What is the opposite of nominative determinism?

Deadly serious about this.

The thing about the Homan situation is that, I dunno, maybe it's plausible that there was no crime there under insane SCOTUS precedents or whatever. But the fact that the Trump administration still hired him after learning this...how can you possibly defend that?

Time for another article about how Biden is old.

So, uh, did Homan just get to keep that $50k of taxpayer money?

Wow, I am in the 99.7th percentile of Bluesky users, apparently. A Bluesky Elite.

Tiresome connection to contemporary politics time: While this is indeed a great oath of allegiance to a king, we should all remember that none of us has sworn any kind of oath of allegiance to Donald Trump, who has not been observing all our liberties and laws and who is, indeed, no better than we.

The oath of allegiance sworn to the King of Aragon in the early modern period is amazing. "We who are as good as you swear to you who are no better than we, to accept you as our king and sovereign lord, provided you observe all our liberties and laws; but if not, not."

Mit dem Angriff Steiners wird das alles in Ordnung kommen.

Chronicle by CCR

Why is this guy resigning *after* firing the professor and demoting the department chair and dean over nothing?

Until proven otherwise I'm going to believe Jimmy Fallon is a gutless coward.

Macrohard? Come on fuck you. Just the most tiresome person in the world.

This is fucking ominous

For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.

"I had friends say to me, look, we can oppose political violence without whitewashing this guy. I spent some time thinking about that over the weekend...and my reaction honestly is that [we cannot oppose political violence without whitewashing this guy]."

People are apparently getting weird about this, but this statement seems...good? Like, I don't think I'd want anything more pointed than this from Obama. Remember that it's the stuff after the "but" that counts.

Henri IV: so sassy.

I would like to see the 'liberal center' as it were be a bit more aware that there is a distinction between 'doing debate' and defending the concept of debating. Liberalism isn't a call to intellectual neutrality, but an active commitment to specific principles of liberty, pluralism and rights.

Kids: We want Fetterman! Mom: We've got Fetterman at home. Fetterman at home:

Betteridge's Law

It's weird to think that the US Constitution was written at a time when the Holy Roman Empire, Republic of Venice, and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were all going concerns.

"You're asking the guy in the $4,000 suit if people have the right to protest? Come on!"

Since Robert Redford just died while Bob Woodward is still alive...how many people have outlived the actor who played them in a movie?

I feel like D and G are the only correct answers here.

congrats to your grandma in heaven on finally being able to fulfill her fantasy of being eiffel towered by paul newman and robert redford

So question: why are there so few recognized "great sculptors" in the western tradition (especially thinking of the renaissance to 19th century era) as compared to painters? Like you have Michelangelo, Bernini, Donatello, and then...

This man's brain is soft butter and it is nuts that our institutions are letting him and whatever psychopaths have his ear rule us like a mad emperor.

Farewell, Robert Redford. You did good.

crystal was so insane for this. probably top 5 most unhinged things in comic history. she doesnt give a shit

Need to make some T-shirts and posters of this one.

Some Dutch noble, probably: hey Maerten, have you finished my commissions of the Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus Christ, our lord and savior yet? Maerten van Heemskerck: sure did boss, made him yoked to the fuckin' gills just like you asked. straight shredded, son. noble: what

no idea about the ins and outs of this (seems bad?) but it is insanely funny to arrange this photoshoot as a way of delivering the news

horrified they weren’t quick enough to keep her from spreading this kind of vile hate speech on TV. for those who don’t know, “go birds” is a coded expression of support for the Philadelphia Eagles

This is Kevin effing Williamson thedispatch.com/article/char...

A parable, maybe: in the mid-seventeenth century, France had a lot of credibility with neighboring states, both Catholic and protestant, as a partner against Habsburg aggression.

Taijuan Walker: maybe not so good at pitching?

Fuck this. The world might be worse for the fact that he died the way he did, but it is not worse because this disingenuous little fascist piece of shit is gone from it. www.reuters.com/world/us/cha...

Parents of a tyrannical three year old in the coffee shop very calmly arguing with their child about whether "three strikes and you're out" is a commonly known expression, or whether they just made it up.

no noah, i wrote that post because i think you are a weird antisocial loser and i want you to know that

I would just assume never fucking talk about Charlie Kirk again, but if the media is going to play along with Republicans trying to make him the second coming of MLK, it's hard to let it go.

Pick a fictional character besides Caesar Catilina who might say the line "And you think one year of *medical school* entitles you to plough through the riches of my Emersonian mind?"

The thing about Bari Weiss that drives me insane is how many people don't seem to recognize that she's just a straight up right wing hack. Like she's not even idiosyncratic the way someone like Chatterton Williams or Jesse Singal are, where they'll take liberal positions on some things

The Argument is legitimately extremely bad. So far as I can tell it's all people like this.

Discussion question: how bad are Paradox games for society?

No faculty member at A&M should accept an appointment as department chair or Dean under these circumstances. Honestly people in those positions in other departments and schools should resign them.

Honestly good. I'm glad Dems didn't agree to some deal to confirm people now in exchange for theoretically keeping the right to oppose them in the future until the GOP makes the same threat again, which seems to have been the alternative