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Celebrating tonight’s results by going out and getting really vaxxed

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

What idiot called it ‘Storm Benjamin’ and not ‘It’s Raining Ben’?

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I'm sharing my full Kol Nidre drash. I dive hard into Gaza. I've had sermons that were more difficult to write than this one but I've never had one that was this difficult to deliver. Thank you to @theradr.bsky.social and so many other colleagues for giving me the courage.

Wordle. My office, now.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

The left isn’t “dancing on Charlie Kirk’s grave,” we’re just pointing out that, thanks to rhetoric like his, a lot of other graves exist.

What are *your* thoughts on a slow, painful death? open.substack.com/pub/thebigge...

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

Slightly diminish a book Charlie and the Carob Factory

Great way to present the railway map of the Netherlands. With Utrecht in the centre as the important railway hub it is

So. I saw an interview with a photojournalist who’s been documenting ICE detentions as they happen at a New York immigration court. He talked about how-in addition to being devastating for those detained and their families-these detentions are affecting the ICE officers. 🧵

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

Dr. Tarek Loubani, who is in Gaza right now, was invited to give a talk to emergency workers about the attacks on health care facilities in Gaza. But he was instructed - get this - not to say who was doing the attacking. Take a look at how this hero of a human responded: vimeo.com/1112115018/c...

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

How on earth do you build a pluriversal movement when people are battling for the one rightest, hottest take?

To be honest, I haven’t trusted Stephen Colbert ever since he conveniently abandoned all his right wing views as soon as he got hired to host a network talk show

🧽 SpongeDems 🧽

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

This is the toxic old man yaoi America deserves

Not saying the iPlayer live feed of #Eurovision is delayed, but half of Bucks Fizz have just ripped their skirts off.

Sorry, Malta, Denmark stole all your votes 🇩🇰 #Eurovision

Who I WANT to win: 🇮🇹 Who I think SHOULD win: 🇦🇱 Who I think WILL win: 🇸🇪 #Eurovision

Timeline Cleanse Baby Manatees

Well, that was fast.

oh yeah all right take it easy baby make it last all night he was an American pope

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

The Papal conclave is expected to start between the 6th and 12th of May. Eurovision is between the 13th and 17th of May. Social media is about to get very confusing.

#cartoon #berniesanders @sanders.senate.gov (via www.lectrr.com)

Trump does care about the pain, chaos, and turmoil he’s causing—in the following sense: He loves it. It makes him feel powerful.

I’m seeing a lot of posts about how certain immigrants sent to El Salvador are not actually criminals and this is true but I would also like to remind you that people with criminal records shouldn’t be subjected to this, either.

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Leveled up from Serving Kant.

the second semifinal will start with a song about male orgasm and end with a song about female orgasm delaying women’s pleasure again smdh #eurovision

Whatever the opposite of gaslighting is, I do that. I'm a lamp lighter. No, you're not crazy. Your feelings are real, and so is your suffering. You're not being oversensitive, we are supposed to feel everything

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

i sat next to the wallet inspector every day in the park. we became friends, so i assumed the best when he asked to inspect my wallet

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Don't know where to put your energy right now? Here are 20 positive uses of your time—and growing: open.substack.com/pub/thebigge...

I figure a Captcha is good for my first post, right?