Puerto Ricans on mainland navigate a 'ghost citizenship' & dual identity | opinion Rafael Torres of Tech Centro Lebanon: "As a Puerto Rican in the U.S., I wasn’t entirely 'American' and not quite 'Puerto Rican' enough, either."

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Picture of the century. 😍

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Sorry, America, but as a democracy we own the actions of our leader. We may despise Trump. But his actions are on us, will be associated with us by history and the world. Our democratic and institutional failures have put a genocidal monster on the world stage.

And here’s the eclipse photo from Artemis II. I am in tears.

Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.

Facing the reality that brutality and cruelty also have tradeoffs and are not a secret weapon that facilitates an easy victory, they are furious at being embarrassed by their lessers and seeing their theory of the world publicly discredited (not that they would ever acknowledge that)

Trump advisers think the age of imperialism ended because of wokeness, not because 1) colonized peoples made colonialism untenable 2) technology made territorial empire unnecessary. They thought mere brutality and perceived genetic superiority would make wars against countries like Iran easy.

this has to be the greatest single-game defensive performance in baseball history. especially considering they won 1-0

Cloisonné pin similar to the NASA logo, but reads “NOT FLAT”, with “we checked” underneath l

NASA’s Earth photos from Artemis inspired me to put this on today… 🙂

Getting lots of positive comments on it as I run errands…

This is just amazing!! The NOAA GOES West satellite was watching the launch of Artemis!! 🧪 @elprager.bsky.social

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

A screenshot of an interviewer saying to their subject "To me, it seems ridiculous to have a [trans] kid at age 12, 13, 14 deciding whether they want to have biological children when they're 20, 30, 40."

And the interviewee responds: "Well, they make the decision to kill themselves at 12 and 13."

I think about these 2 images a lot.

Almost 10 years ago now, Harvard educated psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer was one of the original Never Trump Republicans. The late Dr. Krauthammer pretty much nailed Trump with this description & I refer to it regularly to understand Trump's behavior:

Our government keeps telling us America can't afford universal health care or expanding Medicare for ALL. There's a reason for that.🗽

Hacia la destrucción de la democracia americana | Tribuna Asistimos con Trump a una explícita profesión de fe en una magistratura autoritaria que está más allá de los derechos individuales y de los contrapesos institucionales

Tribuna | "Parece que el incesante disponer sobre esto y aquello de Trump sea más bien una suerte de movimiento epiléptico de una personalidad errática e inmadura. A mí se me antoja, por el contrario, que la cosa es más grave y más profunda", por Francisco J. Laporta

This is why you don’t put idiots in charge on important matters. No one considered what fixing this would look like.

This is a good reason for impeachment. In any business in USA someone who makes a mistake like this gets fired. You want to make the government more accountable, start there.

Thanks!

Keeper of the Flame - A film from 1942 warning Americans how democracy can be dismantled from the inside. This scene was written during World War II. Watch how calmly the plan is explained. Ask yourself why it still feels current today.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

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At this point it is safe to say that this generation of Americans failed Benjamin Franklin’s test.

We were not able to keep a republic.

Good job, everybody.

Real wars, imagined communities Iran and Benedict Anderson’s “Imagined Communities” in the 21st century.

Reading Benedict Anderson’s “Imagined Communities” during the war with Iran.

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Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

Tony Benn in the House of Commons Iraq Bombing Speech YouTube video by Alex Mc

I found the longer speech, the whole speech is so heartfelt inappropriate now as well. youtu.be/HfXmpJRZPYI?...

CONCOSTRINA y MALDONADO hablan sobre la censura en el FRANQUISMO | Esto con Franco no pasaba | EP5 YouTube video by SER Podcast

Esto ha pasado y no puedo estar más contenta, la verdad.

Nuevo episodio de 'Esto con Franco no pasaba' con Miguel Maldonado y Nieves Concostrina ❤️‍🔥

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📺TV en DIRECTO | Sánchez a Abascal: "Vio usted la Super Bowl? ¿Vio el espectáculo de Bad Bunny? Pues eso, menos odio y más amor" social.elpais.com/n9g…

"En un momento de criminalización del extranjero y de nostalgia por una América homogénea que nunca existió, el mensaje fue brutalmente sencillo: esta es la América que está y sigue aquí". Lee el editorial 'América es Bad Bunny' social.elpais.com/2q3…

Ron Desantis has a solution for that. Fire the Sherriff/Chief of Police. No reason that can’t work both ways.

Brett Ratner:

The US Government is waging war on its own citizens. Whether or not anyone has declared it, the second US Civil War has begun.

Act accordingly.