Patrick Iber

you're gonna have to be more specific, mr. headline

A headline from Dec 1 2025 "Did the U.S. commit a war crime in the Caribbean?"

*historian side-eye intensifies*

Exactamente como el artículo lo describe. A fin de cuentas, fui en bus. Pff.

En diciembre de 2024 tuve que trasladarme de Cancún a Mérida. Por curiosidad, intenté usar el Tren. Pero desde el aeropuerto, básicamente no había manera de llegar a la estación de trenes. Ni para comparar boletos. Y la estación en Mérida queda a una hora del centro de la ciudad

Right, but also, and I say this with all possible contempt, what Weiss wants to do is not ~~news~~

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Closing down other possible ways for living a healthy and fulfilled life as man

People keep talking about this happening to Mexico City within a couple of decades and it’s the sort of thing that you hear and think, no, that won’t happen, people will take action before it does. But what if they don’t?

Agreed: I think this is resist lib town (plus some others), not tankie town

I mostly follow people in my professional and editorial networks and honest-to-god-tankies are just not a big part of my experience here at all, but maybe they enjoy exasperating LBII, I dunno

The primary population is definitely liberal & left folks who did not want to participate in the evolution of twitter to X. I remember someone calling it Galt's Gulch for Former Blue Checks and as a FBC myself it was hard to deny

huh, ok. that's not my experience but it sounds like yours is different!

those people do exist but do you really think that it's a ~majority~ of people on this site?

Had some beers early in the season, just 3 yesterday [good job you], it all ebbs and flows

Among the million insulting things about this is that every time over the years in which Republicans said they were working on their health care plan to improve Obamacare or whatever they were just straight up lying, it was totally obvious they were always lying, and there were no consequences

The Case for a Third Reconstruction - Dissent Magazine The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.

The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.

dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Unrelatedly: what was interesting to toddlers before the existence of trains? Was it buffalo? I think it was buffalo

Eventually they will stop being toddlers and then you won't be the parent of a toddler any longer. (Some parents set up a little light system and tell the kids they can wake you once the light turns green, otherwise they should play in their room. That might or might not work.)

Read Thomas, read the thread

* not actually funny

Meanwhile the Democrats always get 49% of the vote no matter what they do and who they nominate, the end

The funniest possible ending to all of this is Trump's unpopularity destroying the Republican Party as a vehicle for MAGA and into the smoking crater step the never-Trump neocons to reclaim it, then the cycle is repeated every twenty years forever

Brag

Above the fold on an issue of The Onion from 1996, presented as being from 1896. It looks old-timey in font and has a photograph of a man with ornithopter wings struggling to get off the ground. Headlines include "Infant Death Rate Plummets to One-in-Three" "Folly of Flying Machine Claims Life of Fool", "Avenge the Nebraska!"

And here is The Onion's first historical parody (unless there is something missing in the archive); it would have been from 1996 but is presented as being from 1896

A clip from The Onion called "UW Snapshots" "Special 'What do you think?' Edition. There are five photos, four men and one woman, responding to "Hooray for High School: a lot of high school students have been around Madison for sports tournaments lately. Students around campus were surveyed, 'How has the teenagers' presence here affected you?" Sue Valens says, for example, "I enjoy talking with them and meeting them--it's an opportunity to be exposed to people from other cultures."

I believe I've found the first "What do you think?", from March 1990. These stock photos were used in almost every subsequent issue, usually represented as UW students. Years later they were replaced with the stock photos still used

My History through Satire class at the University of Wisconsin (syllabus here: patrickiber.org/2025/08/26/s...) is getting to the end, and we're finishing up by looking through the archives of @theonion.com, including from its early days as a Madison paper

Part of the joke of this brilliant song by The Coup from ~~1994~~ is that even the other rich people find Trump detestable. 1994!!!!!!! youtu.be/z6Homo_amHQ?...

Math says real means the rational plus the irrational, but not the imaginary

When El Cerrito sends its musicians, they’re not sending their best

You would like it (History of Rock and Roll in 500 Songs) I think, and the most recent episode was a cool 2.5 hours on CCR that never stopped being interesting. Every time an episode drops and I wonder if it is more than I will want on a particular band the answer is always no

Did you just listen to the Andrew Hickey episode? You must have. If not then Aaron this is the answer to your original question