Because history is very often just a rationalization of present day prejudices. The subject is taught so terribly in the US (and not quite so well in other English-speaking places) that that fundamental fact is often not well known. History is two things; the record of the past and how people interact with that record…

I was thinking the same thing. Is it possible they’re going after small scale crimes with a weapon as an intensifier? So say, a guy selling weed caught with a gun he shouldn’t possess? I’m not familiar enough with PA state law and this issue to know for certain but I’d guess this was a designed to undercut his attempt…

That’s pretty textbook violent conduct, unless the rules have changed and I missed it. That should’ve been a sending off. The non-call is a serious game-changer. 

I’m biased as a DC fan, but Arriola is a good player. Even in his less than stellar games he pulls some attention and pressure off other players, and on good nights he’s consistently dangerous. I think his finishing isn’t quite there, but you can do a lot worse than an energetic winger who pulls defenses out of shape…

Yes, that’s generally a well-worn historical fact at this point, as solid as most historical “facts” can be (meaning there’s still a chance it’s wrong, but the evidence strongly points one way).

I just played this game with someone supporting Netanyahu’s recent abuse of a small aDNA study to support his racism against Palestinians. I started going over how the nationalist narrative of ancient Israel is largely a construct invented both by modern people and the ancient Judahite monarchy, and contradicted by a…

Dear Gods. I can say firmly, as a historian (though that’s not my period) we have an incredibly amount of evidence of the Holocaust. There’s no rational ground for skepticism. You can maybe quibble in good faith about how we teach it, there’s a tendency in the US to ignore non-Jewish victims (though that’s probably…

He only needs one friend to pull this off.

Who keeps letting this shitstains out of the greys? 

Yeah, this is really firming up my theory that this was an intentional leak to push out the ambassador and replace him with a pro-Trump empty suit and hence slither into the narcissist’s good graces. If it was Boris or one of his allies, which still seems most probable, it may be a play to either try and get the US to…

There’s a link in the article on that. But yeah, their support for Israel comes with instrumentalization of Jews in Christian prophecy. I personally find such views gross and bigoted, but some rightist Jews love CUFI because they hate all the same people.

CUFI is best thought of as a hate group. The difference between that group and one of the well-moneyed anti-Muslim hate groups is minimal. They overlap a great deal. It’s an ideologically rabid organization.

They were caught in a bad spot. They wanted to limit passing lanes to the main US attackers who had gone wide but also stay close enough to try and cut the angle and block a shot if Lavelle went towards goal. Which meant they stayed too far off her (though generally speaking you’ll see a lot of backpedaling because…

The cable was from 2017 if I remember correctly. Though I’m not suggesting he leaked it personally. Far more likely someone sympathetic or allied to him did so. More deniability that way, and of course if you take this action and get in trouble you’ve got the support of Boris and his very wealthy pro-Brexit pro-Trump…

That’d be a much stronger argument if she had signaled the PK and then did a VAR check because it was so important. It was a blatantly obvious foul in real time. 

Those companies are largely outside the public economy and the avenues for direct individual boycott of say GEO group are limited. They aren’t reliant on consumers.

These agencies have a fundamentally abusive and toxic culture. I don’t think it can be salvaged. It is nice that some officers were trying to do something, but people are literally dying in custody and they are preventable deaths, not to mention the conditions that probably meet the international definition of…

Johnson’s near-coronation makes it most likely he’d have the sway to do it. It’s easy to justify by saying he’ll soon be in charge. That’s my read. 

Got to wonder who leaked this, as it looks a lot like throwing a diplomat under the bus to make nice with Trump, which is totally something I could see Boris Johnson doing. When you sack him (or push him to retire) you get to go to Trump in private and say “look I dealt with him”. Easy way to get into the good graces…

Someone was paid money to make that. Just let that sink in.