Brian Gabriel

Earthling-at-large. “What right does my head have to call itself, ‘me?’”

[Brian Gabriel @BrianCGabriel]

@RidleyDM @cdoosc21 @JLSmith2012 @lymanstoneky That’s how warming water works, of course. The strongest protections would not to allow it at all.

[Brian Gabriel @BrianCGabriel]

@RidleyDM @cdoosc21 @JLSmith2012 @lymanstoneky https://t.co/nn1qJ9Htb3

[Brian Gabriel @BrianCGabriel]

@RidleyDM @cdoosc21 @JLSmith2012 @lymanstoneky “Frog” = person. “Water” = environment. In this example, “center-left person” = frog. Today’s left = environment. I mean, the whole idea of a parable is to see people in other guises for understandings otherwise missed.

[Brian Gabriel @BrianCGabriel]

@RidleyDM @cdoosc21 @JLSmith2012 @lymanstoneky "This water's not so warm," said the frog.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.

Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.

It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.

One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.

Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.

[Brian Gabriel @BrianCGabriel]

@EsotericCD Pretty good insult

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Brett Kavanaugh, a man in his 50s, had been valedictorian of his high school, at Yale College and a star student at Yale Law, had clerked for the Supreme Court, had a top career as an appellate lawyer and federal judge and a pristine reputation, and then a random woman from the town he grew up in claimed he had groped her at a party 35 years earlier when they were in high school.

Kavanaugh didn’t try to argue that the incident was consensual. He didn’t claim he remembered things differently than she did. He immediately stated that he had never even met the accuser. Denying ever meeting the accuser is a much stronger claim than merely denying assaulting her, and much easier to refute. After Kavanaugh made this denial, Christine Blasey-Ford no longer had to prove he had sexually assaulted her to scuttle his nomination, she only had to prove that the two of them had attended a party together at which such an assault might have occurred.

She was unable to do so. She did not know whose house the alleged assault occurred at. None of the people she claimed attended the party corroborated any aspect of her account. Leland Keyser, a friend of Blasey-Ford’s, who the accuser claimed was at the alleged party, said she recalled no such event and had never met Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh produced a detailed calendar he had kept during the summer Blasey-Ford alleged she was assaulted, which included his whereabouts of every weekend night and listing who he was with. Kavanaugh argued that he could alibi himself and provide witnesses for any night Blasey-Ford claimed she might have been at a party with him. Blasey-Ford responded that she did not know the date of her assault and was not entirely certain it even occurred that year. Instead of being seen as persuasive, Kavanaugh’s calendar was mocked in both mainstream and social media because the reason he kept it was for a drinking contest he was having with his friends.

Nearly a decade later, there is still not a single shred of proof or a single witness who will corroborate the claim that Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey-Ford were ever in the same room before she testified at his confirmation hearing. Nonetheless, people like Nick Kristof still claim Kavanaugh was “credibly accused” of sexually assaulting this woman.

[Brian Gabriel @BrianCGabriel]

@davidclowery Teddy Blanchard sounds so true.

[Brian Gabriel @BrianCGabriel]

@davidclowery @wmnf Saw her at McCabe’s a couple years ago. Such a good songwriter.

[Brian Gabriel @BrianCGabriel]

@MuseZack I love that one of Lincoln’s final acts was to restore title to the missions to the Catholic Church.

[Brian Gabriel @BrianCGabriel]

@DiehlsaSteph @chad_mizelle What’s even more certain is that the Founders, whatever their views on abortion might have been 250 years ago, lacked the medical technology now available to us that proves beyond reasonable doubt, the humanity inherent in even the newest fetus.

[Brian Gabriel @BrianCGabriel]

@MuseZack @zombyboy @bdgrabinski Didn't Lenny Kravitz open that show? Maybe I'm misremembering.

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

California just 1.) passed a law banning the declawing of cats and 2.) joined a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services seeking to force it to continue funding hospitals that chemically castrate children

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

Matt Taibbi on his disgust at Mehdi Hassan, Jamal Bowman, and Hasan Piker doing USSR nostalgia at Mamdani’s victory party:

‘I could fill a whole book with stories of horrible things I heard and saw from eyewitnesses to the Soviet history. And to see people laughing about that shit, I can’t even describe the emotions.

When I saw some of those clips [from Mamdani’s party], I went through in my mind, I started cataloging all the top 20 or 30 awful things that I heard, and I just want to share one.

I did a story once on Boris Yeltsin. I was actually planning on writing a biography of him at one point. I traveled to his birthplace, which is in this little place called Bukha, in the middle of nowhere. It’s near what’s now called Yekaterinburg. Yeltsin, he came from a long line of peasants who had basically made no dent in Russian history ever. You go back, you can’t find any of them in censuses going back hundreds of years.

But his grandfather, Ignati Yeltsin, was a legendarily, mean, tough character in the area. And through hard labor his whole life and being a bit of a disciplinarian when it came to farm labor, he eventually acquired a horse and a mill on his property. And as a result, they had to be liquidated during Dekulakization. He became a kulak. If you look in western definitions of that, these are rich peasant farmers, the Encyclopedia Britannica talks about how they were even so wealthy that they sometimes gave out mortgages. No, this guy just had a horse basically. So he gets sent off. He dies in transit, Ignati, during this time period.

But I asked some of the old timers who were still in the region to talk about that time period. There were a lot of people who were sons and daughters of people who remembered. And one of the things that they did at that time period is that they didn’t even want to waste money on bullets for the kulaks. So what they would do is just declare you a kulak, you and your family, and then there would be a proclamation that it would be illegal for anybody in the area to give shelter to that person and his family and his kids. So for years on end, people went to bed at night to the sound of people freezing to death, kids screaming at night in the Soviet Union, because that’s how they liquidated the kulak class.

And there were millions of people who met ends like this. And that’s just the beginning of the shit they did. They only got to them after they eliminated a whole long list of other people, from intellectuals, landowners, socialist revolutionaries, Mensheviks. Then, eventually, they get to peasants who have a horse. And that is what happened when you have a bunch of intellectuals running a revolution in the name of a working class.’

[Brian Gabriel @BrianCGabriel]

@davidclowery Guillaume d’Attainde, in some quarters

[Brian Gabriel @BrianCGabriel]

@FeserEdward https://t.co/yj1mxZoL9k

[Clyp Keeper @DGrayTexas45]

@libsoftiktok @Dodgers If anyone knows how to evict Hispanics it’s the Dodgers!

[Jim Pacific @pacificjimmy]

— what good is the dawn
— that grows into day?