No one can tell us medievalists that we're a bunch of irrelevants now. Not only is there a papal schism going on, but every smooth-brained bigot is reverting to 13th-century antisemitism, talking about usury and shit.

If Pence had the courage, Trump probably would not have seen the sunrise on Jan 7 as a free man, but also that Mike Pence would have been a fundamentally different person

The Society of Saint Pius X, to the Bishop of Rome: youtu.be/_e-5krQsDOQ?...

I'm really fascinated by this "you ever notice how (media) has no lasting cultural impact??" genre of post because they never say what kind of impact they're talking about. You get the feeling that a good 95% of media would qualify to them. It didn't lack impact, you just have a goldfish brain!

We’ve had discourse today where voters are as responsible for the outcome of an election as fans are for the outcome of a game and we’ve also had discourse where fans of a team are responsible for everything that teams country did and does. Fantastic app.

ascii art (circa 1997) web.archive.org/web/19971222...

"we believe that the bible is the inerrant word of god but that it more or less isn't important what it says."

Social media polarization is not, imo, a story of the masses becoming radicalized: it is a story of elites becoming radicalized, and that trickling down.

Thought of another fun exercise everyone can try: turn Bouba and Kiki (of the Bouba/Kiki Effect) into characters that fit your own tastes and interests

Tumblr and the Christian right bonded over their shared belief that boobs in a movie is a form of violence

this is a very silly article that uncritically parrots the framing that the word abundance is not actually about the book named Abundance but is instead about centrist Democrats who liked the book Abundance and because some DSA candidates won in New York that means abundance lost

Like the idea was to discipline the Dems into not trying to change the narrative about the economy by burying any Dem who did in starkly negative coverage. how DARE you say 3% unemployment is good, are you so out of touch! Totally absent phenomenon under Trump of course

Man, Stalin and Churchill did a better job putting out a united public face than this.

I must stress, I really do mean *some* space. It’s not incumbent on everyone to welcome everyone with open arms and while *I* think it’s unhealthy to have an “I will never forgive X for Y” mindset, I accept that some do and it’s not my job to change them. They’re part of the coalition too.

Trump is literally talking about invading cuba still, you can root against the US

By "split" we mean more than 85% of the caucus voted for Tlaib's bill

i mean.... this was the socialist organization of California. most leftists are good on immigration now but it was bad at one point

Incredible dedication by Jake Tapper to embody every failing of modern media on such a consistent basis.

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yeah, "Roe in danger" was definitely a top 5 if not top 3 message for our campaign, and yeah voters just didn't want to believe us

In just a few years, we’ve gone from fringe nuts advancing an interpretation of the US constitution that basically nobody serious had made before to an entire ecosystem of political pundits insisting it’s a “legal abomination” that the Supreme Court didn’t adopt it (by one vote).

this is a supervillian monologue from a 80s coming of age movie

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

I really have to emphasize this is the modal outcome of these bans—trans athletes are like vanishingly rare—and is actually a good tactic when talking to someone who feels a little weird about the issue This is also why I think these bans will end up being fairly unpopular

There's real irony that people will criticize Schumer for listening to imaginary people that live inside his head, & then go on to lose their shit about an imaginary Chuck Schumer that lives inside THEIR head.

Still cannot fucking believe some people think codifying Roe in legislation would have made it past these robed scoundrels. They destroyed a law passed unanimously (the VRA). The Conservatives on the Court voted 4-2 (!!!!!) to destroy a Constitutional amendment via Trump memo.

SCOTUS decision days do make this app kinda unusable in a way that makes every single dumb cliche posted by someone still on twitter about this site come true.

I’m okay with plot in movies but only if it advances the sex scenes

by far the behind-the-scenes thing about editing a movie that the public least appreciates is the delicate navigation of "which notes do you have to do and which notes do you not have to do." (contra brooks i promise you for 99% of filmmakers you do need to do *some* of the notes)

I see a lot of links online I'd like to click on/find more about, but I don't do so because I'm not in a position to watch w headphones on and/or am unwilling or unable to save to watch until I am alone. Regardless, I'd rather the fuck read a thing just so i can get the g-d information

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There were Europeans spouting technical misconceptions about AC and Americans spouting technical misconceptions about European construction methods all day yesterday and I’m really tired of any attempt to explain anything getting nothing but angry culture war responses.

something that seems nebulous and tricky to prepare for is that when the illegitimate supreme court returns a decision saying that all of the powers it gave to trump don't apply to democratic presidents everyone has to say "no"

Imagine having been in there for 9-11

Happy 100th, Mel Brooks.

I think I've finally got the terminology for where the problem is. They think that queerness and transgression are commutative: "you are queer because you are transgressive, and you are transgressive because you are queer". But only the second part of that is true.

I've come around to deciding that it's actually good that they keep asking Zohran this question because it clarifies to the listener that a Jewish state and a state of all its citizens are not compatible and the people asking the question are implicitly acknowledging that they know that.

Also a reporter arguing that Biden old is worse than Watergate while everything is going on with this admin, which has also questions about the current Presidents health is everything wrong with the media distilled into four posts.

These people are performing for grass.

It is so profoundly infuriating that the legacy of maybe the greatest American comedy ever made is inextricable from a parade of douche-canoes who just really, really, REALLY want to be allowed to say the n-word without repercussion.

The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.

specifically, read the precise document which MLK was rebutting to rather than trying to use him as a ventriloquist dummy. www.dbu.edu/mitchell/mod...

it really is fascinating how every GO/FO that basically came out of the GWOT years is now viewed as too woke/Marxist George W Bush, fan of Marxist general officers

When I was in high school it was illegal for me to get married

I kind of feel like if it’s your thing to keep insisting Democrats must elect more centrists you should start be demanding Republicans elect any.

obviously not the first person to make this observation but the "move along, citizen" shit for regular DC residents is especially galling in context of the pardons for the rioters who broke into the fucking capitol

Look, are they gonna pretend nothing happened on Monday? Probably, but I'm gonna count this anyway.

working class: the 2026 ford F-150 Raptor, a gun collection, blue lives matter shirt ruling class: bicycle, public transit, the women in that “gen z boss and a mini” video

New levels of primitively creating a situation to be mad at