Loren.

Oh No, I Betrayed America Again Riding to the Future in a Chinese SUV

Why not take a moment to read about the small joys of Gulf living, like driving affordable and teched up Chinese cars?

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Protestors upset at the US/Israel strikes are trying to storm the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan

One of the major motivating reasons to develop nuclear weapons is so that a power like the United States can't just randomly lob ordinance at you. So randomly lobbing ordinance is really horrible strategy for deterring the development of nuclear weapons. -OS

These f*ing fools are rapidly destroying anything we ever dreamed, built or saved for our children.

@annabower.bsky.social is doing one of the most important jobs in American journalism right now: showing up to federal courts and telling us exactly what is being said and done in there in our names as it happens 🫡

Looking up into the trees.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

because if there’s one thing I know about men, it’s that they crave full-time child-rearing responsibilities without even getting to have sex first

Isn't that what we did I 1953 when we helped the Shah depose Mosaddegh, putting us exactly where we are now?

historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball

Democrats Wear White Flag Pins To SOTU To Indicate Surrender

Democrats Wear White Flag Pins To SOTU To Indicate Surrender

A worker weeding around blackberry bushes

"Bonita" it's hard at work removing weeds with a hoe. She works 6 days a week 8 hours a day. "This work is important because it helps the plants grow clean and strong and the bushes will produce lots of fruit." #WeFeedYou

Elon being a fucking dumb ass

FUN FACT ABOUT ME: I’m a Francophile…but specifically, about 15 years ago, I took great interest in Louis XIV and went way further down the rabbit hole than anyone had any business being.

Louis, for all his architectural and design brilliance, readied France for a revolution. Let’s take a walk…

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A worker weeding around young lettuce plants

It's the beginning of the vegetable season in Salinas CA. "Joel" is weeding removing grass from around the young lettuce plants. This will allow the lettuce to grow into healthy plants. It's thanks to workers like Joelle that you have salad on your dinner table. #WeFeedYou

Fair enough.

Just renewed my precheck for five years at $70. Not a rich person thing.
Yes, had to be fingerprinted, but I was already in Federal fingerprint files as a former employee.

Dear medievalist and medieval-curious friends, please help spread the good word about a new opportunity to enroll in the Advanced Certificate in Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. CUNY may not be rich, but we are uniquely rich in medievalists! www.gc.cuny.edu/events/medie... #medievalsky

Ousted South Korean president sentenced to life in prison for insurrection While the court denied prosecutors’ request for the death penalty, the life sentence imposed on Yoon Suk Yeol is a pivotal moment for South Korea’s democracy.

Ousted South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for insurrection
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"Could make evacuation impossible within hours"

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The buried lede here is that the woman he had an affair with committed suicide through self immolation

My friend Jim brings up this Soviet-era Russian joke from time to time:

A guy goes to a news stand every day, looks at the front page of Pravda, walks away.

Clerk: what are you looking for, Comrade?

Guy: An obituary.

Clerk: Those are in the back of the paper.

Guy: Not the one I'm looking for.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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Photo of "Rabbit" McCarty wearing a Brian Eno t-shirt, somewhere on the Ithaca Commons. Probably 1981.

If you see this, post a rabbit.
(too niche?)

(first day at the cult) yeah I’m not wearing that

Bought the cheapest possible Mercedes today because I needed to use the bathroom at the dealership

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
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Today in “marginal income, wealth, & capital gains taxes are too low & this is an existential threat to American democracy”

Brilliant analysis of an iconic scene from CASABLANCA with too much contemporary relevance. “The Germans are but one small enclave, finding themselves within a community that’s filled with less traditional power but greater numbers and far superior zeal.”

A 900 lb bin full of lemons

"Ariana" shares, "After a day of picking lemons, I come home super tired with back pain and bruises around my neck from carrying a full bag. I go up and down a ladder all day long. I earned $35 per 900lb bin." #WeFeedYou