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These are not only the titles for one of the greatest of all TV series, but it's the perfect metaphor for much of our politics today... youtu.be/mNKKWe2FUww?...

Irrevocably and permanently damaging the civil rights of dozens of ICE guys by playing the Butthole Surfers' 1988 album "Hairway To Steven" from a boombox outside the Hilton Garden Inn in suburban Minneapolis where they're all staying. JD Vance does a tweet about it that starts "Wow. Really?"

Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.

It is taking every ounce of control I have not to draw a penis in the snow piled up on the Cybertruck outside my building.

New Yorkers, if you have building staff clearing your sidewalks right now, today is a good day to buy them Gatorade, coffee, or lunch!

This man was a hero and that’s how he died. Baruch Hashem.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

Minneapolis is the real America. I’m that kind of American no other

and today, they shot and killed a man they had wrestled to the ground, seven v one. Giving ICE the finger can get you executed, and these people know it and do it anyway, i admire them so much.

I interviewed my friend Ryan about queer hunting culture, haute cuisine, and keeping your fancypants on in a time of peril:

I have obtained a letter of marque and reprisal from a small landlocked Caucasian breakaway republic, I have access to the family rowboat and am in the process of buying several axes, so I would hardly say it's correct to label me "unemployed".

Wonder if they’ll teach font consistency in the newly required “AI Competency” course at the institution where I got my PhD. I did cover it in freshman comp, but you know. Innovation.

Downloading a tool I need for my work and having to wade through all the stupid AI bits in order to find the part that's actually useful and not just trying to suction my personal info.

furry mussels marching on, he thinks he's kaiser wilhelm

I feel like the desire to think about that year is some kind of conservative op. You want me to feel nostalgic abt the year we lost David Bowie and got Trump? Also I am 10,000 hotter now than I was in 2016, which I’m sure is not a factor in my feelings here.

Unconditional Surrender Grant

allying with the evangelical right was always a terrible bet for Israel ("well thought out alliance with anti-semites"). As the U.S. right largely abandons the end times fantasies that peaked in the 1980s in favor of a vision of fascism-in-our-time, that alliance is collapsing.

Holy hell, what an obituary

I found out that you can reuse a decades old calendar if its year’s dates line up with the current year’s, so this year I got a lovely 1998 Xena: Warrior Princess calendar. The way they added show events into it is cracking me up.

ICE shot Renee Good in the face and then called her a "fuckin' bitch"

I just love this piece by Victoria Belim-Frolova about Quentin Bisch, niche perfumes, and luxury in wartime: open.substack.com/pub/boisdeja...

the way I’m cackling at 5 am

As an eighteenth-centuryist who doesn’t understand football, I have never been more baffled

It’s marvelous.

To wit, they thought that video was exculpatory because of gender

“The Power and the Glory” (1940)

I am not Catholic, duh, but I read Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory this week and I think everyone should.

The Star Trib is always doing great work.

So is Bari Weiss planning a town hall with Renee Good's widow?

She had 3 kids. I’m going to bed.

I taught at CUNY Staten Island for a couple years and they still talk about this there.

I’m an American and I hate all of this evil shit. All of it. Fuck you if you don’t.

A Republic. If you can keep it.

I remember checking Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen out of the library because of a rec in Seventeen. Great book! They were full of them.

You don't have to do anything this year.

it's twelfth night, time to celebrate by finding a loyal sea captain to save you from drowning and fall hopelessly in love with you, then abandon him to rot in jail so you can marry your sister's star-crossed girlfriend

Putting an Emergen-C in my G&T in lieu of Dry January

🚨🚨🚨PEPYS ALERT 🚨🚨🚨

dumb times create dumb men, dumb men create really dumb times, really dumb times create really dumb men, really dumb men create really really dumb times

Group of Dutch Jews debating Hebrew texts: a super unusual subject painted around 1680 by Jacob Toorenvliet. Today is his day.

I click so hard on anything Emilia Petrarca writes

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

in 2010 an apparently very hungover joanna newsom delivered this ice cold read of lady gaga, music criticism and pop culture at large, and as far as i’m concerned she was on the money then and has only gotten righter over time.

As a Jewish upper east side Mamdani voter, this honestly hurts my feelings AND bears no relation to my synagogue or its history. Don’t talk like this.