Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

The only people to survive this will be the 2 toughest guys on earth, Bob Dylan and Keith Richards

Yay Kanopy! Now I can watch Lubitsch's Die Puppe (hilarious!) one more time before my credits renew next week

My God. This is probably the best oration I've *ever* heard from an American elected official. So much more than "Happy St. Patrick's Day."

Trump pardons allies who boost his crypto coin.

Trump invests in corporations that he's supposed to be regulating.

Trump cuts deals with autocrats to advance his family's real estate business.

The list goes on.

We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.

“Music for Six Seven Musicians”

What about Ellen Willis?

HOUR The extra hour given back to eternity The hour gained by travelling west The hour of the imagined empire The deepest hour of the darkest sea The guilty hour that precedes catastrophe The hour that it takes to go from here to there The haunted hour of the knowledge of death The hour in which the moon darkens The hour that moves through the mind like cloud shadow The blue hour that rests on the roof of the house The hour that is the mother of minutes and grandmother of seconds The swollen hour of pain, enough, enough The hour when mice run in the walls The bronze hour of electrical weather The cloistered hour of the nun's great moment The necklace of hours the widow wears The numbing hours of a night in Nome The sound of hours in the breathing of plants The central hour that exists without you The hour in which the universe begins to die The hallucinatory hour that hangs forever The hour of excess that equals two of self-examination The hour that flashed on the skin The hour of final music The hour of painless solitude The hour of moonlight upon her body

Mark Strand's "Hour" as it first appeared in The New Yorker.

Correct.

Rep. Jody Barrett (Left)
Sen. Mark Pody (Right)

DHS Axed Its Civil Rights Staff—And Opened the Door to a Major Lawsuit — Mother Jones The agency is now barely pretending to follow disability law. Its former civil rights head says that makes ICE vulnerable.

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Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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This year is a very special year for horror fans, because it's the first time in eleven years that three Friday the 13ths will be taking place in a single year!

That happens to be the maximum amount of Friday the 13ths that can exist in a single year, and it won't happen again until 2037.

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

Charlottesville!

“To protect his reputation” tells you a lot.

This did go well for a Border Patrol agent charged with running down a migrant with his truck. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Gertrude Stein - BOTD

If you can’t tell the differenced, how are you supposed to treat them differently?

Mega-journal Heliyon retracts hundreds of papers after internal audit Heliyon has published fewer papers and ramped up its retractions since a major indexing service put the journal on hold and the publisher launched an audit of all papers published in the journal si…

Heliyon has published fewer papers and ramped up its retractions since a major indexing service put the journal on hold and the publisher launched an audit of all papers published in the journal since its launch in 2016.

Listen to the poets.

Google Disables Search for Book Previews Google has disabled search functionality for preview books on Google Books, leaving users unable to search through pages that remain visible on the platform.

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Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society.

How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

Remember, remember.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

I’m not voting to fund this lawless violence. Trump’s abuse of power is tearing us apart. We have 3 years left of this presidency. Either we stand up and protect our democracy now, or we risk going down a path that is unthinkable, will hurt countless people and do irreversible damage to our country.

Vancouver firm Hootsuite provides services to ICE U.S. procurement records show that Vancouver tech firm Hootsuite is providing social media services to the Department of Homeland Security.

It's a good day to stop using Hootsuite and tell them why.

Honestly think this is more important even than Putin’s vanity project… nations that have freed themselves of Soviet occupation, that now have better living standards, are a direct rebuke of everything Putin claims, and as said below, would eventually likely lead to domestic upheaval in Russia.

Does anyone remember the classic "ICE vs The Viking in a Bathtub" sketch on Monty Python? Good times!