Happy 4th of July!! 🇺🇸👑🇺🇸 ⛔🇬🇧⛔ 🛸💦🌏

when we were in North Harrow, we visited a Pound Land and bought Dark Crystal on DVD

• we watched it finally on Wednesday, but the English track didn't work (completely silent), so we watched it in German with English subtitles
• the bad birds screaming "ICH BIN DER IMPERATOR" was quite powerful

Rummy died

• the BBC closed their obituary with a quote from someone comparing him to the Cheshire cat. "It was a grin of supreme self-satisfaction and behind the grin might be nothing at all"
• remember when donny rummy did a speech announcing major cutbacks to the pentagon budget on Sept 10 2001

there's a badly produced but important podcast about the spycops inquiry here: https://www.spycops.info/ -- recommended listening

• there's not much news coverage on the infiltration of left wing groups by cops
  • some times they took positions of power within the organization
  • some times they entered into long relationships with women and in a few cases got em pregnant
  • most of the cops have been allowed to remain anonymous
  • there was a chance for journalists to see some of them give testimony on live video, and the only paper that turned up was the Morning Star
  • the event is not being recorded. journalists are allowed to request an audio stream, but most people can only access the court transcript
  • anyway, all of this is legal now
    • under this bill the police can legally commit crimes as long as it is "in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom", or national security, or preventing a crime or disorder
      • lmao

the ocean went on fire

the man who prosecuted Oscar Wilde also started the fucking UVF

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