I don't think enough people know how important Sicario has become in the Dumb Violent Guy canon, this is their version of women who wanted to do Eat Pray Love

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com

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Cats observing snow cat

Lot's wife

"Eric Swalwell" sounds like what Jerry Falwell would call himself to try to get past a security guard

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Do we have some guesses on the syllabus? Middlemarch, for sure. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

My classroom has an unwieldy “portable” lectern that can sit on the desk; I use it but others don’t and I have to deadlift it from the floor every time I teach. This has really cemented the difference between podium and lectern in my brain!

I’m already in Valks Mode and would be delighted to clap when I see a Warriors player at Ballhalla!

Works a treat!

Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.

Yreka is big! It’s the county seat!

This account is a dachshund account

This, over and over. They are residents. Of different years. They are supposed to leave.

Go ahead, be a tortured genius, but also, shut the fuck up

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

The only reliable good thing in a given day

Absolutely Philly as the site of American Nuremberg trials, for reasons historical (the founding!) and contemporary (have you seen Broad Street after a win??)

I’m sure earning his respect is her highest goal

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

There are so many good books coming out today and so few media outlets cover them in the first place, so I will be furious if they’re all preempted by nuclear war.

A porch, even? A tent on the back deck?

My Emma Straub pre-order should arrive today; would love to read it and not have anyone get blown up.

There was a video of this ON LOOP in the waiting room of the oral surgeon who did my kid’s (very simple and easy) extraction and it was hard not to bolt

All I want to do is weep with wonder at moon pictures and flying Nutella and these assholes are trying to be to end the world.

I could not find the mini eggs this year! Which was both good (I didn’t eat several bags) and bad (I didn’t eat any)

"we need kids to get an early start operating machines that are routinely wrong and may try to coax them into suicide and/or psychosis" is a fun education perspective i disagree with actually

Oh yeah I remember a “Mark of the Beast” billboard in my hometown featuring a monster wearing a papal mitre with “666” at the crown. We also had lots of Mormons (southern Oregon) so lots of opinions flying around about who was really “Christian”

She’d maintain silent eye contact the entire time

Wedding People (Espach); far and away (poeppel); Eligible (Sittenfeld); Evvie Drake Starts Over (Holmes).

Persuasive writing students: this is the way