"Great Satan" sounding like a fairly reasonable, merely descriptive formulation this afternoon.

Labour in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about workers' rights, the NHS, and the beauties of the old North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about factional infighting.

Only a few possessions of Kuz/Bobby as the lone bigs. Makes all the difference.

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D'Angelo & the Vanguard - Full Concert - Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 2015 YouTube video by North Sea Jazz Archive

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D'Angelo and The Vanguard - The Charade (Audio) YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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You know it's going to be a good episode when:
- It has a trailer
- It has a guest
- It's 6.5 hours long

A new direct action group calling itself 'Yvette Cooper' claims to have targeted Time Logistics for providing transport in Britain for Israel's Elbit Systems. Its message to the government on social media says, "if you want to ban Palestine Action, you'll have to proscribe Yvette Cooper too"

Sir Nose D Voidoffunk

It's Gonna Be Lonely

Funniest basketball team of all time.

I hope it makes Robespierre and Saint-Just look tolerant and forgiving.

Cuddling the Russian Bear Following the "great television" of Donald Trump and JD Vance berating Volodymyr Zelenskyy in public, the Kremlin have said the new foreign...

Stop underestimating Trump. There's more to his thuggish behaviour and the turn to Moscow than a fondness for dictators and any dirt the FSB might have on him. As with all great power politics, it's about *interests*.

My brother, the NHS and the inquest into a needless death My brother spent the last hours of his life trying in vain to get basic help from the NHS. Why?

Really important and moving account of state failure in this weekend's @financialtimes.com that is free to read for all here:

twitter ended up being very corrosive for expertise….not by empowering know-nothings, but rather by making specialized people self-destruct

Victoria 3 screenshot showing "Pope Karl Heinrich Marx" in charge of the Papacy. He is a communist, atheist, ashkenazi, and his popularity is Loved

Tired: Civ 7 "Harriet Tubman has joined Fascism"
Inspired:

Imo it's bad that the US government now operates as a crudely extractive mercantile state because the dumbest people on earth think doing so is macho, and the entirely predictable consequence of this will be a mass rearmament in countries already facing anaemic growth and fraying social contracts.

Essentially this is the only place where you actually get the full measure of what is reported to have been said! www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Waxahatchee - Right Back to It
Atmos Blaq - Mfana Wase Dobsi
Kishi Bashi - Lilliputian Chop
Joshua Idehen - Mum Does The Washing
Blaq Major ft Bless The Gentleman & DJ Kap - Sdaqiwe Sbali

Merry Christmas!

watching German ice football highlights, I’ve never felt more alive

this is not healthy

more users are joining
and the hog grows longer

Aki Kaurismäki

At the time of writing, our staff are witnessing people being shot at as they attempt to flee the Al-Shifa hospital.

MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients.