Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong.
Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT
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The President of Iran condemns insults to the Pope and the desecration of Jesus by the President of the United States.
What a time to be alive.
I'm gonna get this out of my system so I don't go insane: What Trump said about the pope is easily the most genuinely anti-Catholic thing any American politician has ever said in my entire lifetime, and if Obama or Biden had said it, there would literally be calls to disband the Democratic Party.
The sickest burn I was ever subject to was when I was trying to buy an overcoat at some shop in The Hague. I put one on, thinking it looked pretty nice. My wife looked me up and down and said “you look like a magician.” Seeing my offended look without missing a beat she said “sorry, illusionist.”
Consider — where are those new tolls going? To Iran’s murderous regime. Is it too much to wonder, though, whether a portion reaches the pockets of US negotiators or other Americans? (3/14)
There's a toddler with a gun and the adults are embarassed they gave him a gun so they insist he's actually very mature for his age
Remember when Bill Clinton spoke to his AG for a few seconds privately, on the tarmac, and the US media, following the instructions of bad-faith wingnuts, made a huge multi-week scandal out of it?
I just imagined Obama saying “Praise be to Allah” on Easter and had a seizure
The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide.
He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.
If you have federal student debt, you may have recently received an email from the Department of Education telling student debtors who are in the SAVE forbearance to switch plans.
We want to encourage you to not rush this next step.
Take a deep breath. You have until September.
I had many funny thoughts after watching this eleventy million times, but my favorite one was imagining the Gus Fring face scene, but you pan around and the other half of his face is Olaf in the moment the light leaves his eyes
Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences.
Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals.
Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.
As a protestant, this feels strange to say, but the point at which an adult convert to Catholicism has been rebuked by two Popes in one year and then goes on to write a memoir called 'Communion' about his faith, they ought to bring excommunication back.
This guy is evidently an unrepentant heretic.
A graph titled “the public health success of the measles vaccine” that shows the number of measles cases in the United States plummeting after the vaccine was introduced in 1963
I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”
Headline: Dow rises 300 points after Trump says U.S. in ‘serious' talks to end operation in Iran
Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball
Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild
Trump has potentially ended free maritime trade, a literally world-changing development that, if it lasts, may do more damage than anything else he has done so far
What a phenomenally, historically evil and incompetent failure
The Republican Party is a party of failure, defeat, and idiocy
“At every step of the way, AI firms have appeared to prioritize speed above the physical security of data centers, supply-chain redundancy, energy efficiency and independence, political stability, even financial returns…. ensnaring the entire economy.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Some years ago, I ran into a college friend at a market in Copenhagen. We had both gone to school in Massachusetts, which was where I was visiting from. She was visiting Denmark for the weekend while living in CYPRUS. Talk about unlikely!
One way to explain it to centrists is, instead of killing 100 innocent schoolchildren, what if they had used your tax dollars to feed those 100 kids steak without checking if they were poor? A bomb is like a really, really expensive steak. Maybe even worse.
Also, if the pipeline of people generating the subject matter knowledge dries up because it’s replaced with LLMs, who exactly will be around to fact-check the LLMs in 20 years?
Nailed it. That grad student-marrying train always comes on time. No reason to think it’ll change with robots!
dinergoths, drive-in goths and divegoths
ICE agents shot & killed Silverio Villegas Gonzalez after he dropped his kids off at school in September.
Minn officials launched investigations into Pretti & Good's killings. Cook County has not done the same for Villegas Gonzalez.
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“I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free”
Stares at camera.
(Worth noting that autocorrect wanted his name to be Shoshone Menotti! The computers are clearly ready for primetime here. 👍 👍 👍)
“It’s not quite as clear as grammar facts, but it’s pretty close.” —Shishir Mehrotra on the famously objective discipline of history
Some of the numerous bangers from this episode. (I especially like the last one, wherein Mehrotra inadvertently reveals how little he understands teaching OR history.)
every single financial institution would benefit from hiring exactly one (1) progressive to walk around the office all day long going “are you fucking stupid?” to anyone within ear shot
