The age of the unsubtle metaphor

I feel like this is gonna come in handy…

The age of the unsubtle metaphor

Happy 4th of July!

Ong Bak is a 4th of July movie

ICE celebrating “Freedom 250” by taking shackled immigrants from our nation’s capital to concentration camps in the South.

This is literally the setup that allowed Jim Crow to be a decades long racist regime of apartheid while modern moderates lament the lost comity of the Senate. This is literally a politics of white reconciliation which we’ve already seen.

Anyone do this yet

okay this is the best one yet, no contest

Vozinha stops the quick Messi free kick

Between Chuck throwing his brother in the dungeon, Bob from Chicago excommunicating schismatics, and drunk Pete’s Christian fundamentalist military getting bogged down in an ill-advised adventure in the Middle East, medieval fans are eating good.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

"So, we evoked a demon that can sit between you and all objective knowledge, and it's really useful but you can never quite trust it. And then we made it paranoid it might have it's own demons intermediating access to objective truth." Descartes: "mon ami, I am too fucking high for zis"

I feel like portraying it as a fringe theological dispute between catholic sects over the 2nd vatican council and finger pointing over who's a heretic, rather than as a conflict with a fringe far right sect that says Jews are going to hell and Muslims are rapists hides the general interest aspect.

What is the charge? Enjoying a succulent pausa de hidratación?

🚨🚨🚨MEMBERS OF THE ORDER WHO STAY IN THE ORDER ARE *ALL* EXCOMMUNICATED🚨🚨🚨

My Cousin Vinny: Ace Attorney Had to finally release this from my head

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

Trump: It's not working! Why don't they love the fair? How do I make the crowds cheer? Oracle of DC: If you test your strength against the heat with a very long speech, the nation will celebrate harder than they ever have. They will party in the streets. No one will ever forget the night.

Some updates on Trump’s arch at the Great American State Fair (repost with video this time. Sorry, it’s really hard to do video on Bluesky!!)

NEW: I wrote about yesterday's very odd and frustratingly pointless MKUltra hearing. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

a) there are, like, single digit trans girls in sports in most states (sometimes literally one!), this entire thing is made up so that one girl who wants to play sports with her friends can't do it b) do not, under any circumstances, make policy based on angry sports parents

Schism bro? Schism today bro? What’s up? Are we schismatic today bro?

Go Doctor Congo and the rule of law!!!

“The meek shall inherit BOFA DEEZ” is apparently the preferred translation now

wait lol this is so much worse than I expected the explanation to be? they published the story based on two words, neither of which was Alito’s name??? that’s the most obviously fireable offense possible if it’s any other journalist alive????? www.npr.org/sections/npr...

so weird how Ezra Klein keeps amplifying and validating lazy propaganda by bad faith pieces of shit

When Ezra Klein had Ta-Nehisi Coates on to discuss his book about Palestine, Klein basically called him an extremist and obliquely referred to Tareq Baconi as a terrorism-supporter, and then a year and a half later Klein is now saying exactly what Coates said but acting like it's his original ideas.

Do not enter the freedom truck. I REPEAT: DO NOT ENTER THE FREEDOM TRUCK!

The state exhibit halls are one small room per state. The rooms are lightly air conditioned, which is nice. The Louisiana room makes Louisiana seem boring as hell. I dunno, feel like making Louisiana seem boring takes actual work.

Had to dig up a hard copy for this one.

Rep. Tom Kean (R-N.J.) voted to give tax breaks to billionaires and pay for it through cuts to Medicaid -- cutting people's healthcare, increasing cost of medications including those that treat mental health issues, and closing hospitals.

anyone who reads this ruling as any sort of “moderation” whatsoever should never be taken seriously on anything ever again

You would think “your mom using AI to make it look like you were given a birthday party” is the most pathetic thing you’d ever see but then you remember he runs this account himself

Been waiting for this story. ICE deports people to Venezuela three times a week, there are likely many more recent deportees with valid asylum claims in the rubble. Hope that GlobalX crew loses some sleep knowing they flew a planeload of shackled men & women, plus seven children, to their deaths.

One of the drills you do as a line man in football is have one guy lock in on the other persons chest and the other person has to try to break their grip. It sucks to do because you're basically bashing your already beat up forearms together and tearing up your already tore up hands.

ahh yes, the white house, famously built in 1776

Issa Diop with a beautiful header to equalize at the 90 minute mark

Dance like you're Jean-Claude Van Damme and everyone is watching

Had to add Yakety Sax to it

With Elon Musk becoming our first trillionaire, I talked to American users of the rapidly growing “Almost Homeless” subreddit, who are struggling to stay housed amid a brutal job market and with social services slashed to the bone. They say this online community is crucial to their mental stability.

Promises made promsies kept

important CIDRAP editorial: "Call it what it is—the US has lost its hold on measles elimination" www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cidr...

a few times recently, i've recommended a book that was published under the author's dead name. i went with "[title] by [new name,] published under their former name, [dead name]" trans authors, what's your preferred way of navigating this? I don't want to deadname, I do want people to find the book!

Jim Ross:

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.