The main Democratic strategy for the next 6 months needs to be to let Trump be the main character. Resist allowing Gavin Newsom or Graham Platner or Hasan Piker or whomever from being placed in that role. The election needs to be a referendum on the least popular president of the century
Wonderful, so I should expect to be woken up at 2:35 am by the restful thuds of interceptions
The ancient Hohokam of the Phoenix area are in fact famous for both their extensive irrigated agriculture and their ballcourts.
Typical Shinya Tsukamoto: gorgeously shot with fantastic visuals, incredible production, set, and sound design, great score, imaginatively edited, and all wedded to an inventive and utterly perverse story. Top notch.
Poster for Shinya Tsukamoto’s A Snake of June
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I feel like the answer is in the photo
Screengrab from Princesse Tam-Tam (Edmond T. Gréville, 1935)
Image from Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène, 1966)
One day I'd like to program a double feature of Princesse Tam-Tam (Edmond T. Gréville, 1935) and Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène, 1966). Both films are about the movement of a young Black woman from a French colony or post-colony in Africa (Tunisia in Tam-Tam, Senegal in Black Girl) to France.
Our warfighters going back to the good old days: "Over 36,000 Army troops died from influenza before they even got to France, with well in excess of 12,000 dying on the troop transports—compared to almost none killed by German U-boats. In France alone, 12,000 Army troops were killed by the disease."
Like idk don't want to be mean, but if you have opinions about travelling through airports at all, you're probably not living in the abject poverty you claim to be online
Iggy Pop, shirtless comme d'habitude, impeccable abs, mouth slightly open, staring insolently at the camera in black-and-white.
Iggy. The one and the only. Our bravest hero. One can only imagine the genius embedded in every sinew of his glorious and impossible body.
He was the world's forgotten boy, but today we remember. This is is birthday.
We are fortunate beyond measure to have him among us.
Photograph by Peter Hujar.
everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
This is genuinely one of the foundational copes of the modern conservative movement, a stabbed-in-the-back narrative about why the US lost Vietnam
Takeout article about Pete hegseth’s grilled steak seasoning mix
“the Takeout” gets the wall when the revolution comes
What’s he doing with a shirt on?
@mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social, Suzan Haidamous and colleagues report out daytime Israeli airstrikes on densely populated Beirut neighborhoods, with no warning, outside ostensible red zone: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
The American Library Association reports 4,235 unique titles were challenged in 2025, with Ohio seeing 7 attempts for 129 titles.
“Buy our home security package named after someone who was utterly destroyed by a back door break-in he didn’t see coming because he was focused solely on the front door.”
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
My uncle Tony, my cousin Fay, me and my mum foraging near Watnall, Nottinghamshire, in 1981. I used to dream about this meadow (a version of it also pops up in my novel 1983).
A psychedelic overexposed photo of me and my cousin Fay
My aunt Marilyn, me and my mum at the end of our afternoon of foraging in the early summer of 1981. This lovely meadow often appears in my dreams, in its peak mid-May incarnation, although is in a place which has the slightly unpromising name of Bog End. Bog End is also where, a decadeish later, I almost, but didn't quite, get kissed by the first girl I properly fancied, who sadly was more into a sixth former who looked "like a dark version of Andy Bell from Erasure". If you stand on top of the hill above here, on a clear winter's day, you now get a good view of the Nottingham branch of IKEA.
Shots from Ken Russell's rarely seen psychedelic 1981 short 'The Meadow'.
I so, so wish they'd put this back on iPlayer. Personally I think it is right up there with Penda's Fen as a lost English classic.
“This latest round of incoherent, comic-book villain statements demonstrates how Palantir is... utterly unsuited to being anywhere near our public services.”
“A company with such naked ideological motivations and lack of respect for democratic rule of law should be nowhere near our public services.”
For a century arabs and iranians have been bickering over whether to call it the arab or persian gulf but thanks lloyd’s list for finally cracking the stalemate with ’Middle East Gulf.’ Peace will now ensue.
try imagining government policy toward higher education as if it were any other industry. "Government plans aviation export cuts of 30%" "Government bans foreign licensing of football broadcast" it would be insane
and yet
Jesus
No, we are not doing “Jewish deicide” on Bluesky, the Nostra aetate settled this decades ago.
The Roman authorities, with the support of local oligarchs, killed Jesus. There’s no “blood guilt on all Jewish people” (or on Italians).
The Adversus Judaeos bull is literally 1600 years out of date.
John Roberts’ Wife Made Millions From Bribes
Roberts accepted $10 Million in bribes disguised as recruiting fees from Law firms with cases pending before the Supreme Court.
www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...
a picture is, it turns out, worth a lot more than a thousand words
Western Christians could give less of a shit about indigenous Christians of the East because we don't fit into their Eurocentric model of Christianity, especially when it comes to eschatology or politics
the best argument for feminism is to just let an old woman talk at you about her career experiences
