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David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy: How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?

Some people seem to have genuine difficulty accepting how lethal the conditions in Gaza are this winter, particularly for newborns. Read Abubaker Abed and try to put yourself there:

Beavis and Butt-Head go to Silent Hill

Approval of Congress: Disapprove: 75% Approve: 17% Monmouth / Dec 10, 2024 / n=1006

very telling that Biden was willing to put his integrity on the line to pardon his son but doesn't remotely budge in the face of these figures showing how he's brutalizing other ppls' kids. Disgusting lack of empathy

I'm tired of hearing how hot Luigi Mangione is. Tired and jealous. If I'd done it, people would say "I loathe the health insurance industry, but somehow, I just can't idolize the assassin", "I do not consent to this man blowing out my back", "Murder is wrong", and so on.

The U.S. says it conducted airstrikes against over 75 ISIS targets in central Syria, using B-52s, F-15s, and A-10s, as part of an ongoing mission to “disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS” and prevent the group from “reconstituting” or “conducting external operations.”

Israeli airstrikes and intense gunfire on the ground around one of the last working hospitals in northern Gaza killed or wounded scores of people early Friday, the hospital’s director said, as Israeli forces ordered the building evacuated.

An Israeli airstrike hit a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing five people, including at least three employees with the food aid charity. World Central Kitchen said that it was "urgently seeking more details."

mr. beast pay off my mortgage you coward

don't wish Kamala any major ill will in saying this, but if she decides to go through with this I think it'll actually be a fascinating display of how party & media subordinates choose to reorient themselves. Do they prop up proven losers or bolster status quo antagonists? Odds are on the former

BREAKING: Arrest warrants issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and deceased Hamas commander Mohammed Deif by the International Criminal Court. Full Story (updating with reaction).

Senate roll call vote on resolution to block the sale of 32,739 120mm tank rounds to Israel. The IDF used this munition when it attacked and killed six-year-old Hind Rajab & the two paramedics sent to rescue her. 18 voted to block the sale 79 voted to approve the sale

Ukraine launched U.S. supplied ATACMS Missiles to strike a Military Facility in the Bryansk Region, located about 110 km inside Russian Territory. Debris from one Missile started a Fire that caused no Casualties or significant Damage. 1/x www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...

Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of hijacking aid trucks, but the actual gangs hijacking trucks are operating with impunity in areas controlled by Israel and 20 gang members were just ambushed by Hamas security forces www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-secur...

nobody disappears in the bermuda triangle anymore. due to wokeness

NEW: The Supreme Court overturns the Colorado decision removing Trump from the ballot, holding that only Congress can enforce the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause against federal candidates. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

he voiced support for the mob activities but he was also arguably videotaping in a journalistic capacity & was only charged with misdemeanors, but the FBI still ceremoniously cuffed him and hauled him off to federal court. Just smells kind of rotten

is there an "Uncommitted" primary campaign in the remaining states? If not there should be

The U.S. on Tuesday cast the sole vote against a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, saying it feared it could disrupt hostage negotiations. Its vote drew outcry from diplomats and aid workers.

‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study finds www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

yes this is flagrantly just repackaged censorship, but that's not really what's generating the nutty amount of coverage here. Like I'm sorry but you just can't convince me to care so disproportionately about Harvard's president over everyone else losing their jobs for not bending the knee to Israel

Biden 🤝 Trump bypassing Congress to sell weapons

NEW: Colorado Supreme Court holds that Trump is DISQUALIFIED from the presidency under the 14th Amendment www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/fi...

The long-awaited merger guidelines amount to a new corporate charter for American commerce, telling companies they will have to grow by investing in product, innovation, and job quality instead of relying on acquiring competitors, writes @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social:

deeply unserious leaders wasting all of our time and their limited geriatric energy further confining criticism of Israeli state goals into an untouchable category of hateful speech. This is an intentional ploy to stifle public debate and we all need to see it for what it is

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utter nonsense, and any institution that even pretends to foster an environment of free expression (let alone a major university...) should note this as an example of exactly how not to react to activist pressure