As an alum, the opening 15 minutes of this movie is basically a POV of going to Georgetown

I honestly don’t understand why there isn’t a staffer whose job is to propose a statutory fix for every possible SCOTUS decision each term.

That volcano in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is now a highly productive geothermal plant

I'll say it again. Our horror at the Gaza genocide and at the atrocity in Manchester comes in both cases from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity in the face of both these evils as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

UNRWA warns the world that Israel has labeled thousands of people besieged in Gaza City and northern Gaza as “terrorists or terror supporters.” Israel is in preparations for large-scale massacres.

The thing about political decay is, no matter how well a system is designed (and tbc, the US was *not* well-designed), after a couple hundred years it's not really going to be fit for purpose

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information: gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...

Baby's first midday power outage in a tropical country

Riyadh Comedy Festival critics: Don't participate in a state-sponsored event aimed at laundering the crimes of the Al Saud regime Bill Burr: Y'know the Riyadh urban elite aren't as uncivilized as I assumed

all the weird right wing zealots who claimed they were being censored and silenced and cancelled now own every single major media and social media company which of course means it's time for another flood of hackish columns by brunchlord failsons about the bluesky echo chamber

Welp. Can't get a COVID vaccine in the US due to pure bureaucratic malice and can't easily get one in Thailand due to scarcity outside the imperial core so I guess we're just kinda fucked

Embeth Davidtz walked so Sarah Paulson could run

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure. Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

"Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said." www.wbez.org/immigration/...

If there was a poll about the shutdown that was like "60% of voters blame Democrats" we'd get wall to wall news "analysis" saying the Democrats must immediately capitulate or face electoral ruin, but when we have the opposite (like we do now) the media doubles down on efforts to blame Democrats

They blocked the flotilla because they want Palestinians to die and to suggest otherwise is genocide denial. And if you are /not/ denying that intention then I do not understand why you would possibly argue that the Israelis are entitled to govern even a shred of Gaza.

I liked being in a gifted program. Personally it did seem transformational. But also like that is *not* a good use of limited public education resources.

We must uphold the traditions of the Church But also can we reform it just a little so it isn't so papisty in here?

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Majd. Majd is just 23 and was hoping to be a teacher before all this. She has been displaced with her family and they are living in tents, including her sister Ahd who is 20. She is hoping to continue her education and help her family survive❤️

Me: Makes post about a career bureaucrat with a funny long beard after doing a cursory overview of his CV to make sure he wasn't overtly evil The Internet: Obviously this guy is a white supremacist

Again, it's been incredibly surreal watching the Mothman go from folklore very local to the sliver of the Mid-Ohio Valley I consider home to a highly commoditized international cultural phenomenon

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

Given that the Sumud flotilla was approaching Palestinian, not Israeli waters, it is entirely up to the government of the State of Palestine whether they are allowed in. The UK recognises the State of Palestine. Ergo, the UK must demand that the Israelis respect its right to control its borders.

“There’s no organized armed group with which the U.S. is in armed conflict," said @bcfinucane.bsky.social. "So we have lethal force employed outside of armed conflict. We have a word for that — a word for the premeditated killing of people. That word is murder.”

Kinda funny the guy who said "So what they have slaves? They're paying me enough to look the other way" got fired for saying that

That as complete as a fool as Elon Musk is this materially successful is proof that there is a God, and He hates you

Now Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is on yeah

The Last Castle is on Pluto TV if anyone is looking for their Robert Redford fix

Literally the Old Age's New Age bullshit

Pay attention to the language that will be used by much of the media. The Global Sumud Flotilla never entered Israeli waters. They are in international waters attempting to reach Palestinian waters. Israel is once again breaking international law

Jane Fonda relaunches the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” during the 1940s.

The West’s favourite genocidal state, Israel, pointing its guns at unarmed citizens from multiple countries who were just trying to deliver baby formula and other essentials to the besieged civilian population of Gaza

Broke: Who elected God? Woke: Impeach God

People that can flit from city to city doing work amaze me You're telling me you can just drop into a cafe on a different continent and do your Excel sheet? That's gonna take a few hours to emotionally sanctify the space, yo

My partner: When women go out they like to buy things. What do men like to do? Me: Visit old wooden ships

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

Jane Goodall. Had a good run.

Breaking | Italy’s General Confederation of Labour calls for a nationwide strike on Friday in protest of the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

By all accounts he seems to be a consummate career professional but wtf is going on with the US Ambassador to Jordan's beard man

We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.

I do feel sorry for him Each place and person is an entire world People spend entire careers researching one neighborhood or town You spend your whole life trying to truly *know* a handful of people Imagine doing the equivalent of driving by a place going 70 mph & thinking you've seen all of it

Saw a friend got a job on LinkedIn (yay, pay bills!) but the announcement was so couched in corporatespeak ("glad I could make the pivot" "this mission matters") that I'm annoyed at it now we all know this is stupid why do we do it

That’s my grandfather! He and my grandmother had a bookstore in my hometown, which was hugely responsible for my becoming a writer.

Just want to have enough to retire and live on a boat in the river with a pet cormorant I use to fish for fun

@andreapitzer.bsky.social That Pitzer's book shop a link to you?

This is too cool. Reem Bailony did a legit academic journal article on a rebel in the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925, Musa al-Nadaf, who later migrated to my hometown of Parkersburg, West Virginia, where he served as a grocer and where I went to high school with his descendants, the Nedeffs.

Sam Neill, 78, is now 18 years older than Sean Connery was when The Hunt for Red October was released in 1990

A difficulty I'm having with the Riyadh Festival criticism is a lot of folks are directing their well-founded criticism against "them" instead of the Al Saud regime. Valid calls to boycott a repressive government get conflated into blanket condescension toward a country of 30 million people.

Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. After a longer-than-expected hiatus due to other obligations, Nick's Yemen Roundup is back with a rundown of the most important events in and around Yemen for the past month. Check it out!

Y'know Tim Curry was the only doing his job in The Hunt for Red October