I wrote about the idea, popularized by James Baldwin, that love is not and never has been a popular movement. bad-faith-times.ghost.io/love-is-neve...
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I wrote about the idea, popularized by James Baldwin, that love is not and never has been a popular movement. bad-faith-times.ghost.io/love-is-neve...
The correct answer to a citizen of Klansville, Alabama saying they feel like the country is leaving them behind is “good.”
Honestly, I think a lot of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic got psyoped into viewing salt of the earth bigots as more authentic and worthy than them and thinking therefore they must ritually cleanse their sin of education by rolling in the gutter.
I grew a beard during the pandemic until one of my kids' friends said, with a note of disgust in her voice, "you look like Old Luke Skywalker."
Not yet quite dead?
I do a pretty good Jimmy Stewart, but I also feel strongly that this podcast should only be guys named Matt doing old guy voices.
This is really it. If Biden's whereabouts were unknown for 45 minutes, there'd be CNN trucks camped out for six blocks in every direction of the White House. But when the felon's in office, it's "eh, he's on the roof, now he's gone, now people are throwing things out the window, probably nothing."
Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.
I’m a second-year teacher, so I spend a lot of time on teacher message boards looking for advice/ideas, and it is *horrifying* how many teachers are blindly embracing AI. The worst part is, the only pro-AI argument I ever hear is “it’s here, so we should use it.” So is fentanyl.
Hi did you move your newsletter away from substack? drop it in the replies so people can find you and subscribe! I am big on rewarding good choices
I actually paused the SNW "Balance of Terror But With Pike" episode just so I could rewatch Balance of Terror again.
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
“One day, like a miracle, it’ll go away” is a toddler’s response to a crisis, and it’s right up there with “grab ‘em by the pussy” as something that should have been permanently disqualifying but wasn’t.
Biden ran on 50 million shots in 50 days and delivered 100. And got zero credit for it.
Did he refrain from stealing the subodinate's local water supply or something?
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
NEW: Huge anti-Trump protests happening across the US for Labor Day. This is the current scene in San Diego. A seemingly endless line of thousands of people on the streets! @50501movement.bsky.social #workersoverbillionaires #NoKings (🎥 10-97 News)
It is beyond wild to me that there is zero coverage of "Workers over Billionaires" rallies anywhere on The New York Times or The Washington Post right now. This is a colossal failure in journalism. Mainstream media can't just pretend that hundreds of thousands of protesters don't exist
When Nate Silver continues his obsessions with the website
Right, but the intelligentsia of today is people like Ta-Nahesi Coates and Paul Krugman, not those dipshits.
Pretty sure “laser disc laser printer hip-hop space elevator” is a Beck lyric.
david attenborough: when the US president soils his pants, often he will hide the evidence throughout the white house, much like a squirrel burying acorns ahead of the coming winter. tired of finding these “executive stashes,” the cleaning staff simply toss them out. he will make more, they say.
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I want to encourage those of you who procrastinate like I do about using my FSA/HSA funds and then end up leaving money on the table to consider the FSA Store as a way to spend down funds & order Plan B etc... to donate to community groups, etc.
This happens over and over and over. I just saw someone today criticizing Obama for TARP, which was passed before he took office. And let's not forget how Biden personally created mass incarceration in 1994 out of sheer malice.
It would rule if Biden spoke at his funeral, then left the lectern, put on sunglasses, and ate an ice cream cone. I was never into the Dark Brandon stuff, but that would legit be hilarious.
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
As someone who's 6'3", I don't think I've been more than half-submerged in a bath since middle school. It's really not that enjoyable or relaxing to have to choose between either your legs or your torso being in the water.
Right, but we restrict them universally. We don't discriminate against one particular class of people dumping garbage into lakes and let everyone else do it.
Lasagna Classico: "If I survive, I will never shake the unmitigated horror. The layers: slick, flesh-colored slices… of what? I am forever unsure."
We gotta cook up a psyop about how the wicked vizier JD Vance poisoned the king to seize power and that's why it's vital all True Patriotic Americans stay home in protest on election day.
BREAKING: Looks like Rudy Giuliani was NOT helping a DV victim at the time of the accident. Article states troopers & firefighters, already on the scene for a separate domestic violence incident across the interstate, witnessed the crash and rendered aid. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
It’s the biggest reason Wicked doesn’t work for me - the witch isn’t misunderstood, she’s very actively mean-spirited and unpleasant!
At the Jack London museum. Writing used to be so cool. You got to carry around a little box with every drug in it and once you were fucked enough up on toothache heroin you started saying shit like "I am a brain merchant." You write like 100 books and then die of raw duck and mercury poisoning
Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI
White Americans were fine with government—loved it wholeheartedly—until they were told they would have to share it equally. That’s when they decided it should be destroyed. Every advocate for small government is an advocate for resegregation.
He died. He died on the toilet but “not the way you think,” a White House spokesperson said in a brief statement before declining follow-up questions.
All the news media is like "Trump proves he's alive by posting on Truth Social" and I don't think he's dead but it's a really good reminder that they rely on profound credulousness.
Can't believe that on my first day as a nurse I have been charged with replacing Rudy Giuliani's IV drip of Johnnie Walker Black while he is in intensive care. It's what's keeping him alive. You get into this line of work to take care of people, but you never imagine how important it could be.
Bans Can’t Stop the Abortion Pill nymag.com/intelligence... Now, because of lawsuits trying to ban these effective meds, “abortion pills are flowing more freely than ever before. They’re cheaper than ever before. & more people know about them than ever, partly thanks to the antiabortion movement”
Literally haven't seen this mentioned on any of my socials but Indonesia has erupted after a cop ran over a delivery courier.
