Semiquincentennial Fyre Festival

Bikes are fun *because* they’re dangerous. Sharp riders run rings around cops.

Macho dudes are hypersensitive to criticism, precious snowflakes who see themselves as the victims of their own violence.

“The panopticon fails when an organization looks back.”

I don’t eat shrimp, but I like their custard. Does that count?

After “embattled” comes “beleaguered” and “reeling,” the prelude to “ex-“

“It’s the economy, stupid” was *always* racist. Still is

“As Protestants in Ulster and white Southerners in the United States have figured out that they are on the losing side of demographic shifts, the politics of each place have been increasingly shaped by ethno-nationalist anxieties.”

“my passion is graphic design”

Never apologize for a time when folks encouraged each to show the world who they really are. That’s all good, on so many levels. It’s the backlash that’s toxic, on so many levels.

Another dirty prosecution in Chicago on Midway Blitz.

“The government, Menchaca said, is ‘trying to set the stage to criminalize every person who doesn’t agree to their atrocities. And our loved ones are suffering for their compassion.’”

Democrats Kagan and Sotomayor did what Obama hired them to do: look out for corporate America. Gorsuch was always a wild card. Jackson is the only real one. I’ll give a nod to Biden for her.

Pack the court, and limit its jurisdiction. Congress has that power. Anybody preaching other remedies is distracting you — amending the constitution ain’t gonna happen any time soon.

I’m not surprised the Trump Court did this. It’s why they were hired. We now have hundreds of thousands more lives to protect, with no help from the state.

Ambush interrogations are dangerous, frequently perjury traps. It’s always best to lawyer up.

I normally approve of depictions of skulls in marketing, but this one gets a yuck. The skull is blameless; it’s the product. 🤢

Brits were a toxic influence on the EU, just a US cat’s paw. Whatever English voters may want, the EU does not want them back.

We are witnessing the MAGA equivalent of the destruction of the Democratic Party through election of triangulating centrists. If you think this ends well for country, I believe you're sadly mistaken. Centrism in response to fascism fuels fascism, as our losses in 2016 and 2024 demonstrate.

I say this with ill will and animosity: if you hate Democratic voters, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

“In my beginning is my end.”

you people need to show more respect for the political machinery that lost to donald trump twice

Fractured metaphors engraved on facing funhouse mirrors. Baudrillard would go to town with a defective reflecting pool; Derrida couldn’t resist the disseminating blue tain.

A big deal. This is a devastating illness.

Fascists get pardons (and maybe cash.) Antifascists get hard time.

Like Bezos with the Post, Ellison only cares about one viewer: Trump.

Very little. The Holy See is (adjusted for inflation) the single biggest funder of astronomical research in history. As for Galileo, he was found guilty of suspicion of heresy, spent one day in gaol, and the rest of his life living in a palace, and continued to publish heliocentrism around Europe.

It’s a similar dynamic in the US. You can’t satisfy these people. Xenophobia is irrational. They’ll never be satisfied. You can only defeat them.

Chicago got a taste of this in 1995, when the morgue had to rent refrigerated trucks to store all the bodies. We just weren’t set up for heat disasters.

Proud creatures, cats usually hate it when you make them look cute.

From attorney Christopher Parente, whose firm represents one of the defendants seeing their charges dropped:

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Loyalists are creeps? I’m shocked, shocked . . .

US aircraft carrier in North Atlantic to get new Captain.

DO NOT PUBLISH UNTIL NEWS IS CONFIRMED A look back at the PM's political career

Not sufficiently articulate for Stancil.

Starmer observes Pride Month by resigning.

the story of Iran is that you don't always have to win. sometimes you just have to have what it takes to deny victory to your opponents, and endure

I've been kinda obsessed with this video

There are people in DC who have been pushing for an Iran war as long as I can remember and it is important to note they are psychos and idiots

the lesson of the second Trump presidency is the President can do whatever the fuck he wants and the next democratic president will have a lot of explaining to do when they pretend they've been thwarted by the Senate Parliamentarian or whoever

The green algae secrets THEY don’t want you to know.

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When I was taught about Limbo as a toddler I imagined millions of unbaptized babies performing a lascivious Caribbean dance for all eternity.

Saw a Nissan Leaf with a bumper sticker that said "I bought this before Elon Musk killed himself"