I’m old enough to remember the photos from Abu Ghraib being an enormous, historic scandal—it wasn’t just the abuse of Arab prisoners that stunned, it was the joy of the smiling American soldiers. Today we see similar every day on TikTok uploaded by IOF goons and nobody blinks.
The most uncanny valley things about Avatar 2 are Jemaine Clement doing an American accent and Edie Falco pretending to be a bad actor. This movie is bizarre
@SEPTA_SOCIAL if ever there was a night to take advantage of the subway tracks, this would be the one. Total chaos compounded by city hall being closed off by the stands for tomorrow
Starting 2024 on a Bad note (watching people who don’t know that the MFL runs as a bus overnight walk down the stairs to the subway platform without saying anything). If the vibes are off this year, that’s on me
Notice how a weapons sale can happen instantly but student debt relief is “complicated.” Notice how Joe Manchin isn’t fuming about the “cost.” Notice how major editorial boards are quiet.
For $155m we could have paid for 56 MILLION people to ride the subway under fair fares.
Instead we paid $155m in overtime for cops who do not live in NYC nor pay taxes, to arrest 1,900 people for fare evasion.
For my english speaking buds in here, to let y'all know what's happening in my country:
At 9 PM today Javier Milei came in via national broadcast to announce the nullifying, by a DNU ("Necessity & Urgency Decree" - so a presidential edict), of around 300 laws, featuring...
beyond the clear genocidal intent, what i find so sinister about this is that settlers CAN see the sea. at any time, settlers can visit the sea, because they have all the rights and privileges of the ethnostate. palestinians in the west bank, mere miles away from the sea, can’t.