Makes you wonder why they’re attacking “civilian” ships
Oh, yes, you caught us, all of these 'civilian' cargo ships are CIA plants sending bombs to Israel, regardless of who they're actually owned and operated by or what they're carrying or where they're going.
A politically treacherous dynamic is taking hold as negotiators in Congress work to strike a bipartisan deal on the border and immigration, with vocal opposition from the hard right and former President Donald Trump threatening to topple the carefully negotiated compromise....
It should. But it doesn't. Because a good third of the country are wackjobs who think that he who has the most money is the most blessed and favored by God, regardless of how they came across it.
It’s not about how things “sound”, that’s conservative, image-based thinking. We should be more focused on substance over style, sustainability, and countering the efforts of our overseas rivals in attempting to paralyze us with divisive instability.
No, that's exactly the kind of "They go low, we go high" stuff that Obama tried to peddle.
Democracy is not merit-based. Your policies are only as good to the electorate as you make them sound, not as good as they actually are. The 'substance over style' approach is why every fucking election cycle you have new voters who bring up shortcomings in the country, have it pointed out to them that the Democrats have made significant efforts on the issue, and then end up with the (correct) conclusion that the Dems have a serious fucking messaging problem.
We can use a diverse array of approaches, this is an asset.
On this we agree. I simply add that anger is one of the approaches we've been neglecting.
There’s a little wine shop in downtown Ballston Spa, New York with rainbow-colored bottles lining the shop’s front window. The village is small, about 5,000 people, and attracts tourists from all around the world....
Shoaff said he didn’t know at the time that McEachin was Black, but he still stands by his statement. “I said we should take him out in the middle of the street and hang him,” said Shoaff. “I said what I said because he advocated for using force against citizens,” he said. “Is that not treason?”
... is that not advocating using force against citizens?
President Biden pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday to agree to the creation of a Palestinian state after the war in Gaza is over and raised options that would limit Palestinian sovereignty to make the prospect more palatable to Israel....
Because the people loudly proclaiming that are generally those who weren't going to vote for Biden to begin with, but find it useful to play the ingenue in the hopes of convincing others not to vote.
Russia’s use of disinformation to further its own goals and weaken its perceived adversaries has been widely documented. Russian disinformation operations have been implicated in several key elections around the world, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the Brexit vote in the U.K. in the same year....
Authoritarians are allies the world over. The same parties which seek to abandon Ukraine are those which would gladly see their own countries ruled like Putin's oligarchy.
Vladimir Putin is going on a property hunt, ordering officials to find Russian assets that once belonged to its former empire or were owned by the Soviet Union....
Although I'm not sure that they were widely known in the Japanese military. Most of the stories I hear of Japanese soldiers being shocked are when they learn of it after being taken as PoWs, at which point their morale is... less important.
Probably miserable as hell, but I bet you any amount of money that the ice cream is the one bright spot of their day. There's a story that when the USS Lexington went down in WW2, the US servicemen onboard raided the freezer for its ice cream as it sank, filling up their helmets to eat it before abandoning ship.
Anything for a little taste of home.
From Harry’s interview, “So, I rolled off the flight deck onto the next level. There was a big lock on the hatch going into the Gedunk. Now there was a fire axe there, so I took the axe, and it took only one blow to knock off the lock. I went in and took my helmet off, … , and I went behind the counter and loaded my helmet with pineapple ice cream. … Then I went out and I tossed it up to my buddy on the flight deck.” His buddy and others rolled off the flight deck, went into the Gedunk, and got more ice cream. He and his buddies got back up to the deck, and Harry continued, “So, when they came around to muster, everybody was up there eating ice cream.”
Harry would evacuate the Lexington using rope lines. He was wearing a life jacket but took if off because it was difficult to swim. After about 30 minutes swimming he was picked up by the destroyer USS Morris. Again from Harry’s interview, “Someone grabbed me and hauled me up on the deck. I must have laid there for fifteen or twenty minutes … I looked, and I saw these ox-blood shiny shoes and the trouser had a sharp crease in them and this guy says, ‘I know this guy. He is from our neighborhood back in San Antonio.’ He was a marine on the Morris.”
The first article of the Confederacy is that you must put all of your energy into growing out your facial hair, even if you have to divert that energy from your head hair.
(serious answer - the US Civil War was over slavery - the rebel Confederacy attempted to secede to continue keeping black folk as slaves)
Never get between an American and their ice cream
Our New Mercenary In Russia, He Shall Be Named Zhonguozhin, Zhongles For Short (sh.itjust.works)
This tweet has aged like sour milk (lemmy.world)
Election-year politics threaten Senate border deal as Trump rallies opposition (www.kpbs.org)
A politically treacherous dynamic is taking hold as negotiators in Congress work to strike a bipartisan deal on the border and immigration, with vocal opposition from the hard right and former President Donald Trump threatening to topple the carefully negotiated compromise....
Cafe with phones hooked up so different tables can talk to one another, Warsaw, Poland, 1931-1932
The USS Bunker Hill burning after being hit by two Japanese kamikaze attacks, WW2, 1945
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Far-right extremism is thriving in rural areas. Here's what it looks like in Upstate NY (www.northcountrypublicradio.org)
There’s a little wine shop in downtown Ballston Spa, New York with rainbow-colored bottles lining the shop’s front window. The village is small, about 5,000 people, and attracts tourists from all around the world....
Entire Edition Of Newspapers Stolen On Day It Publishes Story About Rape At Police Chief’s Home (www.huffpost.com)
“It’s pretty clear that someone didn’t want the community to read the news this week,” said Ouray County Plaindealer co-publisher Erin McIntyre.
Biden Presses Netanyahu on Working Toward a Palestinian State (www.nytimes.com)
President Biden pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday to agree to the creation of a Palestinian state after the war in Gaza is over and raised options that would limit Palestinian sovereignty to make the prospect more palatable to Israel....
US warns of Russian efforts to turn public opinion against Ukraine in upcoming European elections (kyivindependent.com)
Russia’s use of disinformation to further its own goals and weaken its perceived adversaries has been widely documented. Russian disinformation operations have been implicated in several key elections around the world, including the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the Brexit vote in the U.K. in the same year....
Putin Orders Hunt for Property of Russian Empire, Soviet Union (www.bloomberg.com)
Vladimir Putin is going on a property hunt, ordering officials to find Russian assets that once belonged to its former empire or were owned by the Soviet Union....
African-American soldiers in a segregated bicycle unit, Wyoming, USA, 1896
US Marines receiving ice cream in the Pacific, WW2, 1944
Ah, yes, the mechanized cavalry of the Confederacy