I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.
Kinda makes you wonder whether all the sweaty, performative talk about "self-reliance" and all the hatred directed at urbanites is about a deep subconscious awareness of their dependence. Maybe they recognize on some level that they can't hack it on their own.
It was about protecting Division III high school girls volleyball.
The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer -- But we will remember. We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won! President DONALD J. TRUMP
History lesson.
Our once great ally didn't come to our aid until 1917.
Our once great ally didn't come to our aid again until 1941.
Again, the unifying 🧵 about Trump’s foreign policy is not realism or neo-royalism. It’s the extension of sexual assault/predation/partner abuse to IR. If he thinks you’re his macho pal, he’ll respect you/your sovereignty. If not, he’ll try to violate you & humiliate you. Epstein-ism, if you like.
WHAT A CAREER
Brad Gushue has just played his last game at the Brier. A remarkable career. Six Brier titles. World title. Olympic gold and bronze. 15 Slam titles.
It’s been an honour to cover so many of those moments. Congratulations @BradGushue.
The fuck? If US leaders really ordered this, it is a new low (and we are already hell-level low) from Hegseth and Trump.
They blew up an elementary school Tom
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Not sure that’s the counterfactual at play. Iran and Russia are allied. But I take your point. And no, our gov’s in the West wouldn’t condemn, because the West is as transactional and hypocritical as the rest of them. It’s a horrible state it affairs
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
“This meeting will be an email”, I whisper to myself, as I refuse to remind my colleague we were supposed to meet 20 minutes ago, all so he can have an audience to be a windbag in front of.
Put it in a briefing note, thanks so much.
Oh my God. So appalling I need to say these words slowly and with emphasis. Wondering what Japan has to say about this assessment of previous US military engagement.
Rematch on Sunday
I told ‘em but they wouldn’t listen
“Tsk tsk. They should have thrown the long guard”, I mutter, as I eat a succulent Chinese delivery on my couch
feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined
Remind me: when you bomb an elementary school, lure the survivors into a false sense of safety, and then bomb the survivors, leaving behind dozens and dozens of dead school children... are you the good guys?
If Trump really can’t control Netanyahu, it seems at least feasible that Iran becomes Gaza 2.0, up to & including the hideous pretence that they bomb a land to smithereens to somehow help the people living there.
Headline from the Associated Press: Rockets kill 2 Israelis; 26 die in Gaza as Israel hits Hamas. Kill is used for the Israelis with no reason given, Die is used for Palestinians, with hitting Hamas used to condone the murder.
More language manipulation from major outlets, and again with alt text. Main stream media does this all the time.
Israelis are killed, but Gazans just die, and worse they condone the killing of the Gazans by giving Israel an excuse for their continued genocide.
It’s an opportunity for Canadian systems and government to live up to our country’s ever-self-aggrandising habit to view itself as being tolerant, generous, charitable, and forgiving. Somehow I think the mask will slip…again.
Damn, Arthur Snell nailed both the analysis and the description in this one!
I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)
theyre just all so fucking stupid and we were told we had to be respectful and treat their stupid fucking opinions seriously even though we knew its all bull shit and now here we are
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"second and subsequent generations". Doesn't appear to be a limit.
Incredible that Trump's just dunked on Starmer for taking too long to fold. Starmer's managed to deliver his personal specialty: an outcome where he's pissed off literally everyone for zero gain.
we might not be participating in the war but we're keeping the sign in the window by not condemning it either.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”
