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Joyce completely forgets social media exists in the intervals between posts, Elon wakes up at 3am drenched in flop sweat after a nightmare in which no one liked the AI-rendered image of Ayn Rand pissing on the Star Trek logo that he spent six hours honing the prompt for

Screenshot of a post from Ms Rachel’s Instagram Real Question from The NY Times As you know, a group has suggested, albeit without evidence, that you are accepting money in order to further Hamas's agenda. Is that true? This accusation is not only absurd, it's patently false.

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.

Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

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A map of migration from southeast China to Southeast Asia, which a major concentration in south-central Thailand around Bangkok

A graph showing Chinese migration to Southeast Asia and elsewhere, with a massive spike in migration to Southeast Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that dwarfs the rest of the world

A graph of immigration to the US showing a major spike from Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

A cool thing that didn't really hit me until I moved here is Bangkok as a city is almost younger than the US (1782) and was largely populated by a massive wave of migration from southeast China contemporaneous and analogous to the wave of European migration that created modern New York City

The Pro-Massacre, Pro-Segregation, Pro-Eugenics Administration The Trump administration is seeking to rewind the clock on an entire century of legal—and moral—progress.

"We’re no longer in the usual realm of Republicans whitewashing or downplaying the darkness in our history... This administration has upgraded the earlier model, showing through word and action that it believes the shameful sides of America’s past were, in fact, good—even examples to follow today."

Screenshots from My Dinner With Andre. Wallace Shawn, a balding white man looking as tired as a human has ever looked, walks a graffiti-strewn subway platform and thinks, "When I was young, all I thought about was art and music. Now I'm 36 and all i think about is cow tools."

average bluesky poster

Trump's National Guard deployments aren't random. They were planned years ago President Trump and several others now high up in his second administration have been talking about using the National Guard to help with mass deportations -- and possibly invoking the Insurrection Act -- for years. Now, those plans might be playing out.

President Trump and several others now high up in his second administration have been talking about using the National Guard to help with mass deportations -- and possibly invoking the Insurrection Act -- for years. Now, those plans might be playing out. n.pr/3WBM4yX

John Goodman in Barton Fink walking down a hallway on fire — the hallway is on fire not on Goodman — Goodman has a shotgun in his hands and he's shouting "I'll show you the life of the Mind!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

not like the wachowski sisters need any further affirmation, but when you think about it, cypher pretty much perfectly predicated the incels. a salty guy willing to burn down the world because a girl doesn’t like him back. even has cheesy facial hair!

BMA to receive $10 million, the single largest gift in its 110-year history Philanthropists Amy and Marc Meadows will donate more than $10 million to the Baltimore Museum of Art for arts education initiatives.

BMA to receive $10 million, the single largest gift in its 110-year history

UM Employee Sues After Losing Her Job for Criticizing Kirk Former University of Mississippi employee Lauren Stokes is suing Chancellor Glenn Boyce for firing her after she criticized Charlie Kirk.

"A private employer might require its employees to conform to a point of view. But the state, acting through its public university, cannot,” Lauren Stokes' lawsuit against the University of Mississippi says.

Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make a correction

How alt academics feel when they visit a research library

A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

Albrecht Durer, "The Great Piece of Turf," 1503, watercolor and gouache heightened with white, mounted on cardboard

Fan Ho (1931 - 2016)

all mortal greatness is but disease

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

It’s Christmas Adventurers all the way down

EdTech’s passion for imperial autocracy is in the code.

“Unless…” Why not just identify it as mass murder? We don’t need legal or moral justifications to be presented, since the regime is not going to do this.

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

This could seriously be one of the 2 or 3 biggest Presidential scandals in US history

One of the things that our political class refuses to admit even though it's obviously true is that Twitter is very obviously radicalizing many American elites into full-bore white supremacy

Inflatable rabbit caught in teargas

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.