characterized by something, a person who knows information (Be good or bad), and is in a situation isolated from the rest of the population, no one other than the protagonist or a very small group of people knows what is happening and what it implies

It's in Russian...

Stalker (1979)

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

The Wikipedia summary is a bit more detailed.

The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure known as the "Stalker" (Alexander Kaidanovsky), who guides his two clients — a melancholic writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) and a professor (Nikolai Grinko) — through a hazardous wasteland to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the "Zone". [There's supposed to be a room there] which grants a person's innermost desires. The film combines elements of science fiction and fantasy with dramatic philosophical, and psychological themes.

You've heard of the hurdy gurdy, now get ready for the harpy garpy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_aLESDql1U

Note - it's strong and powerful. I started to have auditory hallucinations 30 seconds in.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/26/donald-trump-wwe-steve-austin-roddy-piper/

I love how they are in camo and everybody but him has camo face makeup yet at least two guys are wearing berets with bright plumes.

Every time he's on stage he must be worried about getting got.

"My uncle at MIT was a very smart guy - very smart guy. One day I said to him 'What are you working on?' He said 'Top secret - very secret - above top secret nuclear secret - I can't say.' But I wanna know so I say 'Uncle, but I wanna know.' He says 'Okay. The Plasma.' My uncle was 257 IQ. So not just a regular genius - special genius. I'm smart too so I know The Plasma. But I don't know how so I say 'How?' And he says 'Some time in the future there will be The Plasma Weapons. These weapons will be very, very powerful. Blow up a tank or a house a mile away. Just like that.' And he snapped his fingers. The Plasma - I know The Plasma."

Klippenstein published the 271-page report compiled by the Trump campaign to vet Vance, now the Republican nominee’s running mate, on his Substack.

Emphasis mine. Being anti-genocide is bad and can cost your tenured job. But being pro-genocide is okay.

Another key moment in Finkelstein's tensions with the college in the previous 11 months [was] her reaction to a fundraising campaign for the Israeli military promoted on campus. Finkelstein told me that on October 17, on leaving her classroom, she was shocked by a display table newly laid out by Hillel.

"You can help raise money for various war efforts in Israel," a sign on the table read, followed by QR codes linking to campaigns, including one to raise money for the Israeli military. Finkelstein did not immediately post publicly about the fundraiser, but emailed the school's president, chaplain, and director of Hillel.

"How, in good conscience, can the college allow for this to be displayed to our students? The Israeli military just bombed a hospital in Gaza, killing 500 people," she wrote. "I think this is an absolute disgrace. I hope it will be taken down ASAP." Following several complaints to university leadership, Finkelstein was, she said, told that the Hillel students had a right to fundraise for whichever cause they wanted.

"I asked if, since students had the right to fundraise for genocide, whether I or anyone else — other faculty, students — had the freedom to write about it, and was told yes," said Finkelstein. The following day, she posted a picture of the fundraiser sign to her X and Instagram accounts, without naming Muhlenberg as the location. "Students raising money for genocide," she wrote. "Grief won't be extinguished by revenge — ceasefire now."

I don't know anything about academia and maybe this is typical for it. Still my response is holy fuck. I'm shocked that the uni used outside consultants as a PR heat shield and any uni can cherry pick a firm that will give them the result they want.

While Finkelstein was put on leave, the third-party investigation into the case was conducted by D. Stafford & Associates, a consulting firm specializing in campus safety and law enforcement. The investigation, which concluded in April, found that Finkelstein's Instagram repost rose to the level of violating the school's equal opportunity, nondiscrimination policies, which can police extramural speech in addition to classroom conduct.

Finkelstein had to literally define words for the provost

"She didn't seem to understand what I meant by Zionist," Finkelstein said, recounting her experience of an October meeting with Furge, the provost. "And so I explained to her that Judaism is a religion and Zionism is a political ideology."

I wonder why it took two people to write it.

If the dems were smart - they'd seriously twist his arm to force him to resign.

The New York City Charter gives Gov. Kathy Hochul the power to remove him. But the process would be complicated.

Under the charter, Ms. Hochul, who had not commented on the indictment as of late Wednesday, could suspend Mr. Adams for up to 30 days and then remove him “after service upon him of a copy of the charges and an opportunity to be heard in his defense.”

That is where New Yorkers would be entering uncharted territory. A governor has not exercised such powers in recent memory. The closest precedent occurred in 1931, when Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt held 14 days of hearings into the misconduct of Mayor Jimmy Walker, who eventually resigned in 1932 before going to Europe.

Alternate Universe Honest AOC

We must abolish the death penalty. Like and subscribe and vote! lmao.