Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
If you've ever wondered about this GOP being a cult...
Anorexic counter-jumper. She looks like a stick insect.
Blood-sucking parasites.
The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...
The cover is a large spaceship in space above a green planet, caught at just the moment when a setting or rising sun will cause lens flare.
JR Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovksy. I'm late to the party but, yes, this is excellent. The joy of good SF is an author with such imagination that you leave the book feeling your mind has been expanded. 600 pages is a lot but that said I read the last 150 in one sitting, I was so gripped.
John Roberts is a master tactician playing the longest game to destroy American democracy. I doubt he thinks much about a higher justification --and he'll suffer no consequence. But in case he thought it was to preserve American wealth and power--he essentially destroyed the US in the long run.
Left- America is paying for Israel to destroy south Lebanon leaving 1.2 million Lebanese homeless.
Right- U.S. veterans arrested inside the U.S. Capitol for opposing the war in Iran.
Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats.
Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.
Prohibiting kids from being taught novels in school will do nothing but ensure that they are more ignorant and less able to synthesize information, and unable to make the cognitive progress to be able to comprehend or communicate clearly. Whoever is making these decisions is an enemy of education.
I feel this dragon and his fire are icy cold.
You’re welcome.
The princess is troubled; her dragon swears to punish whoever has disturbed his mistress. (The colours and the background details are perfect!).
United will buy him before he turns 18.
Jerusalem Post: Despite a “ceasefire” the IDF is giving orders to open fire on everyone in Southern Lebanon trying to go home — “Even if the person is unarmed… based on the idea that there are no civilians left in Southern Lebanon.”
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
Awesome
Not sure wtf we're doing but it definitely doesn't feel like winning.
🤔 Time for this again?
A History of Britain (circa 1800 onwards):
- Industrial revolution (exploited own people)
- Imperialism (exploited foreign people)
- WW1 and WW2, went bust, shed empire
- Got into European lifeboat
- Got out of lifeboat
- Bobbing like a cork in the sea
- No sign of a plan...
Yes. Good.
I’m betting that the Chinese will establish a permanent base on the Moon before NASA does.
Fair. Although their system has produced *material* benefits for the population far in advance of the West’s crumbling infrastructure. My point really is that in the West we tend to overlook what’s going on in Asia other than K Pop and anime.
China will establish a permanent base on the Moon years before y’all.
The whole world knows the President of the United States and his family are grifters.
Its absolutely shameful.
Wow! A dragon/orca!
Israeli soldier photographed beheading a statue of Jesus with a hammer: IDF immediately posts multiple English-language condemnations and "we will investigate" "this is not who we are" etc
Israeli soldiers videotaped throwing a tied up and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner off a roof: 🦗🦗🦗🦗
Apparently it is a day dedicated to celebrating Cannabis Culture. Weed is a key component of the brain rot destroying the West.
Do you notice that George’s premise and this entire thread is Eurocentric? (“Euro” to include the US). How much attention are we paying to China? How does China’s agenda reflect or conflict with the West’s oligarchs? We need to open our eyes. 未来属于中国
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
The most morally corrupt DOJ in US history.
