Les Bowen, still

Makes you think.

The "Return" of the Golden Sword My grandfather guarded it. The British stole it. I'm named after it—and I'm going to fight for it.

NEW: This was the last essay I was supposed to publish at the Washington Post. But they fired me.

I'm publishing it anyway-- about my family's connection to a sword the British looted from Ghana in 1874.

If youve ever wondered why I love swords, here's why.

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FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
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the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

On this Caribbean Island, Kid Rock still means the title of a playlist made by Jeffrey Epstein. But they do know this: Your past support of statutory rape is erased when you accept Jesus and Charlie Kirk into your heart.

To quote Bill Hicks, a war is when *two* armies fight

This book, which I read when I was an ignorant 25 year old, turned out to be among the most formative books of my life; among its insights is the idea of a world that caters to "the flattered self," and he somehow wrote it before algorithms mostly ruled our lives:
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This all started with one fake post from a right-wing clickbait account that posted translated lyrics that Bunny never sang during the show. But now they've all convinced themselves that it happened because they don't know Spanish. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Tell 'Em, Michael J. Fox I'm going to make this about me, eventually, but not before we talk about how cool this was.

wrote about Michael J. Fox's appearance on Shrinking, which was cool for a lot of reasons, some of them pretty important to me

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Leaving the obvious racism aside for a second -- Bad Bunny has sold over 100 million albums and just won the Grammy for Best Album of the Year and these chuds are acting like he's an obscure Tuvan throat-singing act or something.

By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.

The fuck is wrong with these people. Goddamn, just walk away. You lost this culture war battle. Take the L.

Voters: We want cheaper groceries and healthcare
Trumpers:

yesterday, I was a guest on 2 (two!) podcasts. today? zero podcasts. this is clearly due to the woke mob trying to silence me. i demand 3 glossy print cover stories and a cbs special interview on how i have been deplatformed and ignored!

julius Bangojr 1 star Its 2:15 p.m. the owners wife locked me in and left. She did not look to see if the store was empty. This is not good. Dont want to move around just in case she set the alarm..

This one star review of a local convenience store... fair enough

SWALWELL: You said you wanted to see a deportation process that was 'like Amazon Prime but with human beings.' How many times has Amazon Prime shot a mom 3 times in the face?

LYONS: None


SWALWELL: How many times has Amazon Prime shot a nurse 10 times in the back?

LYONS: None

😂

So, you can kind of see where Herbie from The Love Bug (1968) and Christine from the film Christine (1983), is a transfem allegory with sentient cars-

Everyone at my Super Bowl party:😐

Maybe ICE is just buying those warehouses so they have places to store the boundless shame they will carry with them for the rest of their days.

I think collectively, we at least partially wanted the child at the Super Bowl to be Liam because the little boy on stage looked happy and healthy and our hearts want so badly to think these children can somehow magically recover from the evils our government is doing.

RFK, Jr. says a Harvard researcher cured schizophrenia by feeding his patient a meat-heavy keto diet. The Harvard researcher says he did not. For busy schizophrenic lovers of beef tallow, it can be hard to know who to trust.

In this Ohio diner, taking the fifth still means running off with your host's Jim Beam at the end of the party. But they do know this: Ghislaine Maxwell's refusal to answer questions proves that Donald Trump is innocent and that the Clintons belong behind bars.

DID YOU KNOW? Elephants are closely related to manatees. They don’t visit but they do Zoom calls on the major holidays.

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.

The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

If Bo Nix hadn’t gotten hurt, I think Drake Maye and his offensive line would have been spared a lot of trauma.

This Is How Trump Prepares America to Reject an Election He’s already telling his supporters the system is rigged, floating unconstitutional ideas, and priming them for chaos if Republicans lose.

This isn’t about election integrity.
It’s about making Americans believe democracy can’t be trusted.
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kinda both funny and deeply sad that some people’s whole deal is just being super mad about something all the time

Really if Stout hates Nick that much, you can revisit the OL coach job next year when Mannion is the HC.

Okay so a thing I LOVED about that is how, whereas so many halftime shows kind of elevate the star above the other dancers/extras—often literally—that was like the exact opposite, he was *with and among* the people around him

Note to Chris Berman: You’re slightly older than ME, dude. Dipping your hair into Buffalo wing sauce isn’t fooling anyone. Just let it go.