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Identify crisis now in overdrive.
Planet-killing meteor.
Please. It’s been a long day.
I’ve agreed with Paul and Massie today. Who even am I?
The establishment, of course, are MA candidates in Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University's SIPA who are going to make $16,750 their first year on the job working humanitarian relief in Yemen.
Fear not, Pitchbot. Dr. Aaron Rodgers is on the case.
Just a wee bairn.
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It's because they refuse to promise that they won't abuse the children in their care.
Moby Dick has forty-seven chapters on how a whale would wear pants.
This is what serial killers write in notes left for police
Sounds like a country song, man.
FD swings through a rare fastball.
You plug this into your phone and it immediately sends nudes to your mom and opens a Turkish bank account while blasting Sweet Caroline at full volume
I can’t wait - Boston friends, please turn up! So excited to chat with Steve and be back in your city for a hot minute!
The Irish glaringly omitted there as well. Make 1849 great again.
once again I am asking people to correctly answer the question "who was President in 2020"
Today’s SC Originalists: “The Founders totes originally intended for a bunch of RC’s to interpret their original intent. Totes.”
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“Molon labe.” “k.”
Many Twitter moons ago someone said he’s like Morty in Goodfellas, always wanting the real gangsters respect but never getting it. Bears out more every day.
This poem is bananas for the thing itself (I did a little something there) and how portentous it is. Verse/art without experience, without fear, joy, and pain, without the crushing awareness of time, really is just the spit-up of an ‘operator,’ a soulless blank.
A lot of gems from that one.
"Still, when they make you write your poems, later on, who’d envy you, force-fed on all those variorum editions of our primitive endeavors, those frozen pemmican language-rations they’ll cram you with? denied our luxury of nausea, you forget nothing, have no dreams." - Adrienne Rich, 1961
It’s ok, Professor. Our media and political opposition will hold.
This is what happens when you elect the comments section.
Creepiest guy in a sea of creeps.
Not a straight bullseye, but close enough.
Is that the guy who griped Disney went woke because the princesses didn’t turn him on anymore?
Not Bill “Abby Hoffman” Kristol?
Running the blade along the whetstone, Bill the Butcher cocks an eyebrow.
Unprecedented, just not like that.
Projection. 5 demerits.
Try getting someone from the NG on Wait Wait.
This is exactly why AI is being pushed. You can blame it for real shit and vice versa. Blur the lines of reality and purge the media of real reporters and this is like fascism 101 shit
Guy who shrieked about tyranny when they closed Applebees during a pandemic: Mr President sir I saw a homeless man downtown today please send in the 82nd Airborne
a war on drugs what a fresh concept
Political psych today - I showed Mamdani's scavenger hunt video to start. I like to show different campaign materials to students. It's one of my favorite ways to start class, and I want to keep it going, despite all of this...
Multi-tasking.
Solidarity with everyone who grew up before ~1990 and had their little pink lungs pickled in that stuff.
Nixon did that in RI. Newport’s Naval War College is the remnant of a much larger base (pretty sure also moved to AL).
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Does she cite witch-burners in her Roe overturn support, or is that Alito’s sovereign turf?
Anyway...Dems need to break out of the impulse to see 200 white people protesting against Covid restrictions as "the voice of the people which we must heed" while seeing 10X as many people protesting racist police violence as "a niche special interest group that's out of step with real Americans."
She did notably write about the bobolink, which is unfamiliar to many New Englanders as grassland birds but would have been easily seen and heard by Dickinson because in her day New Englanders was greatly deforested and dominated by farms.
If you can only have one tool, make it a vicegrip.
The scary headlines about "Chorus, a sEcReT dArK mOnEy gRoUp" have been absolutely wild to watch. Because I'm in Chorus, & it's been a godsend. Without it, I wouldn't be able to cover the US's massive modern-day farm slavery problem- at all. youtu.be/f5UwwtrGdak
I’m way outside these worlds, but have thought for a while ‘dark money’ has turned into a useless catch-all. Lots of those. ‘Nepobaby’ used to have a specific meaning. Now it more often than not means ‘one or both of this person’s parents had a job.’
It’s a miracle any of us survived. She gently suggested kids should eat their veg. Basically genocide.
26 years in Jersey. Ya’s chopped a guy up yet?
Pretty sure this is how the honey hive says, “Well this sucks,” on a nippy September morning.
There’s no fight at all really. All my food takes are right.
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.
Walk-up song bets just crashed the DraftKings site.
Yes, what with pumpkin spice dog season upon us and all.
Duke&Duke
giuliani is gonna sue the hell out of whoever painted a tunnel on that brick wall
Not really related, but I read Eyes/Watching when I was ~25. Hurston has a passage about listening to bees. Great writing, marbled metaphors, all that. Beautiful. First time I realized how confined nonwhite (US) artists must feel by race. That scene’s free of it, and her release is palpable.
Just bonkers how many high earners make money doing absolutely nothing of value.
All of Bluesky slamming clipboards on the table: “BO-RIS!! BO-RIS!! BO-RIS!!!”
He lives to stand in front of that stupid jet and shout at reporters. Hard to see a healthy him go this long without it.
"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."
It’s that season again!
Getting irrationally undone over petty in-discrepancies is my favorite pastime.
In our anecdotal lives our daughter loves the ban. No digital distractions and shifts the gossip mill back to the chatty-whispery methodology of the ancestors. Also have a PS History teacher pal without a phone ban. Can have them on during class. Says even the into-it students are minimally engaged.
I know super-rich CEOs have always had an asshole streak, but I really do believe we're dealing with the new genetic strain here, one that doesn't even pretend to be a normal human
Homer: Michael Clayton isn’t a musical . . . so far . . .
Well, it’s a good thing this isn’t the Wild West and posting was drawing a six-shooter then.
A Silver-spotted Skipper in the yard for #InverteFest! #invertebrates 🌿
This guy gets paid, somehow.
Enjoy. Nothing like a state fair. Just love them.
Was turning over a big compost heap this morning with a bucket tractor. A vole skittered by and that hawk in the distant center snatched it then took it to that pole in the blueberry field.
Stop it. Stop it right now. Try Imodium.
Remind me never to post that our grandmothers’ fascists weren’t into eugenics and weirdo quack stuff.
“Love in the Time of That Horrible Disease That’s All in Your Head”
This man's actual name is Andrew Kaufman.
That’s outright Keatsian.
Oak Treehopper watching over her eggs. These insects don't harm the oak tree, they just leave some twig scars. If you happen to find babies, the mom will typically be there protecting them. (Platycotis vittata) PA #InverteFest
Eugenics is a common feature of post-enlightenment scientific beliefs, among professionals No need to blame poor people from the past
If it’s true, hell and all that, these private prison wanks need their own circle.
That’s a caterpillar. They don’t have opposable thumbs. You’re not fooling anyone.
Have been suspicious of a few kid movies the last couple-three years. Despicable Me IV, eg, had to be AI. Clunky and flat beyond normal human swing/misses.
No one has any guys. Good one’s any way. I’ve got them all.
Stone Age Smut trumps all.
Youth pastor voice: you know who else everyone thought was dead for three days
Pwn.
Of course.
Hank! Buddy!! You look GREAT!!!!
Camps, disappearing, sham indictments, nationalizing industries, tilting heavily toward state religion? Come on now. Cookie cutter conservatism.
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
hm. i see
The Republicans give us the venomous power-hungry racism but you need to go a Libertarian to get “the government suggesting I shouldn’t eat raw chicken is as tyrannical as the age of consent”
Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
It’s just a fish, Ish. Let’s not think too much out there.
Lydia, the 16 year old who is more honest than most of our elected officials and the corporate media who cover the administration
“Don’t pretend you don’t understand.” Jesus if that doesn’t nail our era.
Ash 