Madame Mordechai

'The wrong kind of Jew'
מָרְדְּכַי

[ayden @squatsons]

Close up video of Iranian ballistic missile strikes on Muwaffaq Salti Airbase, Jordan.

At least 3 U.S. soldiers are presumed dead (2 confirmed, 1 MIA) with many more receiving life threatening injuries.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

"First of all, I want to tell Israel and the Israeli leaders that if Israel uses a nuclear warhead against any other country, including Iran, it will be the demise of Israel as country."

— Victor Gao

[Will Schryver @imetatronink]

📚 Dominguez / Escalante Expedition - 1776

I have been reading the journal of the 1776 Dominguez / Escalante expedition — 10 men who departed from Santa Fe, New Mexico in July 1776, and explored western Colorado, and much of Utah, passing very close to where I live in early October 1776.

They arrived back in Santa Fe January 2, 1777.

Franciscan Friar Silvestre Vélez de Escalante kept a detailed journal of the expedition.

One of the more fascinating details of the journal is their encounter with the Timpanogos (aka "Lagunas") tribe that lived primarily in what is now called Utah Valley, in the immediate vicinity of Utah Lake (Provo), west of the Wasatch Mountains, and stretching into south-central Utah.

Escalante describes the Timpanogos as unique from the other tribes they had encountered in their travels. Many wore deer-skin clothing and they made fine rabbit-skin blankets for use in the winter.

Most curiously, he notes: "They have good features and most of them have heavy beards."

Escalante also described meeting an old man with a beard "so full and long that he looked like one of the ancient hermits of Europe."

The Timpanogos are generally believed to be among the ancestors of the current Ute Indians, of whom I have met several over the years — but never once seen any bearded men among them.

Nor, to my knowledge, did the early Mormon pioneers (who arrived in 1847) ever record encounters with bearded natives.

There is much more of interest to be said about this 250-year-old expedition journal. I may write more about it in days to come.

[Arya Yadegaar @AryJeayBackup]

❗️🇸🇦🇧🇭| Something happened at the Bahrain-Saudi Arabia bridge - Iran possibly hit the bridge

Mehr news quoting Arab reports: There are ambulances and fire truck rushing towards the bridge connecting Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

[Madame Mordechai @vampirelesbians]

@ggreenwald Where is some serious analysis of Lady G's drone factory visit on 7/11, the itinerary of his travel BACK to the US and his death on FUCKING 7/11?

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Zionistan is based on 2 factual & 1 logical errors that fooled ~everyone in 1948:

1- "Jews" are of Judean origin returning to their ancestral land

2- Palestinians are invaders from Arabia

3- A block in history can zap out before & after it.

1 & 2 busted by DNA, 3 by logic

[Madame Mordechai @vampirelesbians]

@esaagar In Portland / Multnomah County the elderly (age 62+) have the option to NOT pay property taxes in leui of a tax lien against their home payable when the property sells (along with 6% interest) I think that is an equitable process.

[Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon]

The reason the Saudis are attacking the Houthis is that MbS is clearly aware that Trump is going to, at some point soon, attempt a US ground incursion into Iran. At that point, the Houthis will open up on Saudi anyway. So, MbS is trying to preemptively shape the environment to his advantage before the Americans initiate their insane plan.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The reason you do not verbally attack a dead person, no matter how vile and morally offensive he was, has to do with you & not with him. He is no threat to mankind any longer; have some skin in the game & go focus on living assholes.

[Madame Mordechai @vampirelesbians]

@WeTheBrandon How many times has this been threatened in the past 4mo?

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

One of the most pernicious myths about Dutch cities is they have always been designed for people, and are finished with that process. In reality, places like Den Bosch spent decades accommodating growing volumes of traffic at the expense of public space, safety and liveability.🧵

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

I have never heard nor could I even imagine AOC speaking like this.

[old paris @oldparis75]

#Paris Coin Rue de Seine (1924)

[4️⃣00 k 😊 Paris Paname @ParisAMDParis]

🎥 Albert Lamorisse.
Le Ballon Rouge.
Passage Ronce à Belleville
1956. Paris 20e

[Joe Cohen @CohenSite]

Under LA's new "Objective Design Standards" for historic districts, the building on the left would be prohibited, and the building on the right would be encouraged

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

1909 Ottoman map of Crete

[Maitreya Bhakal @MaitreyaBhakal]

China's national bourgeoisie always knew this day would come. They knew what they were getting into. They knew who they ultimately served. They may have received that one golden star on China's national flag, but they never forgot what the large one represents.

The sorest losers of China's real estate "crash" is the western bourgeoisie, including firms like Blackstone. Indeed they were some of its main targets. They spent decades "investing" in China's housing boom, salivating over the prospect that China's housing market would financialize. That China would ultimately do to itself what they had already done to the US - treat houses like a tradable commodity, and benefit from the endless cycle of buying and selling. To turn people's homes into casino chips - to be endlessly bought, sold, inflated, leveraged, and over-leveraged, until the end of time.

Instead, they discovered the hard way who actually governs China.

In all countries, the property market is an important facet of class struggle. And almost everywhere, the wrong class wins. In China, the right one did. The state controls finance capital, not the other way round. The western mind cannot comprehend this.

This also explains why western media and "economists" have been decrying China's "crash" so viciously. They are simply expressing the frustrations and hysteria of the class they serve, the class whose dreams now lie in ruins. That's the real crash.

[4️⃣00 k 😊 Paris Paname @ParisAMDParis]

📸 Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Rue Mouffetard
1952/54. Paris 5e
Gamin, tu es très attendu!

[Gaurab Chakrabarti @Gaurab]

The United States has roughly two dozen people who know how to run rare earth solvent extraction at commercial scale. The Chinese Society of Rare Earths has over 100,000 members. In 2023, American mining engineering programs graduated 162 students. China graduated about 3,000 from 45 programs. Twelve US universities have shut down their mining engineering departments, including UC Berkeley and Ohio State. The Bureau of Mines, the federal agency responsible for mining research and training, was dissolved in 1996. Chinese pricing drove Western rare earth operations out of business through the 1990s and 2000s. The people who knew how to run those plants retired, changed industries, or died. Rare earth separation requires understanding how 17 chemically similar elements behave across hundreds of interconnected mixer-settler stages over months of continuous operation. That knowledge is accumulated through years of hands-on work in facilities the West stopped running. The average US mine worker is 46. 221,000 are expected to retire by 2029. Building an entirely new critical minerals supply chain means rebuilding the workforce that was eliminated a generation ago. The operational knowledge only comes back by running real plants.