I genuinely believe that people don't appreciate just how much of all the bad vibes right now are still largely a COVID hangover. It was a profoundly traumatizing event for American society, on the order of the civil war or the great depression and we've largely decided to just pretend

Something overlooked in the response to this story is that many of these older devices are owned and circulated by public libraries.

I don't remember ever paying this much attention to a pope.

We're in the alternate timeline where the Catholic Church is fighting fascism and the Jewish state isn't.

'the pope is an American because the Vatican is out to get me' is terrific because it's both a thing an insane person would think and also probably true.

The only jurisdiction with a higher per capita crime rate than the Vatican is the White House.

This week Trump proved there is one distinction he truly deserves. He's the most powerful idiot in the history of the world. Many idiots have come before him and some powerful idiots but never before have we seen someone so powerful who is so idiotic. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/how-trump-ju...

To the doomers who keep saying Trump will rig the 2026 and 2028 elections: Do not concede in advance

Orban's loss has financial and organizational consequences for the far right worldwide.

Reality is real.

Well there *is* a real problem, they're just lying about what it is. They say: "indoctrination." They mean: "education is negatively correlated with voting Republican."

Please let's keep saying this. Republicans are devastating higher education to solve a problem that only exists in their minds.

"The right’s characterization of higher education is a fiction. Students across the ideological spectrum feel free to express themselves, think their education is worth the cost and don’t think their views are silenced." Only 3% of Republican students feel out of place on campus for their views.

Johnny Cash having a cigarette outside of Folsom Prison in California, 1968. by Dan Poush/AP.

There’s a decent chance that US schoolchildren in 20 years, thanks to excellent instruction by their AI instructors provided “for free” by billionaires, will all “know” that Robin Hood was a “taxation is theft” Murray Rothbard type who would have totally supported abolishing the federal income tax.

In reality, Robin Hood is fictional.

the casualness with which trump mentions nuclear weapons now is fucking insane

Never underestimate Trump's ability to make a bad situation worse.

The revised list cuts about 100 readings, including Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" - though it still includes Bible texts.

The Sunday shows used to be a nice part of a relaxing morning -- have some coffee, catch up on the news, hear some interesting discussions with important people. Now they're only good for gauging the odds on whether we'll survive until next Sunday.

There is quite literally no neighborhood in the world where the majority has the same language, history, values, and religion as me.

He's going to expand a made-up war with Iran into a made-up war with China.

I honestly think the A.I. era in higher education will pass, but I also think a lot of graduates are going to find that degrees earned during the A.I. era in higher education will be viewed as invalid.

If you think you hate AI, I promise you don't hate it enough.

In the running for greatest giveaway of all time

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

NASA just flew four people to the moon and back. Meanwhile it's been months since Elon blew up a spaceship.

the artemis ii pics of the moon and perfect splashdown reminded me what actual science looks like – instead of, say, an ai program named clifford that can write christmas cards for me.

TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS!!!!!

Ben Sasse, who is terminally ill, gave a remarkable interview recently. There's much to glean from it, including the swipe he took at academic historians like myself. His (familiar) charge: We've become so "narrow," so disinterested in "great" history. I have questions. What constitutes greatness...

President Trump has released the following design update for his Triumphal Arch.

Democrats in Texas need to be prepared to walk across broken glass to vote, maybe literally.

Every time I see this photo I giggle at the thought that astronaut pulled the ultimate dad move and told the rest of his family that it was just a normal family portrait session and to wear regular clothes only to show up himself in a damn space suit.

Artemis lifts humanity's spirits. Budget cuts could bring NASA down. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

The White House is now Temu Versailles.

I blame him less for lying than I blame the Senate for agreeing to believe him.

It's kind of cute when the cats knock little things off the counter just to prove that gravity exists, but it's not so funny when it's eggs.

In my Easter sermon, I mentioned Artemis II, noting that some folks in the pews either work for NASA now or had worked on the Apollo missions. At another service, I noted that a rocket scientist was present, and afterwards a guest told me she lives around the corner from Astronaut Christina Koch! ⚓️

NASA is such a beautiful contradiction of the precision of mathematics and engineering combined with the idiot yeehaw spirit of Texas. Mission around the moon was commanded from a building that has longhorns grazing on one side and a swamp full of gators on the other. -OS

Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones

The more you learn about space travel the more extraordinary it becomes. It never gets ANY less awe inspiring.

Elon Musk didn’t go to the moon. Jeff Bezos didn’t go to the moon. NASA went to the moon.

Smart people doing hard things. It's like we're America again.

Artemis shows what can be accomplished. The future we should build is the one based on science and cooperation. Not division and violence. 🧪

The contrast between the multinational multiracial multigender Integrity crew’s success and the failure of Hegseth’s “no quarter” white guys uber alles approach is noteworthy.

As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII

All four astronauts standing in the aisle with their roller bags waiting for the door to open.

There is nobody under the age of 55 who remembers seeing astronauts return to earth like this

Artemis return happening now. Livestream: 👇 www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

Eric Swalwell and Graham Platner are reminders that Democrats need to stick to their principles or face consequences We don’t have room for sex pests or Nazis