Harris is not exaggerating about Ukraine! It was HER idea to show Zelensky top secret information that an invasion was coming. Then she went to deliver it to him personally. And has gone to meet him 5 times since. (I was surprised to learn this!)
Has anyone else noticed the uncanny echoes of the final scenes of Amitav Ghosh's global heating novel Gun Island, which ends with a waterspout/tornado in the Mediterranean?
The type of weather phenomenon that may have led billionaire Mike Lynch's yacht to sink in the Mediterranean this week is now more likely to happen as global warming has raised sea temperatures
Climate experts say warming seas are creating perfect conditions for waterspouts similar to the one that is believed to have hit a luxury yacht in the Mediterranean this week.
I really, really, really like Russian history, which has occasionally gotten me mistaken for a communist (no), a tankie (hells no), or someone who approve of/favors Russia/the USSR over the US. ...But to be fair, that all tends to dissolve after I talk about the Stalinist cannibal prison island.
weirdly, these protests are giving me so much hope--they're proof you cannot slowly move the needle toward fascism and hope nobody will notice, you cannot lie and trust everyone will forget. eventually someone is going to break and today it's these kids and they're doing it for all of us, bless.
I have a friend in the self defense/martial arts world who got hold of one of these and wanted to test it, so she asked friends to shoot her with it while she wore a sparring chest protector. They refused, so she put the protector on a chair and shot that instead. Blew the chair into splinters.
Brilliant sumation !
Brilliant!
no joke, a lot of people would probably be surprised what a good time they'd have starting a business and just basically remaining a decent person, being nice to your employees and customers, and paying a good wage. all you have to do is not expect the business to make you a billionaire
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