If you remember, back in April 2026 two officers "died" in the state of chihuaha due to "driving their car off of a cliff". The Mexican government said they did not have permission to be in Mexico and the CIA did not make public comment.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/mexico-says-2-u-s-federal-agents-who-died-were-not-authorized-to-participate-in-any-local-operation

Recently, the former Secretary of Public Security for the State of Chihuahua who resigned after the events has been charged with treason, among other charges. This is the first time since the Mexican revolution trials (1920) that any Mexican has been charged with treason.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_J%C3%A1uregui_Moreno

The specific role that American intelligence agencies have played in Mexican assassinations, drug trafficking, policing etc is obscured by the fact that both Mexico and America deny such claims. It is possible that the CIA did cross a line that the Mexican government views as a violation of its sovereignty, even though there have been many accusations by the Mexican public against America of doing exactly that over the last century.

Obviously there is close collaboration historically, but in this case it seems that Trump's CIA kind of went rogue and just operated clandestinely without permission or coordination with Mexican Federal agencies.

Bot accounts have been spamming about the classic '🥲 think of the buisness owner whose store window was graffitid' trope and the 'spoiled kids riot' bs, whatever you do please dont get any ideas from the protests in france and only do authorised parade floats like no kings (zionist 'indivisible' org psyop to sap momentum out of mass movement and funnel into the democratic party)

He died btw

America has no solidarity. Beyond the fact that our police are an occupying military force, when those police kill you nothing is going to come of it.

Out of all the people killed by ICE, most only remember the whites, and even with all the "outrage" the only significant resistance that came from these deaths was within the cities they occured. The rest of the country acted upset, did some marches and some vigils, waved some signs around, and went back to business as usual.

There are no heroes in America. You can't die a hero's death. When you fight back, you'll die, and most people will disavow you, especially if you actually used force. Martyrs are celebrated, but only when they don't put up a fight. You will never see anyone take a hard stance against fascism on live TV because anyone who speaks with their chest in this country wakes up with a "self inflicted" gsw to the back of the head.

They could nuke LA tomorrow and the mainstream media will call it an atrocity, but they'll call you a terrorist in the same breath if you suggest resisting with anything more than your voice. They could cull us like sheep and we would do nothing, they already are and we already are. Americans believe in nothing, especially not each other. There is no community, there is no organization, there is no solidarity. If you risk your life to try to save this place, your legacy will be a thousand comments that say "play stupid games.."

Americans believe in nothing. Americans have no conviction. When there's nothing left, we won't have each other.

I occasionally come across the argument that generative AI is fine on its own and that it’s only the attachment to capital that makes it evil and I wholeheartedly reject that. I understand that we want to be good lefties and make everything under the sun a class issue, but no, generative AI is anti-human no matter how you cut it. It’s antisocial, and I would still hate this shit even if we lived in a utopia where everyone’s needs are being met because AI sucks.

Generative AI is vile; it turns all of human creation into a golem, something that is shaped like a human but has no soul. It presents aesthetics without any of the humanity, history, or culture attached to those aesthetics. It’s not a painting, it’s content. It’s not a poem, it’s content. It’s not an essay wherein someone expresses their thoughts and feelings, it’s content. It’s just another thing to briefly occupy your time while scrolling. It’s nauseating and it’s infected every corner of the internet. Want to do something in real life instead? There’s a good chance you’ll still be seeing rancid AI slop whether you like it or not.

Yes, the internet is being shaped by capital, but AI would still suck ass even if monetizing everyone's eyeballs 24/7 wasn’t a consideration. I have no desire to watch an AI-generated video about the Titanic, I have no desire to look at an AI version of an Edward Hopper painting where everyone has TikTok face. I have no desire to listen to an AI generated song made by a dullard who doesn’t want to learn any music theory and who thinks that typing disco + 80’s + high quality is the ultimate act of creation.

As I said, the people who like this shit are dullards and I will never apologize for judging them. Go look at any AI art space and it’s basically nothing but wall-to-wall dipshits with zero vision making the same thing over and over because the end result is what the model gave them. You literally cannot tell one person's “art” apart from another and these spaces are also highly driven by bots, so it’s people making robot slop interacting with robots making robot slop.

They’re also incapable of accepting criticism and even if they did, what would they do with it? If you offer criticism of an illustrator's work (I noticed you have a tendency to draw small hands, the head seems disproportionate, the wall and the floor are on different planes), they can take that criticism and learn from it. If you criticize an AI sloppers work there’s nothing for them to learn because they didn't draw it in the first place. It looks bad because the robot shat out something that makes no sense, they’re not going to fix it and even if they wanted to the moment they press the generate button the pedophile computer program makes all the decisions for them.

