Robert Smithereens

Wow. Our opponent’s mom is spending $2.5 million to oust me as LA City Controller. Get ready to be bombarded w/ dishonest attacks and ads propping up our opponent, who oversaw the downfall of Radford Studios, defaulting on $1.1 BILLION‼️ He now wants to watch over your money?

“What has this country become?!” is such a white ass statement.

I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.

“What is the use of feelings? I have money!” -This Asshole

I ordered a cocktail like this by accident at a big dinner once. Not more expensive just super elaborate. It was… embarrassing

Old enough to remember when black Friday was controversial. Before a few big chains pushed to make people work the day after thanksgiving in the 90s it was unthinkable and a subject of debate for several years

This bot is homesick for ai slop America

I just visited Dilley and met with kids who are too scared and traumatized to eat and go to the bathroom – let alone play. It’s horrific and should alarm everyone in our country. We can’t let them do this in our name. We need to shut down Dilley. propublica.org/article/life-i…

@EricLuke2 Incredible photo thanks for sharing

With manual cameras , manual focus, no motor drive, it was such a challenge to try to capture his dreadlocks. So now I’m in my seventies, I can think of nothing more enjoyable than sharing a photograph, from my archive, and here’s the personal favourite… the great Bob Marley at his one and only gig in Ireland… from my old negatives

I wish gmail would stop trying to make me say “ensure”

BREAKING: 🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US and Israel struck another girls’ school in central Iran The airstrikes on Khomeyn, central Iran, two hours ago struck yet another girls school, the Shaghayegh Girls' School. Ironically, at the 33 second mark of the video, graffiti sprayed on the girls school reads "Long live the Shah." Note, there were two airstrikes within minutes, indicating a double-tap.

If ever we needed a They Might Be Giants album about current events that time is now

Crazy that universal healthcare and free college are both exponentially cheaper than a prolonged war with Iran

Housing first means: nobody gets seconds until everybody eats. In SF: 14 vacant properties for every homeless person. In Vienna: 60% social housing, 25% of income on rent. We're spending our whole paychecks. It doesn't have to be this way. Housing is a human right. Let's build it. butchware4gov.com

If they can do this, they can automatically register people to vote.

The U.S. public loves to imagine itself as one election away from redemption. That fantasy is one of the empire’s most useful products. It allows every crime to be reclassified as temporary deviation instead of structural expression. Four years later the bombs continue, the sanctions continue, the vetoes continue, the bases remain, the myth survives, and the public gets to feel disappointed instead of implicated. That cycle is not democratic self-correction. It is imperial emotional management.

The answer is not that complicated: Iranians are highly educated. And I’m not just talking about formal education (which many Westerners have), I mean on an everyday societal level. Iranian TV and radio are full of intellectual religious/philosophical debates and discussions, history, classical music, poetry readings, and so on. Iranians value literature and the arts, and they inherit thousands of years of civilisation, not just found in beautiful historic palaces and mosques, but also in their own homes, from hand-knotted rugs to intricate marquetry and ceramics. Of course, not everything in Iran is so highbrow, but contrast that with the constant slop and brain-rot that Westerners consume daily, from late night talk shows to other types of filler programming, and the revulsion that Westerners display towards anything that isn’t mass-produced, monotonous capitalist junk. No doubt, there is cultural programming in the West, too, and – especially in Europe rather than the US – there are traditional crafts that are valued, but these no longer percolate widely on a cultural level. They are mostly dead and the reserve of older generations and the ‘eccentric’ (as they are viewed). Ultimately, these societies and cultures are not the same. Many of today’s Iranian politicians are also veterans of the Iran-Iraq War, and they have lived through severe difficulties in their lives. They are not like the pampered career politicians you find in the West.

If you don't like Iran's “oppresive” regime, just remember it only exists because the CIA and MI6 overthrew their democratically elected government in 1953 because BP was losing oil profits.

We got a call yesterday from a spouse of a sailor deployed overseas. Her husband told her that once the news broke of the U.S. being responsible for the massacre at the girls school, they shut down all news & social media access on the ship.

American Liberals: During the mortgage crisis, the only thing Obama and Democrats coulda done was give all the bailout money to their bank donors who were throwing people out of their homes. Mexico: