Idk if it’s bc it’s late but I am absolutely losing it over this piñata at a birthday party my kid went to today
“did the romans execute an apocalyptic prophet for preaching against the social order” yeah they did that a lot actually!! any one of those guys could’ve had a book written about him which, a century later, got a wide readership! “is the book a documentary” no. obviously it is not.
There is significantly more evidence for the existence of historical Jesus than for a lot of premodern historical figures
I’m also never sure what this buys you. There were a lot of millenarian prophetic figures in the region at the time, he’s a totally plausible historical character!
Twitter's been shadowbanning a bunch of Iranians I like hearing from. Waves like this tend to happen when conflicts start, but it's been particularly intense and there's no one at the wheel. Definitely give @atrophous.bsky.social a follow. Trying to nudge them into making a starter pack
Not having your starter Pokémon in your lineup is one of those things that isn’t actually a sin but feels like sociopath behavior on a gut level.
man I am so ready to work for the new reconstruction government you have no idea
🧵 Hi, I'm the RoundTable reporter who wrote the story about this poll. Ms. Amiwala has misunderstood the methodology of our polls, and I would like to explain why. TL;DR: Quality control ensures that submitting the poll multiple times immediately disqualifies all of the responses from being counted.
if you brought back grant and sherman today it would take them about 4 hours to dismantle our current military command structure (grant would drink hegseth into a coma, Sherman would spend most of that time shrieking in horror at the existence of airplanes)
My freshman year in college, I made a series of videos to help pressure my university to drop Sodexo as food services provider. My videos didn’t do much, but Pepperdine did drop them.
They refuse to pay their workers, they union-bust, & they literally did the “serve horsemeat in the cafeteria” meme
Sodexo & Aramark are modern-day slavers. Aramark uses forced labor from incarcerated people here in the US, & Sodexo runs over 100 immigrant detention centers & for-profit private prisons in 8 countries.
Sodexo Justice Services’s “death & abuse allegations” is more than half their Wikipedia page
Retail politics gets you re-elected for 800 terms. Clearing snow, filling potholes, towing dead cars, cheaper public trans, photo bombing and glad-handing normies and taxpayers, that's the juice. Even at scale in a place like NYC.
Luckily, there are enough unflattering photos of Pete Hegseth on Getty Images to last a lifetime
Don’t forget that the port of Oman is just on fire
today:
- UAE is apparently out of / heavily rationing interceptors
- one container ship and two oil tankers hit in the gulf west of hormuz
excellent gambit, sir,
To be blunt a lot of these groups should've thought about the consequences of supporting attempts to suppress pro-Palestinian freedom of speech and even in some cases supporting the kidnapping of Arab students for their speech. *You* helped make him a cause celebre among liberals and left-liberals.
as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them
Underrated as a cause for this mess: The succession of D governors in CA has long been organized on dynastic lines. Since '59 all winning D candidates have been either a Brown, a Brown's top aide, or a Brown's Lt. Gov. Now the line has been broken and we're in the Year of the Four Emperors.
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Amazing! Congrats!
Democrats should demand a clawback of ICE's remaining OBBB money before agreeing to supplemental Pentagon funding.
I made a throwaway comment on the insanity of NFL free agency and Bluesky went and Bluesky’d so hard
Pro tip, if I have replies limited, it’s because of dumb bullshit like this
To be fair, I’ve seen chuds online call those ads fake and gay
“Oh no, Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico is a Pastor who actually follows the teachings of Jesus? How can we sink him?”
“I know! let’s give him free advertising!”
- the smartest NRSC comms staffer
this is...insane???
And yet
It’s incredibly politically shortsighted, even if it’s slated to end in October. It needs to be clear to the voting populace who is responsible for their country falling apart and why, for as long as possible.
Has literally *no one* in Democratic leadership read Sun Tzu.
Stop trying to prevent your enemies from making mistakes!
Watching fandom communities and women/girls with fandom accounts who have stayed on X has been brutal. Random posts that should have stayed within their communities are algorithmically blasted to alt-right adjacent edgelords being radicalized by Elon Musk to descend on and mock and terrorize
Lol I got blocked
