They continue to be a voice of sanity.

This is probably the most important essay to read of the year. The knives are out for those of us making hay on the internet.

When I look past the ideas to the ideologues, all I see are representatives of old institutions trying to prevent powerless people from testing their worth in a new space. I only hear a command to kneel and continue to accept their rule and the disagreeable status quo. If you want my advice, whether you lean left or right, ignore the ideological hair splitting, the calls to action, and keep doing what you’ve been doing – keep exposing inconsistencies and hypocrisies in traditional institutions of power – keep doing what drives these ideologues to dedicate massive tomes to their experiences of being challenged online.

I'm sure the UAE is upset by this setback. Will be very hard to hold on to Socotra without Aden.

What just happened…:
Ilhan Omar officially supports BDS because she claims “Israel is occupying land and stealing homes”
While she literally:
Occupied another woman’s home, in her absence, and stole her husband.

Not the most flattering portrait, but what do you expect from a politician?

Hope so.

I bit of a dick move by BoJo, but understandable given his position.

Sounds like Nasrallah is now actively looking to have a "reason for war" by responding to the Israelis' latest escalation of threat with a matching escalation.

Watch for mobilizations on both sides as the year proceeds, likely in time for a spring 2020 campaign.

Get that phys, bitchezzz

Funded by none other than the man himself. Unsurprising.

One of the cops charged in Tuttle murder. One charged for tampering with documents. Still not sounding like the full list of people likely responsible for the crime, but at the least we can know who the fall guys get to be.

It's well known that TX cities (especially in the Dallas area) routinely just buy the homeless a bus ticket to cites they know will tolerate them. Certainly it's a step up from what TX used to do before the late 90s/early 2000s -- jail them for vagrancy.

Still, the fact that TX knew they'd accept this type of exiling and that the situation has persisted for as long as it has suggests that CA isn't really interested in solving the homelessness problem. Sure, TX solves it "in the most ass way possible" by either exile or imprisonment, but that doesn't give CA a "blank check" to waste hundreds of millions of dollars a year yet still fail to address the problem. Considering the state the homeless share over in LA, even establishing a penal colony on marginal land they have likely would have been an improvement on the situation (sadly). OH WAIT, 90%+ of land in CA is federally "protected" or otherwise artificially limited from colonization. No wonder they can't afford to get housed.

Uh oh

Water cannons employed, one shot fired by the pigs.

Secularize Turkey and Iran. This is certainly in line with their role as "defender of the faith" and "third Rome". This most certainly seems to have worked on Turkey (which got buyers' remorse over backing the ISIS caliphate). In Iran, the secularist party of Ahmadinejad seems to be on the rise once again, but their ascent is by no means certain. Certainly if the USA and Israel get to have their war, any nascent resurgence of secularism will be strangled in the crib.

Conspiracy fact

lol, stay classy CBS

It is true that Butina repeatedly told him she wasn’t a spy and Byrne ultimately became convinced that was true. But even in his description of that, he told Carter that he believed Butina was being used by US and Russian intelligence, not that he believed she had no tie to intelligence.
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If that’s what he told the FBI, it does nothing to make her any less of an unregistered agent of Russia.

LOL, so being a "useful idiot" means you are guilty of being an unregistered agent? Guess that's the state of the "law" in the USA these days.

Boris Johnson stylin' on Mango Emperor at the G7.

BONUS: Trump also beefin' with Jove over the Iran deal at G7.

UPDATE: "My regret was not setting the tariffs higher!"

Jones: I'm gonna let you in on a secret... I'm a little bit retarded

They really do want a coalition to form against them, don't they? Certainly their actions seem tailor made to get an Iranian-Turkish alliance war against them sometime this decade.

I got these cheeseburgers man...

"But if we ban guns, then the violence goes away!"

lol

Lol, this is why you don't require a phone number for your messenger -- it breaks anonymity.

The Saker tends to get all the good interviews these days, lol

Good. He should have never talked to the feds.

Kinda stunning to admit to an act of war