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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. – Milton Berle
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when no one attends your shitty dictator parade

#NoKings

Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.

Just checking back in to see where we stand on this @bostonglobe.com fake front page from pre-election 2016

I told you we’d be back

America - With all due respect, we’ll pass on becoming your 51st state. #cdnpoli

The most remarkable film shot on one of the most remarkable days in history. It captures the North Shore Regiment on JUNO Beach near St. Aubin-sur-Mer on D-Day. For me, the most touching moment comes at the end of the clip when a soldier pats his comrade on the shoulder to say, "it will be ok." 🧵1/4

It was on Normandy's beautiful beaches at the crack of dawn on June 6, 1944, that the Allies finally gained a foothold in France, and Nazi Europe began to crumble. Freedom was at risk — and to defeat Nazism, 47 nations worked together, heroically, for an ideal much greater than any one country.

"And then he said, ‘Canada is going to pay for my "Golden Dome"!''

It’s not Zelensky’s war or Biden’s war or Trump’s war. It is Putin’s war. Why can’t Trump simply say that? Why is he obsessed with blaming everyone else? It is a simple and obvious truth that should be stated with moral clarity. But the US president is a liar and a coward.

Citizens United amounts to legalized bribery – plain and simple.

Yet another lesson in how "corporate social responsibility" is mostly BS. Corporations are in the business of making as much money as possible. They will do whatever they can to maximize their profits and share values, social responsibility be damned.

Senators coming for my job now.

Casar: "The party of 'very fine people on both sides' or 'Jewish space lasers' does not give a damn about stopping antisemitism. If my Republican colleagues want to stop the spread of antisemitism, maybe they should stop apologizing for and promoting antisemites."

Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.

apologizing for calling an asshole an asshole is delightfully on brand

How one young Canadian dad views this rhetoric, one of the most valuable pieces we've published so far at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/at-the-edge-...