[Giuliani's final breath] Tell my family I loved...9/11
"these weirdos who keep getting busted for crimes against children want to look in your kids pants under color of law and we oppose that" is the easiest possible policy position
Same person under an alias! Double agent! This stuff writes itself!
"I told my family that I was in a movie called Summer Camp. I didn’t know they’d changed the name to Meatballs. Well, another film called Summer Camp opened up at the drive-in where I live in Burlington, and my brother and sister went to see it, and it was a softcore porn flick."
This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.
Wait, are all the presidents going to die at once? Clinton’s heart, Biden’s cancer, Trump’s explosive diarrhea, and Bush repeatedly trying to high five a cactus.
It is *wild* how Reagan is almost single-handedly responsible for both offshoring and mass incarceration, and managed to quietly pass the blame for both onto Clinton.
Fixed it.
My #1 favorite thing in TV/movies is when a dog is supposed to be savagely mauling someone, but the dog actor is clearly wagging their tail and going "😃😃😃 I'm doing a good job!! 😃😃😃"
Yeah, I don’t know how you could read even three posts on this web site and still cling to any notion that progressives all get along.
The United States killed American Indians and drove them from their homes in order to steal their land. Could it work in Gaza?
JB Pritzker calls for ‘all to stand up’ to Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago
I saw a comment on .. somewhere where a person referred to people who love AI as “botlickers” and I haven’t stopped laughing about it
I’m going to assume it’s 24-hour-a-day explosive diarrhea until proven otherwise.
They usually cast known-but-not-star actors who have already played a similar character: Moore: The Saint Brosnan: Remington Steele Craig: Layer Cake
I’m sure Jake will be right on this story. 😒
Wrong . He was AWOL for 11 days while he was practicing his attempted assassination in Butler 🤷♀️
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
Look at a map of any city or suburb in the Northeast, and you can see the lines where neighborhoods were built around railroad tracks that are no longer there.
they're spending more time and money on plans for turning gaza into a coastal resort for pedophiles than they are on plans to rescue the hostages
Six years ago today, August 31, 2019, Brooklyn Center Police officers fatally shot Kobe Heisler-Dimock, an unarmed 21-year-old autistic man, as they responded to a mental crisis call. Kobe's mother, Amity, said her son “was never a threat to anybody but himself” when the police killed him. 🧵
Now a lot of you are going to be hearing about this incident so let me just get ahead of it and say
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
I was doing something super heroic and cool before I got in a car accident, please do not look into this any further
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Jim, ahm gettin' unusual readins of pahticles, shud we bang out?
Credit where it's due: Rudy dying to distract from Trump dying is some next level lawyering.
"Become"? It's always been this way. I remember the late 90s, when Williamsburg was two bars, a coffee shop, and 22-year-old white hipsters spraypainting "Yupi No Mas" graffiti.
Just throwing this out there:
Aaron Judge needs 7 HR in the Yankees' last 27 games to reach 50 HR in a season for the fourth time (at his current pace he'd hit 9 more this season). This would tie him for the all- time Major League record for 50 HR seasons, with Sammy Sosa (1998-2001) and Babe Ruth (1920-21; 1927-28).
Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?
"Donald Trump has more felonies than there are trans athletes in America" isn't hard
no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say rudy giuliani died from driving his car into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and all his clothes flew off in the crash and then a sixteen wheeler semi truck ran over his dick and balls. don’t say stuff like that
Rudy Giuliani has been released from hospital after doctors realized he just looks like that
Amid a wave of mass shootings, Florida cracks down on chalk
And I realize that shed made a nuanced argument, and there’s no room for nuance in the world of DEMOCRATS BAD ALWAYS BAD BOTH SIDES, but most of us don’t live in that world.
So she’s lying about what she would have done as president, which you know from carefully examining her time as president? Or did you hear her say we would support Israel as a Jewish state but not as an apartheid state and are lying about what that meant?
Again, you got what you wanted. She lost. Congratulations. Sure, Trump’s gleefully planning to build condos on the bodies of dead children, while also putting Americans in concentration camps, but on the plus side you get to feel smug, and isn’t that’s more important?
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
So are you criticizing Kamala Harris for not doing more as President? Or are you just proving Agora’s point from upthread?
She called for a ceasefire and Palestinian statehood, but you ignore that because it doesn’t fit your Democrats Always Bad/ BOTH SIDES narrative. Your guy won, you got what you wanted. You can stop relitigating the election.
as a broad schematic example, (imho) any person in their 40s+ who primarily sees their role to their love as “consumer, enjoyer, never giver or teacher or developer”, they’ve failed to hit adulthood, see how time has given them now the role of sharing, preserving, teaching, or giving forward.
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
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
I agree with much of this thread, but I think it needs to be said: if unity is the way to get around fascists, we need to fucking unify, and that means at this stage, swiftly discouraging the wedge issue dividers in our own party.
We have an extraordinary example of someone who is a unifier beyond expectation right now, and it's Zohran Mamdani. He does not throw anyone under the bus. The most important thing he did? Listen to what has people most upset. Propose policy that met those needs.
In a just world, Jon Hamm would be making more Fletch movies instead of betting site ads.
Also on matter of Grant, this bit from Walt Whitman describing him is a very interesting perspective imho.
It's like one of those movies where you think the monster is dead but he isn't.
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
Here is the terrifying truth: D.C. residents outnumber the populations of Vermont and Wyoming. What’s happening to them now could happen to those of us who enjoy the full privileges of the Constitution. trib.al/iYqQKGR
Donald Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health
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