#cryptic #crossword Wednesday!
-Pennant won without starting pitcher (6)
-Alcohol all the same by last of forty litres (5)
-Almost cancel mass by American theologian (7)
-Knight in costume entertains in the dark (10)
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21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
Palantir is part of the "regressive and harmful" subculture that destroyed USAID, terminated mRNA research, trashed NIH & CDC & FDA & EPA, and brought back measles. Within the next few years, their subculture will be responsible for more preventable deaths than any other in human history.
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A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted.
Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more.
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Stephen Miller is so vile that he boomeranged immigration into a beloved public good
kinda funny how Republican voters are inarguably happier when a Dem is president. they don’t actually want to be in charge of shit, they want to roll coal and whip themselves into a frenzy over wholly imaginary liberal tyranny. now they’ve caught the car and it fuckin sucks
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
John of Patmos: In my book I invented the Antichrist as a cautionary tale.
Modern evangelicals: At long last we can worship the Antichrist from the classic book Don't Worship The Antichrist.
Tom Pohlad would like you to talk about $2 beers but not about this. Or the bullpen, but especially not this.
A series of disjointed, hard-to-follow and sometimes-profane statements capped by his "a whole civilization will die tonight" threat to wipe Iran off the map last week and his head-spinning attack on the "WEAK on Crime, and terrilde for Foreign Policy" pope on Sunday night have left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power.
This is an all-time great “some people are asking questions” waffle
to wit bsky.app/profile/rain...
I honestly didn't think the NYT would top their 2016 faceplant but they sure did it in 24. spent half the year stoking a shrieking panic about BIDEN OLD, only to go almost totally silent when he got swapped out with a much younger woman, while ignoring Trump's even worse aging issues
Well, JD Vance didn’t get anywhere with the Iran peace talks. After 21 hours, the U.S. side gave up and went home. But that’s no surprise; the talks were doomed from the get-go. Now Trump has made things even worse. I explain why in today’s piece, link in the replies.
evangelicals eagerly, gleefully pretended not to see the myriad ways trump is the most heretical politician to hold american higher office in modern history so i don't think we should take their outrage as sincere now that they need a way out of his sinking coalition
‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organised state policy’ Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by 'highest levels' of Israeli leadership
The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it.
It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...
Israel is a nation being run by despotic fiends and bigots, driven mad by bloodlust and rampaging through the region surrounding them. They must be stopped, but the only superpower with a sufficient interest in doing so is indefensibly on their "side".
Everything that the Pope has done has been theologically in line with who he is and what his job is. Encouraging Catholics to pray for peace and to be fearless is his job!
I feel like I move through the day fighting an undercurrent of sadness. So much progress and promise destroyed.
It is profoundly unjust that we have to live this way. It doesn’t make any fucking sense and it’s driving me insane
Trump is demonstrating the importance of credibility in international relations.
He is not credible. He’s shown that others can’t trust what he says, and can’t act as if his stance will be the same tomorrow. He can’t communicate demands or make reliable offers. He made America’s word is worthless.
can't help but notice it's Murdoch's Wall St Journal that first reported this story, when it's FOX that's balking the most at NFL rights fee hikes.
I still can't watch just my favorite team out of state for anything less than $400 a year, so not buying this personally. And without the streaming app, cable or an antenna those "free" games aren't accessible. Weak arguments from the NFL here.
100%.
We've been connecting the dots the last few weeks and put this out at the end of March.
Lot of noise, but not hard to figure out where it's coming from!
awfulannouncing.com/nfl/murdochs...
The '5' number font looks like an upside down '2'
🎶 When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that’s… 🎶
Screenshot of a Twitter exchange in which user @kimerrikin notes that the city of Lynchburg VA declared April 7 2008 to be Leland Melvin Day, and Leland Melvin (@Astro_Flow) thanking them for reminding him.
Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. 💚
I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail.
Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.
$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...
Trump can be removed in two weeks. Hell, it could be done during the NFL Draft. Just play the chime and announced he's removed right before the Bills draft another WR who will let me down.
Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir