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Stephen Monkemeier
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Stephen Monkemeier
@monksigns
Sign painter, hand letterer, freelance design & illustration. He/him
Chicago, IL Katılım Ağustos 2013
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Trump's disgusting speech on Iran last night reminded me of what the anticolonial leader Aimé Césaire said: “The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”
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this school shooter geopolitics where our leaders just openly revel in cruelty and coercion seems based to its supporters and somehow refreshingly unsanctimonious to critics but it is ultimately *not realistic* because human beings, even in international relations, don't like naked coercion. Reciprocity and consent and mutual respect are as real and motive for us as fear--people have understood this and made a point of remembering and transmitting it for millennia--and those who cannot grasp this, we rightly recognize as defective or mentally ill.
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the stats here are why the airlines have lobbied against this both in canada and america for ages
Bhaumik Gowande@bhaumikgowande
I was shocked to know that China has around 50,000 km of this HSR network and it only started building this in 2008. On directly competitive routes, Chinese HSR has led to a 24.6% reduction in flights and a 28.2% decrease in air passenger volume.
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An extremist group in Washington, DC has claimed credit for the terrorist attack on the Iranian bridge, promising further attacks on civilian infrastructure if its demands aren't met
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
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Trump and Israel are bombing civilian bridges in Iran.
Not military targets.
Bridges that let people escape.
Roads that let ambulances reach the wounded.
Food, medicine, water: all blocked.
We saw it in Gaza, then Lebanon, and now Iran.
This is systematic assault on civilians
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The thing about Agrabah can’t be emphasized enough
Adam Johnson@adamjohnsonCHI
Only 30% of republicans supporting ground troops is bad bad for Trump. Remember, a 2015 PPP poll found 30% of republicans said they support bombing Agrabah, the fictional country from Aladdin. That’s the baseline level of lizard brain racism we’re dealing with and yet
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Yeah, looking around I definitely get the sense that our minds haven’t been rotted by media addiction and everyone appears to have strong discernment and critical reading skills
Henry Shevlin@dioscuri
When I was a kid, people said television was eroding society and corrupting the youth. Since then we’ve had the same story for videogames, smartphones, social media, and now AI. Not to deny these technologies have all *changed* society, but the apocalypticism never quite pans out
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“While we were engaged in negotiations, they struck us,” #Iran’s Kamal Kharazi told CNN on Mar. 9. Today his home was struck, wife killed, he sustained serious injuries. NYT reports Kharazi was discussing w Pakistan possible US-Iran negotiations w VP Vance
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To the people of the United States of America
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Remember when you used to get called a conspiracy theorist if you said the USA’s military budget is to blame for our lack of properly funded social programs?
FactPost@factpostnews
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
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All of these technological moral panics were correct.
Henry Shevlin@dioscuri
When I was a kid, people said television was eroding society and corrupting the youth. Since then we’ve had the same story for videogames, smartphones, social media, and now AI. Not to deny these technologies have all *changed* society, but the apocalypticism never quite pans out
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دانشمندان ایران یکی یکی شهید میشوند.
میپرسی چگونه اینقدر دقیق اطلاعات دانشمندان ما را دارند؟
جواب باورنکردنی است: طی برجام ایران داوطلبانه اطلاعات این دانشمندان در اختیار آمریکا و آژانس قرار داد.
درسی که باید گرفت ساده است: ورود دوباره آژانس هرگز! مذاکره دوباره با آمریکا هرگز!
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani
Insane that the names of many of these people were given to the US, likely by the IAEA, as a result of the JCPOA. Why on earth would any sensible country on earth negotiate with the US in good faith again? Or not develop their own nukes?
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A brief history of "temporary" systems that became permanent:
-TSA
-DHS
-The AUMF
-Patriot Act
-No-fly lists
-Fusion Centers
-The war on drugs
-FISA Section 702
-NSA mass surveillance
*Now ICE in our airports*
There's nothing as permanent as a "temporary" government program.
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So many mega mergers since we don’t have a DOJ
philip lewis@Phil_Lewis_
NEW YORK (AP) — Spice maker McCormick to combine with Unilever's food division, creating food company with annual revenue of $20 billion.
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This isn’t a small deal. Restaurant Depot is where most mom & pop restaurants go to buy inventory because Sysco is so expensive.
Restaurant Depot was privately owned. Sysco is owned by… you guessed it, BlackRock & Vanguard.
Now private equity can control pricing for food costs with zero competition. Just like they did with housing.
This should be an anti-trust violation, but we have politicians that work for Big Corp, not us.
Jonathan Maze@jonathanmaze
Notable deal in distribution this morning. Sysco is buying Restaurant Depot for $29 billion. Plans to expand RD more aggressively. It gives Sysco a huge entry into cash-and-carry and a large number of independent restaurant customers. restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/sysc…
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Everyone needs to see this
Christiaan Triebert@trbrtc
A first look at an apparent tungsten pellet from the U.S. strikes on Lamerd, Feb. 28. PrSM is designed to detonate above target and disperse thousands of these pellets outward. Our analysis shows they killed at least 21 people, including girls who were at volleyball practice.
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Just learned that I work less than a mile from the longest-running stone weathering experiment: NIST's stone wall test.
Built in 1948, it includes 2352 samples of stone from 47 US states and 16 countries, and uses two types of mortar.
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This is a key point. Israel as presently manifesting isn’t really a state as we understand the notion. States have borders, Israel does not. States have laws and rule of law, Israel does not in major swaths of the territory. Those are essential characteristics of a state and Israel doesn’t have them.
ergopraxis.bsky.social@ergo_praxis
Real kantian heads understand that the question of Israel's right to exist as any sort of state is a red herring, because Israel is not a State in the sense of a rechsstaat with general law, nominally equal concern for all subjects etc. It's the old mob in control of a territory.
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