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This takeaway. . . these mainstream "news" orgs are really in lock step

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

Harvard is punishing pro-Palestine protestors but also this is fine

“Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

If you obey the administration’s demands to use its NewSpeak vocabulary, why would I ever trust you to describe its actions objectively?

“We’re going to hold them fairly to account, and by that we mean we’ll use the propaganda term they invented and not the legal name for the department. In short, MAGA.”

Jamal Khashoggi was my friend and colleague who was killed and dismembered in 2018.

Do you know how many times I’ve written against Saudi Arabia’ coverup over the last seven years?

The sportswashing? The paying of influencers to visit Saudi Arabia?

Saudi’s censorship of Hasan Minaj?

Concord in particular, and a variety of other place names.
(It’s “KAHN-kurd.” Not Kahn-Kord, etc.)

Fox News is the most successful propaganda venture of the last century just for the way it has pickled the brains of the Republicans on the Supreme Court

I know it's just a pepper ball and not live ammunition, but this feels very, very bad. Look, I went to Jesuit high school, and one of the most formative influences on me was the story of Archbishop Oscar Romero. When the fascists start shooting priests...

i can’t believe it was this easy to reclaim the frog meme

Someone please make this a video game.

I never knew I needed a Frogger-Wolfenstein crossover.

One of a kind perspective. This is why human photographers >>>>>> AI

Photog: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland for AFP/ Getty

@ryancordell.org @queermedieval.bsky.social

i love baseball so much

He’s very much a great value megamind face ass loser ass bitch.

No, we are CORRECT

Aaaand you may escort yourself to the corner.

… this is unnatural

a man says i 've made a huge mistake Alt: Michael on arrested development saying “Ive made a huge mistake”

Had time to kill. Thought, hey, haven’t checked in on bsky in a couple of days, I will log in there!
I forgot about the unending bleakness

Wearing the Lion Check out Wearing the Lion - <b>"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. <i>Wearing the Lion</i> establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantas...

Bookshop has free shipping today and tomorrow! It's a great time to pick up my latest, Wearing The Lion! (But only if you want to see Heracles adopting every monster in Ancient Greece.)

Being bad at it is a necessary consequence of fascism. If you find they are actually good at it you might be looking at something new.

I also love a British dish called Toad in a Hole. I think that speaks for itself.

INEDIBLE

I love bananas but I only eat them if they are BARELY yellow, and are still pretty green. Once they are all yellow they are too ripe and I will only eat them in/with other things.

Lasagna from a run-of-the-mill pizza place. I appreciate “real,” “gourmet” lasagna, but my favorite is cheap lasagna made by people who specialize in subs and pizza.

I also love chili dogs. I never eat more than 2 in a sitting but you know what? I COULD.

Spam musubi.

I don't care what your opinion is on spam. That shit's great.

“Has a Halloween mask of this guy’s face been worn in a bank robbery? If so: SPOOKY”

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing