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I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

In the 1990s? Yeah, I think Epstein already killed himself in the 1990s.

Watching SecState Rubio palling around with Proud Boy honcho, Enrique Tarrio yesterday, offends me in ways I can’t even begin to explain.

Two things about Trump II: watching how easily Rubio has come to fit right in the fascist regime, and the way Lindsey Graham has taken war mongering to another dimension as he sprays his spittle all over the place.

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

Starmer thinks, “That’s Ok. We don’t need people who walk into a quagmire and say they’ve conquered something.”

It happened to me once but I knew to shut up about it…um…oops.

Blocked them as soon as I saw the post.

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

Peter Baker says “the Americans” the way Donald Trump says “the Blacks.” Is he above, beyond and distinct from “the Americans”?

I love the hidden wheel wells on the green ones.

I agree that Epstein in some ways was banal and that some of the released files are banal, but I have no doubt that the redactions and the unreleased files contain some very shocking stuff, horrendous and shocking. #coverup #corruptDOJ

Children with no morals at the wheel of a giant death machine

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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By far the best Beatles album. Revolver, Rubber Soul, and Sgt. Peppers are very good, but none of that is as good as the White Album.

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Yippee! Until we see her replacement…

She might have been paying attention to how Kristi Noem got scorched in Congress this week.

Polymarket to allow bets on the age, gender and rank of the next US soldier killed in the Middle East.

“Entanglements.” What an interesting word. I look out my window and see an entanglement of branches in a late March afternoon. Entanglements in any other sense is not a good thing.

Raskin tears Kristi Noem a new one: "Apparently when your blankie was left on one of the govt jets and not transported to the new one, your special govt employee, Corey Lewandowski, chivalrously stepped forward to fight the pilot -- mid air!"

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

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A group of waxwings is usually called a flock, but I’ll second a motion to refer to them as a calamity.

If I had a dollar for every time Hegseth uses “clutching pearls”, I’d have a very long string of pearls.

Russian monthly payments to me which I kinda do not support, pay for my Brazilian lifestyle, which I support 100%.

Jesus. F*cking. Christ.

Melania Trump is currently chairing a session of the UN Security Council. Which under the current circumstances-seems totally normal.

There are Russian diplomats in Manhattan who are laughing right now.

Starmer: "I will not permit, I will not commit our military personnel to unlawful action. That is not what they would expect and deserve. They are entitled to better than that."