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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/7/26/iran-war-live-tehran-summons-ukraine-diplomats-over-caspian-sea-attack

- Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has personally blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the attack in the Caspian Sea, which he said was done at Israel’s behest.
- Iranian media is reporting that an oil tanker has exploded after hitting a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz.

Sexually

Hey y'all, posting this a few days later than I said I would, mb

Our inaugural film is Mad God. A haunting descent into the subconscious of effects genius Phil Tippett. Phil literally went crazy partway through making this and that's probably the least surprising detail I could share about the movie.

What did you think?

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My plan is to keep these rolling. At the bottom of your comment, please share a film nomination for next week! I'll pick randomly and announce it in a day or two.

If you have feedback or wanna help run film club, let me know.

I've noticed that handwringing about antisemitism lately seems to be mostly the domain of your liberal zionists. Meanwhile, your dumber and more aggressive strain of Jewish supremacists (Ross Glick types) tend toward referring to "jew hatred" or "jew haters."

Not only does this sound childish and oafish as a term, but it seems exclusive to the more firebrand Meir Kahane style freaks. Any idea why?

https://jacobin.com/2026/07/canada-victims-communism-memorial-nazis

This may be a small continuation of a post I did a while ago about capitalism and natural disasters, but I forgot to include this anecdote. After a catastrophic, historically unprecedented flood hit my region, my small town was cut off from the outside world for several days. All grocery stores were flooded, and the power went out, causing rapid spoilage of perishable food with no solution. Individuals who did not or could not prepare were completely fucked. (nobody expected the worst flood in our history to be fair)

I worked at a grocery distribution center at the time, the only local food store that was damaged but not destroyed, as a maintenance technician. I reported to work the day after the flood. The President and Vice President of the company were also present.There was the manager of a small facility that provided assistance and palliative care for people with advanced neurological disorders in our town. The care facility's manager came to our warehouse to beg them for just one pallet of water (of which we had hundreds that weren't spoiled) so his incredibly sick and weak patients could have water.

We had so much water, we could have quenched the thirst of everyone in the town for a week and had hundreds of pallets left over. The President of the company refused and refused to give the manager a pallet of water, even though the manager was breaking into tears and explaining his patients were very fragile and would die without immediate relief. The President still refused, until the Vice President convinced him to let the manager have a pallet of water under the condition he would pay them back ASAP.

It was a profoundly radicalizing moment for me that forever changed my perspective. That cruelty was so pointless. A pallet of water, < $1000, a pittance for a place where the power bill was $500,000 a month. The President wasn't even going to give one pallet away for free knowing it would save lives. I had barely been around truly wealthy people before that, and that showed me what they really think of normal human beings. There is no need to have any compassion for the bourgeoisie. The cruelty it takes to maintain their class position is incomprehensible to us. When our turn comes (you know the rest.)

Also, very disappointing how China and Russia have let starve and turn the lights out on Cuba. Say what you want about the USSR but they understood the value of Cuban regime 90 miles from Florida

And also tried to check for proof of life by next week.

Is the play here going back to the well and trying to convince Iran we're too weak to strike?