NYT: Trump Launches Attack on Delaware After Provocation
WSJ: Trump Strikes Back Against Delaware Insurgents
WaPo: Don't Be Mad At Trump for Delaware War- Be Mad At Congress
CNN: Delaware Needs Our Help, Says Pentagon
Fox News: Why Is It Always the Blue States?
NPR: Trump, Rebel Commander Markell Swap Insults
Vox: Why Dover is Such a Hard City to Take Back
Huffington Post: Delaware Has A Right to Secede
The Guardian: Civilian Body Count in Wilmington Hits 2,000
Breitbart: Rebels Look a Little Mexican, If You Ask Me
Mother Jones: The Alt-Right's Newest Conspiracy Theory Is Ridiculous
Forbes: Arms Industry Sees Major Growth in Q3
Buzzfeed: School Children Try Delaware's Local Root Beers
The Atlantic: Delaware: A History of Insurrection
Vice: Delaware's Death Metal Scene Makes Tough Choices
Economist: Free Trade: The Olive Branch We Need
Mic.com: JK Rowling's Epic Callout of Delaware's Racism
Daily Caller: Senate Democrats Refuse To Protect U.S. Soldiers
Reuters: Trump, Rebel Delegation Meet in Boston for Peace Accords
ThinkProgress: Boston Treaty Wouldn't Have Been Possible Without Jimmy Carter's Help
USAToday: Trump Op-Ed: You're Welcome, Delaware

nihilsupernum:

LON: HELLO THERE WHAT ARE ALL THESE RUMOURS WE HEAR THIS IS LON
FK: WE HAVE LOTS OF NEW FRIENDS
LON: WHAT ABOUT INVASION RUMOURS
FK: THOSE ARE THE FRIENDS I WAS MEANING
LON: THEY HAVE LANDED
FK: ABSOLUTELY
LON: ARE YOU OPEN FOR TRAFFIC IE NORMAL TELEX SERVICE
FK: NO ORDERS ON THAT YET ONE MUST OBEY ORDERS
LON: WHOSE ORDERS
FK: THE NEW GOVERNORS
LON: ARGENTINA
FK: YES
LON: ARE THE ARGENTINIANS IN CONTROL
FK: YES YOU CAN’T ARGUE WITH THOUSANDS OF TROOPS PLUS ENORMOUS NAVY SUPPORT WHEN YOU ARE ONLY 1800 STRONG. STAND BY.

this real telex conversation between the falkland islands and london informing london of the invasion of the falklands by argentina in 1982 is better than any shitpost i could write

i cant believe im being one-upped by history 

naturetamed:

Tungkwan, China

One of the most radical solutions in the field of shelter is represented by the underground towns and villages in the Chinese loess belts. Loess is silt, transported and deposited by the wind. Because of its great softness and high porosity, it can be easily carved. In places, roads have been cut as much as 40 feet deep into the original level by the action of wheels. In the provinces of Honnan, Shansi, Shensi, and Kansu about ten million people live in dwellings hollowed out from loess.

The dark squares in the flat landscape are pits an eighth of an acre in area, or about the size of a tennis court. Their vertical sides are 25 to 30 feet high. L-shaped staircases lead to the apartments below who rooms are about 30 feet deep and 15 feet wide, and measure about 15 feet to the top of the vaulted ceiling. They are lighted and aired by openings that give onto the courtyard.

From the top one can only see small trees placed carefully above each staircase that leads downward. The tree acts as the official sign of the house, so you don’t describe your house to visitors or give a house number but tell them about your tree.

Architecture Without Architects // Bernard Rudofsky

davidsevera:

Asuka (full name: Asuka Langley Soryu) is a fighter pilot who becomes the great enemy of SEELE. A fourteen year old girl, she is the love interest of Evangelion’s tormented hero, Shinji. But she is also a warrior in her own right, destroying SEELE’s weapons, giant humanoid robots called Evangelions. (Fittingly for the dark series, these efforts are ultimately unsuccessful and catastrophe rains upon Earth.)

