The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
Noem's new memoir just dropped.
“instead” is a funny way of spelling “therefore”
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
March 6 The Biblical Case For Ditching Social Justice FEDERALIST Federalist Radio Hour >
Today’s episode of “Not The Onion.”
h/t @soraaad.bsky.social
Hampton also wrote a 108 page book, The Book of the 7 Dispensation, in an as yet undecipherable sctript:
americanart.si.edu/artwork/book...
Yesterday in Apocalypse to Zombie we finished up discussing Timothy Beal's _The Book of Revelation: A Biography_. including James Hampton's The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly.
americanart.si.edu/artwork/book...
americanart.si.edu/blog/throne-...
Conservatism Cheat Sheet:
"We can dictate how things are because..."
Christian Nationalist -> "We've got the right God"
Libertarian -> "We make more money"
Intl. -> "We've got bombs"
Burkean -> "We've always dictated them"
Social -> "We're white"
Bro -> "We're apex"
MAGA -> "WTF are you gonna do?"
The Infant of Prague with an old professor peeking in.
A Spring Break Eve Friday! The Infant and I wish everyone health, safety, and peace.
The Friday roundup is up a day early, with links to the podcast! I also wrote about that terrible feeling of dread I often feel due to the many evil events underway these days, and how it recalls the nightmarish stretch from 9/11 to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But there's an important difference.
I wrote about Trump’s delusions as both a massive weakness for the regime and a major impediment to the Right’s authoritarian project – but also a dangerous source of further radicalization, as the Trumpists are hellbent on imposing their unreality on the rest of us.
MAGA Unreality vs the World:
Finally, an article about the real victims of this war: piles of money
Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs.
Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.
h/t @mpgphd.bsky.social
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Excerpt from 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah', page 33: "This is the end of the biblical book of Nehemiah, written in Hebrew and vocalised with the Babylonian vowel system. In contrast to the Palestinian and Tiberian systems – which mainly used dots to represent vowel sounds – the Babylonian system also used miniature Hebrew letters for vowels and accents. Like the Palestinian system, the Babylonian vowel signs fell out of favour with the rise of the Tiberian system. This fragment includes a colophon (in the middle of the lefthand page) from a scribe named Joseph ben Nimorad, stating that he copied the book in a town in Iran in the year 903/904 CE. This makes it one of the earliest known dated Hebrew manuscripts. While Joseph was a member of the Jewish diaspora community that lived in Iraq and Iran, eventually someone carried his manuscript to Egypt." Image and catalogue description here: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-NS-00246-00026-00002/1
This is a fragment from the oldest Hebrew Bible manuscript with a given date of production. It's the end of the book of Nehemiah, pointed with Babylonian vowel signs. A Jewish scribe named Joseph ben Nimorad completed it in 903/4 CE at Gunbad-i-Mallgan (modern Dogonbadan, Iran).
It’s a day ending in “y” so John Fetterman is finding new ways to be goddamn disgrace. Time for me to call his office back. Again. www.bbc.com/news/article...
the US right is completely dedicated to the proposition that children are chattel.
When I was in elementary school back in the late 70s-80s, our sixth grade trip was (for YEARS) going into the city to see Cats.
I remember thinking to myself, as I watched, "I have no idea what's going on..."
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Bad company by Megan Greenwell
First book of the year, highly recommend! @greenwell.bsky.social #booksky
h/t @newsjennifer.bsky.social
Remember when Rep. Greg Gianforte, now the GOP governor of the state, body slammed a reporter into a table?
We probably need to shut down the Montana Republican Party entirely until we can figure out where all this violent rage is coming from.
h/t @maiakotro.bsky.social
You got this!!!
The child care block grant gets less than $9 billion a year for the entire country
h/t @soraaad.bsky.social
The United States is going to slaughter civilians en masse because a mediocre white dudebro thinks it makes him look tough.
h/t @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
