“In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden (via philosophybits)
The US: Cuba is giving Venezuela military aid and that’s not cool! Also Turkey if you so much as think about buying arms from Russia we will sanction the shit out of your already economically unstable country.
Guaído/US lackies in Venezuela:
*chilling with AR57 uppers and surplus M4s obviously supplied by the US*
If the CIA is gonna get this sloppy and this loose with the purse strings they might soon need to balance the checkbook (ha) by just sending right wing civilian militias over for the free bootlicker labor and plausible deniability of CIA involvement. Boutta find some suspiciously Midwestern sounding, face always covered ~freedom fighters~ in Cuba soon.
Starting today, medical marijuana patients in Michigan who apply for their marijuana registry card online may now use their approval email as a temporary substitute, officials say. …
In 1714, Peter the Great instituted the Medal for Drunkenness: it was made out of cast iron, weighed 7 kg, and is considered to be the heaviest medal in history. Those who were caught heavily drunk were forced to wear it for a week, according to some sources.
