newrepublic.com/post/207263/... The first time as tragedy, the second time as 'nobody can speak Farsi'.
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newrepublic.com/post/207263/... The first time as tragedy, the second time as 'nobody can speak Farsi'.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
Signs point to no.
At a kids’ party I met an 82-yr-old grandpa who had almost died from an injury sustained from daily lifting his 53-yr-old stepdaughter.
She’s immobile & non-verbal since a viral encephalitis at the age of 7.
Her mother died after 40 years of full-time caring.
This is an encephalitis vaccine.
Feeling guilty about telling the cat “No, I’m sorry, I love you but I can’t trust you around butter” because I know Splash would say the same to me.
It was Ryan Grim arguing that Platner couldn’t be antisemitic because he supposedly has a Jewish wife. (Which is obviously a bad argument even if its premise was true.)
the wife has now informed me that since she has a job that requires her to be at work when her boss wants we will absolutely be changing the clocks and my new project is to find a real problem
and introducing John Hurt as the War Queer
Best reply ever
Markwayne called Rand Paul a “freaking snake” last week and said he supported his neighbor beating the crap out of him. Let’s see who the chair of the Senate Homeland Security committee is…oh goody it’s Rand Paul.
I hope reporters on here are frantically trying to get in touch with someone in the room before the Q&A ends.
This is what Rumsfeld would call an Unnoem Unnoem
AO3 writers are cracking their knuckles
There are a lot of things to be mad at Sen Mullin for, but now is not the time for people who have no special insight to revive their takes on Cherokee identity & police how Indigenous people should appear.
Someone said it was basically furry Avatar.
“Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas”
Whatever the fuck that is.
i’m tired of new sentences
It's important to keep in mind that Markwayne Mullins is a Cherokee citizen. And that most reporters (and frankly most people in the U.S.) don't talk to natives and have very little insight into what a tribal nation even means.
There was some major fighting between the transitional government and the SDF earlier this year. I guess that got resolved, but it’s worrisome.
this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible
If you're looking to find cake on Bluesky boy do I have news for you
Totally. I follow a ton of people who hate each other.
This might not resonate with anyone who's never lived in the South, but do you know how *hard* it is to get BANNED from Waffle House?
Apparently, there’s also a plesiosaur called Eromangasaurus. I feel like there’s potential there.
too many of you are arguing with Cryin Ryan Grim when you should be Climbin the Grim Tower with playable characters like Ironclad, The Silent, and Necrobinder. Slay The Spire 2 coming to steam early access later today
I’ve long suspected that the German Greens’ Alliance 90 heritage has had more influence on the modern party than people realize. (This is just a vague suspicion based on no real knowledge.)
A fun fact that basically no-one knows* is that the US Greens have been kicked out of the Global Greens because the European Greens hate Stein, and especially her links to Putin, that much
* TBF the only public announcement is a throwaway sentence in this europeangreens.eu/news/us-elec...
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
A cop once stopped me and asked me who issued the Edict of Nantes.