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Short thread: Interesting. Netanyahu's confidence and bluster in stiff-arming any two-state solution to the Palestinian question was predicated on Israel's emergence as the first "Jewish-Sunni" state -- a backchannel allia

1) Thought we could just let this empty-suit, grifting, self-absorbed sociopath ooze into oblivion, but no, the bloated mook keeps blurting out horseshit to whatever lickspittle will take his calls.

...non-extant, as these mooks clearly did with this suspect, then you are not actually in the legal position that these cops were and that many cops are when they fuck

A thread on the legislation that would repeal the Police Bill of Rights in Maryland, why Governor Larry Hogan is no defender of good and honorable police work when he

Desperate times, absurdist measures: If you voted Trump, or 3rd party, or sat out 2016 and are now willing to end vile misrule by voting for Biden, send a photo

...the OT does, overtly, that white writers should not write black and brown characters is in no way a redress of the problem. It is, instead, an affront to empathy

Actually, no. Isadore Lebowitz, 26, got on the boat with the other Lincolns in 1937 and made it as far as Rotterdam. There he was arrested by authorities and placed

I am quite comfortable openly critiquing every anti-democratic or genocidal campaign of my society. My Twitter timeline will prove it. I do not suffer the Francoist impulse to play whataboutism

Just-a-fucking-minute thread for this evening: So dinner is over and the dishes are done and I’m in the cathode glow watching Mutiny on the Bounty — the good one, Gable

Already, I am upset to be living in a world without Carl Reiner and I only know the man his public work and essence. But I have one small remembrance