Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

Notice how this framing conflates support for universally popular health goals with support for a specific political movement. Those are not the same thing.

What an odd pairing. Seems to say “You don’t get it. It’s art.” And as if that excuses everything. Guy seems to be smuggling in an evaluative definition of art into a categorical one. And something tells me Bourdieu would agree with me.

it's absolutely wild how little support there is for community colleges in this country. they do so much more good, and with far fewer resources, than the so-called elite universities that largely function to reproduce/sustain existing hierarchies of wealth and privilege

Take it from me, the guy who’s specialty is being employed

How is Jason Isbell not on this list???

If leaders abuse the rule of law to make themselves immune to it, so that they can undermine the rights of others with impunity, by what moral or philosophical argument are they entitled to its protections, once they lose power? By what grace should they be sorted by law instead of by other means?

Brutal.

Maybe the real point of threatening armageddon was the trades they made along the way.

Chickening out of a crime-against-humanity threat is good, actually. Threatening a crime against humanity—or being silent or even supportive when someone in your party threatens one—is extremely bad, and tells us everything we need to know about you, forever.

If you were a malignant narcissist with flourishing sociopathic tendencies, you'd be getting off bigly right now as all of civilization waits to see if you'll destroy it.

my problem is that i legitimately think this is what it would be like to interact with wild predators IG plumesofficiel

As Artemis II passed out of communication with earth, I was struck by the realization that each day each of us is the farthest we have been from the moment we were thrown into this world, pushed out into space, slung by gravity, looking out the windows.

Every word of this 👇

Trump says the US in the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow Birthright Citizenship! He's wrong by about 30 countries. But let's pretend he's right. Since America has the world's leading economy and military, wouldn't our citizenship and immigration policies be considered pretty SMART!

I mean, good, but it’s still a sign of profound dysfunction if this isn’t 9-0. A justice who will sign off on this is effectively announcing there’s nothing too flagrantly unconstitutional to get their blessing if a Republican president does it.

"trans ideology is a sickness." [reads the news] "people's personal affairs are none of our business and we should talk about immigration"

By “better control” you mean using ai to create even smaller echo chambers? Don’t you see the problem?

if a leftist says he's anti-zionist because of the war crimes of a sovereign nation the times will suggest he is an anti-semite. if a conservative says that he is "j-pilled" the times will say it's about foreign policy.

We should prepare ourselves for a 2036 Republican candidate who promises to reverse income inequality and not starting foreign wars, positioning themselves against Trump, who cut taxes for the rich and started foreign wars by campaigning on being against Bush's tax cuts for the rich and foreign wars

And it’s that Congress has let him. The GOP could resolve this tomorrow.

People died for this. He wore his stupid hat when they were wheeling those dead Americans past him. The fuck are we doing here man

Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

the types of podcasts: a guide

The first White House statue that has a “Bada-bing” sound effect when viewers approach it.

Having Asian Aunties, I recognize that expression.

What bothers me is that if Mamdani were a Jew & he expressed sympathy & supported Israeli Jews, no one, absolutely NO ONE, would find that objectionable But bc he is Muslim & expressed some sympathy for Palestinians, everyone objects. It’s almost denying him the right to he Muslim, & that’s racist

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

Podcast Host: Ask Jeeves…that is tremendously countercultural in a certain sense, to ask a butler for knowledge 58 year old wearing Supreme hoodie: no one had ever thought that was possible. The warehouses of knowledge were owned by academia.

The Leroy Jenkins of wars.

We must never lose sight of how absolutely fucking hallucinatorily batshit this is. The other guy says when you surrender now? That means *you* are the one suing for peace

i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly

I finally figured it out: this Iran war feels like the kinds of wars I used to have in Civilization II after I saved the game and felt like seeing how big a mess I could make.

“I am the son of the guy whose secret police force used to terrorize you, please install me or my friends, for democracy” is an amazing pitch from the shah’s son

Ahem. These nuclear weapons are as non existent as the support for *looks at notes* this son of the long-deposed Shah of Iran.

Ask your doctor if Operation Epic Fury™ is for you.

Graham believes that you can isolate one problem inside a complex system and fix it without triggering worse or secondary effects. He’s basically selling you the Ford Pinto of wars.

Modern politics increasingly functions less like governance and more like interface design for emotional management.

“WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”

The same people who believe in the less government intervention in peoples because the hand of the free market will correct all? Lol.

This machine kills fascists.

Hey, what a vile thing to think.

It’s amazing to think that American conservatism, which claimed to have an intellectual heritage going back to Burke, Hamilton, Hayek and Buckley, would now be a movement whose sole ideology is whatever crazy policy Trump pulls out of his ass.

So we don’t tax them but that’s ok because they employ people and give to charity, except they’re locked in on ways to avoid employing people and they don’t give to charity.

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

A very real dilemma: you really can’t a lot of stuff this administration puts out BUT reducing trust in government in general is very bad for progressive causes and ultimately great for the populist right

Worth noting that this response actually concedes that what Pritzker said is true.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.