Literally I was 5 and someone told me about the Trinity and it made no sense to me. That started it. The final break was about ten years later, when I was horrified by the church's reaction to the AIDS crisis.
Causing oil prices to skyrocket and then talking even if jokingly (not that they have a sense of humor) about instituting the draft sure is an interesting approach to not catastrophically losing the midterms and getting more impeached than any person in the history of impeachments.
Maybe this is a hot take but I don't think people who don't believe in evolution should be running universities.
Misquoting Orwell is the perfect end to her tenure
I didn't know how much I needed a Rick Devens-Christian Hubicki alliance in my life but I am here for it. #Survivor
You have tons of money and influence and your son's future is the most important thing in your life and you're sending him to Cornelia Blimber instead of Eton?
If there is an afterlife, and if I happen to meet up with Charles Dickens there, my very first question to him will be why on earth did Mr. Dombey educate his only son -- on whom all of his hopes rested -- by relying on the likes of Mrs. Pipchin?
Your periodic reminder that “Israel’s government” and “the Jews” aren’t synonymous.
American Jews have been TRYING to tell folks that yes, AIPAC is evil, & fuck them, but Christian Zionists in the US outnumber Jews IN THE WORLD & have risen to power in all areas of our government, & they want to bring the End Times (& kill all the Jews btw), AND THIS IS WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “Israel is doing great evil“ is not antisemitic. “Israel is pulling the levers on all the world’s evil” is both antisemitic and also passing the buck on how bad the US is, and our role now and historically.
What Israel’s doing isn’t oriented around Judaism in any way that matters. It’s just their pretext and their branding
I think anyone who resigns or gets arrested because of Epstein crimes should have the "Mountbatten" prefix attached to their names.
So: Peter Mountbatten-Mandelson, Larry Mountbatten-Summers, Kathryn Mountbatten-Ruemmler, Thorbjørn Mountbatten-Jagland, etc.
Us, throwing @atrupar.com likes tomorrow morning:
I'm not believing this until I hear from people in the streets of MN and neither should you
Every year on February 11, I look at my Facebook history and remember that I am still mad about the fine I got for lighting a candle in my dorm room during an ice storm. It has been 32 years. I am NEVER LETTING THIS GO.
Pointing out antisemitism on the left is one of the most annoying experiences one can have on Bluesky, not only do you get actual antisemites in your replies but also other leftists who are reflexively defensive and who bristle at the slightest critique.
Trump posted more than 60 times on Truth Social last night, but he handed his phone to an “unknown staffer” when the video depicting the Obamas as apes was posted?
GTFOH
"I once told you, Jeffers, about the time I met the devil on a train leaving Paris, & about how after that meeting the evil that usually lies undisturbed beneath the surface of things rose up & disgorged itself over every part of life."
-- Rachel Cusk, _Second Place_
#FridayReads #FirstLineFriday
The current House of Representatives term will have ended at that point and the current representatives will have no power to choose not to seat the winners unless they are reelected.
Congress will be flipped in places like NY-21 (Stefanik, not the craziest reach this year), not NY-14 (Ocasio-Cortez).
The flip will happen in the suburbs, not the cities. Targeting these districts will go especially poorly.
Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.
But if that's the goal, then those opposed to Trump should stop amplifying these threats as if they are done deals.
That's doing their propaganda work for them!
So the Epstein files dump
1. Protected a lot of predictors
2. Created another partisan food fight.
3. Failed to create any obvious pathway for these women to get accountability.
4. Included a number of clearly unverified claims that can be used to undermine the very legit emails
The release of 3M Epstein files to distract from the unlawful arrests of Black journalists, the Pretti shooting, and a day of nationwide protests, is certainly a… strategy. Let’s show them we know how to multitask ✊🏼🇺🇸🪧⚖️
There . . . There are Melania-heads?
This is quite bad but I think it is very important to realize this is them lashing out because they are weak and desperate, this isn’t a show of strength or confidence
The notion that calling ICE the "Gestapo", in response to their actions, is somehow responsible for their actions is absurd.
If I survive this workweek it will be entirely due to Escape! and the If Books Could Kill episode about Olivia Nuzzi.
They wore yellow stars to complain about vaccine mandates
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
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