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The comic-strip writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld’s boldness in the face of Argentina’s parade of violent dictators earned him a devoted following, but when he became the kind of guerrilla fighter he admired the government crushed him.
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[Percy Bysshe Shelley's mother on the phone]
RUSTICATED, you say? surely not for CONTUMACY -- you're saying my boy has been RUSTICATED for CONTUMACY? our Percy, CONTUMACED enough for RUSTICATION? has you at least also rusticated that awful chum of his, THOMAS JEFFERSON HOGG?
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Adams is a national disgrace and every single official in the New York Democratic Party should wear him around their necks until the day they die
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definitely not going to forget the folks who touted this shambolic, deeply incompetent mess of a mayor as the future of the democratic party because he was vaguely “anti-woke” bloomberg.com/news/features/
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lol well, bye
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“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.” -Mattis
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expelling the monothought commissars from my remote chalet for ranting against bari weiss
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anybody else weirded out by the sexual subtext here? no? just me?
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this is more of a molotov craft cocktail
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This is a Molotov Cocktail that was found at tonight’s protest. We are committed to ensuring everyone’s right to protest. Violence has no place in civic demonstration. These actions will never be tolerated & anyone bringing weapons or dangerous substances will be arrested. twitter.com/NYPDnews/statu…
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While these materials could technically be used in the making of a molotov cocktail, this picture does not show a molotov cocktail, or provide evidence that one was made.
US Army Field Manual No. 21-75 provides information about molotov cocktails proving this.
globalsecurity.org/military/libra…
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wow I guess it's illegal to be a job creator in this country
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Widow who wrote grief book after husband died charged with his murder trib.al/RoP0gvO
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insider's loss can be your gain! a terrific reporter and a hell of a nice guy!
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After years of covering media layoffs, it's my turn. Insider laid me off, and I'm looking for what's next! Maybe something within journalism, but maybe not! (I'm looking to stay in Berlin). DMs open / firstlast @ gmail
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I mean I get that this seems piddling by comparison to what they tried to do but it's kind of incredible if you cover earnings
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the gunhumpers really own this place now, huh. congratulations on the little kids ripped apart by huge bullets fired from military guns
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it means it took cartridges the size of a AA battery that tear people apart and penetrate walls, doors, and other people, you appalling dipshit
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Replying to @catturd2 and @NBCNews
NBC News this morning reported; "The Allen Tx mall shooter had an AR-15 'style' rifle.'
What does that even mean? Why can't they just report on what the actual weapon was? Because it's probably something most people haven't heard of, and 'AR-15 style' sounds scarier.
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my least progressive belief is that if you drive one of those 200lb scooters on the sidewalk in Brooklyn, it should be confiscated and crushed on the spot into an easy-to-store cube by some sort of mobile scooter-crushing apparatus
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“Latin American right-wingers? Inconceivable!” I say. My chamber is airtight and soundproof and no one hears me
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whatever you do don’t google “Latin American fascist death squad CIA”
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So that I’m clear on this, a Jewish lady and a milquetoast fence sitter radicalized a Mexican neo nazi from a Russian website into slaughtering white Texans according to the CIA operative who broke the story.
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the guy who sent out a big picture of Hilary Clinton next to a pile of cash and a Star of David is at it again twitter.com/Gaber205/statu
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the thing about the Allen shooter being a Nazi is that this is actually a case where the gun rights buttheads could in fact say, "hey the problem isn't guns, it's nazis, let's get rid of Nazis!" and it would be...not completely ridiculous.
why don't they say that? hm.
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the “rich idiot hates the postal service” tweet is practically a genre on this site
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we should shut down the postal service & reallocate the budget & real estate for mental health services and facilities that are free for all Americans
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The U.S. Postal Service receives no direct taxpayer funding for its operation, and relies entirely on revenue generated through its core business model.
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it’s absolutely like this everywhere in New York. please do not come here to check
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If a "polite society" means one where people can safely ride the subway to work or take their children out in public without being accosted & menaced by half-naked lunatics, you might be surprised how many people of all backgrounds would like that. twitter.com/jbouie/status/…
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DeSantis hits back at Trump for using “Democratic attacks” on SS/Medicare.
Talks about Trump’s own record on the issue
(Video via @ShelbyTalcott)
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sometimes I’ll just be sitting with my kid helping him spell or something and I’ll think “man, this is a real person! somebody who will occupy his own place in our society totally discrete from my own!” and that’s pretty much always when he blows his nose on the bedspread
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For more on “The Marine” please see all the coverage of the guy, Daniel Penny:
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Lawyers for Jordan Neely’s family issued a sharp response to a statement made by Daniel Penny, who placed Neely in a fatal chokehold on an F train last week:
“Daniel Penny’s press release is not an apology nor an expression of regret.”
gothamist.com/news/jordan-ne
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“the marine”
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I am by no means saying the marine necessarily made the correct choice. But concretely, what are civilians supposed to do when the state allows them to be so repeatedly threatened and sometimes physically harmed?
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She is become death, destroyer of worlds. He's just Ken.
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if it's a mirror it doesn't count as "a guy," seth
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Go hang out at the 8th Street entrance on Sixth Avenue for about 10 minutes...I saw a guy there not long ago smearing himself with his own shit. @espiers wants it both ways--we have failed the thousands of homeless and mentally ill people, but they also don't exist. twitter.com/espiers/status…
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yes that's more than five but in my defense I wasn't really paying attention
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Alan Moore
PG Wodehouse
Gene Wolfe
Terry Pratchett
Michael Chabon
Ursula K. Le Guin
Philip K Dick
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Omitting collected works sets, what’re the top 5 authors in your library by number of books on your shelves? including both books by & about the author). QT with your answer:
Non-Academic authors:
- Isaac Asimov
- JD Salinger
- Chaim Potok
- Ayn Rand
- Thomas Pynchon twitter.com/DaultRadio/sta…
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This is a little embarrassing, but if anyone I know can hook me up with this in the next week or so, I can put *that* username on my new book's dust jacket and feel like I'm not aligning with the Bad Guys.
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not the most original observation but for all their talk of "virtue signaling" these guys really do spend a lot of energy fishing for engagement with meticulously crafted displays of callous bigotry
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