Get well, Mr. Mayor. Whoever did this is dethpicable.
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Get well, Mr. Mayor. Whoever did this is dethpicable.
Wouldn’t they have had to thaw Nadler out of his deep cryogenic sleep to get this statement out of him? I doubt that he would have made a prerecorded video statement about stepping down. Or maybe the NYTimes is just making shit up again.
I don’t think this is a bad hypothesis. Difficult to prove but it’s hard not to read the NYTimes & WaPo in this light.
Top four stories on the Atlantic right now. Tell me again how they have their finger on the pulse of regular Americans’ concerns
Michelle Obama: "please I'm begging you feed kids just one (1) vegetable" RFK: "some children deserve to die. there's a healthy way to eat deep fried burgers" Media: "these are the same, to me"
I am amused that Mamdani is seen as a raving communist for suggesting mid-tier FDR type reforms and there's an actual Eugene Debs dude running for Senate in Maine and he's not freaking out anybodyyyy oh yes. Shit. He's white. Sorry, I just got it. Go about your business.
Proud to be on the “less likely to be evil” list!
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
There is a whole class of pseudo-leftists who have decided that what radicalizes people is experiencing the mildest discomfort. They are just telling on themselves.
“Weekend at Donnie’s” is the reboot we never needed
Badenoch also won a place to study at Hogwarts but her parents couldn't afford the magic carpet ride
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
👇🎯 Attempts at being clever & contrarian are breaking folks' brains. A bigger problem that 15-25% of every R1 university's budget illegally being turned off almost immediately? A bigger problem than the abuse of state power to turn federal government-university relations into a protection racket?
They are the same people who will lecture you, “Money doesn’t solve problems.” I don’t know about you, but money definitely solves my mortgage and grocery problems.
The problem is that the people that have an ideological gripe about universities, college students at Oberlin or selective colleges not admitting their kids have never been serious. They are just aggrieved customers who want someone to acknowledge their status as Delta-Club-Elite-Status members.
No, but someone peed in his Cheerios. I don’t think anyone around here would kick a dog. But breakfast desecration is definitely a kink. For some people. Not me. Obviously.
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
I’m not sad. I’m not disappointed. I just wish those Wunderkinder would either shut up and go count their money quietly or editors would give someone else their megaphone.
I had an article come back from review where reviewer #2 recommended an article by one of his students that had nothing to do with my topic at all. They just felt they had to chuck something in there.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
It sure rocks that "anything that has tradeoffs" is now seen as something undesirable that needs to be addressed completely out of the larger context and that media people love to jump on things without acknowledging the larger context.
Pitchbot is out pitched by FtNYFTimes.
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Causing a Führer
Don't. Grant. The. Premise. Not least because the data suggest it is a Narrative™️ that cannot fail (it can only be failed).
As students in grades 6-12 start school, I hope some of them are thinking about their National History Day projects. Here are some suggestions for making a compelling project. 🗃️ historyprofessor.org/miscellaneou...
And I think he believes in the neo-liberal reform bullshit they spout. Obama hung out a core Democratic Party constituency to dry. This leads me to a conclusion— never vote for someone who will trash a part of the Democratic coalition. Right now I’m thinking of Gavin Newsom trashing trans people
I’m going to speak my random truth: Obama was the second worst education President after # 45&47. As fucked up as NCLB had been GW Bush never pretended to be an ally of teachers or their unions. But Obama said he was an ally and gave free rein to education reform scammers.
Ooh! I still have a Cooks Illustrated recipe for this. Thanks for the reminder!
I was going to try and make a Molotov-Ribbentrop pact joke, but after thinking about it for thirty seconds… I got nothing. Some people just aren’t playing with a full deck.
“Any blatant move by Beijing to try to control the process of selecting the next Dalai Lama may backfire by driving Tibetan resentment into rage,” write Tenzin Dorjee and Gyal Lo. “For the Chinese, the issue is strategic; for Tibetans, it is existential.”
Starmer inviting photographers to see the flag and pitbull he bought to impress the median voter, but oh no, the pitbull has pooed all over the flag and run away, and as Starmer runs to catch it his trousers have fallen down, and hes spilled thick white glue onto his crotch then fallen onto the flag
Damn. This is horrible.
JFC, this is a disaster. Somehow this should all be handed over to the Library of Congress or something. It’s an intellectual property/ cultural heritage disaster.
OTD in 2004 Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya was poisoned. While on a flight. After asking for tea. If you can imagine that. She was later shot dead as a birthday present to Prez. www.theguardian.com/world/2004/s...
OTD in 1939 Adolf Hitler began his special military operation to protect ethnic Germans from persecution by Poland. Imagine such a bullshit excuse today
Same as ever: collaborating with power.
This is a prize winner: “The French don’t have a record of colonizing and conquering countries; and forcing their culture on the natives. Arabs do.”
A pattern here in white people countries: - Financial crisis 2008 destroys existing economic model - Sensible politicians cycle through different guises, like the T-1000 in the molten steel getting more and more melted - All slowly realise the only form that might survive is “Authoritarian Fascist”
*Puts down phone & looks at TV screen with US Sunday morning round table talk show playing* “oh well, then it’s not just here.”
Ok, everything is awful, but a 25th amendment fight between Vance and whoever would be pro-demented President would be spectacular as both sides would leak and leak.
Fuck any anti-American motherfucker who can read “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” and not feel proud.
Rudy Giuliani was drunk driving again? Shocking
In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
the problem is way too many people are far too comfortable with their own ableism--they see some "merit" in some of the eugenicist ideas and policies that frame disabled people as "burdens" and "costs." And then its a shock when they realize who exactly they're in bed with.
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Well, we’re all reduced to DOLLAR TREE Kremlinology now. If only the media had done their job in the 2024 presidential election. Oh, wait. Never mind, carry on
Quoted for truth. On the other hand a couple of days ago an American guy approached me in a bar and said "I really liked your novel. The Indian kid and the monkeys were cool." Then he bought me a double Jameson. So it's misery with occasional free whiskey, which helps with the misery.
Would fail Ofsted inspection if they were a school. Do we expect so much less of government ministers, of Ofcom, of the Equality and Human Rights Commission than we expect of primary schools, Revealed preference: if you are rich & powerful, can promote racial hatred without a whisper of criticism
Mind you, the GPS incident happened *less* than a week after a Russian strike severely damaged the EU delegation in Kyiv. Putin's forever war.
People obsessed with this country's "heritage" are violently opposed to ever actually addressing its real heritage, so all they're left with are consumerism and symbols chosen for their plausible deniability. Imagine claiming the Cracker Barrel logo as your birthright.
Cling to their bibles? If only. They never comprehended their bibles. They cling to marketing: Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben and the Barrel Cracker etc. Their praxis is waiting in line for Chik Fil A. Their heritage is green bean casserole made with Campbell's cream of whatever soup. Embarrassing.
Well good thing Human Rights Lawyer (TM) Sir Kier is going to get to the bottom out all those pie crimes! Right after he deals with “illegal immigration”
These guys were never your friends. Whatever they wrote about Europe or Europeans was instrumentalized to use on an American audience. Pundits are never wrong and never your friends.
It is accelerating. Ordinary guys, people I know, will inform me about how “you can’t even to go England anymore” or blather on about “euro-poors.” (If they say this to *me*, imagine what they think privately) It’s all projection, by broken losers who need to rationalize the misery of the USA rn
The loudest American takes-havers are miserable people who are utterly convinced that every other orderly society is secretly as depraved and heartless as the America that they have built for themselves. Their combination of American provincialism with self-assurance is a national embarrassment.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
September 1—March 1: Roman contract length for winter pasturage, as suggested by Cato the Elder (De Ag. 149.1). While the fields lay largely fallow (except asparagus), landowners rented them out to herdsmen for oxen, sheep, and other animals to graze upon (and fertilize).
I wasn't expecting Bill Kristol to be espousing FDR's ideas on economic freedom on Labor Day, but, being short of pleasant surprises these days, I'm willing to roll with it.
Sure. I’m a little surprised, but I’ll take it. The coalition needs to be as big as possible to overthrow a tyrant.
It's a remarkable example of the power od cognitive dissonance to see those who backed Brexit and Boris, both of which succumbed to the weaknesses their detractors pointed out from the start, not go "Hang on, maybe I'm bad at picking things".
What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?
Trump will not make a public appearance today either. His last televised appearance was as long as six days ago.
God they all hated Corbyn, didn’t they? The spooks wouldn’t give a rats ass if Farage was PM.
