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The word “terrorist” is a meaningless tool of imperial narrative control.
Want to bomb some people? Designate them as terrorists.
Want to silence protesters and dissidents? Say they’re supporting terrorists.
Want sweeping surveillance powers? Say you need them to fight terrorism.
Those Signal chats revealed a lot about our strategy — how superficial and unexplained it truly is. My friends Annelle Sheline and Jen Kavanagh joined me this week to discuss why we are at war with the Houthis.
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I saw a video of a father cradling the decapitated head of his son from an airstrike in Gaza and I'm told I'm a terrorist supporter if I criticize the people who decapitated him.
i prefer them in this style myself
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new series of posts “A Cook’s Journal” chronicling my year in Italy in 2001.
The key to St Teresa’s 9-line prayer is the 5th line: patience.
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Our money's on fire, consumer confidence has plummeted, eggs are pricier than platinum, the auto industry's cooked, an unaccountable oligarch's dismantling the government, and measles is making a comeback.
But hey, at least we don't have a woman president.
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Thomas Mirus of The Catholic Culture Podcast recently had me on to discuss Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard and some of the interesting tensions between the Catholic understanding of the goodness of natural religion and Girard’s account of the violent foundations of cultural order:
can’t w this one
the post luxury status symbol is being able to escape the TikTok oracles on your fyp 😌
exactly
Immediately thought of you when I saw this
Hmm I know where I read it first
