Dan Silverman

“Nutella, Straight Out of the Jar, Good for Heart Health? New Study Says Yes”

A huge night for Democrats:

—They flip Miami's mayorship.
—They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%.
—They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council.
—And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.

We SHOULD care about the horrors in Sudan and their perpetrators — but have that convo in its own right, not as a cudgel

-signed, someone who actually cares about Sudan

(My first college internship was at a Darfur NGO, running their newsletter and website with Sudanese children’s war drawings)

People: stop doing Sudan whataboutism to Palestine advocates!

Doing so shows care neither for Palestinians nor Sudanese, whom you’re using as a rhetorical pawn

I guess still hard for foreign academics within the U.S...

Or else be abroad. APSA Mexico City?

Oof

May even backfire

Who the hell is he to criticize frivolous consumption?

Seems like all the wars Trump “stopped” aren’t actually so stopped?

After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.

No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.

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By her own admission she refrained from criticizing, challenging, and/or distancing herself from Biden more in general out of personal loyalty

We simply have to stamp out that impulse. If it‘s country > party, it should *certainly* be country > friend

Notable. And the question is: why didn’t she do that?

We’d have to do a bracket to be thorough but he’s the 1 seed

Someone please check on the kid

”They‘re weird” didn’t go far enough

a man speaking into a microphone with the words " playoffs " written below him ALT: a man speaking into a microphone with the words " playoffs " written below him

Playoffs?! Playoffs??! You kiddin me? Playoffs???! I just hope we can win a game!

— Eagles fans

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Should be an easy catch, still, though. AJ has to own that

Have you seen our other games?

I think “the president’s allies are promising to destroy media institutions the president doesn’t like to curry favor with him” is very bad, actually

Yeah he’s not persuading anyone of anything, building any solidarity, or doing anything helpful for himself or others.

It’s really strange that he doesn’t reflect on what the point of his endless Quixote-an war against the entire internet is

I don’t say this as some petty attack, and it brings me no joy. It’s more just sad — I grew up liking his music, and what a colossal waste of talent and potential positive energy he could bring to the world

Man, Talib Kweli may have the most strangely and pointlessly aggressive and self-destructive online persona I think I’ve ever seen from a major non-MAGA celebrity/artist

The guy literally just engages all day in argumentative racialized combat online against randos

“I’m a white male age 18-49. Everyone listens to me!”

We shouldn’t say Yazidis weren’t oppressed by ISIS when it nearly wiped them out, because a few blended in and got away

Absolutely, ethnic visibility can make oppression easier and worse

All we are saying is it’s not the ONLY path to oppression throughout history

Like, you can be terribly persecuted even if your ethnicity is not (entirely) visible

Shi'a in Iraq were persecuted under Saddam, but you can't really tell them from Sunnis apart by sight

Many such examples

Of course, no one should deny black people have experienced tremendous racism historically and today.

I'm just saying, thinking of Jews in regimes that systematically persecute them (let alone Nazi Germany) as privileged is silly. They were targeted