was lots of fun recording this episode, and getting into Buarque's application of psychoanalysis and social theory to the analysis of the far-right...

note, he did not say "send a nazi," because ppl would rightly find that utterly repellant and horrifying. "vote for the party guy even though he might be a fascist," is almost as strange as saying that all senators do is "pull the D lever." ppl have lost their spines, cannot stand for what's decent.

Platner himself aside, this is how you end up: -running women and minorities out of government -putting deeply unqualified people in charge of America -electing a bunch of wackos and probably no small number of fascists -further eroding the idea that government is anything but aesthetic

Update: this did in fact make at least one person so mad

People just say anything on the internet. "90% of men had a nazi phase." No they didn't. That's not true

So vote for someone ... who does not have Nazi tattoos! If people stop fixating on Platner and trying to ignore his issues that might become easier to do! It's definitely an option!

There was a low level GOP official ousted from his position earlier this year (Brian Ference) and I’ve been slowly watching as he rebranded his socials into a buff AI podcaster with American flags tattooed all over his chest and arms and gaining tens of thousands of new followers as a result.

The thing about it is i was definitely under the assumption that we all hated the Nazis … That’s my fault

“Nazi phase” is crazy 💩

A Garland for May Day (1895) Walter Crane

New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).

kind of wild that the number of people dying by strokes is increasing a lot in Oregon... www.allin4health.org/indicators/i...

#portland suburb's Lake Theater strikes again... 😂

there's a pop-up Vietnamese coffee shop at psu's Karl miller center, and the "OG" coffee base is an actual heart attack risk. I feel like running around the block.

Does anyone remember that place in Houston that gave u a free lotto ticket when u ordered a special (or something like that)? Was it Pappy's? Maybe I dreamed it...

they're calling it hoovermogging

it was also the way that blairites engaged with cultural progressivism. it was kind of subversive, relaxed, and fun... understated and not morally overbearing. like, I don't think of blairites as having been judgmental or high-and-mighty. not saying they were great, but some aspects were cooler.

rlly troubling stuff happening in England rn www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

New paper out today in Nature Water! We examine how changes in the *width* of the streamflow hydrograph affect water allocation among junior and senior water users. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... No paywall: rdcu.be/fgfl5 @natwater.nature.com

Our poll: two-thirds of Americans support term limits for SCOTUS justices, and a slight majority favors expanding the bench from 9 to 13 justices www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...

We all try to build walls around ourselves, typically w ironic detachment, as we oscillate btwn despair and rage, but the hardest thing is to realize this is rlly happening. Grief is a genuinely hard emotion to sit with.

To be clear about what just happened: The Trump administration sent armed FBI agents to abduct a 78-year-old doctor and former federal public health worker from his home and stripped him because the brainwashed right-wing base, hopped up on a literal conspiracy theory, wants scalps.

This red agate shows exceptional iron oxide infiltration creating the deep crimson coloration throughout the microcrystalline quartz structure. The uniform color saturation indicates slow formation in iron-rich groundwater. 🔴

Notably, Ford F250s did not exist simultaneously with the first gen Tacoma and both trucks are similar in utility, towing capacity, and purpose.

WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.

Thinking about the fact that my Daddy and all of his siblings did not have the right to vote until they were adults, and now he and his remaining brother (and the rest of our family) have the same political rights as he did in high school. Lord, have mercy.

have not read the details but i'm assuming the court's attitude is essentially "minorities have disenfranchised themselves by being supermajority democrat voters"

And here we are

looks like the Supreme Court is moving the US toward more overt, state-wide sectionalism that will define the state level geographically by the majority within that state, erasing the complexity of state politics and increasing interstate political friction and polarization...

make that quarter five minutes longer, and we would be winning! we had the momentum!

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

Nazis are bad

Cling Kong with the spin moooove

Breaking: Seattle Times: Gunfire reported after news conference held by Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Mayor Katie Wilson was rushed away Tuesday night after a news conference at Yesler Community Center after what sounded like gunshots rang out. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

the spurs' defense is rlly, rlly good

Susan Abulhawa's phrasing that Frank "was found guilty at his trial and ended up hanging from a rope as a result" is deliberately written to make someone who doesn't know about the case think Frank was hanged by the state after being found guilty. That is... not what happened.

plz teleport me to the late-Severan Nilotic crocodile cult, plz

umberto eco

Look what just arrived!! Advanced author copies of my next book. I’m so thrilled to see it in the flesh - 5 years & hundreds of transcribed household bills later! #17thc #18thc #earlymodern #Herstory

oh shit, he's part McLeod? there's a non-trivial chance me and Trump are related 😵‍💫

"anglo-saxon courage" is funny, bc we got totally housed by the Normans in 1066 and have been neither anglo nor saxon country since then... anglo-saxon unreadiness, i guess?

"I LOVE our bustling, rain-slicked corridors!" said no person who ever lived in Oregon or Portland.

It was amazing to talk to these two Oregon friends, who are also paramedics and delivered a stranger's baby on an in-bound flight to Portland last weekend. My story: www.oregonlive.com/travel/2026/...

pdx is getting waymos? that's dumb. we need to support our public transit and expand it, not increase the number of irrational robots.

I've heard of separation of powers but this is ridiculous!

Nods in 1649

NEW: FCC to direct eight Disney-owned TV stations to file early license renewals, a source says, adding that the "unprecedented" action was directly tied to ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's recent joke about first lady Melania Trump.

"ppl are playing candy crush instead of fucking," is such a great thing to make up to be mad at. Like, chisel that shit in stone and put it on ur grave.

Say hi to me next time Alexander. I am a friendly guy.