This one comes to mind. open.spotify.com/track/4xiVqe...

These are almost exclusively the posts I hit that heart button for.

From your mouth to your ears.

"If I had voted, I would have voted for Boulanger, even though it's the unknown. But if it's the unknown, it's deliverance from what is, and I don't like what is." --Edmond de Goncourt

#NoKings #Knoxville

Hell hath no fury like an American inconvenienced.

According to the ABA

Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.

Real life cafè Marseillaise scene in the early days of occupation: 'On one occasion the French stood up to sing the "Marseillaise," took the Germans' revolvers, and would not return them until the Germans, too, had stood up to sing, fists in the air.'

I was a BS, so I don't want to talk about it. 😪 I did a philosophy minor as a treat, but by that point I had read so much philosophy on my own that the classes left no imprint.

There it is: the Crazification Factor (aka the Keyes Constant.)

How about a handy portal where we can add ourselves to these lists? Call it "Spartacus"

Bovine-o put out to pasture. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

RIP Ralph Towner youtu.be/5Y7fHYNd8sQ?...

On this day in 1898 Èmile Zola published his letter to French president Felix Faure, accusing French military officials of misconduct in the wrongful court martial of Alfred Dreyfus.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.

"My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived...." --John Adams, 1793

I think it's arguable that integrating the revolutionary triad (liberté, égalité, fraternité) is a (maybe even the) central problem of modernity.

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

Heartily co-signed.

I'm as angry and apalled as anyone, but I don't scream into this void about everything going on. I hope that silence gives this simple declarative statement the gravity it deserves. An unprovoked attack on Venezuela simply cannot be allowed to happen.

The BlueSky motto: "Puisqu'il faut s'ennuyer, ennuyons nous." (Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau)

Fascinating new research in AJPS (flagship poli sci journal) on Christian nationalism & SCOTUS "An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "We find that CN is related to Court attitudes in three ways:"

"You'll be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

Describe your cat's personality with one photo

Reading historians of 18th century France, you often come across references to gaps in the archives due to the Paris fires of 1871. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fires_i...

In 1750 Paris there were riots triggered by the kidnapping of children off the streets by the police. A policeman was beaten to death by an angry crowd. aspectsofhistory.com/the-vanishin...

Republicans don’t need to know how to govern for the same reason the 9/11 hijackers didn’t need to know how to land.

Chateaubriand:

First, and last.

Y'all...it is stuffy in those inflatable suits!

A lot smarter than the centrists vs leftists chatter: data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-democr...

This doesn't look political. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Film Studies. The person who taught the class was an actor with small credits in big movies. What made that class was that he LOVED film, and that was infectious.

Free advice for this Sunday morning: When you see the byline “Eli Saslow,” you drop whatever the hell you’re doing and click on the link. Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

Smoked Brisket Udon

Wake up, Spooky! It's #Caturday!

This was a reply to someone, but it goes for all of you. 🙂

Hey folks, The National Weather Service is doing a test run for an account on Bluesky. Go follow it and show them this site has the juice. Or at least is worth the time for the outreach team to be on. bsky.app/profile/nws....

What perfect albums came out when you were 16? (This is not what I would have said then!)