Yossarian's Roost Resuscitated

The Charge of the Light Brigade

By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

II
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

III
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.

IV
Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered.
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

V
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell.
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

VI
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!

That poem is much longer here than it was in my textbook almost 70 years ago.

BREAKING: One Day After My Open Letter, Bernie Sanders Calls Gaza a Genocide — the Only US Senator to Do So
55% of Americans say genocide, 77% of Democrats say genocide — but just 1% of the Senate. The odds of that happening naturally are less than 1 in a decillion. Yeah, that's a real number.
Shaun King

Israeli Government Calls Gaza a “Real Estate Bonanza” and Admits It Is Dividing the Land Up with the United States

WikiLeaks
wikileaks
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Julian Assange speaking in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war"

My Aunt Fanny 🇵🇸
Dienne_7
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It's probably apocryphal but supposedly when Emerson saw Thoreau sitting in jail and asked what he was doing in there, Thoreau replied, what are you doing out there? I think a lot of us need to start thinking about our willingness to be incarcerated.

Shaun King
shaunking
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Israel has no reason to stop.
Their reputation is trash.
It will stay trash and they know it.

They only need one partner, and one partner alone, the United States.

They will sacrifice all others.
Their primary plan now, is to deeply intermingle Israel and America - so much so that you don’t know where one ends and the other begins.

That’s the state we are in right now.

aybefaunt🏳️‍🌈
Jaybefaunt
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So, they'd rather cancel a mediocre late-night TV host for some innocuous words but not the news pundit (Brian Kilmeade) for calling for the murder of homeless people? Meanwhile both parties are silent on Epstein now AND we're embarking on a deep recession because black unemployment reached 7.5% which is double the unemployment rate of White Americans (meaning a significant drop is about to happen).
They don't want to decrease your cost of living? Decrease your rent/mortgage? Give us universal healthcare? End the regime change wars? Raise the minimum wage to a living wage? Y'all need to pay attention to what they're NOT saying/taking actions on because all the frustration you have, they're channeling it into culture bullshit so that when you look up, you're barely able to breathe when it comes to your material needs. They're distracting you while someone else comes behind you with a knife pointed at your back.... Wake up!

Dear Afghanistan. Do not give Trump your air base. You will regret it forever. The United States government only means you harm.
For 20 years the U.S. used Bagram to occupy, torture, and destroy Afghanistan. Now Trump says America wants it back. This is empire talking — and it must be refused.
Shaun King


Family, I need to tell you about something that reveals the heart of empire. Donald Trump has been quietly pushing his national security team for months to find a way to retake Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. He stood in the UK this week and said it plainly: “We want that base back.”

Think about the arrogance of that. An American president, speaking of Afghan land as if it were U.S. property to be repossessed. This is colonialism in the year 2025.

For all the people that say we're "descending into fascism", Native & Black Americans have always lived under fascism. For us, fascism is a Tuesday. Fascism has just become Mainstream for more white people so now many of you are realizing what we've endured for centuries.
Faunt

I figure that in a matter of weeks Trump will take it on himself to read the evening news on all news programs simultaneously.

Trump ... to read the evening news

The program, tentacled to be called, NEWS PEAK, will be proclaimed by a trumpery puppet called Megalo Don.

The compulsory broadcasts are to be written by a second grade elocutionist with a penchant for descriptivism over prescriptivism and transcribed from nouniage without verbiage provided by our Leader.

Nine hour daily NEWS PEAK will precede an all nighter variety singalong featuring paeans extolling the tariffic job our Leader is doing which are to be sung in a deconsecrated kirk.

LIFE UNDER MAGA

we need Anthony to put that orange turd in the cornfield...