Were there ever any feudal lords who were chill and happy to be loyal vassals who didn't feud with their neighbors and didn't care for striving for status and power?

Whaddya think of The Good Earth?

Strike: AFSCME workers at Illinois State University hold the line NORMAL, Ill.—The workers of Illinois State University’s (ISU) American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1110 went on strike April 8 and are now entering their third ...

Strike: AFSCME workers at Illinois State University hold the line. AFSCME 1110 represents the university's most critical workers: building service workers, culinary workers, and grounds workers. They labor tirelessly to ensure the university functions
#AFSCME #news @afscme.bsky.social

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
but trust him for his grace;
behind a frowning providence
he hides a smiling face.

Critical support to the administration's war on the troops #FuckTheTroops

For most of the time I worked on the Gaza humanitarian response at USAID, this smuggling ring was the bane of our existence. It dramatically impacted price and market stability in Gaza and made the truck drivers jobs far more dangerous. We all knew it was the IDF running it.

It's okay to be gay and fly to be bi, but if you really want to be in a state of grace, you should be ace

the supreme court overturned a lower court and ruled, with no explanation, that cops can crush an unarmed man to death.

they don’t even bother to explain themselves anymore—this is an authoritarian, anti-democratic institution.

There are too many products already

Handsome man with nice smile does the job for us by aura farming and signing pieces of paper while we watch on screens

It definitely is, grief doesn't go by easy timetables. 🫂

"Does this rising generation know that those who inaugurated the eight-hour day were put to death at the command of capital?"

Lucy E. Parsons (1926)

I loved the our chancellor of moste humaine blood posts

Put another way, I think the Jewishness of the army and the state is basically incidental. This is simply what happens when you have a racial supremacist state and a racial supremacist army and a racial supremacist law. The soldiers, regardless of the particulars, will act as if they are supreme.

Where can one find the true, the beautiful, and the good? In breaking bread with one's fellow travelers in humanity. God bless you!

I've been told that you can find great Sri Lankan food there

My day was unremarkable and I think you're nice :-)

Not since the dissolution of the revolutionary anti-imperialist movement of the late 20th century 😞

Your in-person personality is, I'm sure, different from your posting one, but you're like the least sarcastic person on my timeline

Been eating yogurt for the first time in my life. Bulgarian yogurt

Hey! Sorry I missed this. I bolted and went to seed

Just occurred to me that the Prophet Muhammad's injunction against destroying fruit-bearing trees during war (and the exceptions he ordered) takes on new meaning in this context

Destroying an oasis' palm trees doesn't just take out the tree

It destroys the ecology that allows the oasis to exist

Adorable little children should sing "Wheels on the Bus" in a manner that does not involve collaboration with the Yankee imperialist bourgeoisie or its repressive death-dealing state

Just read Death in Venice; didn't get it. Read an extract from Buddenbrooks; adored it

Whatever. This country is going to die. Don't get attached to a corpse

guide to reading the news for the next six months:

1. the strait of hormuz is closed
2. israel is still bombing or occupying something
3. if there is news of a ceasefire, go to step 2
4. if there is news of the strait being open, go to step 1

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.

And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.

And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.

And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

Seen any Newts recently?