Andy Karlson

All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far According to a simple average of new high-quality surveys, 38% of Americans approve and 49% disapprove of U.S. military action. When ignoring "don't know" respondents, 56% disapprove

All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far

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If you ignore people who say they “don’t know” how they feel about the war, disapproval of Trump’s actions is already at 56%. That is higher than the resistance to Vietnam in 1971.

Whew, big question! I always loved Kirby's KAMANDI books in particular. Specifically as a writer, I love him for his willingness just to GO THERE with big worldbuilding and epic, weird, mythic dreaminess.

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Greg, how would you characterize Jack Kirby as a writer, and what do you see as the legacy of his writing over the last half century?

This is the healing our troubled nation needs

No. Bring back Murder, She Wrote.

If you use a shitty camera during the #FP4Party you will get 1,000,000 Bonus Points.

We don't say "dirtbag left" anymore but he's basically one of those, like the Chapo Trap House dudes. Make a point out of being a piece of shit, have left-wing populist politics, be economically privileged but wear a bourgeois identity as a costume

I just want to lift up the excellent Foley work in the dancing segments.

I understand what these words mean when these words get put together but I don't understand how these words could possibly be together.

I hope so!

Field doesn’t merely believe that her targets are misguided, or wrong, or reckless, or poor scholars—though she believes all that and more. She thinks we are evil and dangerous and destructive.

This, incidentally, is a HILARIOUS complaint coming from the author of "The Flight 93 Election."

I'm built different, I'll just Bartleby that shit until security hauls me out of the building.

Letting Kristi Noem give a press conference before she realizes she’s fired is a pretty hardcore start to white history month

This is a good question. *The* question, really.

You work in distribution, regional Vice-President?

This is delightful to me.

Great encapsulation of the MAGA obsession with bathroom usage, children's genitals, describing their sexual exploits, grotesque plastic surgery, and pornographic descriptions of violence. It's truly breathtaking the way they've cornered the market on deranged perversion.

feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Let's have a PARTY. An #FP4Party 🥳🥳 Celebrate some love for this versatile film by @ilfordphoto.com

Starting 20th March (official start of spring).

20th - 29th March: Picture taking
30th - 12th April: Process/scan
13th - 19th April: Sharing

#believeinfilm #fp4

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Same as it ever was.

My research into the history of far right extremism in Oregon suggests that there are two incorrect ways to think about how we got here. 1) It's wrong to say that the GOP has always been like this. 2) It's also wrong to say that this is an entirely new and unprecedented development. What Walter Huss's story teaches us is that there's been a white supremacist and Christian supremacist far right insurgency inside the Republican Party since the late 1950s. The ideology and tactics of this insurgency (and even some of its personnel) have roots in the American fascist mobilizations of the 1930s and even the 2nd KKK of the 1920s. This conspiracy-obsessed fascist insurgency has always been a minority persuasion.. neither Holocaust-denying Walter Huss in the 1970s nor Holocaust-denying Nick Fuentes in the 2020s speaks for more than a small, alienated minority of their fellow Americans. But both have found the GOP to be a soft and powerful target, filled with potential recruits and helmed by people far too willing to forgive or just ignore the hateful and often violent extremism of the self-described "Christian Patriots" to their right, usually in the name of fighting against what they perceive to be the far greater danger of "the radical left."

This is the tl;dr thesis paragraph of that piece.

"Millennial optimism, but with *teeth*," eh?

Sign me right the fuck up. From your lips to God's ears!

We need candidates who fall firmly into “looks like a cinnamon roll, could actually kill you” overlap.

The one problem with Idiocracy (and it is a *large* one) is granting any validity to eugenics. Because that's evil, sure, but also you just don't need it to explain how we'd get a government that is as stupid as the one it portrays

My hand holding a vintage paperback edition of Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte. The yellow-bordered image on the cover depicts a fancily attired man looking somberly to the left as he rests his hands on a walking stick; a little ways behind him a woman wearing a gown with puffy sleeves and a large exposed area of neck and chest stands under a bare-branched tree.

In happier news, I found this extremely cool and well-preserved paperback in a little free library yesterday while walking my 11yo home from school.

Is it just me or does the female figure on the cover look an awful lot like John Singer Sargent's Madame X?

Well this is at least one little piece of good news.

Lesser Prairie Chickens Delisted from ESA The U.S. Fish and Wildlife (FWS) recently moved to confirm the delisting of the lesser prairie chicken, a rare and long-embattled species of upland bird. The action is the latest in a back-and-forth o...

Oh for fucks sake

I miss that they delisted the lesser prairie chicken from the Endangered Species Act last week. Ranchers and oil fought tooth and nail for years for the right to destroy habitat

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Three or four of these despicable group chats have become public, but here's the thing: It's absolutely certain that there are HUNDREDS of group chats just like them that we'll never learn about. There's an entire generation of groyper Republicans, and in a few years they'll be running the party.