The thing to know about Linsdey Graham's historical legacy is that he almost certainly won't have one. There have been roughly 2000 senators in US history. How many can you name that served before you were born? I'm literally an expert on Congress and even I probably can't get past 50 or 100.

Pundits: "Don't speak ill of the dead." Historians:

"Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham", then a dramatic blank space on the landing page of NYT.

Oh, hey, Lindsey Graham is dead. Anyway...put this on his tombstone. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The evil that men do lives after them.

VAR spoke to Mitch McConnell this morning for 20 minutes to get his view on the decision.

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

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I remember when the New York Times sent a push notification when Biden did this. I only learned about this from it randomly appearing in my feed five hours later

As in 1066 England will prevail against the Norwegians before tragically losing to the French a couple of weeks later.

Listen, if you don’t know the difference between Democratic socialism and communism, I’m not engaging with you. Crack a book.

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

It may have been a mistake to allow a small handful of lunatics to hold massive sway over the international political and economic order on the sole basis that they made an effective system to pay for things over the internet.

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I read “invertebrate inventor,” sticking with that.

I so want the Chicago Pope to excommunicate him. Just 86 his ass, Leo. You’re South Side, you know what to do.

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

This.👇 If we are a decent law-abiding society then that is where we start - with the fucking law and with human decency. And we should be building our politics to serve that end, not ignoring the law and decency to serve our politics.

I repeat: Washington would have chased this two-bit huckster off his plantation with a stick.

the entire conservative media apparatus was born out of a conviction that what happened to Nixon should never again happen to a Republican president and it worked and they now feel comfortable enough to admit it

"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?

On a train to #ChalkeValleyHistoryFest in a heat wave and the conductor has apologized for the air conditioning not working. Why is it broken, you ask? "This is due to the temperature outside."

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Your regular reminder that Ayn Rand, who was a stupid person with hateful and selfish ideas, died on public assistance that a government social worker helped her sign up for. In the real world, when Atlas shrugs, innocent people die.

Meme time

actually, i think the pope is america's most powerful catholic

MUPPET BLOOD MERIDIAN

Michelle and I loved reading to this bright group of kids today! We hope this new Chicago Public Library branch at the Obama Presidential Center will be a place where folks come to read, check out books, and connect with one another for years to come.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

This is bombshell stuff.

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“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

Stanford grads walk out of their commencement when Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage

the real political correctness is that you can’t go on the news and say that this is hick shit

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It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

Well it couldn’t have done mine. I’d love to see Claude dissect an embryo.

they shut down half of midtown so that this dying rapist could nap through two and a half quarters of an NBA Finals game

The jerseys also say "Ceci n'est pas un maillot" ("This is not a jersey") on the back. Perfect detail.

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

From “God” on bsky. If you have not followed them already you should.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

CYCLE OF HATE and then the pic is this

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

As usual he is telling us exactly what he plans. He does not plan to leave and he thinks he will be inaugurated for a third time in his new ballroom.

Meowie Antoinette

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!