D.Michael Benson

Citing Korematsu is not the flex he thinks it is.

I suspect he doesn’t know the difference.

I suspect that the popularity of San Antonio among republicans has to do with in state tourism from smaller, redder Texas cities. Most tourists there are not from out of state.

The Spanish….

Parallax joke is peak.

Opinion | Well, You Certainly Wouldn’t Call It Presidential Underreach

new from me!

This sounds like peak Michael Hobbes (longtime fan of your podcasts!)

Over 150,000 people in Den Haag calling on the Dutch government to do something to stop Palestinian genocide.

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

The lack of historical literacy from most people on most platforms is one of the things that makes me the most crazy. Shame we de-emphasized the humanities generally for so long or had coaches teaching it in high schools.

I think it’s time to bring in the French navy.

Lovecraft had a lot of creative ideas. He was a terrible writer and yes of course a racist.

This shorter term than a head of lettuce Liz Truss?

Tallahassee would legitimately be great in Taylor’s version

The Tyranny of Public Opinion The battle over trans rights shows that Democrats have forgotten the fundamentals of politics

In light of the discourse, I’m boosting a piece I wrote recently about why Democrats should focus on changing public opinion rather than chasing it.

Now this is what a Left Rogan would sound like

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Serenade to Music, after Shakespeare
#bookwormsat

This is hilarious in Dutch.

This looks fantastic.

*Hamberdler

The Voyage of the Narwhal is a fantastic novel by Andrea Barrett. She writes beautifully about the history of science.

Paleo Nazis also did this…

Sing out!

Sure if we’re talking the 19th century. That hadn’t been a stable definition for the past 60+ years.

“Is that a chair fit for a king so wondrous…”

Where’s Walz?