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The Guardian has just published its "100 best novels of all time" list — these are the top 12.
Toni Morrison's Beloved is in 2nd. Dostoevsky does not make the top 25...
What do you think?
Toni Morrison's Beloved is in 2nd. Dostoevsky does not make the top 25...
What do you think?
Join our book club and check out our Great Books reading list instead.
We're currently reading Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment... join us!
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We're currently reading Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment... join us!
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I'm a middle eastern historian. My own family were made refugees. And this is my honest view of the Nakba (“catastrophe”) - the displacement of around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1947–49 war surrounding the creation of Israel.
A thread. 🧵
A thread. 🧵
2/ Israel’s Declaration of Independence explicitly called on Arab inhabitants to remain and become equal citizens. The Arab response explicitly called for genocide zbd expulsion of Jews. So it's important to note one side is evidenced to have preferred peace from the outset.
3/ And importantly: around 150,000 Arabs DID remain inside Israel after the war.
Today their descendants make up around 20% of Israeli citizens.
That matters historically, because many 20th century ethnic conflicts ended in near-total expulsions.
Today their descendants make up around 20% of Israeli citizens.
That matters historically, because many 20th century ethnic conflicts ended in near-total expulsions.
Блять яка ж жиза. Постановка задач чисто гавно з жопи. Планінгу ноль нулл зеро. Кожного весляра сприймають за окрему команду. Я вже декілька разів підіймав це питання старшим, але на мене сичать шо мені треба змінити майндсет і не вийобуватись
Овнеру клод наригав фічу, деву клод наригав код і підзалупні юніт тести які чисто пікрелейтед
Потім тімлід на крису робе ревью клодом, qa пердолить клодом автотести. І ця параша летить в прод.
Тим часом прод:
Тим часом прод:
For non-Brazilians, the big story last week was about how Bolsonaro's son Flávio, the right's candidate in this year's election, raised money from the banker responsible for Brazil's largest bank scandal ever for an upcoming biopic about his father starring Jim Caviezel
The film is titled Dark Horse and is scheduled to be released in September, just as Brazil's election campaign begins, the plot of the film centers around a nemesis, some made-up drug lord that Bolsonaro arrested when he was in the army. (I've read some of the script)
Apart from numerous imagined attempts on Jair Bolsonaro's life, the film also has some weird plotline about drug lords, shamans and indigenous people in the Amazon. I can't wait to watch it... Also shout out to the @TheInterceptBr for breaking the story
Good afternoon; this is day 6 in the hearing at employment tribunal of Lorna Young vs Manchester City Council.
This morning's coverage is at
Our substack page on the case has our reporting from previous days, and a full list of abbreviations.tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/lorna-young-…
Did you know that fewer than half of US adults read a book last year?
In our academic system, it is normal to go from kindergarten to PhD without reading a single page of Homer, Plato, Augustine, Dante, or Milton.
In any other age, such a person would not be considered educated at all.
Since the state refuses to teach the Great Books of Western Civilization, we've started an independent group to the study them together. To preserve a culture, you must continually study the books and ideas that created it.
Below are just some of the texts on our reading list!
If this sounds like something you'd like to be part of, please join our group. We read a new classic text approx. every month and meet biweekly to discuss. We are studying the great works in dialogue with each other.
Most of what we put out is free, but to support our efforts, please consider a paid subscription. It makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this project.
We are entirely independent, funded only by the incredible members of this community.
Paid members get:
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In our academic system, it is normal to go from kindergarten to PhD without reading a single page of Homer, Plato, Augustine, Dante, or Milton.
In any other age, such a person would not be considered educated at all.
Since the state refuses to teach the Great Books of Western Civilization, we've started an independent group to the study them together. To preserve a culture, you must continually study the books and ideas that created it.
Below are just some of the texts on our reading list!
If this sounds like something you'd like to be part of, please join our group. We read a new classic text approx. every month and meet biweekly to discuss. We are studying the great works in dialogue with each other.
Most of what we put out is free, but to support our efforts, please consider a paid subscription. It makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this project.
We are entirely independent, funded only by the incredible members of this community.
Paid members get:
- Live book club discussions (biweekly)
- Essays to guide you through the books we're reading
- Access to the community chat room
- The full archive of discussions and essays
- Ability to vote on what we read next...
Join us!
Here's the link to join...
We are reading Crime & Punishment right now. Join us!
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We are reading Crime & Punishment right now. Join us!