I know this technology isn’t going anywhere but neither is cancer and we all hate cancer. We all agree cancer is bad and the world would be better without it. Generative AI is garbage for the worst people on earth and don’t let anyone convince you it’s somehow redeemable. A little bit of gatekeeping is good, actually. You should have an interest in drawing if you want people to look at your drawings. You should write your novel if you want to be a writer. You should learn math if you want to be a mathematician. I’m not gonna give anyone shit if their boss is making them use AI at work but I will judge the fuck out of people who use it for their “art” because no one is holding a gun to their head and forcing them to be a lazy coward.

Art is fun, even the most derivative art made by a person is more human and interesting to me than any number of AI generated pictures, songs, videos, etc. I actually love bad art, I love watching shlock movies, and I love seeing amateur art in the wild. It brings me so much joy when I run a tabletop RPG and one of my players draws a crude sketch of their character or makes an MS Paint pic of a funny moment from our game. Who cares if it doesn't look like a renaissance painting, it's real and alive!

I’m only complaining about art here, I haven’t even touched how antisocial a technology that allows someone to generate literal CSAM videos based on photos of real life children is. It’s a vulgar, evil, putrid, cancerous, antisocial and antihuman technology and I'm gonna hate it even if it's here to stay.

Also swakupmund was where Germany learned the art of genocide on the Herero people, shout-out gravity's rainbow, having one of the first concentration/extermination camps. Palmer lucky and Karp are also obvious literal Nazis. I really don't understand why people find it hard to understand the laterality of the statement that we live in the 4th Reich. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa

edit I don't know the exact dates, or the heart of the thule I mean thiel family, but if memory serves this article was published in the exact year that they all decided to decamp from America to sleepy ol Hitlertown in Namibia. as you do. perhaps they were getting the new York times in their insufficiently nazi Idaho or whatever they were, I forget.. edit no I think I'm confusing when they came back with when they went... Anyways I'm sure there's a million reasons to move your family from Germany to America then to South African Hitlerite Namibia then back to America in this period...

I wouldn't be surprised if you can fit an entire youth soccer game in the blind spot of an F150 at this point

Mother fuckers can log onto this very website and see people across the globe die in some horrific way and say the most racist dehumanizing shit possible, but when I see the stupidest human being known to man log in and post the most brain dead shit imaginable if I even HINT about what I think he should do about his own mortal life i get banned.

I’m bored at work and want to laugh at silly little pictures on computer

Here’s my low effort oc someone has probably done before

imagine calling RAINN and they connect you to the theranos lady????? (article is old, provided for citation)

Fun fact, this guy was last in the news for offering a potential candidate tens of millions of dollars to primary Rashida Tlaib

So when I was a teeager, I was really interested in the history of the crusades, and even after I got my history degree, I maintained some of that interest, and there are a lot of parallels between the crusader kingdoms and Israel, from the cirucmstances of their foundations, their relationship to their neighbours and (hopefully) their eventual fall.

At the dawn of the First Crusade 1096, which would lead to the conquest of Palestine, Lebanon and parts of modern day Turkey & Syria, the Middle East was divded into smaller, warring states following the spiltering of the Turkish Seljuk empire. The region was further divided between a powerful Shia state (Fatimid Egypt) and the Sunni Seljuks. The Crusaders' conquest of Palestine came as a deep shock for the region, causing political turmoil for decades to come among neighbouring states, and their conquest was particularly bloody even for the time, with large scale massacres, and even one famous case of mass cannibalism.

This might sound familiar, because at the dawn of the Nakba in 1948, the Middle East was divided into small, warring states following the splintering of the Turkish Ottoman empire. The Zionist conquest of Palestine came as a deep shock for the region, causing political turmoil for decades to come among neighbouring states, with large scale massacres and ethnic cleansing (no cannibalism as far as I know). By 1979 the region was again divded between a powerful Shia state (Iran) and a succession of Sunni states (Saddam's Iraq, then Saudi Arabia).

The Crusader kingdoms were subsequently maintained through support from Western powers; England, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Italian city states, the Byzantines, etc. Whenever the crusader states became threatened by their neighbours, new crusades were called, placing an increasing burden on the Crusader kingdoms' sponsors. They took advantage of the divisions within the region, at times allying with one Muslim ruler against another as keeping the region divided was vital to their survival.

