67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.

Fucking GET IM

my maternal great grandparents lived in a tenement my paternal grandfather lost both his hands in a mining accident my father had four DUIs I am a proud heritage American

This sounds like a shitpost, but there was a 1993 NYT article about the novel technique of roasting instead of boiling vegetables

"Has feminism failed women" is just like asking "Has freedom failed black people".

one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”

The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.” * read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…

Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...

The process by which the Kennedy Center was renamed to honor Trump was about as bad as you assumed donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

The Hunger Games was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a handbook.

Thanks, Oprah.

Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Simpler times

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

Given that people are talking about photography and political figures, here is Richard Avedon’s 1963 portrait of George Wallace

Resolved: “Gimme Shelter” is the perfect song. Discuss.

AI trying to tell me who the World Series champs were. Tag your yourselves I’m obviously the Bostoo Yook Yarters

some of you were draft-dodgers in the war on christmas and it shows.

On Dec 5, the University of Arkansas abruptly terminated Prof Shirin Saeidi from her director role at the Center for Middle East Studies. The decision followed a political pressure campaign by outside groups targeting Saeidi with a vicious public defamation campaign. mesana.org/advocacy/com...

Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

Primary every Democrat, jesus christ what good are they.

A month after my mom died in 2023, my ambassador’s wife (a retired psychiatric nurse and a close friend) took me out for drinks and to catch up. It was a great time at a funky little Afrobeats bar near our embassy, and we spent the first 90 minutes talking about different grieving rituals across

Indeed. Unlike Charlie Kirk, you can describe and quote the Reiners' work in a glowing memorial piece. You can't do that with Kirk—his life's work was advocating for hatred and bigotry—and the NYTimes didn't. Honestly portraying him would have been, as they say, inconceivable.

Song of the day: “Back to Memphis” (the version from the Band). youtu.be/1to3MmhtN_M?... “I wish I was back in Memphis, back home with my Momma”

As much as I criticize originalism and opportunistic scholarship, I can't help but acknowledge when good points are raised.

OTD in 2021 Russian MFA denied any preparations against Ukraine or aggressive intentions. She was half right. We weren’t prepared.

www.npr.org/2025/12/13/n...? On a similar methodological note, I suggested to a grad student just this week that they keep track of popular media storylines about trad wives loving fascist men

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Repeating my helpful little mnemonic song from Twitter: If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏

look for the helpers, they are distracted and easy prey

This is an important publication: the result of a lifetime’s work on the Sasanian legal system, long awaited by many in the field. It's a major contribution to our understanding of Sasanian law and will undoubtedly shape future research. Published by @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social

I HOPE YOU CATCH RABIES, YOU WHORE!!!

discussed this in seminar yesterday, albeit with reference to “race science” generally. If you understand science as a historical phenomenon then the question is what was science then, not whether it would count as science now, and the implication is that what science is now is not forever, either

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

Part 137 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg A plate depicting a wife spanking her husband. Made in Dinant or Malines, Burgundian 1480

Lmfao every AI defense piece is like "AYY I FUCKIN SUCK BRO HOPEFULLY THIS FUCKIN STEAL YOUR SHIT MACHINE WILL MAKE ME SUCK SLIGHTLY LESS OK"

The trains only ran on time for the rich. " upgraded the main lines on which businessmen, politicians and comfort-minded tourists sped between Milan and Rome... As the direttissimi whizzed by on schedule, aged commuter locals filled with workers were shunted onto sidings."

If someone at ISW actually did what’s being alleged here, they deserve to be named and shamed

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Me irl

Hey Millennials, you should congratulate Gen Alpha on their first successful kill

APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — #Iran arrests Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, her supporters say.

🐻 Japonya ayıların istilasına çare arıyor 📌 Japonya’nın Akita eyaletinde yaralanma ve ölümle sonuçlanan ayı saldırılarının artması yerel hükümeti harekete geçirdi. Eyalet valisi Kenta Suzuki Öz Savunma Kuvvetleri'ni göreve çağırdı ✍️ İlgin Yorulmaz'ın yazısı... t24.com.tr/haber/japony...

/ EYE HAD A FEVERISH VIZION FROM UR WEATHER LORDS / 0-1 INCH OF THE FOOLISH WHITE STUFF ON SUNDAY

NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas. Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.

Interestingly, in the half century since the US Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking and publishing data about “Standard Occupation Classifications,” “elevator operator” is the ONLY job category that has ever been dropped (and only in 2018).