war as spectacle, as reality tv. a deeply american moment.

CBS news assembling a panel of randos RIGHT NOW to report on their ChatGPT research about Maduro

legit nostalgic for when the empire used to do this shit covertly

This is worth reading. Gift link.

YEP

I don't take pleasure in violence but one of these little freaks is gonna show up at a daycare around pickup time and piss off the wrong dad

woke up thinking about how I'm gonna pair the iconic "oysters and snails" scene from spartacus with the iconic "I like the wine, not the label" scene from schitt's creek in my short term class on rome movies, that's gonna be fun

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

What a quote.

Written by the father of a trans girl… “When society tries to police and exclude trans girls, it ends up policing all girls. Because transmisogyny does not just say, “Trans girls aren’t real girls.” It also says, “There is only one correct way to be a girl.””

In the Hebrew Scriptures (known by Christians as the Old Testament) we're called upon 36 times - not once, not twice, THIRTY-SIX TIMES - to love the stranger. What do you think Rabbi Jesus & his students were discussing as they handed out loaves & fishes, etc? Love. They were talking about love.

"There is no condition in which the university is under attack that the whole of U.S. educational infrastructure, public and private, from pre-K up, is not under attack. And there is no condition in which education is under attack in which civil society can remain unimperiled."

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

thrilled to report that the holdovers gets better every year. officially in my christmas movie canon.

look I know exactly why the double standard exists so don't bother explaining it to me but gazan christians exist (for now) and these fuckers couldn't care less

well there's halloween sorted for the rest of my life #thedudeabides

pretty basic theologically sound point that will be branded "wokeism" by the worst people you know

the sweetest toddler is in bed and a mahalia jackson christmas record is spinning while I read about the vikings and my wife works a puzzle. shepherd's pie is cooling. dreams come true.

One of our History majors was presenting a research project at last year’s undergrad research symposium. The provost asked her if AI could have helped her in the research process. Her response: No, it can’t. I have to get into the archives and see what’s there to even determine my questions. 🙌🏻 🥰

peak holiday experience: ✅ mince pies ✅ boozy strong ale ✅ king's college lessons and carols on the radio ✅ a christmas carol lego set

this image is maybe the single greatest joke in TRADING PLACES. and also a pretty apt description of the trump/vance/national conservative vision of america

that the Whos celebrate Christmas suggests some knowledge of Christ, but whether this is our anthropic Christ or a distinctive Who-Christ remains obscure; some have argued Christianity was introduced to them during their refuge with Horton, which of course turns us to the matter of Elephant Religion

2018: we're ALL fascists NOW 🙄 2025: we're all FASCISTS now 👍🏼

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

part of what was so plausible about the dystopia in leif enger's _I cheerfully refuse_ was not just the general hostility toward bookish people and bookshops, but the pride with which the general population was illiterate or semi-literate. in a historic first, the US president was illiterate.

especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win

chatterton doesn't really post here but i would love his thoughts on of his most famous episodes given today's events.

Live look of all the Harper’s letter signatories:

watching a christmas movie

There are people being paid by the federal government to sit around and think of increasingly outrageous posts to titillate Nazis on the 9th most popular social media site in the U.S.

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

It's astonishing that somehow we have whole swathes of the political class that have not managed to connect "everything seems like a scam now" to a useful political platform.

weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Got yelled at this week for making statements that will supposedly alienate the average white male voter and what I want to emphasize is this: appealing to the average white male voter is not my aim and not my job.

yesssssss love this marius content, bro should have given his troops a one-time payment of 753 denarii in exchange for tossing an anti-sulla curse tablet into the nearest sacred spring

what are you doing tonight instead of watching that shit

gerhard klopfer in 2001's CONSPIRACY (played by ian mcneice): "we make the law we need! why am I telling you this? how many lawyers are in this room? raise your hands."

This is extremely important

important: a student has made roman stuffed sardines as part of their final project. delicious and nutritious.

WHEW!!!!!!!!

the exhaustion of this era is perfectly captured by my ridiculous feelings of guilt feeling so sad about rob reiner because so many worse things happened this weekend

"Human beings transform only when we refuse to cordon ourselves off from each other behind a vulgar individualism." thepointmag.com/politics/eli...

If some enterprising producer doesn't put these two in a taut sexy spy thriller already ... and get Soderbergh to direct it. Money on money on money for anyone who makes it.

Dem boys

wake up dead man was GOOD folks

It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through. Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!

have 100% become the kind of dad who cries at john rutter carols on the radio after two sips of wine