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“What the Nazis had to gauge was the point at which atrocity would awaken the community to the consciousness of its moral habits. This point may be moved forward as the national emergency, or Cold War, is moved forward, and still further forward in Hot War…” 1/2

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Must read by CJ Chivers from 2020: www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/m...

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LIVE: Anti-ICE demonstrators in Los Angeles clash with law enforcement WARNING: MAY CONTAIN STRONG LANGUAGE www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSNM...

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It is not illegal to fly a foreign flag in the United States, any more than it is illegal to fly the flag of the Confederacy, which as history buffs may be aware, actually took up arms and killed more than 360,000 U.S. soldiers in an effort to destroy the Union.

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Them: The problem with the poets of the First World War is that they were soft, hypersensitive elites who just couldn’t hack the realities of combat Alan Seeger: I Have a Rendezvous With Death

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The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

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Hell of a photo

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Posting for no reason. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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Yesterday I caught up with Ken Casey, the lead singer of the iconic punk band Dropkick Murphys at a rally of veterans and labor unions on the National Mall, to talk punk rock and politics. My latest for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Had some green onions I bought at the grocery store a few weeks ago, but didn’t have time to use as intended. So I planted them in a balcony pot that had extra space. They are now like four feet tall, and flowering. Feel like it’s becoming a “Day of the Triffids” type scenario.

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Become ungovernable

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NEW: Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself Trump’s administration is marshaling vast public resources and more than $1 billion worth of taxpayer money to flatter the president. Full story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Just gonna leave this here...

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Me, as they put me up against the wall in front of the firing squad, desperately trying to think of final words that will echo down the ages: “Oh yeah? Your mom wanted a blindfold and a cigarette, too.”

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I, for one, am shocked that the current president is having a falling out with someone he publicly praised and held in such apparent high esteem.

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Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen, according to a federal court filing issued Thursday.

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At least Andrew Carnegie built libraries. Even if now they’re Apple Stores or whatever

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Several oligarchs & industrialists who chose to back Hitler & finance the Nazis ended up in concentration camps after falling out of favor. Fritz Thyssen & Hjalmar Schact, among others. Some, like Gustav Krupp & his son, were indicted for war crimes at Nuremberg. Just sayin’

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Ugh. You can still disagree with someone, or even hate them for their actions, while still believing they have a right to publicly criticize any and all politicians and policies, without that criticism becoming the sole basis for financial and legal retribution by the government.

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I'm pretty sure these confrontations are a part of the design of the program. They'll use them as an excuse to enact a state of emergency, particularly around election season.

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Amazing. The White House is literally doing the “AJ” scene from “In the Loop.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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A daring strike on Russian bombers far from the frontlines highlights the dominance of unmanned aerial vehicles, as the tech grows ever more deadly.

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Ukraine has an absolute right enshrined in international law & supported by most moral philosophies to defend the survival of its nation & its people against Russian aggression. Efforts to obfuscate this or subordinate it to the interests of great powers will inevitably fail.

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Full transcript of that remarkable town hall exchange: Constituent: People are going to die because of cuts to Medicaid Sen. Joni Ernst: Well, we all are going to die William Wallace: Every man dies, but not every man truly lives Éowyn: I am no man Chaka Khan: I’m every woman

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Good story, with a detail I’d missed elsewhere: the US government has recently ceased paying stipends to the Somali Danab commando brigade, which US SOF have trained and advised for years, effectively halving their salaries. (Unclear to me whether this was 127e money or State Dept money.)

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Guys… I have some information about the parking needs of our fallen military members which may shock and dismay you.

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