Roberto MacDonald
@rimv.bsky.social
Favorite short stories:
"The Augsburg Chalk Circle" by Bertolt Brecht
"Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk" by Franz Kafka
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
"The Augsburg Chalk Circle" by Bertolt Brecht
"Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk" by Franz Kafka
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
From Wikipedia entry "Crimes against humanity", for consideration:
March 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
From Wikipedia entry "Crimes against humanity", for consideration:
According to the Rome Statute, there are eleven types of crime that can be charged as a crime against humanity when "committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population": "murder; extermination; enslavement; deportation or forcible transfer of population;
March 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
According to the Rome Statute, there are eleven types of crime that can be charged as a crime against humanity when "committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population": "murder; extermination; enslavement; deportation or forcible transfer of population;
imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; torture; rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
March 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; torture; rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity...; enforced disappearance...; the crime of apartheid; other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health."
March 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity...; enforced disappearance...; the crime of apartheid; other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health."
Sickening, and we need to know:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia (Gift Article)
The defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Sickening, and we need to know:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
I see social media comments and news editorials proclaiming the "resilience" of our political system. This is bull, nothing more than whistling past the graveyard (an apt metaphor if ever there was one). In fact, our democracy, such as it was, is dead. People are suffering and dying as we speak.
February 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I see social media comments and news editorials proclaiming the "resilience" of our political system. This is bull, nothing more than whistling past the graveyard (an apt metaphor if ever there was one). In fact, our democracy, such as it was, is dead. People are suffering and dying as we speak.
Talking about the "survival" of the USA as we knew it (or thought we did) is counterproductive because it tends to blind people to the dire straits we find ourselves in. The national government has been seized by criminals, as have half the state governments.
February 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Talking about the "survival" of the USA as we knew it (or thought we did) is counterproductive because it tends to blind people to the dire straits we find ourselves in. The national government has been seized by criminals, as have half the state governments.
The Four Horsemen have arrived: Conquest, War, Famine, and Pestilence.
February 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The Four Horsemen have arrived: Conquest, War, Famine, and Pestilence.
The United States now needs a national commission to investigate crimes against humanity, sanctioned by all states led by Democratic legislatures. It ought to be modelled after the Nuremberg Trials conducted by the Allies after WWII.
February 18, 2025 at 6:22 AM
The United States now needs a national commission to investigate crimes against humanity, sanctioned by all states led by Democratic legislatures. It ought to be modelled after the Nuremberg Trials conducted by the Allies after WWII.
Fresh from 1949!
wapo.st/3EGrlEA
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Review | Josephine Baker, in her own words, amplifies her renown as provocateur
In Baker’s newly translated 1949 memoir, “Fearless and Free,” the boundary-breaking performer does not hold back on her opinions.
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February 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Fresh from 1949!
wapo.st/3EGrlEA
wapo.st/3EGrlEA
RFK, Jr., confirmed as HHS Secretary, by a vote of 52-48. Old Reliable Mitch McConnell was the only R opposed. Keep up the good work, Mitch, you fucker.
February 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
RFK, Jr., confirmed as HHS Secretary, by a vote of 52-48. Old Reliable Mitch McConnell was the only R opposed. Keep up the good work, Mitch, you fucker.
Ignore the article. Check out the picture. Musk's kid.
wapo.st/42MJOt2
wapo.st/42MJOt2
Trump executive order vows substantial cuts to federal workforce
The executive order directs agency heads, after the hiring freeze expires, to recruit no more than one employee for every four who leave the federal government,
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February 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Ignore the article. Check out the picture. Musk's kid.
wapo.st/42MJOt2
wapo.st/42MJOt2
The acts are symbolic; the retribution is real. And so it goes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/w...
Salwan Momika, Man Behind Quran Burning in Sweden, Is Killed (Gift Article)
The action by Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant, set off protests across the Muslim world in 2023. He had received death threats, his lawyer said.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The acts are symbolic; the retribution is real. And so it goes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/w...
I find it plausible that the quasi-executive order challenging the citizenship of Native Americans has as its ultimate goal the denial of gaming licenses to tribes. What caused trump's casinos to go bust? It was the "Indian" casinos, of course!
January 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I find it plausible that the quasi-executive order challenging the citizenship of Native Americans has as its ultimate goal the denial of gaming licenses to tribes. What caused trump's casinos to go bust? It was the "Indian" casinos, of course!
Heart's in it.
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wapo.st/3Ww8EJU
An airport piano was filthy and out of tune. He fixed it during a layover.
“It was in very rough shape – dust was everywhere, and there was a gluey substance under the keys that prevented them from working,” said passenger Josiah Jackson.
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January 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Heart's in it.
wapo.st/3Ww8EJU
wapo.st/3Ww8EJU
Musk was inadvertently deported to South Africa in the crush to enforce border security. Ramaswamy, in an effort to take up the slack, has been practicing the Nazi salute. "Awkward", he has been heard to mutter.
January 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Musk was inadvertently deported to South Africa in the crush to enforce border security. Ramaswamy, in an effort to take up the slack, has been practicing the Nazi salute. "Awkward", he has been heard to mutter.
Lesson #9,000,000,000 (approx.) in Circular Reasoning:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
Opinion | The Dubious History of America’s Most Famous Monarchist
It’s not hard to understand how Curtis Yarvin won the admiration of powerful patrons.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Lesson #9,000,000,000 (approx.) in Circular Reasoning:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
The orange magghat has fired the head of the Coast Guard, Admiral Linda Fagan. Not his type, apparently.
January 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The orange magghat has fired the head of the Coast Guard, Admiral Linda Fagan. Not his type, apparently.
Novels renamed:
"The Winter of Our Discombobulation" - Steinbeck
I might also note that "discombobulation" is a word that doesn't get used enough. Fixing that, six syllables at a time.
"The Winter of Our Discombobulation" - Steinbeck
I might also note that "discombobulation" is a word that doesn't get used enough. Fixing that, six syllables at a time.
January 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Novels renamed:
"The Winter of Our Discombobulation" - Steinbeck
I might also note that "discombobulation" is a word that doesn't get used enough. Fixing that, six syllables at a time.
"The Winter of Our Discombobulation" - Steinbeck
I might also note that "discombobulation" is a word that doesn't get used enough. Fixing that, six syllables at a time.
Did Mussolini really make the trains run on time? Just looking for the silver lining.
January 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Did Mussolini really make the trains run on time? Just looking for the silver lining.
Time to hell-ebrate.
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Time to hell-ebrate.
@jonithegreat.bsky.social Hey Joni! It's quasi Roberto.
November 14, 2024 at 3:50 AM
@jonithegreat.bsky.social Hey Joni! It's quasi Roberto.