Best nature doc I’ve ever seen was this one by CGTN. China has some incredible wildlife, and CGTN doesn’t force in some weird ass perspective.
That said, I love to watch the goofy alien/UFO/conspiracy docs from history channel or worse. They’re just so stupid hahaha

Nothing has solidified the role of propaganda in my mind as “licensing” more than that moment. It was so utterly obviously Israel if you thought about it at all, and yet we spent over a week (maybe more???) “debating” whether it was a stray Hamas rocket. Give me a fuckin break. People chose to believe what they wanted to.

Definitely worth taking this with a few grains of salt, but learning that one of the Brabant Killers apparently fled to south Florida and just so happened to teach flying lessons at the same school some of the 9/11 hijackers attended, fucked me UP.
Another link for anyone interested

Exactly, it’s grifters from the top, all the way down

The dude raised more than any senate candidate has, ever, and still lost. Then he was rewarded with chair of the DNC. Incredible stuff

That top graph is strange. They couldn’t have ordered the number of Chinese suppliers in any sensible way? And only 5 of those categories of suppliers have more than 1 corresponding component category?

I’m pretty sure Brian Becker (the host of The Socialist Program) is Ben’s dad, so I think this one’s different!

The podcast The Socialist Program is run by the same organization as Breakthrough News (it’s all affiliated). You might enjoy it as well!

They just closed a bridge in my city due to some “critical failure” of a steel part.

– My mom, smugly watching me fumble with an app on my phone as I try to show her how cool technology is.