George Washington issued orders for the Continental Army inoculated against smallpox! Guess Hegseth was asleep that day in his American History class.

Last time I heard anything about those assholes they were still calling themselves the League of the South (I had to check to see if it was the same people); glad to hear they can mostly be referred to in the past tense.

He's a Zionist, so the answer is "yes".

Walter White is a Humbert Humbert grade shitbag, and just like that guy, a lot of people have the mistaken impression that he's the hero of the story.

Happened to Charles I over a hundred years before! Took the French a little while to catch up.

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy YouTube video by MassiveAttackVEVO

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Or because Davy Crockett was a well-known popular hero; a lot of formerly enslaved people took "patriotic" surnames like Washington and Jefferson. Her great-great-grandfather Armstead took the surname Crockett sometime between 1870 and 1880: www.wikitree.com/wiki/Campbel...

Zionists continue have a deep hatred of facts and stating things in plain language, I see.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

Reports that Iran will likely withdraw from the NPT. The NPT has a withdrawal clause. After the events of the last 9 mos - not 1 but 2 illegal wars against Iran facilitated by the IAEA’s work - no one can argue that Iran does not have the strongest legal case possible to invoke this clause

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

From late last year, relevant again today

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I read it and what put me off was the way it was about a boy who was Special because of his bloodline going to an exclusive private boarding school; it's inherently very classist in a lot of its framing and assumptions, in addition to the fantasy racism and justifications for slavery.

Completely fabricated prior to William Arnold, the immigrant, unfortunately; William the immigrant was son of Nicholas Arnold and Alice Gully, of Northover, Somerset, and his further ancestry is unknown. See here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

Mills is being supported by Schumer because she's pro-Israel; alignment on that issue is one of the cornerstones of policy for the Schumer wing of the party--which is really just the Scoop Jackson wing of the party, 50+ years on; hawkish on the ME, pro-Israel, etc. "National Security" Democrats.

Don't even watch the Harry Potter HBO trailer. Don't give them attention.

Uncanny. The only way to tell them apart is that Patrick Bateman has killed fewer homeless people

Governor Gavin Newsom says he regrets using the term apartheid in relation to Israel, and says he used it the same way Tom Friedman does--as a term that describes where Israel is heading under Netanyahu, not a term describing the current reality.

The facts are clear: Israel is an apartheid state which has committed genocide against Palestinians with US weapons.

Every single major human rights organization agrees with this. If Newsom can’t tell the truth about this issue, what else is he too afraid to stand up for?

Why is Tom Edsall a Nazi?

One owes respect to the living. To the dead, one owes only the truth. - Voltaire

This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are

Someday...

Iran Targeted Diego Garcia Base With Ballistic Missiles Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-U.K. military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean, according to multiple U.S. officials. Neither of the missiles h...

Wow. If I'm not mistaken, this marks the longest-range use of ballistic missiles in warfare to date. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

You must've missed all the "ate my balls" websites c. 1996-1997.

I'm the burnout leftist friend

Image from p. 211 of "Annals & Memorials of the Handys and Their Kindred", by Isaac W.K. Handy (published 1992, Clements Library, University of Michigan) 1.4.2.1.2. Comfort Handy (b.1773) Miss Comfort Handy of Nassawadux is said to have been one of the most talented women ever "raised" in Worcester Co., Md. She was well-acquainted with geography, history, and politics, and could converse with fluency and intelligence upon almost any subject. She could draw as good a bond, or deed, as any professional man in the county, and Judge Whittington used to say that he would rather encounter any lawyer of his acquaintance in debate than Miss Comfort.

No surviving inscribed books that I know of, but this description of a distant cousin indicates that she was likely acquainted with law books, among others ("Judge Whittington" was William Whittington, 1770-1827, who served as chief judge of Maryland's 4th Judicial District):

UK security adviser ‘attended’ US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach Exclusive: Jonathan Powell thought Tehran’s ‘surprising’ offer on its nuclear programme could prevent rush to war, sources say

UK security adviser ‘attended’ US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach. Witkoff & Kushner were Israeli assets who wanted war &:dragged Trump into it, despite there being no Isrsnian threat & a breakthrough Iran nuclear offer on the table

Perfect

What Israel is doing to Southern Lebanon is *clearly* aimed at ethnic cleansing and colonization, using the same tactics as in the Gaza genocide. Nearly 1 million people forcibly displaced. We have to reject this evil with all our might, and support those who are resisting it.

Anger now will get you the same response, because any action undertaken in the name of "Jewish safety" (whatever Zionists define that as, which includes Israel committing genocide and bombing their neighbours) is treated as beyond criticism.