Shh, keep this quiet so bicyclists in Boston don’t show up
Guys nothing happened. However, CEOs are still trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while planning on replacing you with a robot and charge you for the robot’s rent Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
A bunch of assets layered to obfuscate their dubious value which ultimately is only worth ~100mm then ‘secret ledger’ showing a few billion stashed away in off shore accounts, cash, art, gold, etc most of which got stolen *from* him over the past few years or will be stolen shortly after his death
Curious about what's to come in RFK Jr's takeover of America's healthcare system? This sheet pan low-sodium unseasoned chicken and rice will have you thinking you're in the hospital's respiratory ward. Dislodge your breathing tube and nosh away!
September is the Monday of Months, but it's extra difficult in Poland, where your social media feeds are half parents happy that their kids are finally back to school and half boomers posting something related to World War II.
As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.
Trump now routinely barks orders to the Opus Dei Court and they do whatever he commands of them.
folks who are so upset about this admin doing eugenics but were mostly fine with the last admin doing eugenics bc they saw those targets as disabled enough to not deserve life, jobs, being in public, etc. are getting a tough wakeup call about how eugenics works. I hope they internalize the lesson.
Imagine being a dv victim in danger and in need of a hero but instead count Ghouliani pulls up slurring his words and leaking hair dye and demands you get in his car that is full of empty Kirkland gallons of vodka. Scary
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
Pu says he doesn't want Ukraine in NATO. Trump says Ukraine won't be in NATO. Ukraine is not in NATO. Yet the war continues, Ru keeps attacking and there's no peace in sight. The war is very clearly NOT about Ukraine's NATO membership.
Oh! Thats a great book! And timely… at least with the Tulip bubble people still had pretty flowers after it was all done. After the AI bubble collapses we’ll be saddled with a lot of polluting data centers.
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
That means he’s going to accelerate what he’s been doing for decades. The Senate ushered that in, knowing full well his history. I’ve written so much about him I’ve organized a section of my newsletter under “RFK Jr” Find them all here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🔗 news.immunologic.org/t/rfk-jr 🧵
Journalists ignored his well-documented history & wrote flattering articles about him. He’s doing the same shit he has for 40 YEARS. Did you actually think he’d stop being an anti-science profiteer? Of course not. Now he’s got the power and authority of the Federal government behind him. 2/
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Sorry food workers just know I've been there. I feel for you.
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
If you’re enjoying the last weekend of the fair, don’t miss the Bison Sub from our friends at the Minnesota Farmers Union.
[combover blows back in a strong wind to reveal liver spots in the form of three linked sixes on the bare scalp]
Not my fault billionaires and the corporations they own are intentionally destroying the planet and the sources of their own profits. Capitalism has its own pathologies and doesn’t need a Lysenko or communism to self destruct. *shrugs*
Stańczyk vibes, but also View of Lyse Abbey near Bergen, by Johan Christian Dahl, 1826
Also a winner! But slightly more tedious to clean.
Still my favorite explanation of the difference between INT and WIS: int is knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor. Wis is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster
Tariffs man. I’m using a pour over cone filter and an electric kettle at work. Slightly more fussy but now I have the eccentric professor lane nailed down in my department!
Corporations used to have their own labs and do some basic research. Nothing stopping them from doing that again. Except they will have to pay for their duds as well as their successes instead of buying proven intellectual property developed at R1 universities with federal money.
Oh, I am definitely not disagreeing about how damaging this is. But, for example, those pharmaceutical and medical device companies could set up their own research labs and pay people to do basic science instead of sponging off the federal government’s largess and Trump could not stop them.
Oh, totally!!
This is not the case in the United States. Yes, the Federal Government has poured a lot of money into science and technology since the 1940s. Yes, Trump’s minions are going to retard US scientific research. But there isn’t going to be anyone like Lysenko because the system isn’t that centralized.
Lysenko did a lot of damage because literally every ruble damn spent on science and every damn decision about agriculture was taken in Moscow, passed through two highly centralized ministries and then implemented by academic leaders & collective farm bosses who belonged to the communist party.
Nobody wants “Diet Hitler Light” when they can have “Hitler Four Loko”
Is it finally dawning on the Sensible Moderates that they’ve bet their own careers and the country’s future on their ability to win the gratitude of the type of person whose core demand is “deport everyone who isn’t white, and anyone with a funny accent”
Agree w this thread 100% And well-intentioned calls for progressives to empathize or offer advice and support to these guys miss this key point. They aren't looking for advice on finding a connection, getting women to like them. They're looking for someone to hand them sex mommy...
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa