Spanish archaeologists find Homer's Iliad poem in Egyptian tomb A Spanish-Egyptian team have uncovered a fragment of Homer’s Iliad inside a mummy at Oxyrhynchus, revealing how ancient texts were reused in burial practices and shedding light on the spread of Greek ...

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Now he really won’t be asked to brunch on Martha’s Vineyard. And good luck buying a pierogi.

Everywhere EXCEPT the US

Tariff Refunds Start Today—But Average Consumers Won’t Benefit More than $160 billion in tariff refunds are due for U.S. importers.

More than $160 billion in tariff refunds are due for U.S. importers.

SPLC was indicted before anyone in the Epstein files.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

The legal system is, you know, a system.

This is what it does.

Helms did not reply bc he’s sitting there thinking, “WTF is this paranoiac talking about?”

Now let’s make Trump a global pariah.

This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.

One way of financing med school

‘(Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)’

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If you purchased an auto in the last year, you paid thousands more for that vehicle in the USA because of tariffs. Even if it was made in the USA. Those auto companies passed those taxes onto you. You paid as much as 10% more. Now they are going to get 10% back in their pockets. WTH! NOT YOU!

DOJ’s First ‘Weaponization’ Report Is a Bust The document purports to show bias under the Biden administration—and fails spectacularly.

‘The weaponization report takes the form of a classic Trump two-step: First, claim that normal law-enforcement work, when directed against you or your friends, is illegitimate; then, use that supposed illegitimacy as justification for your own revenge.’
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I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.

WE Pay for

like to add ® and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

Alt text: Screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Abdulkhaleq Abdulla (@Abdulkhaleq_UAE), with a verified badge. The post reads: “This is what I told Reuters today: The UAE no longer needs America to defend it, as it has proven during the Iranian aggression that it is capable of defending itself with distinction. What the UAE needs is to acquire only the best and latest weapons that America has. Therefore, it is time to think about closing the American bases, as they are a burden and not a strategic asset.” The post is labeled “Translated from Arabic by Grok” and shows a timestamp of 10:21 AM · 4/19/26 with 139K views.

NEW: UAE scholar Abdulkhaleq Abdulla says the UAE no longer needs U.S. protection, calling American bases a “burden, not a strategic asset” and suggesting they should be closed. The United States’ standing in the region has been obliterated.

You speak for many of us!

Barcelona street graffiti of Statue of Liberty with a skull painted over her face

Seen in Barcelona

I will not disagree with you on that point. But it’s the better we have when Congress is feckless and supine.

Sit and Stay Seated? Walkouts at One State’s Public Universities Could Soon Be Banned. Republican lawmakers in Tennessee say the legislation, sent to the governor’s desk Friday, protects free speech by preventing disruptions.

#MarioSavio weeps

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Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

‘Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.’

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Stereo) YouTube video by jacob 6657

A blissed April 20 to those who inhale.

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It’s called #MidtermElections

Surely, of all the newspaper audiences in the country, #Mail readers would be the most likely to stubbornly insist the fateful decision taken in June ten years ago was the right one?

Well, no. Very much no.
Hilarious

“Ohh!” I just said out loud to myself!

This Day in #History 1927
Actress Mae West found guilty of “obscenity and corrupting the morals of youth” in a NY stage play entitled "Sex". She is sentenced to 10 days in prison and fined $500, the resulting publicity launches her Hollywood career.

Peter Broelman n Canberra Times

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison

Former British archbishop: ‘There’s something demonic in US political culture’ Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has said “there is something demonic” in the “political culture” of the United States.  He made the remark on The Spectator’s Edition podcast when ...

Amurkans worship #Mammon & #Moloch

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