✶ college student, unpaid mossad intern (american exchange program)
✶ catholic
✶ military history enjoyer, common sense appreciator, anti cloud storage activist
✶ i 100% unironically <3 capitalism, personal ownership, and democracy
✶ politically homeless
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required reading: pg. 10, Anti-Zionism [x]
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I add $5 to my Israel trip fund for every hate or gaza gfm ask I receive
wait why do you care about Israel? ⤵
I'm a born and raised catholic, and still practicing today, and I have jewish family! It's something that has always been a part of my identiy and something that I have always taken pride in. Its the reason i have the name i was given. Despite not being considered jewish myself, I have experienced antisemitism due to my jewish ancestry; my siblings and I were raised with the sobering reminder that in nazi germany, we also would have been considered undesireables. I'm proud to be the descendant of one of the most resilient groups to ever walk this earth.
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The reason I choose to mention it there is because I post a lot about israel, and it is something that does inform my opinions and affect my day to day life-- even in a positive way, for example I've found a wonderful community at hillel to learn more about Judaism (v important to me despite practicing another religion) and may have the opportunity to go in birthright soon because of it.
I do a lot of israel & jewish advocacy at my university, and part (although not all) of the reason I "care so much" is ultimately because of my ancestry. If there was a holocaust repeat, the best place for me to go and live a fulfilled, authentic life would be in israel. Growing up I went to the funerals of some of my immediate jewish relatives, and something that always stuck with me was just before the burial, pouring soil from the land of israel into their graves (I even have a post about it).
Identity is a complex thing, and I share all this information about mine here because it's very relevant to a lot of the content on my blog. A connection to the jewish people and the jewish land is just one facet of my identity, multidimensional just as everyone else's is.
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I don't think it's unreasonable for our public officials to be expected to prove they're alive and not in a coma to be able to retain their office.
If someone were, as a random example, say hospitalized for over two weeks with no explanation, I think that should automatically trigger a special election to replace them.
If you're still able to do your job, then prove it. And if you're not, then you're actively obstructing democracy by not stepping down.
Which is to say, that if a public official were to pass away or into a coma, and their handlers choose to obfuscate that fact, this should be seen as intentionally obstructing democracy.
And there should be, you know, consequences for the people who would do such a thing.
I remember listening to a local radio show where the (right wing) hosts were appalled that Mitch was still in congress.
I forget the exact quote, but it was something like "Does no one love this man? If that was my daddy up there, we'd pick him up, take him home and get the cameras away from him. Have enough respect for your family to let him rest. He's worked for years! Take him home and love on him."
"People can make mistakes and change" a rich sociopath who joined the marines specifically to kill people got a nazi tattoo in croatia and KEPT IT for 20 years. He continued drinking and abusing women and still drinks. His fanbase was fine with all of that.
This faux-flagellating "Christian forgiveness" bullshit without the actual making of amends is tired and tawdry.
You knew. You supported him and attacked anyone who had an issue with the parade of red flags, and now you want to duck out on any accountability.
Carry it.
Let's be generous and take her premise at face value for a second: okay, so we believe everything they said and accept that Platner sincerely changed, regrets his past words and actions, commits to no longer behaving in that way, wants to undo the harm he has caused, etc.
I'm not allowed to believe that people can make mistakes and change and believe that certain actions irrevocably make one disqualified from holding positions of significant power? I'm not allowed to believe that being a United States Senator, a position that only 100 people in a nation of 340 million can hold, is an important, rare, and hell, even sacred office and that we should endeavor to only elect people of the highest caliber of intelligence, experience, wisdom, and character to it?
Why is it the people who actually treat our government like it's important and should be taken seriously who are always treated like mean jerks and the people who treat it like a hobby or a clout machine or a vehicle for personal enrichment who are lauded? Careless people indeed.
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“Do what nature demands. Get a move on — if you have it in you — and don’t worry whether anyone will give you credit for it. And don’t go expecting Plato’s Republic; be satisfied with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant.”
In June 1973, the Concorde prototype 001 took off from Las Palmas, Canary Islands, to achieve the absolute impossible: transforming a supersonic jet into a flying observatory to chase a solar eclipse.
Flying at a staggering Mach 2.05 (around 2,200 km/h) over the Sahara Desert, researchers matched the speed of the lunar shadow, stretching a brief 7-minute eclipse into 70 minutes of continuous totality.
To put that into perspective, this single legendary flight provided more total eclipse observation time than all other ground expeditions in the 20th century combined. Science fiction made reality in the twentieth century.
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ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
July 3, 2026 at 05:00PM
On July 4th, 1997, using its own array of fireworks, a parachute, and a cocoon of airbags, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft bounced like a giant beach ball at least 15 times before it came to rest on the surface of Mars at 10:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time. After its then novel airbag-assisted landing sequence was completed, Pathfinder transmitted this color mosaic to mission operators on Earth. In the scene from another world, the Mars Sojourner robot rover is visible in the foreground, crouched on top of the unfolded Pathfinder. About the size of a large house cat, the six-wheeled, solar-powered Sojourner became the first successful Martian rover. Surrounding Pathfinder are deflated airbags and the rock-strewn terrain of the Ares Vallis floodplain. In the distance Martian hills appear against a dusty brownish sky. The Pathfinder lander was subsequently renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station.
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