I will be forever in awe of this exchange

Iran's nuclear program is untouched, it controls the the Strait of Hormuz, it's still getting its own oil to market while everyone else's languishes. The US removed sanctions on its oil in a desperate attempt to keep prices down. It got a younger healthier loonier leadership. All thanks to DJT.

Et voila.

chag pesach sameach to everyone & may all who have been imprisoned be freed & all those who need find a laden table for their hunger tonight

Ian Wurman today:

This has been a miracle, thank you to everyone who donated and please keep spreading the word if you can. That's as good as a donation!

"Seth Rogan & Zach Braff in Party of The Deed: Special Unrated Praxis Edition" Tagline: "All that's solid melts into the air, my dude."

the people who lost twice to bush and twice to trump are still largely running things on the democratic side. feels like a bad call to me!

Great and enraging essay.

"as I saw Rahm use his weird saladfingers hands to toss his own salad, looking like an ape driven mad like at the start of 2001 A Space Odyssey, snarling at the container like he longed to hunt prey of hold, I realized that this was my Olivia Nuzzi moment; I was about to fuck Rahm Emanuel."

I’M AT THE AMERICAN HEGEMONIC SUICIDE I’M AT THE GLOBAL ENERGY CRISIS I’M AT THE COMBINATION HEGEMONIC SUICIDE ENERGY CRISIS

Economy mood

I hate the framing of “Ms Rachel has found a new cause—“ because no she hasn’t. Advocating for children kidnapped and locked up by ICE is not incompatible with her advocacy of children in Palestine. You just want to make her advocacy sound frivolous and fleeting. She’s being consistent.

1971: "Who wants to be the last man to die for a mistake?" 2026: Who wants to be the first man to die for a bet on PolyMarket?

Good morning

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

3/3 Prince Ruprecht of the Palatinate and his dog, painted by Van Dyck in 1632.

Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky

Kokoschnik, Russia, 1907

Incurious, foolish, arrogant, high on their own supply, insufferably boring, convinced of their own intelligence and righteousness, yet without even the vaguest concept of ethics or responsibility to guide them, a plague upon humanity that ought to be excised

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

And what I’m calling “opportunity theft” is the theft of someone’s future and their potential by means of robbing them of appreticeship, menteeship, and experience now. Using AI to perform the tasks that students and trainees do in the early phases of training and education is opportunity theft.

Americans in the Netherlands organizing a 'No Kings' protest only to realize we live in a constitutional monarchy and changing the name to 'No Tyrants' will never not be funny to me.

"Man is born free and is everywhere in supply chains."

Saw @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social 's post and photos, got inspired. I love this building that occupies a weird slice of land at the corner of 79th/Stony Island/South Chicago in Avalon Park.

"Alicia" shared this pic from Kern County. "The lemon orchard is in bad shape, with no lemons on the trees. They still only pay us $35 per 900 lb box for juice lemons. It takes us 3-4 hours to pick that box. It's wrong. We should at least be guaranteed minimum wage." #WeFeedYou

one page rpg: winston churchill vs one otter you are winston churchill at 90 years of age, and you have been confronted by a single otter. you have four moves: alcohol, genocide by starvation, speeches, and being mean to guests at dinner. the otter has one move, which is to bite you in the ass

Surely, we can do better than an otter?

i’ve come to believe that we will never solve the literacy crisis by talking about reading as “watering the garden of your mind” or whatever. books are, and have always been, the favored medium of God’s purest freaks and degenerates. Reading isn’t a salad. If you’re doing it right, it’s a vice.

Lucas is the Boomer Pythia. Now worshipped, now dismissed; possessed by visions—mystic desert terrorists, planes into buildings, cheeky machines, trade and tax, the beauty of Empire, centuries forgotten in a generation—he speaks but does not understand, each with a strange and bitter core of truth.

We’re doing the plot to life on mars to *society* - fall into that conversation pit comrade and pass the fondue fork

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

another day volunteering in Bethlehem. everyone asks me about the rough beast. buddy, they don't even let me slouch towards it

As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"

Why are Black women continuing to bear the brunt of unemployment? Three words: #TheDoubleTax. What Dr. Valerie Wilson has shown is that the group experiencing joblessness is COLLEGE-EDUCATED Black women. Let that sink in. #jobsreport #jobsday

Shahab Moradi, said Iran would struggle to hit back against the US by striking a parallel figure to Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani because the US has only "fictional" heroes. "Think about it. Are we supposed to take out Spiderman and SpongeBob?"

One day you will be able to look at a picture of a grapefruit on your compute. this was worth hundreds of billions of dollars research to produce and will solve every problem

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

The ides of March are coming if you need ideas about what to get your local emperor.

"Winds of Summer" 9" x 12" acrylic on canvas panel

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Fixed it.

“it should have the promise of meaning” putting this on a building with Obama’s name on it is something

brb writing a plausibly real-sounding short story disguised as a newspaper article that describes a hilarious caper of disbarment

Now a reality!