So something interesting that could be developing at the UN: Ukraine appears to be laying the groundwork to challenge whether the Russian Federation is the legitimate successor to the USSR’s seat and veto on the Security Council
Biden including a $15 minimum wage in his stimulus plan is huge
Biden moving to abolish the tipped minimum wage and sub-minimum wage for people with disabilities in his stimulus package is even bigger IMO
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney out here with that strong New York Irish cop energy as he gets Sondland to say clearly that the investigations Trump wanted would benefit Trump
ANGEL: ok we've got death, childbirth, and strife, any other punishments for the humans
GOD: i call it the "empty carbohydrate." they eat it and it will do nothing to fuel their body
ANGEL: and it will taste terrible?
GOD: it will be the center of their fucking world
guy who invented daylight savings time: and then in the fall you get an extra hour to sleep!
us: wow yeah that sounds great
him: [under his breath] and in exchange you get months of darknesss and sadness
us: wait what?
him: what?
GOD: [designing marsupials] ok ok. are u ready for this one?
GOD: [holds up kangaroo] LOOK AT IT.
ANGEL: stop. i can't.
GOD: And...
ANGEL: ???
GOD: IT'S GOT POCKETS
ANGEL: STOP. WHAT.
1) the trans community must halt all uranium enrichment
2) the trans community must close down the plutonium enrichment facility at Fordow
3) the trans community must allow the IAEA access to all areas related to any nuclear program, civilian or military
Honestly this story has everything:
- rich people in trouble
- proof you were right about Those Rich Kids at your college
- prosecution under the RICO Act
- a Balkan water polo coach
- a chance to yell about systemic inequality
- FULL HOUSE JOKES
WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR.
this is from the episode where lisa sees a politician take a bribe and tears up her speech about american exceptionalism in anguish that the country she loves is actually rife with corruption at the top
So...Juneteenth. In the city where the Tulsa Massacre took place in 1921. As he’s pushing back against anti-racism that he sees as a threat to his presidency.
This symbolism sucks.
I can’t believe this is a thing I’m about to tweet in a US context but: any plan to disband a police/paramilitary force needs to learn from the lessons of de-Baathification in Iraq and figure out what to do with former security forces, preferably with a DDR program in mind
BREAKING: A veto-proof majority of Minneapolis City Council members will announce today their commitment to disbanding the city’s embattled police department following the killing of George Floyd.
I dropped my wallet on the street last night. No sign of it after retracing my steps three times.
Our apartment buzzer just rang. No response when I answer.
I go down and it’s an older deaf man with a note. He found my wallet and returned it intact.
New York City: it’s good.
I’m watching “Romeo + Juliet” for the first time and imagine my surprise when I see Paul Rudd’s ageless immortal ass just Paul Rudding it up all over this movie
el*n m*sk has nine children. nine. nine children, two of whom were secret until [checks notes] today.
those two were born "weeks" before his second child with grimes, which was also a secret until it wasn't.
it feels like having a sound system blaring at you on full blast for years and then suddenly cutting out.
there’s phantom music in our heads. we can’t process things at normal volume yet. our ears are ringing with the last four years in all this relative silence.
me: okay, remember the vote counting and reporting tonight is going to be weird and we probably won't know anything before the morning. so stay calm, everyone
my brain: except you.
me: except me.
You guys, think of how much brain space this will clear up. Like deleting a massive file that was constantly overheating your computer but you still couldn’t shut down
human psychology is wild, we spent literal months telling each other that Election Night is a Myth and that things will be shaky and then the SECOND polls close, we're like "DELETE ALL PREVIOUS COMMANDS. RUN PROGRAM SCREM.EXE"
And here’s his demand for the documents that show that the Russian Federation was welcomed to the body by the UNSC and General Assembly. Those documents don’t exist as he noted because the UN legal counsel made the call
SCOOP: Indicted pro-TRUMP Ukraine researcher LEV PARNAS told people he paid RUDY GIULIANI hundreds of thousands of dollars to work for his firm, Fraud Guarantee.
Giuliani first seemed to admit working for the firm in 2018, then said he couldn't confirm.
Now: Mississippi Senate just passed legislation that would prohibit the teaching of critical race theory in K-12 public schools and in the state’s public universities and community colleges.
The UN Charter was never amended after the USSR broke up. It still references the Soviet Union as one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council. The Russian Federation just ascended to that seat after 1991.
My screen time is crazy high right now and I can both feel and see how it’s affecting me negatively but I can’t look away from the disasters unfolding in the little box in my hand
The idea of sending the “healthy” back to work falls apart when you take into account that we do not know who the healthy are because of the lack of testing
So that could (maybe??) be Ukraine’s goal? To have the UNGA pass a resolution declaring that either the USSR’s seat is empty or that some other state should be the -real- successor to the Soviet’s
Oh no the company that decided to stop making six racist books is being rewarded by having all their other books sell like hot cakes
Whatever is the lesson that we should draw from this
Do I think it would work? Hell if I know but it’s fascinating and will be wild to see how it develops. Especially since it took IIRC ten years for the PRC’s supporters to overcome US opposition and procedural delays in the UNGA.
amazing. simply stunning work that would in past ages been confined to a newsletter with maybe 200 readers or spoken aloud at a party where the topic of conversation is awkwardly and abruptly changed.
tl;dr: this isn't world war III!
It is, however, a thing that will:
- likely trigger more, not fewer, attacks on US personnel
- increase the tit-for-tat btwn US and Iran
- result in cyberattacks, attacks on oil lanes, etc
- push Iraq closer to Iran
- see blowback agains Israel
Trump offers an interesting historical interpretation of the fall of the Soviet Union: "Remember the Soviet Union? When it was all together. Before they decided, 'we have to call ourselves Russia.'"
A) he’s an alien from another world, his skin color can be whatever. make him literally orca colored who cares.
B) a black Kal-El who lands in RURAL KANSAS as a baby and still decides for Truth, Justice and the American Way is 9000x more interesting
The first black slaves got to Jamestown in 1619, so we will be at the point where black people in the US have been free longer than they were slaves in ~about~ 2112. Mark your calendars now, friends.
The bar and restaurant industry has been gutted this last year. Making it so that when its safe for those people to go back to work that they can make an actual living wage instead of hoping their customers aren’t jerks is exactly what they deserve
Let nobody say that Croatia...coasted to the semi-finals
...
I said COASTED TO TH-
Look Croatia has the 15th longest coastline in the world despite its small size that is the genesis of this pun