This new rail line, the most ambitious in 90 years, could change the face of New York City. We hopped on a freight train to film the route, and show its potential. Take a look! 🚂 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

it has never been easier to feed your kids without killing them and we simply had to go fuck it up because we have the collective memory of goldfish "well *I* never got polio or accidentally drank arsenic, so how big a deal can it even be"

please we are so tired we cannot do all the things ourselves I want really important stuff that might kill me to be in the hands of people who studied that shit their whole life so that mastering the complexities of every aspect of human existence at once is not suddenly all on me, a theatre major

“ In some cases, human communities developed systems that curbed the concentration of wealth, using governance and cooperative institutions as “leveling mechanisms…high degrees of inequality are not inevitable in large societies.”

It seemed silly in 1999, and yet.

Angel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere

Abraham Lincoln is often quoted for saying: "As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” But the passage I think of daily from the same 1838 speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois is this one. (don’t get hung up on his use of the word genius)