Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴

This piece also (intentionally?) misunderstands the purpose & impact of DEI programs in workplaces. They are about readiness, profitability (in business), morale, retention. The author frames them as "affirmative action" and "social justice" initiatives, divorced from performance imperatives.

That’s not accurate.
“Another protester, Reverand David Black of the First Presbyterian church of Chicago, said that he was pelted with about seven or eight ‘pepper exploding pellets’ that hit his head, face, torso, arms and legs, while in a position of prayer.”

“My Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians.” - 2/6/25

9/20/25 Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times

Respecting a religious burial for an enemy of the U.S. also helps keep our troops, diplomats -- hell, even tourists traveling abroad -- safer.

does everyone understand that respecting religious rites for the even most heinous person is a mark of a healthy, honorable democracy that deserves its leadership position in the world -- and it gives that democracy credibility on religious liberty, freedom, and human rights

I assume there were complex geopolitical reasons for burying bin Laden at sea according to Muslim customs, and that both the burial and the communications about it were carefully crafted to reflect that complexity.
Now the Cmdr in Chief writes a wholly different story.

He says here that the Navy "dumped his wretched corpse" into the sea.
The Navy statement at the time was that ObL "received a Muslim ceremony as he was buried at sea," following "traditional Muslim...customs."
The U.S. wanted to deny followers a shrine, and it was simply the honorable thing to do.

Safer Solutions: Bipartisan SUPPORT in Congress? - R Street Institute On Sept. 18, 2025, something good happened: The Senate unanimously passed legislation to direct significant funds toward combating the opioid crisis. More accurately, no one objected when Sens. Maggie...

Bipartisanship does happen, and on important things, too.
Congress just passed a long-languished reauthorization of major funding substance use and overdose prevention funding
www.rstreet.org/commentary/b...

No one: …

Me:

Manchester synagogue: Two dead in Manchester synagogue attack, with suspect also believed to have been killed - police The suspect was shot by police, who say his condition cannot be confirmed due to

there are simply no words to describe the grief of this happening on yom kippur.

@shoe.bsky.social makes some stupid Costco reference and gets 9472616294 likes and gold like this gets crumbs

Ok that’s hilarious

Is there about to be a schism or what

Roses are red/
I drink Prosecco/

I'm gonna produce this thread the next time someone asks me if I think I might have ADHD

Look at Holbein's poor wife, who basically raised these children on her own while he was off in Basel or whatever and probably having mistresses. I bet she was like memento mori, Hans, remember you'll die because I'm gonna kill you.

babe are u ok you've barely touched your chatGPT-generated portrait of Hans Holbein the Younger as a death metal rocker

Lucky for you all, my current obsession with Hans Holbein the Younger's metal tendencies resulted in this little AI glow-up

Metal. AF.
This is called a memento mori. It's a message to the viewer: "remember that you will die."
Holbein painted it into The Ambassadors like an insert in photoshop that he stretched out to make you work to see it. Wild stuff.
2/

I've been on a bender about Renaissance art and how Hans Holbein the Younger was kind of metal, if you want to know how I'm doing.
See this weird shape in his 1533 painting The Ambassadors? If you stand w/your head pressed to the wall next to the painting it snaps into focus (see next threaded post)

TIL today: the mime in Bring It On goes by the name Silencio Por Favor in real life

I mean, whew

Drucker, Arendt, and others have written about "masses": vintage.isi.org/intercollegi...

Second Victim of Dallas ICE Shooting Dies A house painter who had been in the United States for two decades had been critically injured in Dallas by a gunman who the government said was aiming at federal law enforcement officers.

Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a house painter and father of four from Mexico who was critically injured by a sniper at an ICE facility in Dallas, has died, the second fatality of the shooting, according to Latino civil rights leaders representing his family.

Homecoming

Same question for “promposal”

Where did “HoCo” come from and why didn’t we all fight it together

you can't even lead a lobster out on a leash from walmart anymore, because of woke

Nearly a dozen Utah infants were exposed to measles, triggering a race for preventive treatment Utah health officials discovered a person infected with measles visited a Logan medical clinic, where 11 vulnerable babies were exposed, launching a race to get the infants preventative treatment.

Article does not note the age of the person who had measles, leading to 11 infants (too young for vaccinations) being exposed.
If the individual with was old enough to be vaccinated, it's a perfect example of why community-wide vaccination is important...& pro-life
www.sltrib.com/news/2025/09...

Been low key trying to come up with a “paracetamol”-based joke for days and I guess I give up