Groucho Marx writhing on the dancefloor of a art deco mansion, as bougie party guests look on, confused and exhilirated.
We might disagree about the viability of city-run grocery stores, fareless buses, and the Sin of Empathy.
But I'd like to think that we can overlook divisions of class, ethnicity, and basic decency, coming together to offer a hearty #HoorayForCaptainSpaulding !
The Sermon on the Mount is anti-capitalist propaganda, and likely violates NSPM-7. Luckily, we have an administration that only knows scripture through quotations from movies, so Jesus is probably safe.
One person who might know who wrote it is Simon Nuchtern, the Belgian American film director whose Aurora Films added that intro for the American release. Although I am bot at all sure he is still alive, he’d be about 90 now.
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We should be learning from other countries...
Fake bible quote screengrab
Tarantino cribbed the fake Bible quote from a 1976 American release of a Japanese martial arts movie titled “Bodyguard Kiba.” It wasn’t part of the original 1973 manga-based movie and appears in the intro: www.schnittberichte.com/pics/SBs/300...
Red Cross and Red Crescent doctors famously wear tunics and peasant shirts, and heal folks with miracles, not medical equipment.
Orbàn should keep a room open in his dacha for Trump, who no doubt will soon be following him there.
Defunding research can't be called "right-wing science". It is Anti-science. The MAGA/HA movement is not doing science differently, they are substituting belief for empiricism.
We need to be clear about this so when our kids miss out on mRNA vaccines, folks understand where we took the wrong turn.
"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.
I hear he doesn't even wear a slipcover
Bullwinkle
Strait of what now?
CNBC: “Is Trump destroying a civilization a bigger upside risk or downside risk?”
incredible stuff
Geographical diversity is so important and racial diversity is not important at all?
I can't...
The hideous conspiracy involves fostering income inequality favoring whites, systematically coercing them to send their kids to private schools, and so depriving those kids of a public education.
The President is threatening genocide and possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran.
It’s clear the President has continued to decline and is not fit to lead. The members of his Cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment immediately.
Trump: “It will take [Iran] 100 years to rebuild... the only way they’re going to be able to rebuild their country is to utilize the genius of the United States of America.”
Like Napoleon, who got to Egypt by looting and monetizing the chaos he created. Except even more of a megalomaniac.
Politics, yes. But that makes it sound inevitable. If it is broken down into its component parts: 1) oil interests spend money to protect their market share, 2) courts allow corporations to buy elections, 3) GOP politicians fail to regulate those corporations, then solutions come into view.
Moynihan: Don't look to DC for moral clarity
Mockler: I could have looked up to Obama and actually learned patience. If I look to Trump, I don't even know what I learn from that. Be an absolute asshole to anyone who interacts with you. What's the lesson that I'm supposed to take from this guy?
Cover of “Pierre” by Sendak
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I'm going on Krugman's substack in a few to talk energy, so I've been trying to wrap my head around a 30K view of the domestic energy landscape. It has brought to mind one of my favorite rants, which I will rant at you once again here.
Let's talk about a contrast. 🧵
We have a word for war. People use “conflict” when they mean something short of war, choosing not to use “war.” The only reason some outlets are calling it a “conflict“ is to respect the emperor’s claim he is wearing Constitutional clothes. But we can all see he is not.
I see clips of those press conferences where they prop him up, newly infused with platelets via the back of his hand, painted to look lifelike as if by some funeral home intern, wisps of fake hair swirled on his head from a soft-serve machine, sound asleep in his chair as a flunky drones on, and ask myself, *who is responsible for desecrating this corpse*?
There ought to be a law…
Mifepristone is not polluting your tap water, but sure, let’s roll back women's healthcare just in case. This is EPA cosplay to gut your rights. Share this before they decide your uterus is a Superfund site.
If he could not handle the domestic political consequences of higher oil prices, why did he and his pal Bibi start to bomb Iran?
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Didn't Clinton get impeached for something like that?
It just takes ending the Trump double-standard on one of his crimes, and his teflon layer will start to wear off.
Janai Nelson explains the Save Act voter suppression bill. Continue to call your Senators. We can’t let up on this.
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From Carol Moseley Braun’s home state!
The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals.
We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.
This is Marc Andreessen. There is a great book about him and people like him: "More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity" by Adam Becker.
