Just an absolutely perplexing decision by Military dot com to publish a repellent apology for mass murder
"Sure he pled guilty and allocuted to going UA to kill all those people, mostly women and children, in their homes in the dead of night, but he insists they were bad dudes" is the sort of bad-faith jingoistic piffle that doesn't deserve a hearing in a reputable publication
Publishers face "both sides" pressure, as Mil dot com did when an astroturf group submitted this as a response to another column. One way to manage this is to publicly tell the "other" side their submission doesn't meet publication standards of facticity, good faith, and decency
That would have served the important purpose of showing that another opinion in fact exists within the publication's community, as well as the more important purpose of demonstrating that some opinions are inhumane nonsense and unworthy of a kiosk in the marketplace of ideas
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Several former American diplomats to Ukraine hold Paul Manafort responsible for a siege against US Marines in Crimea by the pro-Russian partisans that employed him in 2006 -- a siege that undermined the Bush administration's relations with Ukraine. taskandpurpose.com/news/manafort-…
We spoke to several of those Marines back in 2016, when Manafort ran Trump's campaign. fusion.tv/story/338016/t…
I spoke with @maddow about Manafort's employ with the Party of Regions, the Kremlin-connected architects of that attack on the US Marines in Feodosia, back in 2017. msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/…
U.S. DEATHS, COVID, 1 DEC 2020: 2,473
U.S. DEATHS, COVID, 2 DEC 2020: 2,733
U.S. DEATHS, COVID, 3 DEC 2020: 2,706
U.S. DEATHS, COVID, 4 DEC 2020: 2,563
U.S. DEATHS, COVID, 5 DEC 2020: 2,445
Felt weird when the insurance-picked body shop that "fixed" my car after a collision couldn't get the electronic parking brake to work, but after replacing a rear caliper at home it appears they disconnected the parking brake motor to *keep* it from engaging when they got stumped
But this pairs nicely with the lingering mess of impact-glass shards, bad paint match, failure to replace the windshield, heavy overspray marks, disabled optical safety systems, and sudden post-bodyshop tendency of my radio station to change when the steering column turns
Don't use AutoNation Collision, is what I'm saying
Those last two paragraphs about the RNC official in this story about the pardons-bribery scandal, tho wsj.com/articles/bribe…
I do, however, feels it's bizarre to write about Elliott Broidy's central role in this new pay-for-play scandal, though, without *prominently* mentioning Broidy's matter of Michael Cohen, the $1.6 milllion, and the Playboy model nytimes.com/2018/04/13/us/…
Couple notes to add to this wild scoop by @ErinBanco and @swin24, which you absolutely must read, about Pompeo running a "salt the earth" strategy on US-Iran relations: thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-po…
Last night on @MehdiHasanShow, @tparsi and @barbaraslavin1 discussed precisely this possibility: that the Trump admin and its ME allies want to deepen tensions with Iran to prevent them from having any rapport with a Biden admin:
I was a doctrinaire right-libertarian in a previous life, and I have been able to grasp at least the seductive nature of a lot of Republicanism. But I can't honestly understand how this is a priority for you *unless* you are a eugenicist who feels nothing for the sick and dead
The upper global bound for estimated deaths from the Chernobyl disaster is 60,000, and most experts say it's nowhere near that. Republicans like DeSantis are killing many more people than Dyatlov, Fomin and Bryukhanov did, in similar authoritarian denialist-kitsch fashion
Back when I wrote this, Florida had lost 3,000 people to Covid. Today, the toll stands at 18,596 newrepublic.com/article/158215…