Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

Doctor: What are you going to name your baby boy? Reince Priebus’s mom: Reince Priebus

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Immer gut, wenn der Landtagsabgeordnete auch gleich einen Hasen aus dem Hut zaubern kann

Wenn Gisele Pelicot sagt "La honte doit changer de camp/Die Scham muss die Seite wechseln" heißt das nicht, dass das von alleine passiert. Täter(*innen) fangen nicht plötzlich an sich zu schämen, sie müssen sanktioniert & verurteilt werden, gesellschaftliche Tode sterben, um Scham zu erlernen.

legend

Who up sumbitting they article/abstract

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.

Ok but where do I pee

Freiburg ist schön 4

#195: Karl Band, St. Rochus, Türnich (1954-55)

I think all these men who benefited financially from proximity to Epstein POST CONVICTION OF PEDOPHILIA should have to pay reparations to his victims, whether they abused women and children or not. They all knew what was going on, and help legitimize him with their association.

Here are a few of the emails from Casey Wasserman, current chair of LA28, to Ghislaine Maxwell in the latest Epstein files drop

It's hard to believe good things can still be happening, but if you are in the Boston area between now and May 1st, there is an free-to-the-public exhibition on women's type labor in literature and the arts (co-curated by me and the great Dale Stinchcomb). library.harvard.edu/exhibits/tha...

Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Calling my Döner and pizza place “Mr. Zorba” to maximally piss off every Greek person

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

Don’t make me tap the sign again.

Freiburg ist schön

#206: Arthur Hoffmann, St. Viktor, Düsseldorf-Knittkuhl (1981-82)

Donnerstagabend Abend [❔]

Train, me

random Yale law professor: jeffrey you naughty dog.... will i be seeing you at this year's Skull Size Forum or will you be busy with your hobbies ;) JE: we must invent trans phobia,,

In 1882 the richest man in the world, William Henry Vanderbilt, had one of the most extraordinary hair/facial hair situations I’ve ever seen

Do you yearn for @versobooks.bsky.social’s Jameson Reading Group?? Good news: we're back for ONE LAST JOB. In 2 weeks, we'll read Jameson's last book, The Years of Theory, alongside the book's editor Carson Welch and scholar Patrick Lyons. RSVP here for pdfs and zoom link. forms.gle/2nQdTXDrPrQo...

#205: Hermann Gehrig, St. Stephanus, Detmold-Hiddesen (1957-58)

Train, sunset

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

lol nymag.com/intelligence...

In secret deal, 4 days before inauguration, Abu Dhabi sheik’s entity invested $500M to get 49% of Trump family’s crypto company. $187M went to Trump family; $31M to Witkoff’s. In May Trump Adm gave 500K ultra-advanced AI chips to Abu Dhabi. (Gift article). www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

i'm crying dude North Texas Republicans lost White Settlement

I got a new running watch for Christmas which I use not super often and every time I open its app I chuckle at my profile picture

We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!

I really wish we could take some of the negative valence off of “performative” because performance is tremendously important right now especially

#204: Josef Lehmbrock, Church of the Holy Cross, Düsseldorf-Rath (1956-58)

I was today years old when I learned that Louis van Gaal’s full name is “Aloysius Paulus Maria van Gaal”

Venn diagram of ‘social science airport book author’ and ‘epstein files’ getting more crowded

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

#203: Erwin Schiffer, Church of the Holy Spirit, Rösrath-Forsbach (1964-1968; renovated by Maria Schwarz, 1983-84)

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

This right here is the beginnings of the result of what DOGE was really up to. Not *really* slashing stuff, but getting access to as many government citizen databases and joining them to be able to target people quickly and comprehensively across all their exposure to the federal government.

#202: Otto Bartning with Otto Dörzbach, Church of the Savior, Marl (1956-57)

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

Even after everything that's happened recently, I feel like some who've been in DC a long time are a bit slow on picking up on how that whole notion of DOJ being even partly independent of the White House is a dead letter.

Happy “Alexander Zverev is out of a Grand Slam” day to all who celebrate

Die Anhimmelung der Leistung geht immer damit einher, andere Menschen als “Leistungsunfähig” und daher minderwertig zu sehen. Das war auch im Nationalsozialismus, den Malte Thießen eine “Leistungsdiktatur” genannt hat, so

♥️ Via Dean Blundell.

"Ethical AI" is the new "Carbon Credit". It's just a lie to obfuscate that the same nasty shit is going on right there, just one layer deeper. Throwing a progressive blanket on it. Don't fall for it