I still can't believe the FBI admitted it has Epstein training videos that should have been released under the Esptein Files Transparency Act. My lawsuit continues! If you missed the live broadcast earlier, you can watch it here. Never any paywalls. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

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*DOJ INVESTIGATING ALLEGATIONS AGAINST UAW PRESIDENT SHAWN FAIN

Will never cease to amaze that we've all watched Trump stiff, betray, ignore, and sacrifice everyone who goes into business with him/bends the knee for 30-plus years, and there's somehow STILL always shmucks lining up going "OK but it'll be different with ME"

this thing is too cool to scare me tho

this thing scares me

Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize after wake up call: newspapers mistakenly published his obituary when his brother died & what he read as his legacy horrified him speaking ill (factually) of the dead is literally the most effective way to curb living racist & Nazi public figures/politicians

Whether this story is apocryphal or not, how we shit on Lindsay Graham today matters. Other Quislings who are still alive and enabling Trump need to know how they will be remembered if they don’t turn on him immediately. This is the legacy that awaits them all.

The regime he actively abetted has killed a million people unnecessarily and may still destroy democracy.

In case you don't follow UFC (don't blame you), alleged rapist Conor McGregor was top billing tonight and came out swinging like a crackhead, only to instantaneously blow out his knee on the very first kick, get punched in the face approximately 11 times, and lose immediately

(Which I think is both hilarious irony but is very clearly true. They've spent so long trying to critique critical theory theyve become its apothosis and entirely unmoored from anything but oppositionalism)

Yeah, but that requires them to actually a) know what those words mean b) reject postmodernism when they are increasingly the most postmodernist movement

Ah but you have to remember that suggesting that The Odyssey has any themes or ideas or motifs or implications beyond "Odysseus is really strong and cool and killed a lot of people" is itself postmodernist corruption, etc, etc.

It would be so easy to do a take about how its success proves the universality of Western Civilisation and shows the continued wisdom of the ancients and a rebuttal of all those postmodernists etc!

They have a view of the "Western Canon" that is so stunningly simplistic that any actual attempt to engage with it beyond the level of a statue avi is treated as desecration.

It’s very funny that all indications are that an adaptation of Homer could be one of the biggest movies of the year with both critics and the box office and this is universally interpreted as a catastrophe for the conservative right because they’re poisoned themselves against culture

Kinda… crosses are generally accepted, but crucifixes are no bueno (“Jesus ain’t on the cross anymore!”). Images or statues of saints (and especially Mary!) are generally considered idolatrous. But weird symbols like the so-called “Christian flag” usually pass muster.

i think you basically have to be in the Bible Belt and discuss Catholicism to get the full effect, though

it's one of those thing that a lot of secular people don't get but uh, Reformed Protestant evangelicals *really* really fucking hate Catholics

Latinos and white ethnics are both wildly overrepresented among swing voters, please dial the 19th-century sectarianism UP my Republican friends

I am rooting for the resurgence of more open anti-Catholicism because right-wing evangelicals do not seem remotely aware that Catholics are a pivotal swing constituency in the United States

An underrated bit in The Handmaid’s Tale is that the Christofascist regime is extremely anti-Catholic and has demolished Catholic Churches and murdered loads of priests and nuns

while it might seem odd to a lot of people on here who are secular, anti-Catholicism as a bigotry is still alive and well within the United States (this, despite Catholics having their own wing of postliberal thought)

one major problem here is that Catholic political thought gets read into the same political continuum as Protestant political thought, so people don't think more deeply about how Hegseth's pastor fucking hates Catholics

I think that many people don't understand that Evangelicals consider Catholicism to be essentially a pagan religion.

If you think the practice of politics does not include the deliberate shifting of public opinion, you just don't understand the game that's being played. It's like saying basketball players should stop trying to get those stupid rebounds and focus on the only important part, scoring.

This paragraph gave me an epiphany about Matty Y. It's not that he doesn't understand how politics words. It's that fundamentally, he doesn't understand *what politics is.*

I will go to my grave being certain the mouth-breathers who arrested her took one look at her skin and her habit and assumed she was Muslim.

NBC News shared footage of a visibly shaken Sister Letty being released from ICE custody and embraced by Sister Norma Pimentel, a Catholic Charities leader. “She was very distraught and scared, and didn’t understand what was happening,” Sister Pimentel said: youtu.be/a-h-bmkaxfw?...

“Defending human life also includes welcoming, protecting and assisting immigrants,” Leo wrote in his July 4 letter. Just days earlier, Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja was abducted by mass deportation agents while on her way to Mass. They even confiscated her rosary: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

The part where this comic strip is extremely rough as a work of cartooning is ironic but also besides the point.

This comic shows you as a deeply mean person. The reason you’re upset is because people didn’t cry over your meanness, they simply told you that they don’t like you as a result of how you publicly regarded them

nobody cancelled you, Alex Graham. *You* told the community that you don’t respect them. And so the community said that they don’t like you either

We can probably narrow down the particular horsefuckery to something during the 2017 cookie season.

I checked the Somber Reflections stack and Lindsey has his own box! Can’t remember exactly what he did to earn it but it must have pissed me off but good. Milkshake time!

Koval Cranberry Gin and a decent bottle of champagne. And yes, may my advance directive state for the record that I wish to be awakened immediately if I’m asleep when it goes down.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lindsey Graham died from aorta rupture stemming from hardening of arteries: preliminary finding from medical examiner.

i’m sorry but ‘literally died of hard heartedness’ is the most hack writing yet in an already weak season