After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Amazonian royal flycatcher: #AGoodPlace
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Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:
I went to the library to get a book on labyrinths, but I got lost trying to find it.
As a comics scholar, I am incensed by this nonsense. No one calls it "comic book studies." And comics studies didn't become popular in universities until works like Maus and Fun Home elevated comics to the status of high culture.
Mike Lofgren is a career GOP hack. He's an Akron boy, like me. He worked in various policy jobs for the Republicans for years, during which those policies gutted the "middlebrow class" he now mourns.
"Hence the plethora of comic book studies courses at universities today."
Go fuck yourself, you pompous dickhead. Is that middlebrow enough for you?
i think the gamecube has the best logo of any console. just look at it. it's a cube that's a G and the negative space in the G is a C
The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.
How To Live A Good Life #oldknees
As everyone knows, truth is an absolute defense to libel
I’m reading this lawsuit Kash filed against The Atlantic. I’m struggling to find where they were wrong.
Don’t forget that Trump threatened to wipe out an entire civilization in Iran.
Congress has tools to rein in this president.
But nothing will happen until Republicans grow a spine and work with Democrats to stand up to him.
Hey Salon, shame on you for this elitist anti-intellectual attack on the field of comics studies. Our field is not lacking in intellectual rigor, and not called "comic book studies."
Photo of a man in an IDF uniform smashing a statue of Jesus Christ in the head with a sledgehammer @ytirawi watermark
Israel Defense Forces @IDF X.com Following the completion of an initial examination regarding a photograph published earlier today of an IDF soldier harming a Christian symbol, it was determined that the photograph depicts an IDF soldier operating in southern Lebanon. The IDF views the incident with great severity and emphasizes that the soldier's conduct is wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops. The incident is being investigated by the Northern Command and is currently being addressed through the chain of command. Appropriate measures will be taken against those involved in accordance with the findings.
Furthermore, the IDF is working to assist the community in restoring the statue to its place. The IDF is operating to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure established by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and has no intention of harming civilian infrastructure, including religious buildings or religious symbols. • LTC Nadav Shoshani * & @LT...•7h The IDF is currently examining the reliability of the photograph. If this is indeed a real, recent picture, these actions do not align with the IDF's values and the behavior expected of IDF soldiers.
A photo of an IDF soldier in southern Lebanon smashing a statue of Jesus Christ with a sledgehammer went viral.
The IDF confirmed the photo, claimed “the soldier's conduct is wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops,” and said it is investigating.
Clearly that is a photographed turtle, not a painted turtle.
Painted turtle on the move.
EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
Once is happenstance, twice is happenstance, three times is enemy action.
Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement—
If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”
Today's frog is the green bright-eyed frog.
The only way we unfuck our country is through a puritanical anti-corruption drive. We need to rip out a vast substrate of corrupt elites and marginalize an even larger contingent of mere incompetents and cowards.
Ppl need to be terrified of the white-collar criminal laws of the United States again.
Homeland Security tweet: DHSgov • 1h X 'Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.' —Proverbs 3:5-6 One nation under God.
Christofascist government
One of multiple parts of the Atlantic story that is one hundred percent true is President Trump’s frustration that the MAGAfied feds aren’t jailing nearly enough of his political enemies so u can read his words today in the context of liking his job title and wanting to keep it
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
In the same way that I have a complicated relationship with forklifts. I've never used a forklift and I don't expect I ever will.
The New York Times has a complicated relationship with telling the truth about the powerful, especially 45/47.
New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped
There's a story (popularized by the 1965 Battle of the Bulge film) that during WWII, the Germans captured a chocolate cake from the Americans. And they realized they had lost the war, because the Americans had the industrial and logistical ability to ship such a thing across the Atlantic.
Hey MAGA. What happened to all of Hegseth's steaks and shrimp, lobster tails and ice cream that you all insisted were for the troops?
NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about.
This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.
