no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

Oh hell yeah!

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

The story here is increasingly about the right’s reaction — the incitement, the calls for war, the effort to use this terrible incident to neuter opposition. This should be seen in the context of authoritarian regimes worldwide and their efforts to exploit acts of political violence to consolidate.

Political violence is always and forever appalling and unforgivable, no matter who it's directed at. The Cato Institute has helpfully categorised politically motivated murders in the USA since 1975. Here is what it found. www.cato.org/blog/politic...

I think this may be what they're worried about ... Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...

Chicago Cubs players Matt Shaw and Michael Busch pose with anti-MLK activist Charlie Kirk

Some context for my comment above about higher ed as a valuable export: In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... Imagine, killing your own child through your ignorance and stubbornness, and then inviting the handmaiden of death to the funeral. A death cult, indeed.

Cory Booker has now given the longest Senate floor speech in American history. Strom Thurmond previously set the record in defense of segregation. A Black senator breaks it speaking out against a white supremacist. Let this serve as a spark to all Democrats.

WC: you gents still thinking Normandy for the landing on tues? DE: Better believe it. We launch at 0400 GST. FR: giddyup FR: codename operation overlord. I came up with that. WC: blimey. just terrific EP: Should I be on this? This is Ernie Pyle

Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.

when you're watching a movie with your parents and a sex scene comes on

Good response template here.

Imagine you're just some 30-something guy who converts to one of the world's major religions and in less than a decade its spiritual leader is rebuking you in front of the entire world That's how big a loser JD Vance is apnews.com/article/pope...

if you play forward wouldn't you shut down the goalie if you could?

Thank the lord for Private Eye

Trump has rescinded a Biden executive order calling for the development of policies to lower drug costs for people in Medicare and Medicaid.

Both the New York Times and Washington Post obituaries for Jimmy Carter have joint bylines including writers who have been dead for years. The Guardian ran an obit with a single byline—and yes, the writer has been dead since 2021.