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wtf did i just wake up to

Big congrats to the Nobel Committee for awarding the prize "for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" just so she could immediately conspire with a foreign government to murder civilians on the high seas then invade and stage a coup.

“Homework cinema” is not Kurosawa or Bergman or Ozu or whoever, “Homework cinema” is the MCU

I know I've said it a million times now but between Mamdani and Schumer, the median Democratic voter is far closer to the former than the latter on Palestine today. The pro-Israel bloc makes a mistake, on a fundamental level, by raising the salience of the issue.

The effect of this sort of rhetoric is going to be that an entire generation, on both left and right, thinks antisemitism is not a legitimate issue but simply a cudgel to wield in political arguments against one's opponents. This sort of rhetoric makes Diaspora Jews less safe.

I would like to direct all speeders to this chart

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

one last time, for the road

The entire reason they’re locked is to prevent weird freaks like this who have no right to be there from marching in and endangering the kids.

Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao

A great read!

it's genuinely fascinating to me that "you cannot facilitate a genocide against a people and still expect their vote" is too advanced for some analysts to understand.

BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.

A lot of political arguments wouldnt happen if ppl would just read their Du Bois. “The Souls of White Folk” is foundational and dispels a lot of traps one can fall into

Little known fact but if you vote for someone and then they lose you actually get executed immediately

My Christmas gift to you: a deep dive into my complicated feelings about an ambitious yet messy queer manga!

Lessons from 2025 1. the logical conclusion of Boots Theory is buying high quality clothing at vintage stores or on off season sale is the best use of ur clothing budget

Insane premise aside, this is just plainly false? 1,060,363 people voted against Mamdani in the general election out of 5,103,941 registered voters.

Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.

It's canon

is it right for me to blame Hegel for why every time i read philosophy now i feel vaguely bad? stay tuned for when i discover affect theory for the first time

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

28 BBLs later: society collapses thanks to a plague of undead butts

There are more shoujo/josei/joseimuke anime coming out last season and this than we've probably gotten in the last five years total, but some people don't pay attention so I decided to write up a guide for all the upcoming series!

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

Might actually be my favorite movie

under the mistletoe 🌿❤️ #光が死んだ夏 #thesummerhikarudied

rereading Dante’s Commedia to start the one week a year i indulge my Christian upbringing and 1) this poem slaps 2) what are ppl’s favorite Dante translations?

I am brimming with holiday spirit

I loved getting to gush on this pod about how Ai Yazawa’s use of character design and naturalistic dialogue conveys so much about the construction of femininity and masculinity. She is truly one of the greats

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO OUT MAGAZINE NO NO NO

thomas chatterton williams, whose main literary output is three memoirs of declining quality, and who has written the same essay ad nauseam for 10 years, nonetheless has a sinecure at the atlantic, a teaching job at an elite college, and a nice handful of prestigious fellowships

“Like prime, but with human beings”

As an actual Religious Studies scholar, it is an insult to our field to describe anything this student wrote about gender as "Bible-based."

Mere recognition of the single state reality is shunned in the West while in Israel every single Zionist bloc party from Yair Golan's to Naftali Bennett's not only recognizes it but affirms it daily. It's a vital load bearing pillar in the discursive frameworks that enable Israeli impunity .

totally unsurprising how the “what about the uyghurs” whataboutism in response to the Gaza genocide has been revealed to be completely disingenuous. Uyghurs deserve so much more than to be treated as disposable when no longer politically convenient.

just for context, this appears to be a report that was generated based on a tip submitted online through a form on the FBI’s website. anyone can submit a tip. it’s illegal to submit false tips, sure, but “the president dropped my dead baby in lake michigan” sounds like someone who needs help.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

youtube removed it, but

Gonna be posting Sanda final episode spoilers behind this in like... Five minutes

Chatty AF 237: NANA Watchalong – Part 1 We're celebrating NANA's 25th anniversary--with a newbie-friendly watchalong! @destinysenpai.bsky.social is on hand to lend her expertise on this influential shoujo masterpiece. www.animefeminist.com/chatty-af-23...

she's just doing what she was hired to do

the idea that weiss had journalistic concerns is belied by the fact that she's not a journalist

A transcript is available for our watchalong podcast of NEKOMONOGATARI! After 30 episodes the series starts showing glimpses of the heights it can achieve, largely ditching Araragi to let its heroines speak for themselves. www.animefeminist.com/chatty-af-23...