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Hank Anderson
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Israel is committing a holocaust against Palestinians.

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July 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I find it very funny that Adam Sessler, the annoying little dweeby twerp who was one half of the hosting team on G4/TechTV's early 2000s video game review show X-Games, went on an angry blocking spree today because of Cait.

No notes. I give this social media breakdown a 5/5.
June 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Ace Attorney (逆転裁判 [Gyakuten Saiban]), the 2012 Japanese Phoenix Wright film.
The poster for Ace Attorney (逆転裁判 [Gyakuten Saiban])
June 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Patrolling someone's timeline to morality check them is a very sad thing to do, but maybe check harder next time.
June 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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The full statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales, husband of the late Jonathan Joss.

His murder was a homophobic hate crime; anyone who says otherwise is lying.
Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales Husband of Jonathan Joss My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done. Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life. Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved. To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together. If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband. Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built. - Tristan Kern de Gonzales
June 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The ideal American Democracy, as brought to you by Futurama.
May 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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A word about the morality of armed demonstration. Those of us against the genocide take satisfaction in arguing that the perpetrators and abettors have forfeited their humanity. I sympathize with this viewpoint and understand its value in soothing the psyche which cannot bear to accept the atrocities it witnesses, even mediated through the screen. But inhumanity has long since shown itself to be shockingly common, mundane, prosaically human. A perpetrator may then be a loving parent, a filial child, a generous and charitable friend, an amiable stranger, capable of moral strength at times when it suits him and sometimes even when it does not, and yet be a monster all the same. Humanity doesn't exempt one from accountability. The action would have been morally justified taken 11 years ago during Protective Edge, around the time I personally became acutely aware of our brutal conduct in Palestine. But I think to most Americans such an action would have been illegible, would seem insane. I am glad that today at least there are many Americans for which the action will be highly legible and, in some funny way, the only sane thing to do. I love you Mom, Dad, baby sis, the rest of my familia, including you, O***** Free Palestine -Elias Rodriguez
May 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Elsewhere a man of conscience once attempted to throw Robert McNamara off a Martha's Vineyard-bound ferry into the sea, incensed at the same impunity and arrogance he saw in that butcher of Vietnam as he sat in the ferry's lounge laughing with friends. The man took issue with McNamara's "very posture, telling you, 'My history is fine, and I can be slumped over a bar like this with my good friend Ralph here and you'll have to lump it.'" The man did not succeed in heaving McNamara off a catwalk into the water, the former secretary of state managed to cling to the railing and clamber back to his feet, but the assailant explicated the value of the attempt by saying "Well, I got him outside, just the two of us, and suddenly his history wasn't so fine, was it?"
May 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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The impunity that representatives of our government feel at abetting this slaughter should be revealed as an illusion, then. The impunity we see is the worst for those of us in immediate proximity to the genocidaires. A surgeon who treated victims of the Mayan genocide by the Guatemalan state recounts an instance in which he was operating on a patient who'd been critically injured during a massacre when, suddenly, armed gunmen entered the room and shot the patient to death on his operating table, laughing as they killed him. The physician said the worst part was seeing the killers, well known to him, openly swagger down local streets in the years after.
May 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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An armed action is not necessarily a military action. It usually is not. Usually it is theater and spectacle, a quality it shares with many unarmed actions. Nonviolent protest in the opening weeks of the genocide seemed to signal some sort of turning point. Never before had so many tens of thousands joined the Palestinians in the streets across the West. Never before had so many American politicians been forced to concede that, rhetorically at least, the Palestinians were human beings, too. But thus far the rhetoric has not amounted to much. The Israelis themselves boast about their own shock at the free hand the Americans have given them to exterminate the Palestinians. Public opinion has shifted against the genocidal apartheid state, and the American government has simply shrugged, they'll do without public opinion then, criminalize it where they can, suffocate it with bland reassurances that they're doing all they can to restrain Israel where it cannot criminalize protest outright. Aaron Bushnell and others sacrificed themselves in the hopes of stopping the massacre and the state works to make us feel their sacrifice was made in vain, that there is no hope in escalating for Gaza and no point in bringing the war home. We can't let them succeed. Their sacrifices were not made in vain.
May 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The manifesto of Elias Rodriguez.
Halintar is a word that means something like thunder or lightning. In the wake of an act people look for a text to fix its meaning, so here's an attempt. The atrocities committed by Israelis against Palestine defy description and defy quantification. Instead of reading descriptions mostly we watch them unfold on video, sometimes live. After a few months of rapidly mounting death tolls Israel had obliterated the capacity to even continue counting the dead, which has served its genocide well. At time of writing the Gaza health ministry records 53,000 killed by traumatic force, at least ten thousand lie under rubble, and who knows how many thousands more dead of preventable disease, hunger, with tens of thousands now at risk of imminent famine due to Israeli blockade, all enabled by Western and Arab government complicity. The Gaza information office includes the ten thousand under the rubble with the dead in their own count. In news reports there have been those "ten thousand" under the rubble for months now, despite the continual making of more rubble and repeated bombing of rubble again and again and the bombing of tents amid the rubble. Like the Yemen death toll which had been frozen at some few thousand for years under Saudi-UK-US bombardment before being belatedly revealed to stand at 500k dead, all of these figures are almost surely a criminal undercount. I have no trouble believing the estimates that put the toll at 100,000 or more. More have been murdered since March of this year than in "Protective Edge" and "Cast Lead" put together. What more at this point can one say about the proportion of mangled and burned and exploded human beings whom were children. We who let this happen will never deserve the Palestinians' forgiveness. They've let us know as much.
May 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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May 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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May 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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She also wasn't expecting to be recorded last time, but she's playing Trump's game. If she wants to act like a pawn, she'll be treated like one.
April 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I regret to inform you that it is just once again Will Stancil being Will Stancil.
April 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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April 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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April 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The "pay plz?? No PAY!! ONLY WORK" meme but the text has been replaced with "good news?? NO GOOD!! ONLY BAD"
April 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Every time I hear some hopeful idealist say "it can't happen here" I can't help but think of the brilliant 1935 novel by Sinclair Lewis.
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The proper response to the Government kidnapping people off the street is violent self-defense.

These monsters are destroying our country; placidly watching does nothing, recording adds to a pile of already damning evidence, resistance results in handcuffs and searched phones.

Protect yourself.
March 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM