Don’t shoot the meat on the grill! It’s already dead!
She kind of looks like she’s the “This is fine” meme. Also she has a gun.
As someone pointed out, the boy is about to shoot his sister in the head. I like we’re analyzing Rembrandt’s “Night Watch.” It’s as much of a masterpiece.
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What I still can’t get over is that none of you cancel culture warriors came to the defense of @kathygriffin or @rezaaslan or me when we were canceled by the right. It’s almost like you’re okay with the cancelation when it offends *you,* like if you’re pro-Trump or pro-Bibi.
It’s almost like you think one *should* get canceled for being a professor who criticizes the Israeli government on campus or makes a lewd joke about Trump. But that no one should get canceled for being racist or sexist bc what’s the big deal it’s just a joke.
(Setting aside the term “cancellation,” which is deeply problematic.) One the biggest warriors against cancel culture told me I had ended my career with a tweet about Trump—and that this was a fitting punishment. So, you know, what, exactly, are you fighting for—or against?
The phone lines are either past capacity or down entirely, depending on when I call.
DC had a budget surplus this year. Seems like they could've used some of it to, I don't know, hire competent software developers and/or server capacity.
DC’s vaccination registration site crashed less than 10 minutes into the release of a new batch of appointments. #COVID19#vaccine
I don’t know, maybe if one of DC’s local customer service billionaires *cough cough* Jeff Bezos *cough cough* stepped up the logistics of this so that the District’s residents aren’t waging what is effectively a DDoS attack on their government’s servers to get life saving vaccine
“He was hard to reach, and you know why? Because it was live TV,” said one close Trump adviser. “If it’s TiVo, he just hits pause and takes the calls. If it’s live TV, he watches it, and he was just watching it all unfold.”
"The man who vowed to be a president of law and order failed to enforce the law or restore order. The man who has always seen himself as the protector of uniformed police sat idly by as Capitol Police officers were outnumbered, outmaneuvered, trampled on—and in one case, killed."
Look, I'm from the former Soviet Union. One of the reasons Putin, an alumnus of the KGB, the agency that committed some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century, came to power in 2000 and stayed is that people wanted unity rather than accountability. Chew on that.
NB: There were discussions after the fall of the Soviet Union to hold a tribunal, similar to the Nuremberg Trials, to hold members of the NKVD (as the KGB was previously known) to account for their crimes. There were also talk of lustration.
In the end, it was decided that, in the face of a massive economic crisis and a country that seemed to be splitting apart, it was better to turn the page and not pick the scabs of the country's historical trauma, not to dwell on the things that pitted Russian against Russian.
There’s a reason this resonates for us former foreign correspondents. When I was reporting out of Moscow, we wrestled with the question of objectivity. In the end, we knew: Putin is objectively corrupt, Putin is objectively an authoritarian, Putin objectively was not good. 1/
Our editors back home in Washington and NYC agreed—and they ate it up. We wrote stories about “the man to take on Putin,” not the man in the version of the Russian diner who supported Putin. We agreed: the opposition was the good guys, the Kremlin was the bad guys. 2/
Then came Trump and it turned out that the standards we applied to writing about foreign countries had to be toned down to “racially charged” and “not supported by the facts” and both sides. 3/