Time and time again, we see cops cosplaying as soldiers but terrified to confront any sort of threat. They place their own safety above civilians’, the exact opposite of what soldiers do, the exact opposite of what we pay them for. They’re fakes, pretenders. They need their toys and budgets taken.
More than 70% of displaced Palestinian households in the occupied West Bank identified threats to women & children — particularly sexualised violence — as the decisive reason for leaving their communities.
Israel uses sexual violence as a weapon to force Palestinians from their homes
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The United States national security blob got so used to fighting non-state actors and fragmented, tribal societies that they're flailing against a rather poor middle power with some semblance of a modern state.
I think I just got a window into what your mind must be like when people start talking about the Super Bowl.
"Slowly, Megaweapon, slowly!"
"Make it last!"
Yes, I'm sure that we need to be very worried about theocratic government being imposed by cardiologists who are outnumbered 2,000 to 1.
One of the silliest things I ever heard was my father relating a conversation he overheard in my hometown between two people afraid of Sharia law coming to said hometown.
This is a municipality with about eight practicing Muslims - seven physicians and one university professor.
kinda says it all that this gets more scrutiny than killing tens of thousands of brown children
If anything, this moment should lead us to shed indefinite, sanctimonious terms like “The West” or “Global South”, to stop assuming solidarity or collective action or culture, and speak with precision.
If there ever was “The West”, the current government of the United States is not any part of it.
The thing about the photo of the IDF soldier beheading a statue of Jesus in south Lebanon is that the Israeli military has an effectively near 0% conviction rate for its soldiers and so this will just keep happening over and over and over and over. This is simply what unlimited impunity breeds.
IDF confirms image of soldier smashing Jesus statue in southern 🇱🇧 is authentic
The IDF views the incident with "great severity and emphasizes that the soldier's conduct is wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops," the military said on Sun night.
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A screenshot of Gabriel Knight, title character of 1993's criminally underrated adventure game "Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers". Gabriel Knight is memorably voiced by Tim Curry.
The only example I know of where Mark Hamill was outshined in a voice acting role.
That’s one angry plastic flamingo
Marwan Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian alive and has expressed support for a partition along the pre June 1967 borders into a separate state.
Barghouti has been in Israeli jail for two decades and is routinely tortured and even threatened with murder by Israeli politicians and guards.
i will give the press corpse this — going to the trouble of printing a couple of lines of the first amendment out on a sheet of fabric to express your fears about encroachment, then folding it up and putting it away in your suit pocket *does* send a message. it’s just not the message they think.
Democratic fossils that still think they must reflexively support Israel after the Gaza conflict and embroiling us in the Iran war are not worth my or anyone else's time any longer
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.
DAWG I’M STUCK IN THE FRATLABOR 1
Aaaaand there's the tornado watch.
Every federal official involved in this shameful episode needs to be prosecuted.
I made a lot of rich people even richer in the mid to late 2000s and I never quite realised just how little I was getting by comparison. I'm mid to late 40s now and I can't wait for the "all of these people are dying at their desks for some reason, wonder what it is" debate in 20 or so years
Biden absolutely shit the bed on holding Trump and his cronies to account, and I'm going to remember that when the 2026 and 2028 elections start ramping up.
I don't follow Hungarian politics, but I believe that Magyar said, early and consistently, that he would destroy Orban's authoritarian edifice if elected. I can support asking people to unite around a Democratic candidate who does that, but a squish who wants to be Biden part 2? No.
My issue with this article is that for a lot of people, me included, #1 is going to be completely contingent on #2. And part of the reason people are hesitant about candidates like Gavin Newsom is that we don't trust him to carry through any kind of meaningful purge if elected.
Yeah, "cut the Navy's size and funding in half" is at least as likely to produce improved underway supply operations as "give the navy more money", which is as likely to result in another disastrous frigate program fail as any operational improvement.
this race-bending the new musketeers thing is taking it way too far, next they'll be claiming Dumas was black or something
75-year-old widow.
One of her stepsons, a cop, called ICE on her so he can grab as much as he can from the estate.
"We need to spend more on defense" folks have to reckon with the fact that we have blown colossal amounts of cash on DoD and CENTCOM's emotional support activities and the American voter does not see anything positive received in return for this spending.
Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE.
Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.
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