Watched the new The Penguin series and thought it was really bad, 8.8 rating on IMDB, 95% on rotten tomatoes, the dialogue is "the room" esque and the plot makes no fucking sense, I can't even begin to get what people took away from it to rate it so favorably, it's like DC Tulsa King

The gym part is even more confusing for me, like why do they have a women's gym in the white house to begin with, is it just a historical vestige or is there so much sexual harassment in DC that they needed to lock out the men? It's not a particularly normal thing in the US to have women's gyms, the YWCA allow men. Even if they are going with the she's not a woman argument, how does that apply to the gym?

Tbf the UK would have used veto power too if they didn't only need one veto to stop it and are esentially pretending like they support a ceasefire to avoid bad PR, probably the same thing for a least a few of the other countries on the council like France and Japan, although I'm 100% confident the UK is faking it and less so for the other countries

Have to write down when I take my allergy meds to keep the Benadryl demons away

If she's in anyone's pocket it's Modi's

Gabbard has had a close relationship with the Indian government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whom she has met multiple times.

The Intercept news site found in 2019 that Gabbard’s House campaigns had received donations from more than 100 individuals associated with a Hindu majoritarian movement that Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is a part of.

Badempanada is claiming these were former ISIS members, encouraged by Israel to do this, but I don't know if that's a claim that could ever be sourced unless they ID the robbers and link them to ISIS or some Israeli leak happens

I feel like we're so far past bread it would be viewed on an equal level as Elon giving a million to a random person for voting, a candidate that used their campaign funds to help people would probably get investigated and somehow disqualified from running.

Ivanka unironically is probably gonna inherit the Trump political dynasty, more likely than it being one of his dipshit sons.

https://schoolsforchiapas.org/

The same website linked in the megathread to buy coffee from them, has a latest news section in English so that would probably be a good place to start if you're interested

It has a lot to do with the concepts of "The American Dream" & "Equality of Opportunity" being poor is seen ultimately as being a personal/moral failure and all poor people instead of demanding change should instead keep quiet and buckle down and maybe if they work hard enough they will be able to send their kid to college so they can join the mythical middle class and live a cushy middle class lifestyle with a house in the suburbs with a white picket fence, 2.5 kids and a dog etc.

I would personally just use spotube

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/oss.krtirtho.spotube/

but I have no clue about this apk, I would not trust something like this on principle, but it might be harmless

Apparently Orange County, Vermont elected a person from Jackson Hinkle's political party to High Bailiff so great things happening there politically

Just found out that Jackson Hinkle's "American communist party" has branches in Canada and their website has a picture of the US and Canada all in red on it, don't tell me they are finding Canadian magacommunists who want to secede into the US

That's what happens when you dissapear a minumum 20k leftists from your society, those people and their children would have been some of the better organizers and agitators now if they weren't dead

credits to plinky in the megathread (I don't know how to tag people)

calibre tends to work pretty well

https://calibre-ebook.com/

Funny that they chose to randomly unban and then within a day reban Sneako who does use Zionist as a substitute for other slurs against Jews, and then they do this. Why did you unban the one streamer that would use this term as a slur? No self accountability, no our bad on that, instead just effectively banning a word that is extremely pertinent to geopolitics.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/biden-israel-palestine-gaza-aid-30-day-warnings-blinken-toothless/

If Amerikkka the only place in the world that you could be together for decades and come a presidential election your husband votes for the guy trying to take away your rights without you both having talked about it before the election, the true nation of

inspired by this article

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/my-husband-and-his-family-voted-for-trump-so-im-canceling-thanksgiving-and-christmas/ar-AA1tWEfv

it is kind of astonishing that it's always the lettuce or another vegetable that does it, usually farmed in Yuma, Arizona where they just refuse to move the cows that get ecoli into the water source for the lettuce

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2024/01/e-coli-factory-farms-threatens-americas-leafy-greens

A single enormous cattle feeding operation potentially threatens the safety of thousands of acres of leafy greens grown in the U.S. during the colder months, an EWG analysis shows.

Irrigation water or dust contaminated with fecal matter from this giant feedlot, located in Yuma County, Ariz., could contaminate many acres of lettuce fields within 3 miles of the cattle farm, which produces 115,000 cows each year. This one feedlot is likely to be the source of contamination because of its size and proximity to the lettuce fields, compared to

the other two animal feeding operations in Yuma County identified by the Food and Drug Administration in its investigations.

In a canal near this feedlot, the FDA also found the exact strain of the bacteria E. coli that sickened people from lettuce during a recent outbreak.

Farms in Yuma County that grow leafy vegetables produce 90 percent of the nation’s winter lettuce, between November and March.