what they DONT tell you about clarinets is that you have to fucking build the damn thing every single time. "what instrument do you play" fucking legos man idk
This coming out just days after it was revealed in the Jeffrey Epstein email dump that powerful people manipulated American and British news, political figures and forums to push transphobia to distract from people looking at their child abuse ring.
This includes chief anti-Corbyn-ite in Labour Peter Mandelson, directly feeding anti-trans stories to UK and US newspapers, actively bullshiting "biological studies" that trans people are idk ontologically evil (we have proof of Epstein pitching this exact thing), and creating /pol/ and then feeding anti-trans conspiracy theories for years until it all boiled over.
And over and over we found out each plank of this argument was rotten from the start but people are choosing to keep the bigotry.
FDA Announces Shredded Cheese Recall in 31 States Over Metal Fragments
A recall has been initiated for shredded cheese sold at major retailers—including Walmart, Target, and Aldi—due to pieces of metal, which ca
A recall has been issued for shredded cheese sold at major retailers in 31 states and Puerto Rico.
The cheese may contain metal fragments, which can cause internal injuries if consumed.
Toss or return any affected cheese—the FDA gave the recall the second-highest risk level.
Shredded cheese sold at major retailers, including Target, Walmart, and Aldi, has been recalled in 31 states and Puerto Rico, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The cheese, produced by Great Lakes Cheese Co. Inc., was initially recalled on Oct. 3 for containing metal fragments, which pose the risk of internal injury if consumed. On Dec. 2, the FDA updated the risk level to Class II, the second-highest, meaning the chances of serious health consequences are "remote," but there is a possibility of temporary or reversible effects.
The recall impacts the following cheeses and brands:
Low-Moisture Part-Skim Mozzarella Shredded Cheese
Always Save
Borden
Brookshire’s
Cache Valley Creamery
Chestnut Hill
Coburn Farms
Econo
Food Club
Food Lion
Gold Rush Creamery
Good & Gather
Great Lakes Cheese
Great Value
Happy Farms by Aldi
H-E-B
Hill Country Fare
Know & Love
Laura Lynn
Lucerne Dairy Farms
Nu Farm
Publix
Schnuck’s
Simply Go
Sprouts Farmers Market
Stater Bros. Markets
Sunnyside Farms
Italian Style Shredded Cheese Blend-
Happy Farms by Aldi
Brookshire’s
Cache Valley Creamery
Coburn Farms
Great Value
Know & Love
Laura Lynn
Publix
Simply Go
Pizza Style Shredded Cheese Blend
Food Club
Econo
Gold Rush Creamery
Great Value
Laura Lynn
Simply Go
Mozzarella and Provolone Shredded Cheese Blend
Freedom’s Choice
Good & Gather
Great Lakes Cheese
Great Value
Mozzarella and Parmesan Shredded Cheese Blend
Good & Gather
The recalled cheese was sold in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Puerto Rico.
Here's the full CSPAN broadcast from the screenshot with captions, plus two articles:
The New Republic
Did MAGA activist Jack Posobiec just accidentally compare President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler?
During a Wednesday roundtable discussion on antifa populated by pitiable right-wing shills, the conspiracy theorist took a moment to claim that the so-called domestic terrorist group had historical roots in Germany.
“Antifa is real. Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost a hundred years, in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany,” Posobiec whined.
Indeed, there were multiple groups that opposed fascism in the Weimar Republic and voiced strong opposition to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, including the Communist Party of Germany’s Antifaschistische Aktion group and the Iron Front, which partnered with the Democratic Socialists. Posobiec seems to think that comparing modern-day antifascists opposing Trump’s reign to these groups opposing Hitler should demonstrate how terrible antifa is—when in fact, it did just the opposite.
Posobiec, perhaps better known as the Pizzagate guy, fancies himself a historian but appears blind to the most obvious comparison to the present day.
The antifascist groups in Weimar Germany were staunchly ideologically opposed, with little connecting them other than their opposition to authoritarianism. Ironically, that’s the case for many of the so-called members of antifa, which is short for “anti-fascist” and is a movement, not a group. The so-called organization lacks a central structure and is instead a loose network of individuals and groups who act separately under the banner of opposing fascism.
Posobiec previously co-wrote a book called Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them). The book supposedly tracks the opponents of conservatism throughout history, and endorses a modern-day McCarthyism to root out the “radicals” from American institutions. It’s worth noting that Vice President JD Vance provided a glowing promotional blurb about the book.
“On a base level, unhumans seek the death of the successful and the desecration of the beautiful,” Posobiec and his ghostwriter claimed, later adding, “Take the path of the hunter, and with one singular voice, we are going to make them the prey.”
