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As the Right pushes hard to punish anyone who said anything they don’t like about Charlie Kirk, they will be offering you several narratives about it: (1) We’re only doing this because YOU did it first, YOU invented cancel culture, turnabout is fair play (2) YOU pushed us into this
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🫚I would like to follow French and Spanish media

Kate Smith used to sing it for the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1970's instead of the SSB bc it was considered good luck (and they won the cup for 2 years). IMO it's a much better song than SSB (which OK ain't sayin' much).

Colin from accounts. Sweet romantic sitcom

Goodbye, Kevin Drum "Take care of Donald Trump for me."

We will greatly miss our friend and longtime colleague Kevin Drum, as will all who knew him and his tremendous body of work. I had the privilege of editing Kevin for a spell, and I learned a lot from that, too. A top-notch thinker and writer, and a true mensch. www.motherjones.com/media/2025/0...

Question for those advocating that colleges be “neutral” on political topics:

Do you believe Columbia University should not take a stance on whether the United States should revoke its students visas or green cards based on the administration’s hostility towards their speech?

Cc: thefire.org

one of the stories Kevin Drum championed over his career was the causative link between environmental lead poisoning and other societal ills. I think it's one of the most important stories of the last 20 years and Drum was one of the main reasons people knew about it. RIP

RIP to one of my favorite bloggers, one I've been reading since the 00's. Kevin Drum always represented sanity: if I read something elsewhere that made me freak out, he'd usually be the one to pull me back. Not always, tho. Some things are worth getting angry about and he knew the difference.

This connected a lot of dots for me. I'm torn between deer-in-the-headlights fear and wondering where to direct my anger/cash.

BREAKING: The Monitors were just hacked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to display an AI video of Trump licking Elon Musk’s toes.

The caption over it read: “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”

#waymo this does not inspire confidence. There is no button to switch to English or Spanish and the languages are mixed anyway.

Dude, as a fan of yours and with all respect, I disagree. The paper should never be the story, and the Times handled this appropriately.

Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.

I have not been a Times-hater, I always read Krugman with interest, but this sucks.
www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

I know LeVar. What a nice dude.

Stephen Colbert. I'm surprised no one has yet named him.

This is 5 blocks from where I grew up. Would love to go but we sold that house last year.

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Passing this along for an old friend: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-af...

Oy. Be careful out there. (We're in the flats and so far unaffected except by some eye-stinging smoke).

How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

The Militia and the Mole. “A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover, climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell his family or friends.” He returned with a trove of documents. [propublica.org]

Nice subtweet! My reading group just finished Purgatorio and will go on to Paradiso next month (Turns out the more hopeful volumes are just as great!)

If you’ve got grievances with public figures, you don’t post them on the internet. You compile them in an epic poem that imagines the intricate ways they’ll suffer in the afterlife and goes onto become one of the most enduring works of Western literature.

Really anything by Mieville, who has set out to be an anti-Tolkien fantasist. Perdido St is quasi-horror; Kraken is my favorite and is funny and for lovers of London.

"they're dropping like bags of wet cement."

I only "discovered" this a few months ago, after seeing Holland at Big Ears. Man it's good.

YouTube video by Bixiga 70 BIXIGA 70 - Na Quarta-Feira (Clipe Oficial)

Bixiga 70, Brazilain funk/aftrobeat band: youtu.be/HALXabke9hc

Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi are waiting for 'Godot' at Geffen Playhouse It's not often that two major stars of the small screen appear together onstage in one of the 20th century's most significant works of modernist drama. But that's just what's happened as Aasif Mandvi ...

Saw this last night and it really was great. Only nit: I would have enjoyed more slapstick, pace Charles McNulty. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Mark have you written about Celeste Holm's voiceover breaking into AAE without warning? Bc I can't get over that.

My daughter's siamese:

Mr. Atrios, I love you, have been a fan for years. But please remember that gas cars themselves took 20-30 years to get infrastructure (refineries, gas stations, mechs) and had massive subsidy from policymakers. We incur horrible non-pecuniary costs for gas every day. So patience please.