EPISODE 216: The Graham Platner stories keep coming, Iran keeps firing, grifters keep praising Russia, and What Are We Consuming? Links below!

The irony is that if Austin kept his hands to himself he’d still be alive. White parents should be talking to their children about boundaries and consent. But instead they’re framing Karmelo, and by extension the black community as inherently violent

Great news for Palestinians and the pro-Palestine movement. Najat has announced she is leaving the pro-Palestine movement after being exposed for stealing money raised for a woman with cancer in Gaza. Najat is a grifter, and the movement is better without her.

in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas

If I were ever abducted by Aliens, the first thing I’d ask is whether they came from a planet where people also deny science.

The reason Andor is aging poorly for me is because I realized the Empire is insanely incompetent in the show and it ruins the whole "actually evil serious threat" thing In the prison Cassian was through in there were a total of like 30 guards in the entire complex, which was a vital slave labor source for the most important industrial project the Empire was undertaking The Empire sent more soldiers to antagonize Ferrix during Aunt Petunia's funeral because they are mustache twirling saturday morning villains instead of a serious entity

Today I am Bosnian, later this evening I am Paraguayan. Tomorrow at 6pm I am Moroccan, and at 9pm I am Haitian.

WIDOW'S BAY is great and you should be watching it. thebulwark.com/p/you-should-…

🇸🇴 Nunca vi algo así. En Somalia hoy se llenó un estadio para recibir como héroe nacional a Omar Artan, el árbitro al que Estados Unidos le negó la entrada al Mundial. Increíble.

the whole Platner experience---working class persona being kinda fake, sordid details of his personal life, lack of actual policy expertise, lazy slopulism of much of his campaign---is honestly depressing nonetheless, vote for him over Collins: easiest decision of your life

This Cannot Continue - Kotaku kotaku.com/this-cannot-conti…

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis: Show us your laptop. Show us your iCloud. Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation. You won’t. You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out. That is not who we are. My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count. For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame. I no longer believe that. Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us. And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts. That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena. Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next. Life does not determine our character. It reveals it. Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next? We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day. So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop. You won’t. The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing. That is the only definition that matters.