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Have you ever wondered why suddenly when SCOTUS went crazy, all its crazy decisions were based on manufactured cases, which don’t really show up before then? eg:
-Loving v Virginia: RFK refers a guy in DC literally surnamed *Loving* to the ACLU so it can help him get intentionally arrested pretending to move back to Virginia with his wife, who already had a kid with another man when they got together when she was 17, so they can challenge anti-miscegenation laws with an easy pun that sympathetic journos & teachers will love
-Smith v Allwright: NAACP deliberately selected specific black voters in Texas to attempt to vote in the Democratic primary—which they obviously didn’t actually wish to join—ensuring they were rejected in order to establish clean standing to challenge the idea that party self-organization exists outside the government (this is why it’s illegal in the US for political parties to exist in the sense they’ve consistently existed in most other developed countries, ie with control over their own membership which they can use for discipline)
-Shelley v Kraemer: black families were intentionally “helped” (used) by lawfare/activist orgs to buy homes covered by racially restrictive covenants, which obviously excluded them, so they could sue
Griswold v Connecticut: To challenge a state ban on contraception, Estelle Griswold was used to open a birth control clinic with the explicit intention of being arrested
Etc etc etc. The story is in the 1st pic (it over-simplifies the development of cert a bit but overall is accurate), & some funny examples of how this invented LGBT lawfare in the other pics, & how this connects with Brown v Board in the quoted post, & other Warren Court examples in the comments
-Loving v Virginia: RFK refers a guy in DC literally surnamed *Loving* to the ACLU so it can help him get intentionally arrested pretending to move back to Virginia with his wife, who already had a kid with another man when they got together when she was 17, so they can challenge anti-miscegenation laws with an easy pun that sympathetic journos & teachers will love
-Smith v Allwright: NAACP deliberately selected specific black voters in Texas to attempt to vote in the Democratic primary—which they obviously didn’t actually wish to join—ensuring they were rejected in order to establish clean standing to challenge the idea that party self-organization exists outside the government (this is why it’s illegal in the US for political parties to exist in the sense they’ve consistently existed in most other developed countries, ie with control over their own membership which they can use for discipline)
-Shelley v Kraemer: black families were intentionally “helped” (used) by lawfare/activist orgs to buy homes covered by racially restrictive covenants, which obviously excluded them, so they could sue
Griswold v Connecticut: To challenge a state ban on contraception, Estelle Griswold was used to open a birth control clinic with the explicit intention of being arrested
Etc etc etc. The story is in the 1st pic (it over-simplifies the development of cert a bit but overall is accurate), & some funny examples of how this invented LGBT lawfare in the other pics, & how this connects with Brown v Board in the quoted post, & other Warren Court examples in the comments
This intuitively ties into how the Warren Court started using fake social science in its fake activist cases to make up fake legal doctrines:
More such examples:
Une amitié contre les murs.
" Mahmoud Darwish n'appartenait pas seulement aux Palestiniens, il appartenait à tous ceux qui aiment la liberté. Sa voix manquera cruellement à notre époque."
Tels seront les mots de Shlomo Sand suite à la disparition de Mahmoud Darwish.
" Mahmoud Darwish n'appartenait pas seulement aux Palestiniens, il appartenait à tous ceux qui aiment la liberté. Sa voix manquera cruellement à notre époque."
Tels seront les mots de Shlomo Sand suite à la disparition de Mahmoud Darwish.
Après avoir relaté l'histoire d'amour entre Mahmoud Darwish et Tamar Ben-Ami (sa "Rita"), parlons de cette amitié fascinante, profondément humaine et politique. Tout commence dans les années 1960 à Haïfa. Shlomo Sand est alors un jeune militant de gauche, membre du Matzpen.
À l'époque, intellectuels juifs et arabes communistes se côtoient à Haïfa. C'est là que Sand et Darwish partagent les mêmes cafés, les mêmes débats enflammés sur la justice, et surtout, une vision commune de l'avenir.
What you are seeing here is a 10 year old American boy wearing the Medal of Honor around his neck.
The medal had been awarded to his father.
His father gave the order that saved his crew and sealed his own fate in 1943.
His three final words became one of the most legendary phrases in US Navy history.
This is the story of Howard Gilmore..🧵1/5
The medal had been awarded to his father.
His father gave the order that saved his crew and sealed his own fate in 1943.
His three final words became one of the most legendary phrases in US Navy history.
This is the story of Howard Gilmore..🧵1/5
🧵 2/5
Howard Walter Gilmore was born on September 29 1902 in Selma, Alabama. His father worked in dry goods. His mother's maiden name was Howard. He grew up in the small towns of the Deep South.
He enlisted in the United States Navy on November 15 1920. He was 18 years old. Two years later he sat for the competitive entrance examination for the United States Naval Academy. He scored high enough to be admitted. He graduated from Annapolis in 1926, ranked 34th of 436.
His classmates included Wade McClusky, who would lead the dive bomber attack at Midway, and Lofton Henderson, the namesake of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.
He served four years on the battleship USS Mississippi. Then he volunteered for the submarine force.
In 1932 Gilmore returned to New Orleans and married Hilda Jane St. Raymond. They had two children. A son named Howard Jr. and a daughter named Vernon Jeanne.
While serving as the executive officer of the submarine USS Shark in the Panama Canal Zone, Gilmore was attacked by a gang of thugs on shore leave. They cut his throat and left him for dead. He survived.
The day after Pearl Harbor he was given his first major command. The brand new submarine USS Growler, still being built in Connecticut.
Howard Walter Gilmore was born on September 29 1902 in Selma, Alabama. His father worked in dry goods. His mother's maiden name was Howard. He grew up in the small towns of the Deep South.
He enlisted in the United States Navy on November 15 1920. He was 18 years old. Two years later he sat for the competitive entrance examination for the United States Naval Academy. He scored high enough to be admitted. He graduated from Annapolis in 1926, ranked 34th of 436.
His classmates included Wade McClusky, who would lead the dive bomber attack at Midway, and Lofton Henderson, the namesake of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.
He served four years on the battleship USS Mississippi. Then he volunteered for the submarine force.
In 1932 Gilmore returned to New Orleans and married Hilda Jane St. Raymond. They had two children. A son named Howard Jr. and a daughter named Vernon Jeanne.
While serving as the executive officer of the submarine USS Shark in the Panama Canal Zone, Gilmore was attacked by a gang of thugs on shore leave. They cut his throat and left him for dead. He survived.
The day after Pearl Harbor he was given his first major command. The brand new submarine USS Growler, still being built in Connecticut.
🧵 3/5
Gilmore took the Growler to sea in 1942. His first patrol took him to the Aleutian Islands.
July 5 1942. Off the island of Kiska in Alaska. Growler surfaced in the morning fog and found three Japanese destroyers. Gilmore attacked. He sank one, the Arare. He damaged the other two. The Japanese fired two torpedoes at him. He evaded them. He was awarded the Navy Cross for the action.
His second patrol took him to the East China Sea near Formosa. He sank four Japanese merchant ships. Another Navy Cross.
His third patrol off Truk produced nothing. His fourth patrol began on January 1 1943 from Brisbane, Australia. He sank two more Japanese transports in the Solomon Islands. The waters were thick with Japanese ships now evacuating Guadalcanal.
On the night of February 6 1943 Growler was running on the surface in the Bismarck Sea. The diesel engines hummed in the dark. The crew was charging the batteries. Gilmore was on the bridge with three other men. They spotted a small Japanese ship moving toward them through the darkness.
It was the Hayasaki. A 900 ton Japanese provision ship that had been converted into a convoy escort. Her lookouts had spotted the submarine first. She was turning to ram.
Gilmore took the Growler to sea in 1942. His first patrol took him to the Aleutian Islands.
July 5 1942. Off the island of Kiska in Alaska. Growler surfaced in the morning fog and found three Japanese destroyers. Gilmore attacked. He sank one, the Arare. He damaged the other two. The Japanese fired two torpedoes at him. He evaded them. He was awarded the Navy Cross for the action.
His second patrol took him to the East China Sea near Formosa. He sank four Japanese merchant ships. Another Navy Cross.
His third patrol off Truk produced nothing. His fourth patrol began on January 1 1943 from Brisbane, Australia. He sank two more Japanese transports in the Solomon Islands. The waters were thick with Japanese ships now evacuating Guadalcanal.
On the night of February 6 1943 Growler was running on the surface in the Bismarck Sea. The diesel engines hummed in the dark. The crew was charging the batteries. Gilmore was on the bridge with three other men. They spotted a small Japanese ship moving toward them through the darkness.
It was the Hayasaki. A 900 ton Japanese provision ship that had been converted into a convoy escort. Her lookouts had spotted the submarine first. She was turning to ram.
To get an idea just how old this "left wing hyper puritanism" is, here's a lengthy article from 1997 ranting about the dangers of gender depictions in RL Stine's writing. This was presented to the National Council of Teachers of English.
web.archive.org/web/2010113013… x.com/CopicSquiddo/s…
web.archive.org/web/2010113013… x.com/CopicSquiddo/s…
It's funny that we still get people memeing about & mocking a few evangelical churches saying that Harry Potter or DnD were demonic, but this stuff gets a complete pass, and now these people have gained enough power that they're censoring most of the entertainment landscape.
I mean, we're talking about RL Stine here. One of the safest, most kid-friendly, apolitical horror writers to ever exist. They found him too problematic. Warning of things to come.
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1 HILO LA ESTUPIDEZ INSOSTENIBLE
Los políticos y activistas, ni entienden el trabajo ni los impuestos
Vamos a exponer algunos DATOS
Un autónomo (autoempleo), paga 445€ al mes solo de cuota a la Seguridad Social más el descuento de IRPF raisin.com/es-es/tributac…
Los políticos y activistas, ni entienden el trabajo ni los impuestos
Vamos a exponer algunos DATOS
Un autónomo (autoempleo), paga 445€ al mes solo de cuota a la Seguridad Social más el descuento de IRPF raisin.com/es-es/tributac…
2 un trabajador con un sueldo de 1.300€ al mes descontado el IRPF le quedan unos 1.044€ y de todo lo que compre (comida ropa etc etc) le cargarán un 21% de IVA
3 Un LUMPEM recién traído, con cuatro hijos, (que tienen “reagrupación familiar") SIN TRABAJAR cobra más de 1.630€ AL MES solo de Ingreso Minimo Vital (IMV) .
A eso hay que sumar AYUDAS para luz, agua, gas, bonos de alimentos...
A eso hay que sumar AYUDAS para luz, agua, gas, bonos de alimentos...
