Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read stories reported that dozens of ships have managed to circumvent the blockade since it began — despite Donald Trump declaring it a ‘tremendous success’. ft.trib.al/9C3Xw4h
SPOILER ALERT: anton chigur is CIA
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idk who needs to hear this, but farid ud-dun attar was born and died in neyshabur, iran in the 1100s CE. he traveled as far away as egypt and india (likely also china), and suffered persecution from the persian authorities. a sufi mystic, he was also a simple alchemist with a pharmacy. blessed.
just an fyi, three days after two anarchists died in rome trying to build an explosive device, some anonymous people sabotaged this electrical pylon in udine (northern italy), cutting power to oil pipeline pumps. the italian state tried to hush up this sabotage, as did the pipeline owner.
chihuahua is a native word btw, and it's also the name of a badass fighter
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doubt this is real, but if so, wtf?
“man participating in animal abuse faces consequence”
are they taking bets on polymarket on whether any of the other other candidates call newsom a 'ghoul' or reference his likeness to the character patrick bateman from the film 'american psycho' (2000)
A "Little Free Library" filled with only Merriam-Webster Dictionaries
Happy National Library Week to whoever did this.
turns out the harder you lick the boot, the harder the boot crushes you
America Reads the Bible post: Worship leader Hannah Brazney with Her Voice invites you to join America Reads the Bible — a powerful national reading of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation in honor … See more. Image of white woman
Portland-area Jenny Donnelly and her daughter Hannah will be doing a political/Christian Nationalist rally in D.C. this week. They call it "America Reads The Bible." Hannah is leading worship one of the days. Trump, the best buddy of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, will be reading tonight.
tfw the christo-fascist zionist conspiracy throws you into the meat grinder
Construction for Enbridge's Line 5 oil pipeline has started in northern Wisconsin.
Anishinaabe leaders are raising alarms about the threats to the water & covert police deals in the state.
A rally against Line 5 is being held today in downtown St. Paul outside the Army Corps building at 4:30 pm.
Epstein wasn’t a financial consultant
He trafficked in young girls and used compromising information to extort money
btw, the final work of attar was titled the 'lisanu'l ghaib,' which translated to 'a voice from heaven.' over a century later, the sufi poet hafez would take the nickname 'lisan al-ghaib.' six hundred years after that, frank herbert would have paul atreides earn the nickname 'lisan al-ghaib'
idk who needs to hear this, but farid ud-dun attar was born and died in neyshabur, iran in the 1100s CE. he traveled as far away as egypt and india (likely also china), and suffered persecution from the persian authorities. a sufi mystic, he was also a simple alchemist with a pharmacy. blessed.
Excellent morning spent discussing two stimulating research projects on the history of anarchism with ECRs.
Great to see the next generation come up with exciting ideas; the field is definitely a far cry from where it was when I started my PhD and would often get laughed or sneered at.
what reality is this?
Thai Child: I want Korn
Thai Parents: We have Korn at home
Korn at home:
The dumbest, meanest people are in charge of everything.
Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov will have his book on Zionism and genocide translated into 9-10 languages, but not Hebrew. He even offered to translate it himself, but not a single Israeli publisher would go near it. Not even the ‘leftwing’ ones.
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Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.
The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."
My story:
Saw a bunch of PPB helping ODOT do homeless sweeps this morning in the rain. This isn’t the way.
Screengrab from Princesse Tam-Tam (Edmond T. Gréville, 1935)
Image from Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène, 1966)
One day I'd like to program a double feature of Princesse Tam-Tam (Edmond T. Gréville, 1935) and Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène, 1966). Both films are about the movement of a young Black woman from a French colony or post-colony in Africa (Tunisia in Tam-Tam, Senegal in Black Girl) to France.
'schweinepudding in aspik' is the correct pronunciation btw
tfw you take four hits of LSD and stare at 'pork-in-aspic' for about three days
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Alex Karp's 'Supervillain' Manifesto Is Putting Palantir's Contracts at Risk gizmodo.com/alex-karps-supervillain-...
tfw your bug juice starts gushing out of your pores like mountain dew
