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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Israel terror gangs have attacked a Washington Post journalist. Meanwhile the Israeli state has murdered 241 members of the media since 2023 with no consequences or international outrage.

And I knew her as a teen, because both our families lived in Los Alamos and she was my mother’s best friend since high school. She never boasted about her accomplishments.

Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop.

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

I dunno, this feels more antisemitic than anything Piker has said

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seriously: every western regime should deny any and all relief and sabotage this administration as hard as possible

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Images show damage to U.S. military assets from Iranian strikes A U.S. service member tells ABC News that Americans are "unaware" of the extent of the damage to American bases.

The really telling part is that all the architects and architect students had exactly the opposite reaction as the "average person." They gravitated toward the new, innovative, and avante garde. But people don't want to look at that, live or work in that. www.worksinprogress.news/p/do-people-...

"The AI revolution means nothing but loss for the average person if its benefits are concentrated among the already-wealthy." This is why we can't just stop at regulating data centers -- we need to overhaul the entire tech industry! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If anyone on earth is going to be suspicious of orange men, it’s the Irish.

this week's post dissects why naive optimism and fatalistic pessimism are not fundamentally less embarrassing responses to climate change than outright denial and then offers examples of actions we can take margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/beyond-cli...

A literally modest proposal that anyone serious about the future existence of a free society in the USA should be squarely behind.

How it started vs. how it’s going.

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don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaA

Douglas Marsh, communications director for the Michigan Greens, told The Bulwark, "I remain agnostic about Dedrick’s intentions in seeking and accepting our nomination." Interesting situation for a possible spoiler candidate in a competitive election.

"Candidates should be talking much more about not just the rule of law on principle, but the prosecution of people in practice."

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

THIS: www.publicnotice.co/p/moderate-d...

Great Sundew (Drosera anglica), with a Common Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) in the lower right. Tony Lake, BC.

In communities like Turmus’ayya, illegal settlers attack American citizens with American weapons paid for by American tax dollars. Palestinians who live there have their houses, cars, and trees burned by settlers directly backed by the Israeli state. How can we support this?

i will voluntarily pay extra taxes to any country that agrees to drag our cops and elected leaders before an international court

One of the most shameful episodes in the recent history of Poland.

victory lapping on this one

There it is. Of course, he had to go one for three paragraphs, but better than waiting another moment. Now let's see how much of a PITA he plans to be. Yes, this is it.

#OtD 10 Jul 1934 Erich Mühsam, Jewish German anarchist poet, was found dead at the Orianenburg concentration camp. He had been murdered during the night by Nazis, following months of beatings and torture. Some of his work is available in this great book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

The Maine secretary of state says Graham Platner *has* formally withdrawn from the Senate race. This is ahead of the Monday deadline, and so the Democratic party will be authorized to replace him, by July 27th.

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This is what the parking lot at Buntzen Lake looked like today. I couldn’t park there (so I hiked over the ridge from Sasamat Lake) because reservations were required and BC Hydro’s system alleged that none were available. WTF?

Maybe because most Jewish-Americans, like most Italian-Americans and Irish-Americans, belong to families which by this point have been in the USA for multiple generations. If you are a native-born American, you are by definition not an immigrant. www.thejc.com/news/usa/mam...

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emmanuel is so ruthlessly cynical that this is basically telling you where the typical democratic voter is on american aid to israel

This is true and I would add that it was also true in the case of explicit nazi tattoos

RIP in peace