In other words, and again oversimplifying somewhat, Asuka is the warrior against the secret Illuminati/Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. And in the meme posted on my Twitter thread, she is Trump, wearing his signature hat.

Having decoded the meaning of the image, I then set about trying to document how and where it entered the employ of the white supremacist fringe.

I didn’t find much — but I did find something. On a reddit-like thread from January, 2016, I found a different image of Asuka-as-Trump as well as one post saying “If elected, Trump will bomb the shit out of SELEE [sic] and take their oil.” While this would seem to align SEELE with Arab states rather than Jews, if one takes the conspiratorial worldview that, in fact, the great conspiracy (Jewish, UN, Masonic, whatever) controls everything, then of course they also orchestrate the world’s wars over scarce resources. SEELE is as much behind Saudi Arabia and Iran as it is behind Israel.

please god put me in a coma for the next five months

metal-queer-solid:

vracious:

metal-queer-solid:

So about a year ago me and my friend Nathan were walking around the “Pick-a-Part” in Clarksville Tennessee… We were searching for car badges and a spoiler to put on his trashy conversion van. While going through the lot we found what is probably the single greatest car to ever drive on any road in the world.

You are looking at… a Dora the Explorer themed gangster car… I’ve seen spongebob themed cars, Newport themed cars, sports team themed cars, but THIS.

trumps them all.

OH BUT IT GETS SO MUCH BETTER!!!!

You see… there has to be a reason that a car like this…

Would end up in the junkyard… SO me and Nathan did some looking around and tried to figure out why…

I still can’t believe the decals on this…. wait…

HOLD ON ONE FUCKING SECOND!

OH!

OH MY FUCKING GOD!

YES! SOMEONE ACTUALLY GOT SHOT WHILE DRIVING THEIR DORA THE EXPLORER CAR IN CLARKSVILLE TENNESSEE!

And THAT, is the single greatest thing I’ve found in a junkyard to this day.

okay this is totally wild but i RECOGNIZE THIS CAR

and i actually have a picture of it from its functioning days - this is dated 2012 -

parked in front of an adult store!

HOLY SHIT NO WAY!

Portland Public Schools in search of more black teachers recruits woman from Atlanta. Black woman from Atlanta completely at sea in Portland culture of SWPL passive-aggression. Money quote:

My doctor decided I needed to go see a counselor. I was having a mini-breakdown from—I’m just going to say it—dealing with so many white adults. So they sent me to therapy for it. In Portland, there’s therapy for that, and apparently the counselor I had had a good caseload. So there are a lot of people going to it.

nostalgebraist:

I may have mentioned this before, but did you know that someone wrote a history of the “Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers” fandom in the style of the Silmarillion?  Because someone did.

Some samples:

The Telling of the story of the Rangerphiles must ‘er begin where any telling of a Disney World has its start, that of course being with birth of Lord Disney himself. In the year of Mortal Man that they have numbered Nineteen Hundred and One did Walt make his first appearance upon the Mortal Sphere. For Walt, whom was accounted among the tribes a member of the Clan of Disney, was born in the Windy City, a great metropolis of alabaster and marble.

The Nine did witness this, and sang out in chorus. “Lord Disney,” they cried in harmony, “These small ones now possess powers beyond their size! Is it not possible to make other like them? Other creatures whose power lies in determination beyond their strength? Shall we not have more like them, more like the Lesser Mouse Timothy in whom you showed much pleasure in your creation Dumbo?”

Thus was David the Walker able to see what he had set in motion, but he knew then also that not long could he stay ever in Fanon. He had seen the light flowing out at once from Canon, and beholding the light he was now unable to stay for all time in Fanon, and he retreated from that place before the Second Age had ended. Always after though was he remembered, and the Sacred Blueprints of the Rangerdom know his contribution.

Now at the same time that David the Walker was telling his tale of the Rangers it was that odd birds began to fly over Fanon, and many were there then gathered who looked up and spied them, and they made note of them. For in their beaks were Letters of List, for not so great was the Web of Use in those days that all could make use of it. Many were there who could only be made aware of Fanon from these letters, for they made their progress in the Mortal Lands.

You can read the whole thing in three parts here, here, and here.