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Hello from academia

If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful

Businessman who sold land for Kushner resort in Albania suspected of faking the deeds www.reuters.com/world/europe...

This is just an incredible statement from a news org. It's almost like ... ok, hold on ... stick with us here ... CNN thinks Scott Jennings is as unreliable a narrator as a lot of viewers do.

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

Boss, they're leaking about the leaks.

Absolutely disgusted that panels like this are allowed at Shore Leave con this weekend.

YOU CANNOT CALL IT BEARBECUE WITHOUT BEAR *murmurs, ignorant hoomanspeak* THIS INTERVIEW IS OVER

Imagine how disappointed I was when I bought all the early D&D gear only to find out that the whole Satanic Panic was horseshit and I DIDN'T gain wicked cool demonic powers.

i am once again asking why this isn't considered a bigger problem newrepublic.com/article/2119...

Kevin has obviously never had to fill out the gazillion forms required to get on SNAP, attend the gazillion mandatory appointments required to get on SNAP, nor jump through all of the other regular humiliating rituals required to get on and stay on SNAP.

The story of Motown Records is quintessentially American. It’s about the American Dream, civil rights and entrepreneurship. But that story has a special significance in the place where it all got started.

Republicans in Tennessee have taken control over the Memphis airport, taken its control over its schools, taken its control over its police, sicced the military on Memphians, taken its representative in Congress, and taken its state lawmakers’ committee seats. This is the result.

Memphis is under siege from the federal government. This is hideous.

"We are looking for a person to run our exclusive neighborhood group for upper-income residents in downtown Chicago. You will be responsible for weakening morale, making the group members unhappy, and causing general chaos." buff.ly/arCHs0q

I’m preaching to the choir here but there is literally no emergency in Memphis that requires a U.S. troop deployment. That is an insane thing to think or claim

Wow, a lightning bolt ⚡ needs to come down & strike Linda "A1" McMahon. As a top exec of the WWF in the late 80s-early 90s, McMahon is accused of covering up the *grooming & sexual abuse of minor boys* by WWF employees (case in discovery phase). Covered by @davidbix.com (2025): 🧾 t2m.co/jn1x0vNR

ODYSSEY FILME 1st SCENE: ODYSSEUS ys wanderinge a strange lande, carryinge an oar. A place wher people knowe nothinge of the sea. A STRANGER asketh hym if he ys carryinge a winnowinge fan. RECORDE SCRATCH *FREEZE FRAME ODYSSEUS: "Yep, that ys me. You are probablye wonderinge how Ich got heere."

Okay, maybe Saskatchewan really *is* the new Illinois.

⚠️ US Representative Ro Khanna was detained at gunpoint by Israeli “settlers” and the IDF while traveling in the West Bank. “Imagine how people feel every day, Palestinians under the occupation, if they could make an American congressperson feel powerless for 90 minutes.” Gift link:

@memorieschild.bsky.social *waves * Did you happen to get that revised paper I sent you for peer review earlier in the week? My email has been playing up lately. :(

reading a fairly dreadful academic book and constantly having to quote Princess Bride. #ukeepusingthatword...

Since January 3rd I have been extremely skeptical of U.S. intentions in Venezuela, even while seemingly everyone in South Florida was celebrating. As time goes on there's only more reason for skepticism. Aligning U.S. and Venezuelan-elite interests in a neo-colonial set up is not good.

During the prep for the house sale, I managed to watch and assemble some thoughts on Coppola’s Dracula. #Filmsky boxd.it/fb9Hox

The point is that members of Congress have de facto unlimited paid sick leave, even when members of the public are asking why they aren't turning up for work. Its a benefit that he, and other Republicans like Tom Kean, oppose for the rest of us.

Hallowe'en is always a good time for horror, and I'll be working with QUAD - Derby to present an exciting range of talks and interviews for the spooky weekend with ALL HALLOWS HAUNTS! www.derbyquad.co.uk/season-festi... #Derby #Derbyshire #halloween #horror #horrorfiction #horrorfilm

Elon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s father

I have seen what you’ve done for others…

Case in point: the new Trumpian lead for the next National Climate Assessment is literally a #climate denier, disputing the most basic science fact about #climatechange. This is Stalin-like science.

Marco Rubio is this administration’s Gaius Baltar. IYKYK

My contributor copy has arrived (after a little address snag with OUP)! This incredible 1,115 page resource is one that all you scholars out there are going to want to have your libraries purchase asap.

"Upon receiving word of Albertine's death, jump behind the bookcase to fight the narrator’s doppelgänger, Warcel. Defeat him without taking any damage, and you’ll also be challenged by Robert de Saint-Loup’s lavender-clad copycat, Wobert de Walla-Woup." (Hsppy b-day, Marcel!)

Thanks to the reporting below, we now have a likely answer to who is paying Moraff's bills: his trust fund. Always easier to lead the glorious peoples' revolution when you're the heir to the Toys R Us fortune.

Stealing from @orphanfilm.bsky.social but it's sometimes crazy how there's still so much Film History, just from a "what movies were made" POV, we do not know whatsoever:

Cartoonist Ruben Bolling has been absolutely killing it, and here's another one

While at the Fred Rogers Institute, was not prepared for the feelings of seeing the last cardigan the mom of Mister Fred Rogers ever knit for him 🥹🩶✨

JJJ being a "woke on every issue but one" guy is my favorite characterization of him

now to check on who governs Vietnam

Get Wydenpilled.

It's wild how 70% of the stories on the Microsoft game studio layoffs and carnage don't think it's worth noting that the company went on a studio acquisition spree three years ago that involved lying constantly about the vast benefits of mindless consolidation just not useful context, apparently

Visiting Srebrenica massacre sites, mass graves being exhumed, and the mortuaries handling the remains of the victims are experiences I will always remember.

This phenomenon is key to much of the transphobic press, though the individuals in question may vary: It’s a feedback loop of successively amplified lies

RIP. My brother had Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto dolls with whom he'd execute many elaborate, to scale, rescues of other intellectual property. www.tvinsider.com/1274911/rand...

Whoever bet on Friday afternoon won bigly.