Weary Throat

גענוג שוין ברידער האָרעווען גענוג שוין באָרגן־לייַען מאַכט אַ זאַבאַסטאָווקע 𝄇 𝄆 לאָמיר ברידער זיך באַפֿרייַען youtu.be/VDCOSUdCcyI The Jewish people outlived the most powerful empires and taught the world not to be afraid of tyrants and autocrats.

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

Gibney's MUSK film contains no known revelations; it sounds like a solid piece of filmmaking and will shape public opinion, which is helpful. But no one, not Gibney, Isaacson, or any other chronicler of Musk's arc has covered this — and IMHO it's key. washingtonspectator.org/musks-spacex...

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The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast youtu.be/k2sYIIjS-cQ Bob Dylan performed at the White House on February 9, 2010, during a massive snowstorm, when President Obama commemorated Black History Month with a celebration of music from the Civil Rights Movement.

The tradition of commemorating Anna Politkovskaya, a dual U.S.-Russia citizen, at the U.S. State Department ended under Trump.

One staunch supporter of Rhodesia was Senator Jesse Helms. In 1979, Helms sent his aide, John Carbaugh, to London to assist Ian Smith.

Mehdi and Tucker Carlson, with their overlapping guest lists, are a match made in hell.

In 2021, Charles Murray and Tucker Carlson agreed that Republicans had no choice. MURRAY: So what happens the next time the Republicans take the Senate and the House? Do the Republicans start to behave as the party for whites, to pass laws that favor whites? CARLSON: I agree with that completely.

Some people may wonder: Since Lukoil is a private company, why does it obey Putin? The answer is simple.

On this day 20 years ago, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Putin’s 54th birthday. She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing atrocities committed during Russia’s war in Chechnya. Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work under Putin.

In conclusion, it is a true wonder that Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.

"Now, wait a minute, folks. Is you is or is you ain't my constituency?"

"Absurd are attempts of Zionist ideologists to present those who criticize them, or condemn the aggressive politics of Israel's ruling circles, as antisemitic…" Soviet propaganda from 1983 coincided with ramped-up antisemitic discrimination inside the country. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zi...

Was Ben Black already talking with the Russians when he pushed for Greenland? Putin had a keen interest in the IDFC. "In 2023, the agency lent $125 million to a shipyard near Athens to allow it to transport natural gas around Europe, in a bid to move Europe away from its dependence on Russian oil."

Y así pasan los días Y yo, desesperando Y tú, tú contestando Quizás, quizás, quizás youtu.be/CmLNM6WHUHc The ability to live in the fog of uncertainty is an important kind of human bravery.

This is a better post about Rufo than Chait's, promise. emptywheel.net/2026/10/04/c...

Kirill Dmitriev isn’t Putin’s relative but is almost like one. "Dmitriev entered the Kremlin's inner circles with the help of his wife, Natalia Popova, a university classmate and business associate of Putin's daughter, Katerina Tikhonova. Popova works as Tikhonova's deputy at her Innopraktika fund."

Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose Any minute now, I’m expecting all hell to break loose youtu.be/PNoOUOyDDy0 True artists, including Bob Dylan in 1999-2000, are in tune with breaks in the fabric of time.

Remember Kushner receiving a symbolic bag of dirt from a Russian banker? I’m convinced Russia has dirt on Kushner’s grandfather, just as it has dirt on Leon Black from his wild parties in Moscow in the 1990s. You can blackmail the offspring by threatening to destroy their family’s reputation.

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An interesting take on Truman’s thinking appears in Alex Wellerstein’s book: "Not only did Truman not take part in the decision to use the bomb, but the one major decision that he did make was a very different one — one that he himself did not fully understand until after the atomic bomb was used."

"He watched Rubenstein, his maybe friend, aglow in a nest of Democrats, sitting on stage with Hillary Clinton and Alex Soros. Anna Wintour was there as well, and she had not put Melania, the first lady, on the cover of Vogue. The perceived slight, say those who know them, ate at Trump."

Actually, a Christian heresy. "Forgive me, but Christianity is predicated on the idea that the God of the New Testament is the God of the Old Testament: his love is the same love, his justice is the same justice, and his forgiveness is the same forgiveness."

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?" So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Joel got a reply.

When your country starts an aggressive war against a liberal democracy, such as Denmark or Canada, that’s when you know for sure that you live in a dictatorship.

He wrote a letter instead of visiting. "America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.”

"The doctrine that the strong shall dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies. And we reject it." -- FDR

Truman on the Republican Party: "Obviously, an organization with these policies is doomed to be a minority party forever in the United States of the twentieth century unless it can win by deceit or by fooling the people." Unfortunately, the party got increasingly good at deceit and fooling people.

Yo no nací sin causa Yo no nací sin fe Mi corazón pega fuerte Para gritar a los que no sienten, así perseguir A la felicidad youtu.be/JCWGOUlqq4k Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are the birthright of every human being.

Newt Gingrich dodged the draft in Vietnam and is a perfect embodiment of a warrior, not a weirdo. His stepfather said, "He's physically incapable of doing military service." archive.vanityfair.com/article/1995...

"As the exalting one man so greatly above the rest cannot be justified on the equal rights of nature, so neither can it be defended on the authority of scripture; for the will of the Almighty as declared by Gideon, and the prophet Samuel, expressly disapproves of government by Kings." Thomas Paine

Sindey Blumenthal on the 1984 administration: "On virtually every other desk at the OMB rested the latest conservative best-seller, Charles Murray's Losing Ground, the crucial text of the period, serving the same function of justification as George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty did in the first term."

Una luz, no más que una luz Querida, una luz torcida Que en el desierto cambió mi vida Camarada de rebelión Florcita macumba en la despedida No digas siempre, no digas nunca youtu.be/eLx5-wiju1E The magical rhythm of cumbia carries waves of time across continents.

Texans are ready for a Lt. Governor who fights for them and their families. We simply can’t afford to keep Dan Patrick around…

The Nazis, starting with Richard Walther Darré, attached great significance to it. "According to Darré, race was defined through practices of food production: Germans were separated from Jews by pigs."

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Meritocracy is less important to them than hierarchy. Few AI bros are as open about it as Michael Anissimov used to be, but many more believe it.

“If you place a ball on top of a pyramid, the slightest impact can cause it to roll down either to the left or to the right. That is the situation approaching with every hour in Germany today.” Trotsky’s 1931 letter to German communists urging them to unite with SPD www.marxists.org/archive/trot...

Texas pioneered the Southern Strategy but didn't fully flip until the 1990s, under George W. Bush.

When liberal democracy is destroyed, including voting rights, people lose the ability to constrain their government.

We fucked up when we had a chance. www.christianpost.com/voices/the-g...

Mikhail Bulgakov created the character of Woland ("part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good") so he could live with himself in Stalin’s Russia.

John Henry told his captain, "Lord, man ain't nothin' but a man But before I let that steam drill beat me down I'm gonna die with a hammer in my hand. youtu.be/hIh74VC7oXc The dignity of work is an integral part of the collective human experience of never surrendering to machines.

Thiel made one woman, Karyna Shuliak, comfortably wealthy.

"The machines are not trying to communicate something they believe or perceive… As we have pointed out, they are not trying to convey information at all. They are bullshitting."

We will never know what the fuckers discussed with the Russian ambassador.