The hardest part is not their cruelty. It is their comfort with it.
Comfortably lobotomized!
I asked Hal, the AI of Jewish Google version that is:
Hal? “America is a lobotomized society?”
Answer: The phrase “America is a lobotomized society” is a metaphor suggesting that American society, like a patient who underwent a lobotomy, has become dull, docile, or has suffered a loss of critical thinking and individual capacity. This interpretation is supported by the historical “lobotomy boom” in the mid-20th century, during which the procedure was widely used in the U.S. to control difficult patients. The metaphor highlights concerns about conformity, lack of critical engagement with issues, and the impact of societal structures on its members.
ABC News just handed Donald Trump exactly what he wanted: a crime panic narrative that makes his threat to send federal troops to Chicago seem reasonable, even necessary.
On Tuesday, ABC published a piece by Bill Hutchinson that opened with “At least 58 people have been shot, eight fatally, across Chicago over Labor Day weekend.” The article then spent the next 34 paragraphs detailing every shooting, every victim, every crime scene. Only after this avalanche of violence porn did ABC get around to mentioning a rather important fact: Chicago’s violent crime has actually dropped to historic lows this year. Shootings are down 37%. Homicides have fallen by 32%.
Live Updates with this fucking queer boy, this Semen Drip Trump, who is everyone’s favorite racist. “Oh, those people in DC, we have locked up, 1500 of them, well, they were born to be criminals.”
I don’t need to listen to him, at all, but I caught just a moment of the cocksucker, and man, oh, man, same homosexual dudeTrump, going on about “we got really big dudes, big guys, strong, some former football players, not some weakling woke cop put in there because of woke.”
“You just see them in the streets, these big strong guys, and and they make any criminal run like a cockroach.”
Mehdi, man, we have to hear this fucking British fop?
Here we are, the “woke” AD, on the “woke” Zeteo, and it is just the same same yammering.
‘They Will Manufacture a Crisis’: Keith Ellison on How Trump Plans to Stay Beyond 2028
AmeriKKKa has always been primed for the Semen Drip Dictator.
Since Donald Trump took office in January, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed or joined more than 30 lawsuits against the president and his administration. That includes challenging executive orders on birthright citizenship and voting restrictions to the freezing of billions in federal funding for Education Department programming and banning trans athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports.
The veteran Democratic Party politician joins Mehdi to discuss his lawsuits against Trump, what happens if the president decides to send the military to Minneapolis, and ICE’s mass immigration crackdown across the country.
Ellison tells Mehdi that the US is in the midst of a “fascist authoritarian takeover … in the light of Hitler,” and noted that while he doesn’t have full faith in the courts to stop Trump’s lawlessness, “I do believe in us collectively as a nation, we can protect ourselves and advance our democracy.”
White Man’s World:
Oh my oh my, those fascist crosses.
Oh, this queer boy, too.
Oh oh oh, Pardoning Derrick Chauvin, that’s the news?
A fucking association for genocide?
The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has overwhelmingly passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Eighty-six per cent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution declaring: “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)“.
Not a fucking thing said at a sold-out concert Sunday in Newport, OREGON, a concert to support the community radio station, no less, that one with “Democracy Now” and David Barsamian, not one keffiyeh but mine, not one moment of tribute to Gazans, or silence.
Hippies, or 401K retirees, man, Berkenstocks and all:
Disgusting:
“We are fun, we are high energy and we primarily play blues and rock, Americana and bluegrass,” Roudman said. “When you come to our concert, we’re not like a normal band that has a predetermined set list with a bunch of songs, and this one comes after that. We have about 60 to 70 songs memorized, and we just kind of pick them on the spot, depending on what the audience is digging. So, let’s say they’re liking blues more than rock. Well, we’re going to play more blues for them. In a lot of ways, the audience determines what we’re going to play.”
Sunday’s show begins at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Heritage Center, 333 S.E. Bay Blvd. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. For more information and tickets, go to http://www.KYAQ.org.
Israeli forces killed at least 98 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, including at least 12 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,306 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
Among the dead were a pregnant woman and her unborn baby, killed near the Shati refugee camp.
The total known number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition stands at 361, including 130 children.
So so real, man: Ahmad Ibsais
Future Lawyers Don’t Understand Murder
When it happens to Palestinians…
The classroom feels smaller than I remembered, like the walls have moved closer while I was gone. Professor X assigns readings on constitutional interpretation, and I watch twenty-three students highlight passages about due process while Palestinians are denied the most basic right of all: the right to exist. The girl next to me underlines “equal protection under law” in yellow marker, and I wonder if she knows that phrase is meaningless when some lives are worth more than others.
