one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus
"Or risk a public backlash" is such a wild counterfactual to "be candid," as if there wouldn't be a public backlash if the entire global economy implodes due to mass unemployment at levels not seen since the Great Depression.
A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"
ghoulish
Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant
A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi
Read so many instagram posts about an old friend dying this past week that now the algorithm thinks that all I want to see if public posts from literally anyone memorializing someone who died
I am at the point where if I see the word abundant in literally anything I immediately disengage
Me after hearing about the 62 million men who visited an online rape academy in February
Exactly one year ago today:
Was literally watching the Decline and Fall of Western Civilization the other day and wondering if a contemporary version would have to be focused on furries, who seem more confrontational and subcultural to the norms than anything occurring in the punk world
NEW: For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across Omaha’s east side.
Faced with similar concerns, 13 states passed laws requiring all kids to get a blood test before kindergarten. But not Nebraska.
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
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For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.
Wes this just looks like Mardi Gras to me
i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan
Well it’s definitely nice to not be slightly reluctant to explain my child’s Hungarian name now
easily one of the funniest guys america has had in decades
I lived in a state with an extremely strong scholarship program to in state public colleges and universities (RIP fully funded HOPE) so it was absolutely inevitable I would go to the University of Georgia. No point in spending money looking elsewhere.
Weird that having a set of negotiations in which there are no proper diplomats leads to a situation in which no one has a clue what's actually been agreed.
*guy cheering on nuclear war voice* why aren’t people having babies?
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
Not beating those "Great Satan" allegations
The Biden Administration’s unwillingness to stop Israel’s genocide and complete destruction of all civilian infrastructure in Gaza has lead us directly to this moment
"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes... It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." —Robert Jackson, Nuremberg
Big Charity, about the dismantling if the oldest public hospital in the US following Hurricane Katrina. It’s short (approx 60 minutes) but incredibly compelling, and your students will likely be unfamiliar with the impacts of the storm and its continued aftermath on New Orleans.
Certainly on par that the Oregonian would highlight the politics of Springsteen but to leave out the fact that Morello was often playing a guitar that clearly said “Arm the Homeless”
This is so, so well-articulated.
