. And I believe in free will."

"After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.

Someone has to push the rubble
to the side of the road,
so the corpse-filled wagons
can pass."

"later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere."

"she said
"i don't want to know how to make no rolls"
with her lips poked out
and the old woman wiped her hands on
her apron saying "lord
these children"
and neither of them ever
said what they meant
and i guess nobody ever does"

"Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers."

"The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don’t mind some people dying
all the time
or maybe only starving
some of the time
which isn’t half so bad
if it isn’t you"

"Strew no flowers on my grave,
I've gone back to the wind and wave.

Do not, do not weep for me,
For I am happy with my sea."

Strap in. I could do this all day. And I might.

"I finished with April
halfway through March.
*
You think that their
dying is the worst
thing that could happen.

Then they stay dead."

Depends on why you're writing fiction.

Are you writing to receive accolades and awards and fat checks?

Or are you writing because you have an idea you want to put to paper and share with folks?

The first bus may be over-packed. The second bus is actually a unicycle. 💕

Does Homan have the flu or something?

Screenshot of a tweet by the Secretary of the United States Navy: "Today I visited the USS Arizona Memorial to pay my respects to the service members and civilians we lost at Pearl Harbor on the fateful day of June 7, 1941"

Sean Spicer tweet on December 7: Today is Dday. It only lives in infamy if we remember and share the story of sacrifice with the next generation.”

Republican Navy guys knowing the date of Pearl Harbor Day challenge (impossible).

As a general rule, alcoholic wife beaters don't care much for actual "hard realism," so his intervention should be an absolutel blast.

...?

He's always been an asshole.

Just finished reading Dr. Jenn’s piece about courage-culture.

“Having courage to finish that swim meet or ask for that big raise isn’t like having the courage to be Black in a country that wants us dead.”

I wrote about Brené Brown and "Courage Culture" over on Substack. Tap in!

"Thus, 'courage culture'...is the white-coded myth-based belief that vulnerability is experienced homogeneously across racial, gender, sexual, class, and ability lines."

jennmjacksonphd.substack.com/p/brene-brow...

I bet he has a different take when it's him.