What I didn't get to, and which this long brilliant treatment does beautifully, is that the ultimate war isn't on Venezuela, and it isn't about drugs or oil. It's about a new definition of the homeland and gaining permission to use US military forces on our own people. The war we're going to […]

Implicit in the 2026 war predictions was the assumption that the US, Russia and China were re-defining regions of influence, and would cooperate with each other if the US stays in the Americas, China stays in Asia, Russia stays in Europe, and Africa is free game. And the US doesn't care as much […]

My copy is on the way. 4/end

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bolivar/Marie-Arana/9781439110201

In the 80 years that have passed. the refusal to acknowledge Avenue of the Americas, to say the name, comes from the exact same place that causes people in Chicago to piss on the recent naming of Lake Shore Drive to Jean Baptiste du Sable Lake Shore Drive, and the Michigan Avenue bridge to du […]

Fiorello LaGuardia in 1945 renamed Sixth Avenue to Avenue of the Americas to honor "pan-American ideals and principles," and the statue of Simon Bolívar was moved from Bolívar Hill on West 83rd Street to the new plaza entering Central Park from Avenue of the Americas; statues of Argentine […]

In addition, longer horizons, the remigration talk will heat up with US development of Gaza as the new (forced) homeland for US Jews, and with military action against Nigeria not only for their oil reserves but to stand as the Door of Return for deported African Americans.

Anyway, reason I'm posting about this is to suggest that we be extra careful how we let the influencers influence us, and their dogpilers bully us, especially when they say things that on the surface seems like things we should support. In this case, she was really just carrying water for the […]

Was disappointed but not at all surprised, given how under-informed and shallow, childish even, her position was on the subject we were talking about. She had her opinion, she tried to make me an example, she had her tens of thousands of followers, and she was right and that was that, chief.

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Very smart.

Let's start by shutting down Visitor Relationship Managers (VRMs) e.g. Admiral that block access to people using privacy shields, falsely accusing them of blocking ads. Let's put pressure on publishers (I say this as a former publisher) to stay with an ad model and not a data model.

Anyway, we have all been here before, it's the same guys, always the same guys, always ends the same way, and in the end, none of it mattered until it came back again.

CW: Content Warning: this clip of the Battle of the Five Points from Martin Scorcese's Gangs of New York is very violent and […]

... They keep running the same exact play over and over and over because people let them. Even when they're out of power they're just below the surface, and their vile tropes have become common wisdom for generations of Americans.

I don't know where I'm going with this yet, probably not a good […]

This Thanksgiving, my fellow Americans, let’s all have a little humility and show a little respect along with our gratitude.

And let's not dishonor and disrespect, by closing the door behind us, the hard work and the courage of the brave members of our families who came here under whatever […]

The first European language spoken on what is now US soil was Spanish. If people want to speak “American,” they should be speaking Spanish.

I could go on but NONE of this matters.

Because unless someone’s family is Native/Indigenous or African American, everything they and their family has […]