This bit from the NYT Vance story describes basically all of ultra-right-wing chud classics and medievalism: it *feels* ancient or medieval - or what they think that should be - despite actually being very modern, because it fits their neo-fascist ideology.

i have been trying to unpack why the i told you so’s here feel so legitimate despite the horrific seriousness of the allegations. i think bc it’s so enraging that he was allowed to make it this far. that poor woman was forced to traumatize herself in public because pundits are too fucking stupid

i beg people who write stuff like this to follow sports or history or even just google something

Like I said, there's no small amount of finger-pointing that's going to happen as a result of this. But Platner was a creation of Ryan Grim, Bernie Sanders, and Matt Stoller, as much as he was of Pod Save America and Matt Yglesias. That's what has to be reckoned with.

Are you telling me that an author who has written repeatedly for Quillette is perhaps full of shit????????

Woof

This is correct

Well at least the US embarrassed themselves in crashing out

Tillman looks ass (tired)

Legit look tired - sloppy passing, slow to ball, drifting concentration leads to poor defensive marking

Dest has been shit

Why are you guys watching Fox when Telemundo is right there?

Hilarious* to see Ryan turning into a reporter now after months of blatant Platner cheerleading and defending. *Deeply, deeply pathetic, this isn't the first time he's been burned like this, a better person might go away forever and reflect on what character flaw makes him such a credulous dipshit

“Maine Democratic Party leadership is calling on Graham Platner to withdraw as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate.”

Ferran, who made the pass, playing like he’s the only guy on the Black Sox who didn’t know about the bribe

One thing about a bartender: they can spot a Type

and there we go. again, all this could have been avoided by the simple rule of 'don't support a candidate with a Nazi tattoo'. Not a challenge! www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Bernie Sanders, famously good a judging character

i clearly missed something

This has all become really quite funny and very much reminds me of the Great Canada Curling Controversy of the last Winter Olympics

it is fucking WEIRD that segments of the online left have adopted Carl Schmitt - an actual fucking Nazi - as their theoretical foundation

so great when you're working on a chapter and it seems like it's come together then you hit a point and you're like well shit now I have to rearrange everything because this section i'm working on really belongs right in the middle of this other thing I already did

The real USMNT scandal is that Poch almost certainly voted for Milei

this is the week Bluesky finally became a sports app

it's hilarious because American who follow soccer already have CONCACAF

"Reckless and irresponsible" report into the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences is a "poorly argued case ... to restrain the principles of academic freedom and faculty autonomy." www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

medieval theater, bringing human bodies into the same space, together -- that's how knowledge is created. listen to Andrew Albin on this most recent episode of the podcast clip --> youtube.com/shorts/lopM-... full episode --> AmericanMedieval.com

Amazing how responses to Kathleen’s (correct) post and others hold humanities education responsible for literally everyone who has ever studied in those fields, while STEM education “cannot” be held responsible for their graduates doing bad stuff

You don’t actually need to believe everything Trump says/ takes credit for

Long before “under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance, some Americans claimed the US was shaped by one religion. They have always been free to believe so, but only because they are part of a larger story. The larger story is that we are a nation under many gods… www.undergods.org/preamble

Hello and welcome to everyone now learning how corrupt FIFA is

shout it from the rooftops futurism.com/future-socie...

Just finished “Widow’s Bay.” What a delight

Just got back from a “Independence Day the movie the party” in which the Bill Pullman president speech was given by a different person every hour

Fuck yes America

And again remember how Douglass ends his speech, with hope - a call to see the forces working to make America fulfill its heretofore broken promises God speed the year of Jubilee daily.jstor.org/what-to-the-...

Happy 4th of July

Holy fuck

this is 100% correct, but also note that the people arguing this point are talking in different verb tenses. lefties saying we can't find joy anywhere are talking about how things are lefties talking about celebration of the nation's symbols are envisioning what could/ will be

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

just spending my time trying to figure out the volume of blood flowing from the winepress in Revelation 14:14-20, as you do

huh www.npr.org/sections/sho...

never has a man ever been this mad about not getting a job

this is weak as hell, and mostly a defense that attempts to shift the debate from a SPECIFIC case of intellectual dishonesty by Tillie towards a GENERAL defense of comics artists (which no one is questioning) in other words, this demonstrates they know they're guilty and so trying to reframe

🚨Job! 🚨 Open-rank, tenure-track position in pre-1800 history of medicine at Johns Hopkins #histmed #histstm apply.interfolio.com/182469?fbcli...

jumping up wild-eyed, crazy, on a soapbox: "IT'S ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT EXEGESIS."* *despite my disheveled appearance I'm correct

Trump is not America. He's anti American. America is eating birria with some randos on folding chairs in the parking lot of the Food 4 Less watching the world cup on a flat screen wearing my knock off Mexico jersey.

this is great. I wonder too what happens when we put the pandemic alongside a generational attack on the humanities -a field of disciplines that confront, and allow their students, to think about such heavy issues like (mass) death 1/2

Rappel : aujourd'hui, je suis à l'École du Louvre (amphi Michel-Ange) pour donner un cours sur le thème "Gothiques et culture visuelle populaire." Ça va causer Hugo, Dracula, Batman et Warhammer 40K !!!

medieval theater was a bit rogue! there was no building called a "theater" in the Middle Ages, so things were a bit more... messy, not not like a flash mob. watch! #medievalsky clip --> youtube.com/shorts/kI8vv... full episode --> AmericanMedieval.com