Former British archbishop: ‘There’s something demonic in US political culture’ Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has said “there is something demonic” in the “political culture” of the United States.  He made the remark on The Spectator’s Edition podcast when ...

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Please explain contemporary American life succinctly.

“I understand we live in a giant city and we have to have rules, and that’s what makes society society,” she says. “But I do have a feeling sometimes I’m just gonna make this one not apply to me."

I can’t believe there are really people like this

it's worth noting that the quote they went out of their way to make look stupid was expressing a reasonable point — a restatement of the long-standing official US policy in fact! — and the quote they clean up and sanitize is expressing a deranged threat of war crimes in an illegal conflict

Somehow, @politico.com pointing out that he’s threatening to commit war crimes is still sanewashing his post.

Follow “outfit” with “cast iron skillet” and you’ve got all the life advice you’ll ever need.

Republicans say one of these individuals is the "most divisive president in history"

Oh @economist.com

Reporter: Why didn't you notify Japan that you were going to attack Iran?

Trump next to the Japanese PM:

"Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour? You believe in surprise I think much more so than us."

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care.

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I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.

Just get an 8” Victorinox chefs knife and call it a day

“There were no books” is the cherry on top of this video.

I simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:

US/Israel: “we’re going to kill every person in your country.”

Iran: “we’re going to close this trade route.”

US/Israel: “HOW DARE YOU”

Kaschuta describes the New Right as a sort of "masculine cargo cult": Masculinity is in abeyance in the broader culture, but, the movement believes, if they all say the right things, adopt the right postures and politics, the manliness and status that are their birthright will return and life will be good again. Within this fantasy, Kaschuta says, misogyny has the structure of antisemitism. Like the Jewish person, the modern woman is simultaneously wretched and all-powerful, feeble and defective and responsible for everything wrong in the world. "There is this feeling," she says, "that women are inferior and intellectually incapable, that they should be relegated to care work but, at the same time, that they have this horrible, total agency over the world and that they work in mysterious ways to warp the culture."

Astute

nymag.com/intelligence...

Trump says high oil prices are good now because oil companies will make a lot of money

What if we just put wheels on the boats? Then they could drive themselves over the land

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

Amazing - Fox just showed old footage of Trump at a DIFFERENT Dignified Transfer because of the criticism he got for wearing a baseball hat yesterday 🤔

(H/T @badfoxgraphics.bsky.social )

“Let us pray together

for the roar of bombs to cease,

weapons to fall silent,

& space to open for dialogue,
in which people's voices may be heard.”

Pope Leo XIV

I want the self-confidence to give Matthew McConaughey a friendly chest pat.

me and fellas talking about respecting women on international women's day

Honestly, I’ll never forgive Fox News for what they’ve done to my dad.

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

Reporter: Did the US bomb an elementary school and kill 175 people?

Trump: Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran.

Reporter: Is that true Mr. Hegseth?

Hegseth: We’re investigating.

Trump: They are very inaccurate with their munitions. It was done by Iran.

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

HL Mencken
July 26, 1920