Historically unpopular Republican president who started a war in the middle east for no reason? Pickup artists? The 2000s are back

Before (sweaty, shaking like a chihuahua): I'm Horny After (suave, smiling confidently): I'm Horny

ossof has figured out how to tie everything together in a way other dems really should be studying

holy fuck Jon lmao

Christian Nationalists: “You should be REQUIRED to teach the Bible in school!” Me: 😈 “Okay class, everyone turn to James chapter 5.” Christian Nationalists: “Wait, not like that.”

Reichsbischof Robert Barron is now comparing JD Vance with St Augustine, you can't make this shit up

I'm just glad she didn't eat shrimp in the Falklands.

Meh, I've seen worse.

"Kat Abughazaleh? The shrimp aficionado?"

Current* conditions near Oak Harbor, OH:

Cheap power go brrrrrrrr

Joy is not a conservative emotion.

Zohran Mamdani never taking off the suit is really funny and also I think genuinely a really good bit of personal branding. He is to some degree making himself a character by always having the same costume on, with occasional modifiers

You have to admit, fighting a full-blown war in the Middle East, but only when markets are closed, is a real innovation in the history of warfare

We all loved that book in my high school.

Hottake: people shit on Catcher in The Rye too much.

holy shit I'm gonna start using this

cape verde's plan against lionel messi and reigning world cup winners argentina is 100% gonna be "you're locked in here with US" and that is why i love them

I’m not thrilled that apparently the secret to success in basically every field right now is “be really good at short form video”

Another pebble in the decarbonizing avalanche bsky.app/profile/janr...

Everyone talks about solar panels in cities what’s happening in rural villages in Pakistan India Africa etc etc etc.

Puerto Rico if you’re listening….

Texas should do the same… their electrical grid keeps failing

Wow, hadn't realised Pakistan had got quite as much solar, impressive over only a few years. Don't blame them with their flaky grid 👍

Even 15 years ago when I taught in our regional studies track, I was telling my students what a difference then-solar could make in Africa giving rural dwellings mobile phone charging and LED lanterns. I didn't think nearly big enough.

I’m fairly confident we are gonna see some unexpected Growth Miracles in places that have been hitherto shackled by expensive fuel imports

I don't think the oil and gas industry is the only barrier preventing people from getting excited about this stuff. I think it's such a fundamentally disruptive shift to how we order society that people can't see it yet. But this is where we start seeing through the cracks at an actual future

TBH I could see it with Kat in 10ish years. Run for a local office, run for Senate or House, boom you're in.

This is actually the situation literally everywhere, and will accelerate for the next forty years. I do not think people have anywhere near the capacity to understand how much needs to change and how fast.

bruh

These guys are always like "Communists openly hate America" and then if you asked Zohran or AOC about America they would go "I love America!" But Matt would be like "we are a fallen and immoral nation" and it's judg very aggravating.

I assume this passage will be in Texas's Bible study: Leviticus 19:33–34: “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself.” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

interesting placement of that particular graphic on the shorts

The Republicans hate cities. They hate the blue cities in the red states. They hate the people of Washington D.C.

Competition over, we have a winner

what I'm saying here is

the thing that my country does better than anyone else in history is assimilate ppl whether they want it or not,. We are an amoeba that swallows everything it touchjes

India becoming a middle income country is going to make all of us learn cricket discourse and I’m not ready for that.

One of our staff members reported worn bike lane paint on Broadview Road using the the @cityofcleveland.bsky.social's online 311 reporting system. Three (3!) days later fresh lines are in place. It's an effective way to report non-emergency issues. www.clevelandohio.gov/311

we really don't talk about how centrists have gone insane in the past 4 years

the thing about this guy is he hits every loose ball for 4, or as the Americans would say, he doesn't miss the layups

It is more acceptable in elite intellectual circles to be a Nazi race scientist than it is to think it is acceptable to judge people morally for being Nazi race scientists.

a quarter!!

Different flavors of these insights apply to just about every city in the US, certainly Cleveland.

Adore Jane Austen, but not a fan of costume adaptations. No, not even that one, or that one. But love clever derivations - Clueless my favourite film. Similarly, The Other Bennet Sister is awesome stuff - witty and new. To Pride & Prejudice, as Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is to Hamlet.

Following Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Other Bennet Sister, which other minor literary character(s) would benefit from their own story being told?

The copying of De Rerum Natura by Lucretius in the Middle Ages (with corrections to one early copy credited to an Irish monk) shows such works were not dismissed, even where the copiers didn't agree with the contents (inc. no afterlife, a flat earth). irishphilosophy.com/2016/06/26/d...

That’s…not how that happened.This is why I have to patiently explain to my students every year that it’s not weird that medieval Christian art portrays Greek and Roman myth.

In Chain of Ideas, Ibram X. Kendi argues that the Great Replacement Theory is *the* driving ideology behind this new reactionary authoritarianism. He makes a good case for it here: www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/a-chain-of...