lawless

I saw this earlier and it's shocking - truly shocking that someone can come on free view tv and express these in your face racist views

GB NEWS should be taken off the air until they get their house in order.

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

FIFA Peace Prize winner drives out FIFA World Cup team

Like for capturing Maduro in Venezuela, I think polls will eventually show voters see the killing of the Ayatollah as a win, but inside the broader context of executive overreach and esp Trump breaking his promise not to start a foreign wars,it will come out net bad for POTUS

Also think it's hard for Americans to contextualize the US's actions as they are synthesized by the countries that the US meddles with. If the US faced violent regime change at least once a decade, backed by the military of another country, Americans would view that country the same way.

This is the consensus opinion. It is pretty much undeniable. It is also comprehensively underrepresented in American media because the US is perfectly happy to supply the Arab dictatorships in their means of suppressing the public's will.

Americans are often shocked when I tell them that according to every single Arab Barometer poll issued, which tracks opinion across almost all of the Arab majority states, the US is consistently listed as the number one threat and impediment to regional stability.

Labour’s watchword: well it may not be popular but at least we’re doing the wrong thing

It is… rather astounding at this point. As I’ve said elsewhere, is it morally right? No. But is it good policy? No. Does it make keeping your other promises easier? No. But is it a vote winner in its own right? Demonstrably not.

Five minutes after losing a by-election when voters defected en masse because of their pandering to the right: what if we were *more* racist

Home - Free Marwan Free Marwan. Palestine’s most popular leader. A unifying voice for Palestinian rights, freedom and dignity.

It is probably true though that Palestinians abroad could do more to raise awareness of his condition and demand his release, and this has happened in recent times

The vast majority of Palestinians want him out and will elect him president if there is ever an all-Palestine election again but the principal political vehicle for our national struggle, the Authority and PLO, is thoroughly gorged of dynamism and is beholden to US-Israel and opposes his release.

Vanderbilt Will Stop Providing Gender-Affirming Surgeries to Trans Adults The hospital cited “operational limitations” for the decision.

Horrifying and also as predicted. This is genocidal shit. The only hospital in Tennessee that offered this kind of care. www.them.us/story/vander...

Don’t even get me started…

sunning + stunning

Khamenei dies and his Twitter releases a tweet quoting the Qur'an and speaking of ghosts. when Trump dies they're gonna post an upside down US flag or some AI slop video of him ascending to heaven on a golden toilet

it's why the inevitable peer level competition will shake Americans to their core, if only because there's an expectation that America will always have technological overmatch

In a democracy, the war on Iran would not be possible.

The GWOT has given American political culture some ideas about war that are going to be proven wrong the hard way one day.

This guy rules, but of course it has a housing angle. He pays only 12k a year in housing costs!

from a military perspective this is about what I think everyone expected to happen (up through CENTCOM/etc)

that said there's probably a disconnect here between military reality and popular expectations, that the admin has made no effort to address besides "yeah people are gonna die oh well"

Regular Bahrainis, after having a protest in support of Iran suppressed, are now throwing molotovs at government forces.

Can never go wrong assuming that a cat wants treats.

> @theatlantic.com 🇨🇺

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Hurricane Melissa breaks records in a post-analysis report The historic storm tied and broke records in a new report

remember: Hurricane Melissa was by some measures the strongest hurricane to make landfall in recorded Atlantic history

www.wdsu.com/article/hurr...

Caribbean countries pledge humanitarian support for Cuba amid rising tensions with US Disagreement among Caricom members hampers unified response on Cuban sovereignty and US intervention in the region

"Caribbean countries have pledged to support Cuba through a humanitarian crisis exacerbated by a US fuel embargo, after a leaders summit defined by regional divisions...."

CARICOM pledging support - Jamaica still feeling from Hurricane Melissa

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

"Less than average paranormal romance & fell completely short as erotica" - I downloaded this on my kindle with the hopes of enjoying this author for the first time. However, I found myself wishing it was just over (kind of like major surgery.)... There was only ONE sex scene that was rushed and definitely wasn't worth reading the rest of the book to get to it, as the aforementioned sad sex scene was at the VERY END of this long-ass book. I won't be reading this author again."

Reads fine as a "romance", falls flat as "urban fantasy" ... For romance readers, this is a perfectly passable example of the genre: hot, mysterious men and beautiful, troubled women; pages and pages of sex, and oh yeah, shape-shifters. And some magical stuff that happens, mostly so the main characters can have sex some more.

whenever this discussion comes up, I always show these two reviews which are for the same book.

one of the funny truths you learn if you write in the cross-genre romance space is that people who don't like the sex will hallucinate massive amounts of it in your book, and people who wanted more sex will be able to estimate an exact sex word count within like 75 words.

They'll both be mad tho.

almost all of what platner's faced so far are self-inflicted wounds, no one's actually brought out the cannons to fire at him, because you wait to pull those out closer to debates