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They turned the cameras off because they kept catching minorities I guess cameras are racist

“Jones Act waivers are really a sideshow and unlikely to result in any significant relief in oil or refined product prices at a national level,” EPIC's Executive Director Sam Ori tells @newsweek. Read ⤵️

The SAT is an excellent numerical indicator of the academic ability of the test taker. It was the biggest obstacle to colleges being able to get away with increasing representation of much less qualified black and Hispanic students in the name of "diversity".

To the Sad Queer person (their description, not mine) who I hid-reply-blocked earlier: You hate cats because you hate friends of humanity, you hate friends of humanity because you hate humanity, you hate humanity because you hate yourself, and that's why you're Sad.

Pearl Harbor, Japan's National Trauma

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion. Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales. We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary. So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it. Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me. So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter. It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable. This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive. This is Cultural Debris. x.com/i/status/20349… cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

@RealDianeYap I want to live in a country where everyone treats people like white people treat everyone.

@eigenrobot portents

all risks to airborne soldiers acknowledged this would be sick. sadly i imagine it'd be helicopters rather than parachutes but a man can dream

Sure it's only five people in a small Japanese town, but nobody was offended by Pearl Harbor joke. Maybe because all of them already loved Trump. "He's strong. America good." 🤷‍♂️

This shows Iran is now dipping into their cache of space launch vehicles and converting them to ballistic missiles these rockets have long been believed to be disguised under civilian purposes for military technology gain in creation of intermediate range ballistic missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles with a capacity to carry a nuclear warhead. Iran has several space launch vehicles that have a 4,000 plus kilometer range depending on warhead weight. 1. Zoljanah three-stage solid-liquid fueled Space Launch Vehicle if converted into a ballistic missile could have a range between 4,000-5,000 km with a 1,000 kg payload 2. Simorgh two-stage, liquid-fueled Satellite Launch Vehicle that if converted into a ballistic missile could have a 4,000 km range with a 1,000 kg payload. 3. Safir-2 two-stage, liquid fueled Space Launch Vehicle (SLV) if converted into a ballistic missile could have a range of 4,000 km with a 1,000 kg payload.

@JosephFordCotto Only if we get to deport all of its current inhabitants.

🇨🇦 Are you cool with Canada becoming part of the US?

@jarvis_best Love Invasion USA sounds like a movie I want to see.

If it makes you feel any better Chuck Norris will be voting for Democrats from now on.

Marco Rubio was right again award

Really makes you wonder what Iran actually launched toward Diego Garcia. Up until now, the longest-range ballistic missile they’re known to have, like the Khorramshahr-4, tops out at around 2,000 km. If it really reached that far, then they’ve had something much bigger all along.

Bigger story here: implied range of an Iranian IRBM from a launch box in central Iran, with a range of ~4500 km (distance to Diego Garcia). Theoretically could also target sites into Central Europe.

This is the "journalist" who wrote this article:

@MuseZack @hradzka I was just thinking the same thing.

@hradzka Damn. And he has an identical twin, right? I can't imagine how horrible this is for him and the family.

what the fuck, this isn’t fair or right seeing the headline you naturally think of his struggles with addiction, but per article he also had heart issues and his family says he died peacefully in his sleep of natural causes