I check in with Maximilian Hess from the FPRI every now and then. I don't think he's right about most things but he's a true believer and very invested in what he believes.

He's a great character designer and illustrator. I remember watching yoruichi get knocked out of a "hottest anime babe" bracket challenge in the quarterfinals and thinking what are they teaching these kids on tumblr huh

National resilience through personal responsibility. The perfect neoliberal strategy

The IMF wasn't even offering to loan any money out, they were just telling China how to run their economy lmao

Every time someone on here speculates about him being dead it charges his phylactery up for another year

My grandmother has a story about flying across parts of canada with a dude in a single engine seaplane, and whenever the engine cut out he would just land on a convenient lake and fix it

Gove says three Muslim-led groups and two far-right to be assessed for extremism

Three Muslim-led organisations and two far-right groups will be assessed under the government’s controversial new extremism definition, Michael Gove has told MPs.

The communities secretary named the Muslim Association of Britain, Mend and Cage as groups with “Islamist orientation and beliefs” that would be held to account following the launch of a new definition of extremism.

Gove named the British National Socialist Movement and Patriotic Alternative as groups that promoted neo-Nazi ideology which would also be examined.

And from their live thread:

In response, Mend CEO Azhar Qayum said:

We challenge Michael Gove to repeat his claims outside of parliament and without the protection of parliamentary privilege if he believes he can provide the evidence to back up his view that Mend has called for the establishment of an ‘Islamic state governed by sharia law’.

Extremely base rhetorical maneuver to equivocate these groups with literal nazis

The taliban released this man back to the anglosphere in much the same way that a platypus deploys venom from its foot spur

DSA’s National Political Committee did not agree with the two most prominent democratic socialists in American public life.

doesn't really seem like a huge dunk on the DSA tbh

knowing Israel@will retaliate- do you get that they don’t give a FUCK about Palestinian lives?????

damn silverman, what if the israeli military simply... didn't retaliate? is it really solely on the prisoners inside the concentration camp to break the cycle of violence, even as that violent cycle is being continuously engineered by the guards?

Biden says Gaza hospital blast ‘appears as though it was done by the other team’ and not Israel

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — President Joe Biden vowed to show the world that the U.S. stands in solidarity with Israelis during his visit there Wednesday, and offered an assessment that the deadly explosion at a Gaza Strip hospital apparently was not carried out by the Israeli military.

“Based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you,” Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting. But Biden said there were “a lot of people out there” who weren’t sure what caused the blast.

Biden didn’t offer details on why he believed the blast was not caused by the Israelis.

Genocide Joe Rides Again

Definitely not. He's an odious fascist, or he would be a fascist if he had any sort of ideological commitment to anything other than drawing attention to himself. The fact that he was elected at all is a monumental condemnation of the USA. He just has the soul of a problematic Florida drag queen in there, which makes him a tremendous poster.

We could say "death to anglo imperialism and its client states" but it's just not as catchy