It's having to cave to the authority of a woman. That's the original wound, the villain origin story.

Can confirm

Wednesday

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

All that “we can work with him on some issues” bs and voting for his nominees — both times it’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen in over 20 years following politics (other than voting for Bush’s war). Just fucking oppose him, on all fronts.

ICYMI

it'll be back in three days

JD Vance, crying as he fucks the couch.

Today in “No Fascism is the Actual Popularism”

New American Civil Religion just dropped

I predict we’ll all be learning more about Jask this week

And that’s how we got the new Papal States

When I ask someone how I look

Iran should declare that they will only negotiate with Obama.😈

Melania: I never cut child in half with sword. I never do this. The entire USA: what? Melania: not me.

“Unless all of my demands are met”

George W Bush is the biggest beneficiary of Trump being president

"not trying to fuck up the midterms" is the best way to fuck up the midterms

Bowie got milkshake ducked

Hippopotami at the Budapest Zoo a/k/a Hungary Hippos

DEI for women involved encouraging companies to hire women DEI for men is convincing men that they can still be manly men even if they do “women’s work”

The batting helmet’s not regulation, but I’ll allow it

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

The philosopher who was told by Texas A&M administrators to remove a text by Plato from his course is the second philosopher this term to decide to leave the university owing to its academic freedom failures. dailynous.com/2026/04/09/p...

The most ambitious crossover event in history, don't put in the newspaper that my "not involved in human trafficking" t-shirt raises any questions not answered by my shirt

My favorite response to Lee’s surrender is from the Yorkville SC Enquirer “Gen Lee a Prisoner of War” “Officers & Men in Tears!” “Strong men will bow their heads and weep” But unlike the paper’s editor, I think these are good things

Lee’s surrender wasn’t front-page news everywhere in the US. In early C19, newspapers put ads on the front page, with news inside. That was changing mid-century, so we see some papers reporting the surrender on page 1 and some on page 2.

Pope should put the US under an interdict

Any of my French history friends good at reading bad French handwriting from the 1950s?

Queen Elizabeth I “shot dailie at pricks”

As Hank Hill said, “you're not making Christianity better, you're just making [hip-hop] worse"

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Iranian negotiators explained to Trump that a toll is a kind of tariff, and he was like:

Imagine if Democrats were in power when FDR & Truman were president

The name Konnor is an abomination Everyday we stray further from God’s light

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

The Originalist Case for War Crimes by Ilan Wurman

Look, it’s not even that it’s false that there’s a wag-the-dog element here, but talking about threats of genocide as a “distraction” from egg prices is grotesque.

If a mainstream outlet straightforwardly described republican views this way they’d be inundated with criticism bsky.app/profile/leba...

What if the American Revolution wasn’t just an American story? 🇬🇧➡️🇺🇸 In the new special series of Lucy Worsley Investigates, I’ve been looking at the Revolution from the “other side” — the British one. And it turns out messy! 📺 The new series is starting on Tuesday on PBS.

Rarely has my hometown been so accurately skewered. (For the non-TX non-US South folks, Mary Ryan Brown’s persona’s accent here is an exaggerated-for-effect version of her home Mississippi accent. Houstonians generally don’t sound “southern” or “Texan” unless they’re trying to)

they're all good fridays, brent

Before GLP-1s, we used rum for weight loss

Indiana University of Pennsylvania has one of the most confusing names

This headline will not make any sense to normal people.

Soon he'll be going by jd vance

Doing a cool JCB Reads event today at noon (eastern)-- join us to hear from Katharine Gerbner about her fascinating book on 18th century Obeah. And working through and around the archives of criminalized religiosity. Join us! jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...