“The framers intended,” someone says, and I stop listening. The framers intended many things, but they could not have intended for us to sit in air-conditioned rooms debating legal theory while children suffocate under rubble. They could not have intended for us to parse the meaning of justice while justice dies in real time, broadcast live, ignored by everyone in this room.
During breaks, I sit on the steps and watch them. They cluster in their familiar groups, talking about internships and weekend plans and whether Professor Y is a hard grader. Their voices float past me, a steady stream of nothing that matters.
“I’m so stressed about the bar exam.” “Are you going to the Football game this weekend?” “My parents want me to come home for Labor Day, but like, I have so much reading.”
I listen for something else, anything else. I wait for one of them to mention that children are being murdered while we debate constitutional amendments. I wait for someone to say the word Palestinian, or genocide, or even just acknowledge that the world exists beyond their study guides and social calendars. I wait for an hour, and then another, and I hear nothing.
In another class, we discuss mens rea and actus reus, the guilty mind and the guilty act. Professor Z explains how intent matters, how knowledge of wrongdoing affects culpability. I think about my classmates’ guilty minds, their knowledge of genocide coupled with their deliberate choice to say nothing. I think about their guilty acts of scrolling past videos of dying children to double-tap vacation photos. But this kind of guilt will never be prosecuted. This kind of crime never sees the inside of a courtroom.
“Can someone give me an example of willful blindness?” Z asks.
I could give twenty-three examples right here in this room, but I stay quiet.
This is my new reality. Sitting in rooms with people who revealed themselves to be the kind of people who would have looked away during any other genocide. Listening to them complain about reading assignments while Palestinians are denied the right to read anything ever again. Watching them stress about internships while Palestinian children will never have the chance to worry about their futures.
The loneliness is not in being alone. The loneliness is in being surrounded by people who chose to be strangers to their own moral obligations. It is in sharing space with those who had the chance to speak and chose silence, who had the opportunity to care and chose comfort, who had the moment to act and chose nothing.
At the coffee shop, I overhear a conversation about whether the new professor is mean. At the library, someone complains that their laptop is slow. In the dining hall, a group debates which Netflix show to binge next. Normal life continues, mundane concerns persist, and the world beyond their bubble might as well not exist.
The hardest part is not their cruelty. It is their comfort with it. It is how easily they moved on, how quickly they forgot, how completely they have convinced themselves that their silence was not a choice. They live their lives as if Palestinian children were not buried alive while they read for evidence.
I am back now, walking through classrooms where professors teach about human rights while ignoring the most basic human right being violated in real time. I am surrounded by people who think my people’s elimination is too complicated to have an opinion about, whose cowardice proved stronger than their morality.
And I still carry shame that I must even share the same air.
+—+
[Verse 1: Roger Waters]
Hello? (Hello, hello, hello)
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home?
Come on (Come on, come on), now
I hear you’re feeling down
Well, I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax (Relax, relax, relax)
I’ll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
[Pre-Chorus 1: David Gilmour]
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move, but I can’t hear what you’re saying
When I was a child, I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I’ve got that feeling once again
I can’t explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
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[Chorus: David Gilmour]
I have become comfortably numb
[Guitar Solo 1]
[Chorus: David Gilmour]
I have become comfortably numb
[Verse 2: Roger Waters]
Okay (Okay, okay, okay)
Just a little pinprick
There’ll be no more
But you may feel a little sick
Can you stand up? (Stand up, stand up)
I do believe it’s working, good
That’ll keep you going through the show
Come on, it’s time to go
[Pre-Chorus 2: David Gilmour]
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move, but I can’t hear what you’re saying
When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look, but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown, the dream is gone
[Chorus: David Gilmour]
I have become comfortably numb
[Guitar Solo 2]
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RELIGION is LOBOTOMY COLLECTIVELY!
The vice-president of the International Court of Justice said, ‘The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel.’ How did we get here?
Julia Sebutinde, Ugandan and vice-president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), was the only judge on a 17-member ICJ panel who voted against all six measures in the ruling in January 2024 that Israel is “plausibly” committing genocide in Gaza. Even the Israeli judge on the panel voted in favor of some of the measures.
(In case you’re interested, the Arab Organization for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) is calling for the removal of Judge Sebutinde, because this stunt of hers breached Articles 2 and 18 of the Court’s Statute.
Article 2 of the Court’s Statute requires judges to display integrity, impartiality, and independence. Should any of these conditions be breached, Article 18 provides that the judge concerned must be removed with the consent of the other Members of the Court.
The AOHR UK added that Judge Sebutinde has not only abandoned impartiality and integrity but has also expressed messianic religious ideas that encourage the perpetuation of the crime of genocide, which has already claimed tens of thousands of victims, the majority of whom are women, children, and the elderly.)
Paul Haeder, Author 