It's worse than a crime, it's a mistake.

I would submit that material prosperity is a less important standard than economic fairness, meaning social mobility and relative economic equality. High education costs, home equity, and regressive taxation have created an entrenched elite. Cheap smartphones don't make up for that.

Shufu Miyamoto (Japanese Artist, born 1950) "Cherry Blossoms at Full Moon Night", 2014. Woodblock Print, 42 × 60 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Men will literally reinforce negative neural pathways by posting on an online echo chamber instead of going to therapy.

"There's an anti-trans moral panic" is a way bigger story than "there's a new TV show."

We've equalled Hemingway: "Good news! The bathwater is gone."

i guess those celebrating soras death didnt get the memo that some of us need daily personalized greetings from james bond—for mental health

I don't know, building codes now require TWO stairways for many buildings. Seems like that makes modern homes twice as dangerous.

Remember, Trump won't see your "Good, I'm glad he's dead!" posts after he dies, but he MIGHT see your "I'm going to celebrate with no guilt when he dies!" posts now.

Second rudest thing an American president has ever done to a Japanese prime minister.

Abbott: "Naturally?" Costello: "Naturally!"

Angry goose: "Sacrifice for WHAT, motherfucker?"

I get it, "we're spreading democracy" is a seductive idea. But this is Trump and Netanyahu we're talking about, how can they not get that it's just an excuse to drop bombs on brown people?

[Nina Simone voice]: 🎶 Don't scroll in bed. 🎶

[OC] Kenzo Tange's Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, Takamatsu (1964) - Another Brutalist gem living on borrowed time, sadly scheduled for demolition (despite various viable reuse proposals submitted). r/brutalism

People are saying his dementia is progressing, and that may be. But a lot of it is just that no one is holding him accountable for anything, so he just says whatever passes through his mind.

Is it really a lie if no one is expected to believe it?

Huge if true.

JFC there is a difference between having a diversity of opinion on your op-ed page and being obliged to defend every administration policy! This should not be a hard concept to grasp!

no, it's the democrats who are wrong

Robert Poughéon (1886-1955), Faust, Goethe, 1927

And the scarier thought is that this wingnut anthropology might be (consciously or unconsciously) an attempt to acclimatize oneself to the new normal. This is the mechanism for the Overton Window shift.

Hate to have to hand it to Hitler, but his proposed monstrously oversized arch at least had proper proportions. MFers today talk about classical standards of beauty in architecture, but wouldn't know the Golden Ratio if it dropped a doric column on their heads.

Obama makes an offhand remark about aliens never visiting earth, and Trump responds immediately. STILL gets under this guy's skin, after all this time.

This is a good strategy for winning between 3-5% of the vote.

Did it work?

If you want to use the analogy of European colonization of America (even discounting the effect on Native Americans), they had to CONSTANTLY replenish the early colonies with supplies and manpower. Because people died at ghasty rates! In an environment that was nearly edenic in its fertility!

A sheet of ice is thr Platonic ideal of a level playing field, and therefore contradicts the assumptions of Confucianism. (That's all I got).

Huge jars of Prego sauce. Frozen pizzas. Cans of Spaghetti-Os.

Book I dreamed of last night: illustrated encyclopedia of world cities, with modern versions of Frans Masereel style prints, plus infographics.

This isn't funny. ICE agents only do this when they're in distress, because they know they're losing.

Fascist Milk Hotel

Davis must be super excited to be going to a city with no sports page.

This sounds bad, but I ask you: if MAGA figures can't offer special favors like this, how could they ever convince women to date them?

"Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least the Brownshirts had a uniform."

John Roberts: The President is immune from prosecution when acting in an official capacity. Donald Trump: I am demanding this bribe from the IRS in my personal capacity.

Their rented SUVs are like the ICE officers themselves: big and manly and intimidating, but somehow also fragile and under threat.

Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them: 1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens 2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar 3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia

The movie and the mindset.

A++++++++

I truly, truly get it why a lot of good people are saying that Minneapolis is not about left or right, democrats or republican, now. I understand. But I’m sorry it actually is

again. even if you think a violent resistance is right in this circumstance (I absolutely don’t), a violent resistance would (1) cost *more* innocent lives; (2) take decades to even erode the coercive capacity of the federal government; (3) make pathways to a stable and just democracy much harder

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

They know how to "take care of" children.

One of the books I read recently is Gary Gerstle's American Crucible, where he traces two competing American traditions: civic nationalism and racial nationalism. A nation based on founding documents and principles vs. a nation based on whiteness.

Do the rules say you only get to pick one movement of a symphony? It's called Desert Island Discs, don't you get to have 10 actual discs? Beethoven's 9th fits on one CD.

Hear me out: statehood for DC, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, Samoa, and Greenland.

OOMPH was the answer a couple days ago, I feel like this should at least be a recognized word.

I know, but November 2028 is still almost three years away.