with how easily digital records decay i've seen it argued that this could be the case

i just watched the movie deja vu, in which the govt has developed technology that allows them to look back in time 4 days 6 hours. thompson was killed about 5 days ago...

at first when i read about how much evidence he had on him when they picked him up i figured it had to be a total stitch-up but after learning about the guy it does seem like it's probably him. i have to imagine he just didn't want to be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life. otherwise i don't know why he wouldn't have just disappeared to some non-extradition country and worked at a hostel or whatever forever, especially knowing that he seems to have come from enough money for that to be a possibility.

knowing what we know about him makes all those takes about how it had to be a hitman or at least some ex special forces guy even funnier. turns out it's actually not that hard to kill someone with a gun

very cool, i'm due for a reread, thanks for sharing!

if you're looking for something book length, patrick seale's book Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East is a really fantastic biography of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's dad, and it covers the levant from roughly the 30s up until the book was written in the late 80s/early 90s. it talks a lot about the early history of the baath movement, pan-arabism, the wars with israel etc. highly recommended

even if i was born into a radically different set of circumstances i would have the exact opinions i have now because my opinions are the right ones and with enough logic anyone would come to the same conclusions because they are simply correct

the biden admin is withholding grant funding that was promised to a climate org after they spoke up for a ceasefire in gaza

around a dozen inmates have set themselves on fire over the last year or so to try to get transferred out of virginia's supermax Red Onion prison after facing horrific racism and violence. three men interviewed intentionally set their legs or feet on fire knowing that there aren't any burn centers in that part of the state and they would have to be sent to Richmond for treatment

everyone remembers that despite the nuclear brinksmanship between lincoln and davis the war managed to end without turning either half of the country into radioactive ash

apparently while he was in power bolsonaro and his cronies were cooking up plans to kill lula and other high ranking PT politicians and they were discovered by the federal police. anyone have a source that goes into more depth about this? https://xcancel.com/binraccooon/status/1858979139874943075#m

user squarecoats1 on twitter has made a map with all of the contractors and subcontractors in the US involved in many of the weapons and materiel being used in the genocide, including hellfire missiles and F35s. there's a lot of nitty gritty details in here, nearly 700 locations on the map, tracking who makes even the smallest parts of some of this stuff. they have also included a spreadsheet with the raw data that users can pore through since the site where they uploaded the map only allows 1000 visitors per month. pretty interesting

him, gw bush, and bill clinton were all born in 1946. cursed year