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Wonder Woman by Dan Mora

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or Necretariat

TEEN HORSE GIRL MOVIE WHERE THE HORSE DIES AN HOUR IN AND THE SECOND HALF IS THE GIRL LEARNING OCCULT SCIENCE TO REANIMATE IT SO SHE CAN WIN THE BIG DERBY

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Very relevant to my interests.

Wonder Woman & Rocketeer (color version)

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Who is responsible for this horrific turn of events? Those who opt to vote for politicians who so fetishize pregnancy and childbirth that they will let courts mandate that nonpregnancies and unsuccessful childbirth are materially more important than actual pregnant people and actual viable babies.

The Lie at the Heart of Overturning Roe Is Now in Plain Sight

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First of all, I think you're kind of overdoing it with the Batscaping.

Batman

Art by Stephen Byrne

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In the long run, Israel should seek to disempower Hamas by demonstrating that Palestinians can redress their grievances through nonviolent methods. It should cease expanding settlements in the West Bank and negotiate with the Palestinian Authority over a two-state solution. The current Israeli government will do none of that, of course. There is no steering Netanyahu and his allies toward political solutions. The most that powers like the United States can hope to do is constrain their bloodlust. For American liberals, the order of the day must be harm minimization. And that means pressing for as durable a cease-fire as possible.

The Price of Hamas’s Destruction Is Too High

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October 7 was a historical anomaly for a reason. Israel possesses world-class intelligence and defense capabilities. Were its government actually focused on protecting southern Israel from Hamas, it would have had little difficulty in preventing a slaughter on the scale of 10/7. Netanyahu and his allies were simply asleep at the wheel.

The Price of Hamas’s Destruction Is Too High

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Defenders of Israel’s war insist that failure to destroy Hamas would mean consigning the Israeli public to another October 7 in the near future. But there is little reason to believe this is so. The terrible truth, which the Netanyahu government is doing everything in its power to obscure, is that the 10/7 attacks could have easily been prevented or, at the very least, quickly defeated.

The Price of Hamas’s Destruction Is Too High

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Killing many tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians for the sake of eradicating a single terrorist organization (which would quite likely be replaced by another in the medium term) is morally abominable. But it is also very likely geopolitically unsustainable. Bloodletting on that scale would likely make the Biden administration’s support for the war effort untenable owing to both domestic and foreign pressures. And it would also substantially increase the risk of a wider regional conflagration.

The Price of Hamas’s Destruction Is Too High

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But every reference to Hitler comes fraught not just with the repugnance of his words and deeds, but with danger and fear—of invasion, and war, and death camps. It grants Trump the air of menace he wants to cultivate. He and everyone in his orbit derive juvenile pleasure when good people flinch at their provocations. They are much less happy when they get caught taking things too far. That’s when the artifice falls away, and they clam up like bullies who realize they’ve antagonized someone who can kick their asses. That’s when they start turning on each other.

The Vermin Libel And The Danger Of Forgetting

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Wonder Woman by Julian Totino Tedesco

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More fundamentally, abolitionists sometimes advocate dealing with interpersonal violence by having community leaders mediate between offenders and their victims, thereby forging bespoke forms of restitution and correction. This approach may work well in some contexts. But when one imagines applying it universally, its flaws become apparent. In a world where deeply patriarchal religious communities exist, do we really want domestic violence handled by communal authorities unaccountable to a uniform legal code? Perhaps the best existing model for the substitution of community-level criminal mediation for state policing is that of some Hasidic communities that discourage their members from calling secular authorities on other Jews. One consequence of these norms has been the protection of well-connected sexual predators. Abolitionists might counter that, in the world they aim to build, no communities with unjust or patriarchal power structures will exist. Yet such a world is so divorced from planet Earth in 2023 it is difficult to say anything confident about how its social institutions would work.

Prisons and Policing Need to Be Radically Reformed, Not Abolished

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Further, we have no scalable models of popular self-government in the absence of states with law-enforcement capacity. When there are no (at least officially) publicly accountable security forces with a monopoly on violence, the strong tend to dominate the weak even more thoroughly than they do in contemporary capitalist societies. Indeed, to execute the very public investments and civil-rights protections that abolitionists advocate, you need state agencies capable of enforcing laws against tax evasion, racial discrimination, and fraud.

Prisons and Policing Need to Be Radically Reformed, Not Abolished

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This is sooo good

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Captain Marvel by Meghan Hetrick

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Carol’s new look (modified Hellfire Gala suit by Jen Bartel) for her next ongoing series.

“I'm so excited to be writing Captain Marvel! Carol is such an iconic character with a rich history, and I can't wait to add to her story. It's an honor to work with Jan and I hope everyone enjoys what we've got coming!"

- Alyssa Wong

Captain Marvel #1 comes out October 25, 2023.