Give everyone equal access to death cabs, not just cuties

"Good tsar, bad boyars" has been a recurring theme of Trumpism every year the dude's been office. It's wild.

Even when they show signs of weakness or forced regret, we must not give an inch. Authoritarian governments still respond to public opinion, which is why sustained pressure matters. We have to keep making clear that these thuggish actions are unconscionable and will not be tolerated. Don’t let up.

Heads up, #Iowa folks.

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NEWS. 13 years ago, I started work on an encyclopedia of U.S. military actions. Three years of work, 700,000 words- and two weeks after turning in the last article, the publisher axed the project.

I am 50 and I desperately want to stop making decisions. The old bastards running this country are deeply sick. Stay home and do Legos and learn how to make gnocchi, what the fuck are you doing

The US government installed “hereditary chiefs” across countless Native American nations, in order to have someone “credible” to sign treaties with. Literally one of the first things we did as a country

This is the only day of the year I post

In my sci-fi novel Acadia from 2013: -A Russia-related scandal leads to a complete overhaul of the US intelligence community -An anti-Mexican demagogue briefly seizes power -the richest man in the world rules space in collusion with pro-AI forces that secretly shape US foreign policy

Told ya

"The Empire is like America ten years from now".

the pope isn't from chicago unless he works being from chicago into every conversation

Feeling emboldened that perhaps, in my lifetime, we could have a pope that was in The Sea and Cake

Didn’t even need the third F-18 to get a pope from Chicago, it turns out

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

the New Pope says he's from Chicago but he's *actually* from Naperville

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

INTRODUCING YOUR CHICAGO PAPAL BULLS STARTING LINEUP [monophonic Gregorian chanting intensifies]

The moment Bobby Prevost decided to leave for seminary

He's gonna be out there turning water into malort

A mathematician from Chicago! Get ready to hear a shitload of Wilco blasting across St Peter’s Square

i don’t believe in the great man of history theory, but i do kind of believe in a stupid asshole theory of history where one dumb motherfucker ruins things for everyone

Just want to make this plain: You only have permission to make a weird computer sock puppet of me during the trial of my killer in order to explain my fan theories about Admiral Ozzel from The Empire Strikes Back

okay if i get murdered and someone plays a video of a robot version of me in court FORGIVING MY MURDERER i'm haunting everybody. the judge the jury the lawyers, the bailiff, everybody

no he didn't that's not him what the fuck is wrong with you freaks

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker plans to sign an executive order preventing state agencies from obtaining or disclosing data that personally identifies people with autism, unless required for medical care or legal matters. “Every Illinoisan deserves ... the freedom to live without fear of surveillance.”

The bodies of the first three cardinals to be defeated in hand-to-hand combat have been wheeled out of the conclave

Losing one fighter jet is a tragedy; losing two is just carelessness.--Oscar Wilde

Once I complete the ritual with the offering of a third F-18 it’s over for you bitches

Once they've chosen a new Pope, they drop a Super Hornet Fighter into the Red Sea.

Absolutely terrifying article

I need to revise my living will. DNR includes using a robot to puke up a shadow of my voice

inshallah

A quadriplegic man named Normand Meunier died via MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) after being neglected for 4 days in ER. He was denied a specialized mattress, wasn’t turned & ended up with terrible bed sores. His partner says she was threatened with removal from the ER for advocating for him 🧵

To save runaways from slavery who were trying to make lives in the North “illegally,” local Vigilance Committees formed. They kept watch for slave catchers, secreted away those in danger, and posted placards that outed slave catchers, sometimes hounding them till they left town.

Well I've been through the desert on a horse with no name. Yes I’m sure, I asked him repeatedly, he just made bullshit horse noises

not saying anyone should, but I bet you could convince Trump to re-open Alcatraz in under 20 minutes

Quarries should have a birthday package where they line up a dozen old toilets for you to kick off a cliff

SINNERS is a startling, naturalistic portrait of the twin evils of capitalism and racism which also proudly rejects the false promises of Bolshevik-style collectivist violence. In this essay for National Review, I will

Quarries should have a birthday package where they line up a dozen old toilets for you to kick off a cliff

life before social media was much more peaceful some asshole would say “100 men can defeat a gorilla” and someone else would say “shut the fuck up donald” and that was the end of it

SINNERS is a startling, naturalistic portrait of the twin evils of capitalism and racism which also proudly rejects the false promises of Bolshevik-style collectivist violence. In this essay for National Review, I will

Kids today think they invented everything. We were falling for basic-ass conman shit before you were fucking born, you whiny babies, you think we were all secretly onto C+C Music Factory being fake

My 14yo groaned when I mentioned Tate’s name. “No one listens to him,” he said, “He’s an idiot.”

“Okay, you’re going to notice one or two things that are different”