all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I'm old enough to remember people faking concern over Howard Dean yelling "Yeeee-aaah!" at a rally, saying they didn't want nukes in THAT guy's hands.

Like every other aspect of their political philosophy, it was total bullshit, and we now have an actual madman threatening genocide.

Secret Election Funders (via NYT) U.S. politics has seen a stunning increase in dark money donations, undermining promises from the Supreme Court.

i’m so old i remember when obama called out SCOTUS for citizens united during a SOTU, predicting this would happen, and alito shook his head and said “that’s not true”

Kyle is, and always will be, space Jesus

Two ceramic pigs labeled "pigs with no specific duties"

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

Everyone's concerned about the Strait right now, but what about the Gay of Hormuz?

Remembering when "March Madness" was about basketball and not the entire fucking planet.

Good times.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Out Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Out

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/out-3

Preview for Trump's speech tonight:

Lord I have seen what you have done for others and I want that for myself

Get it? See, it's funny 'cuz our President is a pathological liar who rarely, if ever, tells the truth.

Nothing is free and I'm getting very tired of seeing how many people assume that is not the case

Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows (Official Live in London 2008) YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO

been thinking about this song a lot lately www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8u...

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

Honestly I'm in the market. Same thing for a combat vest

I hate this so much

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

Shut down the government. Refuse to have any member of the party vote yes to any bill until the executive is back in line.

Stop pretending this is normal

www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24...

Some of those well regulated state militia would be nice about now...

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