The Icarian

We are apparently in the phase of foreign policy where it’s “war” when you want to sound tough and “not war” when you want to avoid responsibility.

You Go to War With The Fascist You Have: Brief Reflections On Readiness For Operation Epstein

The Known Unknowns Of The Unknowing And Uncaring
https://open.substack.com/pub/theicarian/p/you-go-to-war-with-the-fascist-you

The Coffee Shop Spotify Playlist: When You've Listened Too Long
I AM I Said
https://open.substack.com/pub/theicarian/p/the-coffee-shop-spotify-playlist

Little known fact: Maybelline Vance went to Yale Lie School. First in his classless, MAGA cum laud.

You ask and you shall receive — white dude gets knocked out. Wonder who he voted for…
@out5p0ken@substack.com

ICE boots on the ground.
@eyesonice@substack.com

I've said this many times before, but it bears repeating:
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

We should pass a woman's Heartbeat law: if a woman has a heartbeat you can't tell her what to do with her goddamn body, ever.

In the United Kingdom, billionaire pedophiles get arrested. In the United States they get tax breaks.

Dear World,

We’re sorry Grandpa’s babysitters lost him again and he grabbed the people with the video cameras and threatened you.

He’s back with the sitters and we’re begging Congress to stop this madness.

With our deepest embarrassment and apology,

The United States of America

Honoré de Balzac On Coffee
A Terrible And Cruel Method

https://open.substack.com/pub/theicarian/p/honore-de-balzac-on-coffee

If you don't like Substack, here's a non-substack version:

https://theicarian.com/blog/honore-de-balzac-on-coffee-a-terrible-and-cruel-method/

Don't know who needs to hear this, but a country where citizens must prove citizenship to masked strangers who don't have to prove they're law enforcement and can snatch you from work, school or your home because of the color of your skin is NOT a free one.

He wasn’t shot

He didn’t win

He’s in the files

AND HE'S HAD PEOPLE KILLED TO COVER ALL THESE THINGS UP

A Backbone Campaign sign kit in action.
Great for overpasses, marches, static protests and much, much more. Adaptable for LED light up messages at night!
Get one for your protest today!
https://www.backbonecampaign.org/

I want to give a shout out to the Backbone Campaign and their innovative banner technology.
An issue with spine injury has kept me from protesting. When Rene Good was murdered I had to do something. On the advice of resister friends in Seattle, I purchased one of Backbone’s sign kits.

Today an intrepid organizer for the Visibility Brigade in San Diego picked up the kit. It will soon be in action on overpasses in east country.

https://www.backbonecampaign.org/get-involved

One generation does not have the right to diminish the next.
-- Honoré de Balzac

"We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done," journalist Garrett Graff wrote: "A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever."" -Heather Cox Richardson

The Navy Secretary Flew on Epstein's Plane.
He Also Decorated With Porn.

John Phelan's Park Avenue apartment featured porn stills in the bedroom and Helmut Newton nudes outside his stepdaughter's door. Now he oversees sexual assault prevention for 340,000 sailors.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theiceman/p/navy-secretary-flew-on-epsteins-plane