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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action...Words are used to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests." Gore Vidal, Imperial America, 2004

Rachel Maddow on Trump's bombing of Iran

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My take is that the US has no business either starting or getting involved in another Middle-Eastern war. The ones from the "war on terror" era ended badly. This will end badly as well.

Another "leopards ate my face" moment

  After Helping Cost Kamala the Election, the Abandon Harris Movement Is Now Pleading to Trump for Mercy by u/Humble_Novice in LeopardsAteMyFace This was all so predictable. I have nothing but contempt for organizations like Abandon Harris, who helped set the stage for the current clusterfuck we are living with now. I don't want another war in the Middle East either, but anyone who thought Trump was an isolationist was deluded.

Good news if true (Foxtrot Delta Tango edition)

T om Sullivan has a post that looks at what might have been a silent protest by those military personnel tasked with marching in the parade old Donald Trump demanded take place last weekend. One measure of this regime's ability to end democracy once and for all is if Trump has the military on board. He might not after all.

ICE = Gestapo

ICE = GESTAPO by u/Hairy-Dog3523 in GlobalNews ICE agents kidnapping babies. This isn’t immigration enforcement, it’s state terror. by u/Winter-Stranger-3709 in GlobalNews

No Kings protests compilation

  Compilation of some of the footage of the no Kings protests across the US by u/oneoftheleastofthese in GlobalNews I was at one protest in my respective city and I was really happy with the turnout, which was bigger than a BLM protest held at that same location in town in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The level of energy was amazing. As I have probably stated before, showing up matters.

RIP: Loretta Swit

Loretta Swit, star of “M*A*S*H," dies at 87 by u/PayCharacter1504 in 70s