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Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

A reason im not moved by the “don’t give the trump administration the pretext they’re looking for” is that we would not dare say that about any anti-authoritarian protest movement in literally any other country

Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president Voters: Like not voting for his nominees? Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap

"I asked chatgpt" I confided in amazon I confessed to mcdonald's I have an inside joke with exxon mobil

Democrats frantically scrambling to figure out the most appropriate food truck to roll out for this situation

How do you create a quality learning environment, which requires trust, when the students on campus do this in order to become famous?

There's a pretty explicit test case of a center left party abandoning trans people and immigrants. Labour in the UK have done just that and their political support has imploded while legitimizing the fascist Reform party. Dem consultants seem content to follow this strategy.

Okay on the bright side, we’ve been living in “unprecedented times” for long enough that they are now firmly precedented.

They're literally doing the meme

Not funny, exactly, but notable that "Israel has a right to exist as a state with equal rights" is characterized as a political line (a dodge, a talking point, empty, meaningless) while the assertion that Israel should have a right to exist as a Jewish state is apparently just stating natural law

It is deeply hilarious that the Hudson's Bay Company was founded in 1670 and chugged along for three and a half centuries and Private Equity finished it off in like five years.

My calendar is also organized around 9/11s.

family avocados, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1905

happy pride bsky

On the Political Roots of Academic Freedom open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

A visit to the Elephant Graveyard of West Bloomfield, Michigan: unsold Cybertrucks piling up in the parking lot of a closed Bed, Bath, & Beyond about a mile south of the Tesla dealer. May 30, 2025. #Tesla #Michigan #cybertruck

oedipal victory stunted billionaire primitive accumulation monster daddy hugging himself as he rocks back and forth to self soothe during an oval office presser because one of his numberless primal horde, a scion named after his favorite brand, supposedly went for his eye: a mood

grudgingly have to admit David Brooks is cooking with this one www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...

Missile defense doesn't work, but at least it's stupidly expensive, has no appreciable spillover into other research, and in fact the pursuit of it actively makes nuclear war more likely.

the reporter who asked trump about "TACO" did the right thing but also probably caused a global economic depression

According to the fed govt’s own accounting, U.S. culture industries doubled in the 21st C a tenfold increase in global trade surplus. We export film tv music lit fashion games, AND higher ed, contributing more than $800B/yr to the economy, more than mining construction ag warehousing transportation.