See, the thing is that whether USAID was a cynical op to expand imperial influence or a sincere act of goodwill from the United States, all those Africans are still dead.

An overall excellent piece from Nathan Brown which explains what I and others have been saying: Israel's destructive policy of dominance without settlement, degradation without reconstruction, and territorial denial without a political horizon is not improvisation is the policy, not an aberration.

They showed this version in schools for maybe 15 years and literally no one in my class had any reaction to a black woman being in it, someone yesterday said Eartha Kitt was Helen of Troy in 1950 and I looked it up and it was Orson Welles who cast her because she was a cabaret dancer and was hot!

May I also point out that in the US the rightwing—i.e., those that did the war—also used it to defeat the Democrats for refusing to stand up against it. And that’s always going to your reward for such nonsense ya dingdongs! Your reward is to lose. And this has now been our downfall.

““My mother did not give her life. Her life was taken and it shocked the nation enough that they passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965,” he said, adding that the Supreme Court and Trump administration were “working tirelessly to go back to the ‘60s.” “It’s disgusting,” he said.”

What happens when you sell your soul for the occasional ride in a private jet, a home to impress your revolting friends who only pretend to care about you, some extra special cheeses and $1000 socks.

The RW always pivots. There is a long, traceable history of them losing (or sometimes winning) battles, whether it be abolition, women's suffrage, black suffrage, gay marriage, workers' rights, etc., and shifting to another enemy to panic about - lefties, gays, Muslims, trans, etc. For centuries.

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

Getting melancholy again thinking about so many struggles and sacrifices throughout the world. and where they ended up because of selfish greedy people. How the women revolutionaries in Central America and the Caribbean fought to save their children from hunger in the future. They were so brave.

On a very...remarkable date, too.

Experts are projecting that the war in Iran will cost taxpayers $1 trillion. The people in charge just gave the richest 1% a $1 trillion tax break. And they really want us to believe SNAP and healthcare are the problem?? Get real.

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

ㅤ oh. I wouldn't say that, lad 😂😂😂 ㅤ

Two personality traits would have been so great to have but I don’t have them 1) the ability to truly ignore criticism 2) the ability to not be driven bonkers but the sheer dumbness of some things. (There are more personality traits than this that I could use. Boy, there are A LOT.)

I know everyone wants it to stop so what’s the point of saying it but WHY? There are probably a thousand explanations and no answer but —WHY?

A priest here corrected me when I said the church cares about freedom of religion —I thought they did. But I figured he knew? This quote here seems to confirm the Catholic Church cares about freedom of religion/freedom generally. Which makes sense because freedom and responsibility go together.

I’m guessing you are looking for more definitional clarity or precision. For a while we had the fallacy of remainder humanism. But I’m actually curious to see more ethnographic and reflective studies of the difference between using AI as an assistive tool versus the cognitive costs of over reliance.

I was intrigued by the Jennifer Frey interview published today. The full interview offers some insight into how technocratic epistemology has overtaken much of the academy. The below screenshots offer her take on how AI can either show us the need to cultivate our humanity or outsource our humanity.

“Some readers said Mr. Kristof peddled propaganda for Hamas. Some canceled their subscriptions. A number of other readers, including some who said they’re Jewish, wrote that they were grateful…Mr. Kristof and Kathleen Kingsbury, the head of Times Opinion, respond to some of the…questions.” GIFT

Never forget Trump pardoned Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao, in October. Gift link WSJ exclusive www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Surprise surprise. www.wsj.com/science/spac...

Further to my posts on performance management, someone has rather delightfully replied with an old Lucy Kellaway column about why appraisals should just be scrapped outright. www.ft.com/content/a72a...

The curse of performance management. The mistaken belief that you can measure high performance. In both public and private sector I've seen nothing more likely to damage staff morale. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Prosecutorial misconduct is nearly the norm, it almost always goes undetected and un-investigated because most defendants lack the money to expose it. I believe the presumption of regularity has never been warranted, and I think they're all a bit crooked, and that's what makes the system "work".

