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submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Thinking of doing a weekly recap of some select Newswire stories, which are super-short news we publish @mongabay.bsky.social. Some from this week. 1. The legendary Wisdom, known to be the oldest known living wild bird, is raising a new chick at 74! (story by me) news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Yes, it’s true that quite a lot of liberal Christians who deny that MAGA is Christian just can’t face the fact that it is in “direct continuity with the Christianity of enslavers, of global racial empire, and the Old South”. But there’s, I think, a better way to take at least some of the better

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Also: you can’t do the things Republicans do and not become them. If you really dislike Republican character—not just what they do, but their habits and attitudes—then you already have good reason not to do what they do.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Reminds me of a debate under the last papacy in which BXVI was accused of disrespecting his opponents because he assumed that Catholicism was true. His response was to distinguish the respect owed people from the respect owed the truth. Egalitarianism doesn’t entail equal respect for beliefs.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

at some point if you're willing to admit that this salute mimicks another *recent* famous salute you might as well just say which historical salute both are mimicking. but apparently nobody wants to be the first to say "Nazi"

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Why have we all been trying so hard to come up with a nickname for Elon when "Lex Loser" is right there??

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Imagine how this administration would respond to an Article Five contingency. There is every chance it would respond in similarly predatory & exploitative fashion.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Includes both “equity” and “diversity”. Wonder whether they’ll ban the Summa.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The Long 19th Century (1789–1914) and the Short 21st (1989–2014).

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

And in Part IV of @thecontinent.org's #MuseumOfStolenHistory we meet: #Ghost and #Darkness, the two lions who became (in)famous as "The Man-eaters of #Tsavo" among late 19th century railway construction workers in today's Kenya (and in a 1996 Hollywood movie). continent.substack.com/p/the-museum...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment