And were violently British. The fact that he has to write about England from Japan is fascinating and makes psychogeographical sense

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

I don't think enough people know how important Sicario has become in the Dumb Violent Guy canon, this is their version of women who wanted to do Eat Pray Love

$3.6 billion for LAPD plus hundreds of millions in settlements for police violence and misconduct every single year for the next decade plus.

This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.

"I'm grateful for the hits because they give you the money for the flops." Sidney Lumet

Northeast Philly is hot today.

2 men armed with rifles hold up Brinks truck in Northeast Philadelphia, get away with cash, police say Torresdale Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia is blocked by a crime scene that includes an armored cash truck.

Two men wielding assault rifles held up an armored truck in the Tacony section of Northeast Philadelphia and got away with cash, police say.

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Mexico: Four anti-narcotics personnel, including two US Embassy instructor officers and two agents from the Chihuahua State Investigation Agency, died in a vehicle accident after leading a convoy returning from raids that dismantled six clandestine synthetic drug labs in Morelos, Chihuahua.
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Taiwan: Criminal Investigation Bureau [CIB] dismantled a Taiwanese-led money laundering syndicate involving 21 suspects, with over NT$18.2 billion [US$ 580 million] laundered through gambling-related transactions tied to Thailand and Malaysia.
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UK: Irfan Azizi, an Albanian national with a criminal past involving car theft and gambling, is contesting extradition from the UK, claiming he would face lethal retaliation from criminal groups if returned.
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Azizi alleges that the Çopja group conducted contract killings, some allegedly on government orders, although these claims remain unverified in court. He has also admitted to bribing an Albanian judge to close a criminal case against him.
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An underreported thing about Modi's tenure as Indian PM is how strikingly brazen the RAW have gotten. There is an open alliance between RAW and the biggest gangster in India. Lawrence Bishnoi is doing life in prison and running India's biggest cartel like an Indian Escobar

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South Korea: Investigators questioned the nephew and alleged accomplice of Park Wang-yeol [pic], alias Blue Whale, imprisoned in the Philippines, as part of a probe into a transnational narcotics network.
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Albania: Durim Bami, accused of leading and financing a structured criminal group involved in murder plots and cannabis cultivation, was transferred to Fushë Krujë prison after citing threats to his life in other facilities.
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Italy: In 2025, over 6.1 billion euros were spent on gambling in Calabria, with the province of Cosenza accounting for 2.16 billion. The gambling sector remains a preferred and highly lucrative business for the ’ndrangheta, which controls the market through both legal and illegal operations.
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Japan: A fire in Moromizato, Okinawa destroyed a yakuza-linked residence/office and killed 糸数誠 (Makoto Itokazu), confirming the death of the chairman of the Kyokuryu-kai and raising immediate concerns over leadership instability.
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going method and injecting himself with 100 different viruses like a resident evil villain

Adam Hanieh:
“The Gulf’s ammonia exports are especially important for markets outside N. America & western Europe. In 2024, for instance, Saudi Arabia, Oman & Qatar together supplied more than three-quarters of India’s ammonia imports and 30 % of Morocco’s.”

Picture of the week - Odesa…😢

Israeli Strikes Are Decimating Water Infrastructure in Lebanon Workers move under drones, repairing shattered pipelines and keeping stations running after repeated attacks

Israeli strikes in Lebanon are systematically crippling water infrastructure, leaving communities cut off from a basic necessity amid ongoing bombardment, reports Paloma de Dinechin.

Oh yeah. It's pretty insane he made a movie based on Larry Davis and said the cops deserved to get shot for being corrupt lol. That's even funnier

It's almost like a proto Wire. The entire cast is fantastic. It feels like Lumet's final statement on the New York corruption in Serpico and Prince of the City. It's fictional but it is totally nihilistic in its view of cops

Q and A is far and away Sidney Lumet's most underrated film and maybe my personal favorite of his. The only flaw is that the soundtrack is godawful. I don't know what the problem was there but it is one of the best scripts ever written.

I love Ghost in the Shell but it is a Japanese Buddhist religious parable in a sci fi package. You can't really call it cyberpunk. Case is basically the Continental Op if he was a speed addicted hacker.