Four cracked teeth and a couple grand later, I highly advise you to get the night guard when they tell you to.

*pounding on a novelist’s door* “You better not be relying on the steady accretion of detail in there!!”

she was SIXTEEN fucking years old. i never have words to give shape to the anger. every time someone’s “just asking questions” about bathrooms or sports or prison or healthcare or whatever abstract they suddenly think is a problem, there are individual trans people who pay for it. she was a CHILD.

People get so fussed up about made-up things and I don’t know how to talk them out of it. This has been going on for years. I would have colleagues panicky about cancel culture or whatever. It seems obvious if so you’d try to find out who it is happening to, how often, in detail. But they didn’t!

Agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter in a massive show of force. Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. But after the cameras were gone, federal prosecutors did not charge anyone. (Published Nov. 2025)

There’s a lot of anti-nostalgia here and I’m telling you —you probably WILL have nostalgia for something. A lot of nice stuff is being wrecked and it’s normal for people miss things. (I am very prone to nostalgia of the ‘intense reminiscing’ kind but not of the ‘wasn’t it great’ as my life sucked.)

The funniest lie that sportsbook ads tell is that strangers will enjoy hearing you brag about your gambling habit.

If you live in VA07 I need you to write to Eugene Vindman and tell him about me. Tell him about the transgender military veteran who used to live in his district and just wanted to raise his goddamned sheep in peace and now lives 3000 miles away because of transphobic bullshit.

This is like trying to drill for oil through the ruins of Pompeii. Chaco canyon is one of the most significant native archeological sites in the United States. Absolutely disgusting to even propose it

Looking up the scary Hitler-quoting congresswoman from Illinois—is this really her congressional district? Wild. www.ksdk.com/article/news...

So Emil Bove really just has that job still huh

This is from 4 years ago but I didn’t forget it since then. It’s very eye opening!

We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:

The DOJ is now very much an active participant in the online discourse that promotes and perpetuates ideas that are barely connected to reality. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Six months later, sales haven’t bounced back completely, Betancur says, causing him to lay off six of his 40 employees. Four others, worried the raids would continue, left Charlotte altogether. For the first time in its almost three-decade history, the bakery is operating in the red."

if you didn’t hate me already

Living in the US now is a bit like knowing your neighbor has the mind of a serial killer and nobody would ever arrest him. Most try not to think about it, go on with their lives but occasionally thoughts like ‘but where can I go?’ and ‘well, maybe he won’t kill ME‘ flit by. (Or she in this case).

I can’t believe there are no AI companies named after Skeletor, Gargamel, or Grizzle from the Care Bears yet.

When Eric says “the lady who quoted Hitler,” he no-joke means that this Republican representative quoted Hitler. Admiringly.

My lukewarm take is that the focus on people like Lauren Boebert, Chip Roy and Marjorie Taylor Greene takes away from the fact there are some congresscritters who are even more extreme than them. They just don't talk to the press as much.

I hate my mind immediately goes to figuring out what is in David Frum’s mind. Why sink to the gutter openly like he does? But I don’t want to think about people like him anymore. I must accept there is a category of people who reject universal morality and that’s that.

I know the Atlantic has less than zero standards and in fact is happy to have a professional racist and liar on its columnist list but I dare to suggest that maybe there should be some consequences for so obviously making up shit and for sectarian and racist reasons?

wowwww how did i not know this was in the works? and by my state senator?

A reminder that over a year ago David Frum went on a months long tantrum about how Canadian colonization was actually good for the First Peoples and how it's reverse racism to say that that the forced Christian schooling was genocide. I made fun of him for this and he blocked me on 3 different apps.

🎺🎺 horns of mourning Nuevo New Mexico has fallen to the joint forces of Kingdom Hawai'i, Cascadia, Megasota, and the crab army