I am a PhD sociologist who works outside academia and I approve this message.

To those who say it's been confirmed, I get what you're saying, but that's yet to become the widely accepted narrative. (I had to reach because most conspiracy theories are just a stupid person's idea of what a smart person sounds like.)

The Reagan '80 campaign had contacts in Iran and used them to delay the release of the hostages. (Nixon basically did the same thing in '68 with Vietnam peace negotiations.) The Reagan admin's later missiles for hostages deal in Iran-Contra was probably built on those earlier relationships.

He attracts the shameless and in my experience I’ve met few people in my life more shameless than full-blown alcoholics who don’t even try to hide it.

Laughing at the idea that the "first order of business if Dems win House/Senate" should be to re-introduce the right-wing immigration bill Biden/Harris tried to run on in 2024 to take the immigration issue off the table by making a ton of concessions to the anti-immigration right.

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

"An object that never tires can cover ground much slower than any athletic human can sprint, and significantly slower than the fastest humans can run a mile, so we let it keep going until its speed sounded impressive."

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Probably saw him first as Rooster in Annie when it came out in 1982. I did not know his name but I remember that character popping off the screen.

Not every movie he's in is good, but he made them all better and every minute he's on screen even the worst movie is redeemable.

Opinion | You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education

I'm curious what people on here think of this article. The most interesting points are less about tech and more about schools losing a sense of purpose and buying into an obsession with "points." EdTech is not the problem, the instrumentalization of education is.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...

Absolutely.

"These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that."

That's a pretty simple and effective message.

Salute to an all-time tweet

“I Do the Rock” is also a banger.

he also recorded my favorite version of "anyone who had a heart" (made popular originally by cilla black and dionne warwick) in the 70s! it's very good, give it a listen

Point 11 from the article. The limits of soft power.

No it's very much the limits of hard power that have been exposed *this week*.

Yup, and when people try to be good hearted or hopeful it gets dismissed as naïveté and so we can’t even envision positive change.

Aside from everything else, the writing clunks

We desperately need to break the assumption that cynicism connotes intelligence.

Trump 2 is proving that the affluent love peace and quiet more than justice, even if they are aligned with progressive politics.

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.

She missed these trials by a few months.

One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.

I feel such a hole inside.

In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

Looks like we now know who the Robert Ley of this crowd is.

The first time I heard Robert Johnson it was like receiving an otherwordly transmission from a different planet. The crispness of this recording is just mind-blowing.

If anyone mentions the Khazars to you and it’s not about one of the cooler factions in Crusader Kings, run.

I think you can, with a completely straight face after reading this story, argue Patel has been Trump’s best cabinet member.

Moonshine bootleggers in Mississippi right now:

They are really frightened!

I told him that not prosecuting Nixon is what got us here in the first place!

MLK said of middle class white moderates that they loved peace and quiet more than justice and that statement has never been more true.

Centrist I know tried to tell me today that we shouldn't threaten Trump's criminal cronies with prosecution since it will make it less likely for them to resign or give up, which is why it was good that Nixon wasn't prosecuted, either. Do these people believe in anything?