MAN GOES HAM MUST SEE

My favorite category of government program to run across is "program you've never heard of doing extremely important work to solve a major problem which you have also never heard of." On that note, the US drops millions of pounds of sterile bugs over Panama each week in order to prevent a parasite infestation from moving into North America. Everyone say thank you to the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of the Cattle Borer Worm (COPEG)

I understand you don’t like Israel, but in your glee to note how disliked it is, I wonder if you ask how unsafe your American Jewish friends are feeling. Particularly those whose families couldn’t easily escape the Middle East, Soviet Union, or elsewhere in Europe, and had nowhere else to go. Those who lived through Soviet and Arab antisemitism and lost it all, barely escaping with their lives. Those friends who have seen Jewish people around the world attacked in the past year under the guise of disliking Israel (DC Jewish museum, Bondi, Colorado Molotov cocktails, Gov Shapiro). As Dara Horn says, people love dead Jews. And no, minorities are not responsible for causing their own hatred—and a foreign government’s actions are certainly not justification for attacking American or Australian Jewish people. But my guess is that you don’t have many Jewish friends. And they certainly wouldn’t be honest with you anyway. — a former longtime follower.

as someone who remembers the patriot act and all the conversation surrounding it, it's a bit... of an experience being able to remember how many people pointed out that Terrorist was a politically convenient term which could be used to dehumanise and legally strip the rights from someone and that eventually all this would be used internally. and the response was 'nuh uh only browns with funny headgear are terrorists'. and then two decades of 'fighting age males' being blown to pieces at weddings because they might have, maybe, looked at a terrorist once. A week ago a head of state is black bagged in the middle of the night by the US for being a 'narcoterrorist'. And now an unarmed, random woman - white, citizen - is gunned down by jackboot thugs and before her body is cold she is, of course, a domestic terrorist.