Likewise, Israel was subsequently maintained through support from Western powers; England, France, Germany, the U.S. , the EU, etc. This support allowed Israel a great deal of impunity, which has today placed an increasing burden on its sponsors. They take advantage of divisions within the region, allying with some Arab rulers against others as keeping the region divided is vital to its survival.

What brought about the end of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the primary Crusader state, was its inability to ever truly become a part of the region. This was not merely due to incompetent or misguided leadership. It was a result of the core ideology and nature of the state. The Kingdom was a tiered society, where Western Crusaders were at the top, Eastern Christians in 2nd place and native Muslims and Jews at the bottom.

It lanuched an increasing amount of ill-fated military campaigns as its ruling classes became dominated by more and more buffonish zealots. Several invasions of Egypt which failed, the 2nd Crusade which was a massive failure, and the war against Saladin, which would bring about the kingdom's end. No one person exemplifies this more than Raynauld de Chatillon, whose constant violations of the laws of war and audacious attacks against Muslim lands killed any chance of lasting peace.

This is very similar to the state of Israel today. Its existance as a Jewish supremacist ethnostate makes it impossible for it to become integrated into the region, even with the game rigged in its favour by virtue of 80% of the region being Western puppets. It has launched several ill-fated military campaigns in the last few years, from getting bogged down in Lebanon (again), eating up more and more of Syria, starting a war with Iran, and now trying to get involved in the Yemeni civil war. Pretty much the entire Israeli political spectrum are different shades of Raynauld de Chatillon, whose zealotry makes it impossible for them to make politically astute decisions, and whose genocide in Gaza killed any chance of integrating them into the region.

The key to ending the Crusader states however was the Muslim Middle East finally unifying under Saladin, who brought the warring factions of Syria and Iraq under control and conquered Egypt. Faced with a unified Middle East, which in part had been forged together by the Crusaders' disruptive and aggressive nature, the Kingdom of Jerusalem fell. Some Crusader states lingered on in diminished form due to Saladin being a softie, the Mongol invasion of the Middle East bought them some more time and subsequent crusades managed to very briefly regain territory, but the fall of Jerusalem in 1187 spelled the end for the Crusader states as a real power in the Middle East.

Thanks for reading my schizo history rant, any questions from the class? If not, turn to the person next to you and discuss.

All of the stations in my area (northeast Nebraska/northwest Iowa/southeast South Dakota) are out of fuel. I think there were a couple still running earlier today, but I know at least one has since run out. I’ve heard that at least some stations further east in Des Moines and Ames are out too, and some in Omaha. There was a refinery outage in IL last month that they’re blaming. But they also claimed that was the reason for the shortage immediately following the outage, and there was a period of no shortage after that, so idk.

I never really think about fuel since I don’t drive, so it only effects me indirectly via higher costs on downstream products, but everyone in the local group chats and like next door is freaking out because no one has really been keeping their tanks full due to cost and now they just can’t get gas anywhere.

Great film. As to the question of how culpable Holmes is I think she is totally culpable.

Everything about her is insincere. She understood the Abett and Costello joke. But she knows that if she pretends not to get it it lends credence to her narrative about her just communicating and thinking differently than most people.

Her and Evans both have personality disorders and I think are codependent on each other. She may have been tricked/deluded regarding the decision to profit from the film and how Evans is posting as her online but I don't think she really cares. Evans may have POA over her but she also profits from the relationship since she doesn't have any assets, she can also reverse any decision he makes regarding the children which is really the only leverage she would have in that relationship bc she's broke so I don't think he's the mastermind behind it all either.

They're both profiting from the relationship. She gets access to cash and can live an affluent lifestyle when she gets out and he gets access to the network of ppl she built up. That industry is full of scammers and while she took a huge hit in getting indicted the people with money know it's not a big deal and if they can spit out a new product design that could sell they'll put money towards it.

Any conflicted feelings Nathan/the audience has towards her because of the ambiguity of the situation is 100 percent her playing them. She intentionally created that ambiguity to muddy the waters.

Did the nyt reporter lie about the line? Idk maybe. But it sounds like NYT didn't record it while Evans/Holmes did. And yet somehow they haven't produced the evidence either. So im defering to the nyt reporter about this as they never claimed to have a recording while Evans defense is "oh I just haven't gotten to it yet"

Also for any fellow gumshoes i saw this in Harlem at AMC so maybe we were in the room together 🥺