I was in the mens' room at the Sherman Oaks Arclight (R.I.P.) and stepped up to a sink when a malfunctioning sink sprayed my shirt with water. From behind me, I hear a deep voice chuckle & say 'It got you, too.' I turn around. It's Keith David, looking very amused. What a king.

Ibram Kendi 'galvanized Americans with his ideas' is a weird way of saying 'elite liberals and progressives thought an obvious moron was a genius for six months because they all went temporarily insane'

Isn't he a hugely accomplished playwright, what are we doing America

After an undeniably grim day for #Georgia ’s LGBTQ+ community, just gonna leave this here.

“Azerbaijan's war of 2020 broke a pattern in European security where the assumption was that all these unresolved conflicts across EU had to be resolved peacefully. AZ rewrote the rulebook, used force, & as far as it was concerned, got away with it.” vox.com/world-politics…

If you are wondering why Erdogan’s gov has just dismissed and detained a democratically elected mayor in Hakkari Turkey, and appointed a bureaucrat in his place, read this: How Authoritarians Win When They Lose | Journal of Democracy journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how-a…

It is hard to read this and not get cynical.

A report has concluded that Ethiopia, a African state which enjoys warm relations with many Western countries, has committed genocide against the besieged Tigrayan people, in the period of 2020/21 aje.io/gwk1bi

This Biden interview was conducted on May 28. In it, he repeatedly refused to discuss the Gaza state of play b/c he said he was about to do something before the interview prints. On May 31, Biden announced the ceasefire/hostage proposal. In context, what he said made total sense!

Friendly reminder to check in on your Austrian friends every now and then, you have no idea how difficult it is to be Austrian

St George the Great Martyr!

Ethiopia, 15th c. #george #saintgeorge #qiddusgiyorgis #rider #horse #africanart

The Georgian Parliament is introducing legislation that will cut gay sex scenes from movies so I did my duty and bought a ticket to Challengers.

No force on earth can come between me and my sacred duty to watch movies that are horny.

God these people are such morons.

If I order a drink at Starbucks, do you think the order I get - say 128 - is the number of all the Starbucks drinks ever ordered?

If someone was tattooed at Auschwitz, they got a number *relevant to that facility at that time.*

The two ultra-orthodox parties in Netanyahu's coalition: Shas and UTJ announced they support the Israeli hostage deal proposal and called Netanyahu to push forward with it regardless of political pressure by ultranationalist ministers Ben Gvir and Smotrich

Also, uh, IDK how many Assyrians you know, but a lot of them are very dark. Half of the Assyrians I know could pass as Indian.

Remember how Assyrians were opressed on their homeland for centuries, then were subjected to a systemic genocide, and now face the forced expulsion of the remnants of their presence on their homeland by groups such as ISIS? Well too bad, they should have seen the light of Islam.

'We have superior education in the UAE to that in the West'

Name even one single university in the UAE that can rival the universities of Oxford, Uppsala, Sorbonne, Heidelberg, Bologna, or Leuven.

CHP leader Ozel dials up criticism of centralization of power under Erdogan and says holding early elections might become inevitable. Talking about early elex puts Erdogan in a difficult spot. Economy is still in bad shape and Erdogan wants to wait until things on that front ++

“Abolition of police logic” is a pure oxymoron—“abolition” itself is nothing but the inherent structure of police logic *as such*. Anarchism is structurally fascist—from the Cercle Proudhon to Carl Schmitt’s Bakuninist inspiration, we see anarchism as true totalitarianism