In the end, Posobiec is a facism fanboy who likes to vote in a swing state he doesn’t even live in, and Trump’s roundtable on countering antifascism is exactly the political farce it presents as.
and The Independent
Not to be outdone, in came Jack Posobiec, one of the right’s weirdest hangers-on, who is perhaps most famous for the time he spread the “Pizzagate” theory and then got removed from the pizzeria in question by police for filming a child’s birthday party. Running with the major theme of the hour — that Antifa is definitely, certainly, really real despite all evidence to the contrary, and that everybody needs to stop saying it’s not real — Posobiec made a startling claim: Antifa is so clearly real that it “has been going on for almost 100 years ... going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany.”
And look, yes, it is absolutely true that there were anti-fascist protesters in the Weimar Republic. If you’ll remember, those were the people taking issue with the early versions of the Nazis. But it’s sort of difficult to position yourself as the good guys if you’re aligning yourself with the Nazis in your historical analogy. I’m just saying that, if I was Posobiec’s publicity guy, I might ask him to drop that soundbite from future public appearances.
I think we all know what’s going on here. But let’s begin with the fundamentals: Antifa isn’t real — at least, not in the way one convenes a roundtable. It has no central command structure, no coherent leadership, no membership rolls, no headquarters. It is a loose ideological umbrella — a term that is sometimes used by disparate activists and local groups, but much more frequently by the far right than by the supposed lefties who are part of it.
Obviously, the fact that there’s no proof anyone even really identifies as Antifa didn’t stop the White House from designating the “group” a terrorist organization a couple of weeks ago.
Research shows that genuine political violence remains overwhelmingly driven by far-right actors, not nebulous “Antifa” networks. But this, truly, is where MAGA has arrived at: a place so far removed from observable reality that it now holds official government functions with imaginary enemies. Once, conservatism prided itself on being “the party of realism.” Today’s version treats politics as fan fiction, complete with invented villains and lore.
If you can stand to, I would advise watching this. I can't believe I'm saying comparing the administration positively to the Nazis is the tip of the iceberg, but it really is. Trump himself said a number of other disturbing things, including stating outright that "We [his administration] got rid of free speech".
In light of cops and ICE declaring open season on public assemblies again: Please do not ever try to flush someone's eyes out with anything that is not water.
Tear gas and pepper spray both suck ass and will do so for 15-30 minutes on end. They suck so much ass, in fact, that they have been banned from warfare under international law since 1993, but are fine to use on crowds of civilians because [shrugs in police state]. Those afflicted are temporarily blinded, will struggle to breathe or speak and will have any existing respiratory conditions compounded, and may experience corneal abrasions and chemical burns on their skin. You do not want to compound someone's suffering by giving them an eye infection that could potentially result in permanent blindness.
If you are at a location where shit pops off and you see someone trying to put anything that is not water in an afflicted person's eyes, STOP THEM AND USE WATER INSTEAD.
Yes, milk/maalox/whatever-the-fuck-else soothes capsaicin burn. In mouths or on skin. It should never go in or anywhere near an eyeball.
ONLY FLUSH EYES WITH WATER.
Tear gas also sinks: people in pain will instinctively crumple to the ground, but that is the opposite of what you want in this situation, as that's the direction in which all the chemicals in the air are also headed. Stay as upright as you can, keep injured people around you upright too, and walk (running will compound your breathing struggles) away from the gas.
Once you are removed enough from the chemicals to render aid, WATER ONLY.
Thank you for reading this and going forward with more safety knowledge. Please take a street medicine or first aid class if you can; we can't all be street medics, of course, but the more people who know at least some basics, the safer we all are. Love y'all. <3
I mentioned this to my mother the other day, that i dont think he even did it, and she pulled a "wtf" face and was like "how did you come to that conclusion" so I laid out the various things that don't add up and the glaring procedural fuck ups and the targetted campaign to make everyone think he's guilty.
At one point she goes "ok, but hold on - if he didnt do it then why did he confess?" She was FLOORED when I told her that he hadn't. That he has maintained his innocence since the start.
And this is my mother, who is usually across this kind of thing. She had no idea about the missing bodycam footage that happens to align with the time they took his backpack out of sight before bringing it back and opening it for the """"""first""""" time and finding the supposed evidence inside.
She straight up thought that HE was the one who called himself in. Thought he'd gone to Macca's for a last burger then called the cops on himself and confessed. When she learned that wasnt true, she was SHOCKED.
Keep talking to people about this. Keep reiterating that they havent found him guilty of anything yet, and that they've breached his rights in several different ways since arresting him, and that he and the UHC shooter are almost certainly different people.
Too many people think that he confessed. Too many think that he's guilty, when the odds are good that he VERY MUCH IS NOT.
