I know this isn’t even the main point of the post, but this passage is just insane:

Bessent was at an event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to launch what U.S. President Donald Trump has dubbed “Trump Accounts,” an investment vehicle for children.

What?

The fact that they’re not in uniform is closely interrelated with the fact that they’re paramilitary goons and not a legitimate law enforcement outfit. It’s all part and parcel.

America might once have cared to defend Taiwan, because the whole tech economy is powered by their chips. But the U.S. is so diminished, overextended, and chaotic that China clearly recognizes an opening.

I think Xi makes a move within the next two years.

There are probably some people who decided to use GIMP instead of Photoshop, some people who simply pirated Photoshop, and some people who bought Photoshop anyway.

It’s difficult to quantify the degree to which the existence of GIMP caused lost sales for Adobe. I started using GIMP instead of a high-seas Photoshop version, so I still haven’t spent a dime!

My feel-good news headline every morning!

Yep, this is pretty true to form for U.S. intervention in Latin America. It just used to be done covertly by the CIA instead of plastered all over Twitter.

And an obligatory fuck Henry Kissinger.

Marjorie Taylor Green posted about how invading Venezuela is a terrible idea.

I hate it when I agree with Marjorie Taylor Green.

We attend a Passover seder every year where the host mother dedicates the ceremony to the people of Palestine, that they may one day be set free of their bondage and suffering as were the Jews in Egypt.

Easily 80% of the Jewish people we know are fiercely anti-zionist and horrified by the Israeli government.

DC is also in the USA and is taxed without representation. But Puerto Rico is even worse consigned to second-class citizenship due to the Jones Act.

Yeah, and it was a shit deal for the U.S. colonies, particularly still Puerto Rico which is governed without representation in the government.

It was shit when we did it, it was shit when the European powers did it, and it will be shit if China does it to Taiwan.

Yeah, my point is that they’ve all been dropped on civilians in Palestine. There’s no great mystery where they ended up. The U.S. provided the arms for the genocide.

Have they checked Gaza’s schools and hospitals?

Oregonian here. Pretty sure we’d come along. I haven’t asked Washington, but I assume they’re in too.

Eighty years of genocide and land theft of Palestinians would sure be a long game considering Trump probably only learned Venezuela exists a couple months ago

I’m American and was very briefly confused except that the steering console is clearly fucking visible through the windshield.

But now to white people in Europe, too! Not just brown people in South America… and the Middle East… and Southeast Asia… and Africa.

Troubleshooting tips on the inside lid of a washing machine.

Problem: Washer does not start.
Possible Cause: Lid is open.
Solution: Close the lid.

And so on.

This seems unlikely. Ahmed comes from the same root as Muhammad. His cousin was interviewed and named Mustapha, also an epithet of Muhammad. I don’t know too much about Maronite Christian naming conventions, but these two names have a pretty explicit association with Muhammad in Arabic.

The article also cites a cover-up of an incident where they killed women and kids. They gave the murderer an award to make it look legitimate.

Non-white would seem to be the primary factor here, in that proud Anglo-American tradition.

LG similarly uses Life’s Good as a slogan/brand name in the West. It actually stands for Lucky Goldstar.