But her family and friends were about to kill her if she didn't bring food to NYC. Imagine.

Maybe he does deserve a peace prize for reuniting Christendom.

JD Vance, god-splaining to the pope

Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

My son was like this at age 3. Faced with unassailable evidence of something he had done wrong, he would make up an outrageous lie that fooled no one.

It could have been worse. We could have had a female president. They're so erratic and emotional.

Well, at least we don't have a woman as president. They can get SO emotional . . .

It’s TACO Tuesday!

So, JD converts to Catholicism and writes a book about it. But when push comes to shove, it's "Pope, Shmope. I'm sticking with the Orange Man."

Remember, this is the same country that decided to fill in beautiful, massive community pools with concrete rather than integrate them in the mid-20th century. Making everyone worse off, rather than being welcoming to non-white people is on-brand for America.

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It occurs to me that there are Republicans in Congress who assured themselves a year ago that they’d be able to shut it all down if things ever got wildly out of control, not realizing that when things are wildly out of control is exactly the time that it’s hardest to shut it all down.

So sad I missed THAT part of your day!

Imagine reading this as someone who has lost a loved one in this conflict.

Is it a giant wooden horse

It's like a historian of religion and empire has taken over the city. Love this!

Who is sound mixing at the Oscars? You don't need a piano to overshadow Babs in her tribute to Robert Redford.

I've seen much more commentary on oil prices and the stock market than on the effects that this war is having on children.

How to Age as a Woman Based on current celebrity beauty standards, the goals are clear: you need to look like you’re in your twenties until you’re thirty-five, then look...

"Based on current celebrity beauty standards, the goals are clear: you need to look like you’re in your twenties until you’re thirty-five, then look thirty-five until you’re dead."
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The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran. He is waving goodbye to his mother

The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran. He is waving goodbye to his mother

Rep. Angie Craig: "I would rather stick forks in my eyes than be here tonight to listen to Donald Trump talk about the state of the union, but this is the people's house, and I will not abandon the people'e house."

Atrocities in our names.

The executive jet that DHS says it needs has a “bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar ..”

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Painted, stylized portrait of Jesse Jackson

RIP Jesse Jackson (Jacob Lawrence's portrait of Jesse Jackson, created in 1970 for cover of Time magazine, now in collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery) npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...

Jesse Jackson's 1988 campaign marks a historic breakthrough in American politics. It is the first time that a "social democratic" platform has been presented in the mainstream of American politics and attracted significant mass support. The journal- istic cliche was, and is, that Jackson's program is "extremist," vague, outrageously expensive. In fact, as a correspondent for the London Financial Times reported, only in Ronald Reagan's America could Jackson's eminently moderate and sensible ideas be seen as far out. Those ideas, on full employment, health, North-South and the like, are familiar to readers of Dissent, members of Democratic Social- ists of America, and the broad democratic left. They are, more or less, what we have been talking about during the past decade and in some cases the people who articulated them for Jackson came from our world.

His appeal to working people--he is the most pro-union candidate in recent memory- did not always translate into votes but won him very real respect even from many who cast their ballot for another candidate. In Iowa, it is clear that he had an appeal to farm families in small communities that saw few blacks. And, more predictably, he suc- ceeded very well with the new-class vote in the college towns and urban centers. Third, Jackson has broken some racial barriers. Let there be no mistake about it, there was a "backlash," particularly in some of the later primaries. But what is remarkable is that in every state Jackson significantly increased -and some- times doubled - his percentage of the white vote in 1984. When the campaign began, even though I supported Jackson I felt that the racism of the society would limit him much more than it did in fact. And one of the reasons why he succeeded in this area is that his social democratic class appeal reached across color lines, in some cases moving even former George Wallace voters.

Went back this morning and read @dissentmag.bsky.social's coverage of the Jackson campaign in 1988; I think it is Michael Harrington's "A Case for Jackson" that holds up the best dissentmagazine.org/article/a-ca...

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Wait a sec . . . I thought he wasn't watching it?

I am an old white man.

I like this half time show.

I understand nothing, but at the same time, I understand everything.

Telling a woman she should smile more while she’s asking about the Epstein victims is a tell, Donald.