The nation explicitly cast as a fortressed bunker ensuring "survivability" for the in-group. A.K.A. end times fascism.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoHegseth announces "Fortress America," which will study "survivability"
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago
49). Charlie Christian, the lead guitarist who changed the world
SWING TO BOP (1941) by Charlie Christian
YouTube video by wilson mcphert
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The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online
The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online
The history of the printed word is full of bibliographic twists and turns, major historical moments, and the significant printing of books now so obscure no one has read them since their publication.
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This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.
James Talarico walks out to a standing ovation from 50,000 Texans at the State Fair Classic.
Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well.
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
theguardian.com
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoHegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."
Transgender girls have a biological advantage at... winning homecoming queen? That's apparently what Clayton County Public Schools in Georgia believes. They have blocked a transgender girl from running for homecoming queen in her high school Subscribe to support our journalism.
Georgia School Blocks Trans Homecoming Queen, Citing Title IX
A Georgia school district is saying Trump’s Title IX crackdowns means only cisgender women can run for Homecoming Queen.
erininthemorning.com
Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death"
Street in Rome. Knife-grinder busy with customers. And a young Flemish artist draws after Bernini, because he knows what matters here! By Michael Sweerts, born on this day 1618.
What if Ice Age hunters were recycling their weapons? 🏹 Archaeologists examined ~500 projectile points from Clovis and Cumberland groups in the Tennessee River Valley. Evidence suggests Clovis hunters often resharpened and reused spearpoints,
News - Did Early Americans Reuse Spearpoints? - Archaeology Magazine
OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI—According to a statement released by the University of Mississippi, Jesse Tune of the […]
archaeology.org
Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent 6 years trying to capture one perfect shot near Turin, Italy, where the Basilica of Superga, the Monviso mountain, and the Moon lined up in a single frame. Good Morning Blue Sky
He's tossing around some signifiers his aide found on 4chan and Stormfront Even that's probably overthinking it Meaningless melange which he thinks makes him sound revolutionary Remember guys, us and the Canadians burnt down the white house once before, this time you'll thank us
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoHegseth: "We need students of western civilization and the pillars of our republic. Leaders who understand the faith of Jerusalem, the philosophy of anthems -- Athens. The power of Rome, and the freedom of Philadelphia circa 1776."
Nocturn Sun https://www.wikiart.org/en/james-mcneill-whistler/nocturn-sun
The result is the same result as all other algo-washing: lossless pass-through of the biases and inequalities of the world directly into your decision-making.
Friction-Free Racism — Real Life
Surveillance capitalism turns a profit by making people more comfortable with discrimination
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I got banned (again) from The Guardian's Comment Is Free for pointing out Esther Rantzen was at the BBC, with a large investigative staff, at the same time as some high profile BBC pedophiles
Roberto Crippa, Composition, 1959 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136519
It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoHegseth: "A free press is of course important, but partisan activism that intentionally smears the troops and the historic mission that they are undertaking is fundamentally anti-American. It's sick. It's a national betrayal. It's treason."
Created around 1795, Japan, this woodblock print (ukiyo-e) forms the left sheet of Utamaro's celebrated diptych portraying women engaged in everyday culinary preparations.
Michael Powell, Director, Screenwriter, Producer, #BornOnThisDay in 1905, in Bekesbourne, Kent, England 📸 Cornel Lucas (1985)
On 30th September 1957 a coup* in the Republic of San Marino, supported by Italy, leads to the fall of the Communist-Socialist coalition that has governed the micro-state since 1945 and its replacement with a government led by the Christian Democrats (*coup or not? You decide) [Thread] >> 1
I still remember Esther Rantzen on That’s Life holding up a small ad from a Local Authority in the early 70s advertising for an Equal Pay Officer but offering a lower wage for women. I’m part of generation of teenagers mildly radicalised by amusing trivia.
Frances Ryan@francesryan.bsky.social · 6h agoI volunteered for Childline for a decade at uni and I know firsthand a snapshot of how many lives Esther Rantzen changed. Her later years were known for assisted dying but her legacy will be giving vulnerable children someone to listen to and care. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Nude wrestling match, with mixed audience, from 1650. Truly amazing painting for its time, or any time really, by Michael Sweerts. He was born on this day in Brussels in 1618.
A #Roman figurine of a dog with a raised paw, looking upwards to an unseen viewer. Dogs were popular in the Roman world as both working animals & pets, as well as being associated with healing #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky
