I asked Mayor Zohran Mamdani about Victor Wembanyama, and his answer was very classy for a Knicks fan: 😅
“He’s a very hard player to dislike, even if you find ways (laughs). He has a lot of talent, on the court and off it, but we’re hoping he won’t show too much of it during this Finals.”
"El Mencho" was, in fact, a US agent, and the Jalisco Cartel operates as a disruptive force that is functional to the interests of the United States on Mexican soil.
That is to say, they are not simply drug traffickers; they are paramilitaries and mercenaries in the service of the United States.
It is impossible for drug traffickers to travel to Ukraine, train with neo-Nazi groups under the protection and surveillance of NATO, or receive weaponry distributed directly—and not through intermediaries or gun stores in the United States—to cartels in Mexico without some kind of structural backing or tolerance.
Even more so when there is talk of links to training provided by Kaibiles [Guatemalan special forces], Colombian special forces, or even at facilities like Fort Bragg or Fort Benning.
Can the idea really be sustained that drug trafficking is completely autonomous, that it arises spontaneously and operates outside the dynamics of global power?
Obviously not. Everything is maintained by the US. Drug trafficking, just like terrorism, is functional to the empire.
—Words of the great @ExoSapiens Mexican Historian Christian Nader.
There’s a reason they dont want people learning to speak other languages in America by the way. Even sign language. They prevent people from even reading or learning new languages in prison and wont give interpreters to many of the people there cause they fear people organizing. Same for sign language for the deaf
Collective ignorance society wide helps
If Anthony Edwards came out and said “we are not taking the court until ICE is out of our state” he would be the most beloved athlete since Muhammad Ali
Today, we mourn the 4 million + innocent people killed in Iraq and all across the Middle East and West Asia for a crime they didn't commit.
We mourn the countries destroyed and millions displaced.
CONFIRMED: Iranian missiles flew directly into jewish homes in Tel Aviv. Many jews are describing this as "barbaric," "inhumane," etc.
We get it. Jews are upset. But listen, it's called war. In war, accidents sometimes happen.
We should wait until all of the details come out before jumping to conclusions. Calling it "barbaric" is just vile Persian-Hatred.
For all we know, jews were using those homes to hide weapons. If so, the structures may have been legitimate military targets.
We simply won't know until Persian authorities enter the area to conduct an investigation.
Cuomo already sounds defeated by Trump's authoritarianism.
I will stand up for our city of immigrants because I'm not funded by the very same MAGA billionaires who put Trump back in the White House.
I'm not an American, but if someone can help me out and explain why declaring your undying support for Israel is a requirement to be New York mayor, that would be great
@spalazz22@RKalland@TylerIAm the refs have free will to determine what is or isn't a foul the whole game. your argument is that we're asking refs to do more work and they're gonna get it wrong sometimes. the rule change is a good idea, if the refs need to be better thats a different thing