Joanpol

Comedy equals tragedy plus time

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.

From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.

To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.

Happy Pride, New York City.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

"elections have consequences...."

[Tony D @tonydpoison]

Because looking at it objectively, racism is fucking stupid and nobody wants to admit they're fucking stupid.

[Joanpol @Jpol90]

@TheExpanseRPG

[The Expanse: Osiris Reborn @TheExpanseRPG]

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[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.

Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.

George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.

The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.

No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.

A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.

The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.

The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

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[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

MAGA went from “vaccine passports are fascism” to “why aren’t brown people walking around with their papers?” in just a few years.

[Old Man Lefty @OldManLefty1]

CBS: We are unable to air our report on the Holocaust, because we haven't heard Hitler's side of the story yet..

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

🇷🇺: Illegally Annexes

🇮🇱: Approves Settlements

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

The hypocrisy of pro-Putin intellectuals of this world is usually astounding.

[Desus MF Nice💯 @desusnice]

temu ass country

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

The greatest fuck around and find out moment I’ve ever seen, absolutely flawless

[Joanpol @Jpol90]

@Battlefield HERE I GO

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

It will never cease to boggle my mind just how recent segregation was.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.

[Krysta 🦋 @KrystalogyTV]

How do racist ppl like X-men and still be racist? Like u know this lesson is for u right

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

I'm sorry what

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

New York Times The Onion

[Joanpol @Jpol90]

Hey, @grok, who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was