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[The Empire Files @EmpireFiles]

There are hundreds of mock cities for Spec Ops to train for urban combat. The reason they are using your towns is because they are training for you.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Kane Parsons comments on Deadline's report that he's working on 'Backrooms 2' and looking for a co-writer

"That [report] seems hallucinated"

(via The Town)

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business. We can’t have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We can’t have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We can’t have peace because it threatens the weapons industry.

[BMORE Reeta @theNFLchick]

Remember people said this was a hoax?

[Noname Book Club @NonameBooks]

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[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Sean Gathright’s lawyers are arguing that he should receive a life sentence without parole instead of the death penalty for the murder of Joolio Foolio, as a former prison warden took the stand to testify about how valuable Sean could be while incarcerated.

“As a former warden, and even as a jail administrator, he’s someone that’s young, he’s healthy, in reality we need that labor, we need that sweat equity and we will put them out there to work… We put these young individuals to work and get some sweat equity out of them since they are young and actually could do the work”

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Benjamin Netanyahu’s former personal security guard has been caught in an undercover sting operation sending s*xually explicit messages to an undercover detective posing as a teenage boy.

"You were involved in security for the Israeli leader Netanyahu."

"You had multiple chances not to commit this crime, but you did anyway."

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You see this kind of thing in struggling lower-income Southern households, and it tells a very specific story.
When life hasn't delivered much.... no wealth, no power, no real social standing.... some folks discover that white supremacy is basically a free membership card to a club that makes them feel superior without requiring any actual achievement.
It's the world's laziest status symbol.
The starter kit is always the same:
*A Confederate flag honoring a war their ancestors lost badly 160 years ago.
*A gun they'll never actually need.
*A Bible they've never actually read.
*And Fox News running 24/7 telling them they're REAL Americans.... unlike those fancy elitist Democrats who are secretly importing an army of replacement voters to steal their....
Their what exactly? Their Dollar General? Their 1987 Camaro on cinder blocks in the yard?
FOX found the formula, and they never let go of it: Take a man who has nothing, tell him the reason he has nothing is because those people are taking it.... and suddenly he's not a struggling nobody.
He's a soldier in a cultural war. He matters. He's relevant. He becomes a MAGA Warrior!
And THAT.... ladies and gentlemen.... is precisely how a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, 34-time felon, bankrupt New York con man who golfs at his own resorts became the hero of the working man.
You genuinely cannot make this stuff up.
And I write this so that hopefully they will recognize what they have done and what they are doing and snap out of it.....
I was born and raised in Appalachia ... These very people could be my relatives ..... but ... I .... got common sense from my granny ----- "question everything". VIA~Lee Murphy

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

This cost them about $1 trillion.

The truth is, you cannot build systems like this exclusively on the logic of profit. You cannot expect to break even in 20 or 30 years. Projects of this scale are built because the government decides they must exist to serve the people.

And this is a problem with systems that are strictly, or overwhelmingly, capitalist. If you leave every problem in your society to the spontaneity of the market, some challenges are so large and so unprofitable that you will never have sufficient incentive to solve them.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Kenneth Branagh says he has ideas for a final 'Thor' film that’s more in the territory of 'Logan'

“I would love to see Chris Hemsworth and the others have their own individual final story that takes Thor into a glorious twilight"

(via @BusinessInsider)

[meowmoon @mikasamybae1]

JJK fans must’ve saved a continent in their past lives

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

It's physically painful to watch society get less and less intelligent, more evil, weird, and devoid of empathy every single day.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

New ‘JUJUTSU KAISEN: MODULO’ promo trailer.

Animated by MAPPA.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

PETE HEGSETH: “We took out Iran’s nuclear capabilities last year. This war wasn’t started because they were close to getting nuclear weapons, it started because they still had nuclear ambitions.”

Hegseth accidentally tells congress that Iran posed no imminent threat to America.

[HoopsHype @hoopshype]

Pat Riley: "When you get in bed with gambling sites as a league, and they advertise on your network, it seems like everything's okay. And it seems like to me that's a contradiction of what we're trying to do from a purity standpoint."

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Bayer is a German chemical company. They make Roundup. Roundup gives people non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Bayer has paid over $11 billion in cancer lawsuits.

This week, Congress is going to vote on a bill that gives Bayer permanent immunity from being sued by Americans who get cancer from their product.

Here is how it happened. 🧵

[acidburns @TheAcidBurns3]

Shrinkflation pisses me off so bad because not only are you ripping me off but you're gaslighting me. I go talking about how there's less crackers in each sleeve and people treat me like I'm crazy. What's actually crazy is what we're putting up with from these corpos.

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

Phoenix PD bodycam just dropped the quiet part out loud.

Officer Annette Hannah, while processing a woman who blew triple zero on the breathalyzer and passed every test:
“They’re gonna kick me off squad if I don’t get a DUI… I can’t just conjure one up. I have tried.”

Her partner: “You can. You can.”
The woman? Brianna Longoria a California nurse in town for her wedding so her sick dad could attend. No alcohol, no drugs, no impairment. Arrested anyway. Charges dropped, but the arrest stays on her record… for now.

She filed a federal lawsuit (2: 25-cv-04931) alleging a de facto DUI quota. Phoenix PD says “we don’t have quotas” and both officers are still on duty. Internal review is “ongoing.”

This is why people don’t trust “just comply.” When the numbers matter more than the facts, innocent people get steamrolled.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Stellan Skarsgård reflects on his worldview :

"My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it"

"In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people"

(via @vulture)