In my experience, it is like a glitter bomb that just explodes at unknowable times. This seems accurate to me, it will always hurt the same amount, and you'll never know when it will happen, but it does happen less frequently as time goes on. hospiscare.co.uk/how-we-help/...
Americans are going to love paying the UAE so they don't have to cut back on yacht maintenance or the number of Sri Lankans they enslave
Here Yglesias is calling for Israel to deal with exactly the opposite of reality. The world is indeed full of brutal behavior, to the degree the 10/7 attacks would have been barely noticed at the time & now would be long forgotten if they had happened in most places.
This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)
fully automated luxury communism
Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.
Incredible sequel. Edge of my seat!
for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.
one year ago elon musk was telling us about the terrifying existential threat of federal spending
Yes, Americans hate Israel now — but just wait until American soldiers are dying in Lebanon and Gaza, the polling will really turn around jpost.com/israel-news/...
"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
you know it
Sam Altman thinks Americans should get a four-day workweek with the same pay. AI is bringing us an amazing future! Also, Richard Nixon said Americans should have a four-day workweek in 1956.
Every year around Tax Day there's an eruption of right-wing effluvia about one specific propaganda line about taxes. It's their favorite lie, don't fall for it. theintercept.com/2019/04/13/t...
Everyone knows the Zionist right was quasi-sort of-allies with the Nazis. Many people see this as scandalous, but as with the US right & al Qaeda, it's standard for right-wings to be quasi-allies with their purported bitter enemies. archive.fo/2026.04.14-0...
In the Middle Ages you'd find portraitists who worked for kings whose faces were rotting off from syphilis — but in the paintings the kings were always handsome and young. These portraitists often congratulated themselves for how successful they'd become.
Laura Wexler, the author of this article about one small-scale example of the devastation & sorrow caused by white America's lunacy, is writing a play based on the Rhinelander v. Rhinelander story. If you could buy tickets now I would've already.
gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...
Pls read this fascinating/horrifying long piece about the Rhinelander v. Rhinelander trial of 1925. I'd never heard of it, it's a stunning tale of white America's deep sickness about race & how it's ruined lives in the most intimate ways imaginable.
gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...
I’ve watched this four times and will not be stopping anytime soon
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
I believe someday we'll figure out naked mole-rat DNA & why they're immune to cancer & live so long, and be able to get these benefits for ourselves. However, the catch will be that you'll have to look like a naked mole-rat.
An elder friend of mine said that the problem is that too many of us got too much education after WWII. Around the world. And the powers that be want it to stop.
Israel calling its assault on Lebanon "Operation Eternal Darkness" is a fantastic "Are we the baddies?" moment www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKc...
It's ugly to see a former IDF soldier call for an investigation of an American news outlet. But this is a step up from the standard Israeli response to journalists, which is to kill them.
This is an exciting story about the powerful potential of treating rare genetic diseases with CRISPR and mRNA technology. Let's hope we overcome our current epidemic of Medieval Peasant Brain & fund & celebrate science that will make our lives better.
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...
I don't think a one-state solution makes sense because Israelis would literally destroy human civilization rather than accept that. On the other hand they'd probably also destroy human civilization rather than accept a two-state solution, so I'm not sure where that leaves us.
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
As the BBC discovers that Iranians don't mind being killed, it's important to remember the UK already found 100 years ago that Iraqis right next door are fine with it too. Iraqis "have no objection to being killed" Chief of Air Staff Hugh Trenchard said in 1930, as he killed them.
it's stunning for everyone like Mark who's had a large safe fall out of the sky on their head
