https://zoeempowers.org/, y’all (I haven’t read the article yet, so who knows if it supports my point; Ok, he’s talking at a higher level, but still):

«Washington Post columnist regurgitates nonsense about crime and “Democrat-run cities”

Marc Thiessen spins facile Fox News talking points into an opinion column»

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/washington-post-columnist-regurgitates

Maybe worth posting this while everybody goes bonkers over Hu Jintao. Don’t know if it’s true or not:

“Girls who were rebellious.” 🙂

«“Regiments were recruited from slaves, some of them captured as early in age as 10 years old, also the poor, and girls who were rebellious,” said Terri Ochiagha, an expert on colonial and postcolonial Nigeria at the University of Edinburgh….»

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/real-warriors-woman-king-dahomey-agojie-amazons-180980750/

Really good personal stories with relevance to today (of course). Recommended; glad I watched it.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/munich_the_edge_of_war

Some good ideas in here. Capers! Coriander! Not so sure about the fish, but I’m willing to try.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/10/18/black-people-spaghetti-symbolizes-connection-ingenuity/

<chuckle/>:

«”Did you hear Kwasi Kwarteng flew back from the U.S. first class? Apparently they didn’t want him near Business or Economy” read one joke doing the rounds on Twitter in reference to Kwarteng’s rushed return from Washington to be fired by Truss.»

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/hows-brexit-going-british-politics-mocked-home-abroad-2022-10-17/

Debt ceiling Armageddon coming. Having people starving to death in this country is not actually beneficial.

«If Republicans gain a majority following next month’s elections, the outlet reported, they plan to use a future increase or suspension of the debt ceiling as leverage to force through “top priorities” like seismic cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and other social safety net spending.»

https://www.mediamatters.org/bloomberg/have-you-heard-about-gop-plan-either-gut-social-safety-net-or-destroy-economy

The world is getting uglier because we’re letting the ultra-rich drive.

So… NOW we identify whiteness as a problem, only to tar China with it. 😕

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-16/race-and-whiteness-key-to-understanding-xi-jinpings-china/101536024

Interesting history, though.

“Time the seizure”is probably going to be the hardest thing to remember: