Charles Mathewes

73 years since Joseph Stalin died. A good day to remember.

Significant

Yeah, though I believe this is just a ruling to let the vote happen. If I'm right, they still have to decide whether it's actually legitimate, which they may do in April. Nonetheless, we should all vote!

Virginia court allows a referendum on Democrat-led redistricting that could flip 4 House seats The Virginia Supreme Court has again ruled that voters will get to cast ballots on a congressional redistricting plan that could help Democrats in this year’s midterm elections.

Virginia’s Supreme Court ruled that voters can cast ballots on a Democrat-led congressional redistricting plan that could help the party win four more U.S. House seats.

Yes I did, actually, beyond the title (which definitely says that), and you kind of danced around the claim in the piece, but the "uncanny duality" paragraph is the core, imho.
Also I think Venezuela is def front of mind, but they're thinking also of Suleimani and also last July.

Look I'm as much against this as the next person who walks upright and does not drool, but shouting "quagmire!" on day, what? five? is imho a bit hasty. I'm against Trump, and against this, but I'd give it a couple weeks before I formed a summative judgment of the effectiveness of the campaign.

Netanyahu has partisanized Israel, and now he's delegitimated it to a huge proportion of America

(I would be cautious about shocking, priors-validating claims of rampant behavior made by a single Substack that is repeating allegations from an activist organization apparently consisting of one person!)

This chart is everything. How do we (academics) get NYTimes education writers (and others) to realize this is the case? That most students major in business or health related stuff.

F’n A, this is how it’s done

I’ll offer you that for only $2,000

LOLOLOL

Hegseth has offered more clarity on his war on the Boy Scouts than on the current war with Iran.

Hegseth has offered more clarity on his war on the Boy Scouts than on the current war with Iran.

Social media is probably in sum not good for any of us, but for some of us most of the time, and for almost all of us some of the time, it's positively devastating. This person seems an example of that.

Every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough.

Remember that scene in "Men in Black" where a character's body was simply a skinbag in which a host of cockroaches were walking around pretending to be a human? He looks like that here, to me

Working list of senior figures reportedly killed in Iran today (all tbc, and several not verified as yet); hearing plenty of other names too - but attributions more vague/less reliable as yet:

Ali Khamenei, Supreme leader
Mojtaba Khamenei, son and heir apparent
Aziz Nasirzadeh, Minister of Defence

Once again. If you said NOTHING while the regime murdered 30,000 of its own people in less than one months time, maybe you should do the same today. You don’t actually care about Iranian lives.

Posted on the ayatollah's official X page: ‏ "In the name of the Lion of Great Repute (peace be upon him).

Footage from Abdanan, Isfahan, Saqqez and many other cities and towns. People are celebrating over Khamanei's death following US-Israeli airstrikes. In addition, there are reports coming in of clashes between IRGC and Basjii forces trying to supress protests in Karaj and Mashhad. #Iran

Also, first as tragedy, then as farce, but a bloody farce, alas

This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.

You mean the Santayana line?

You & Tertullian, bros 4eva

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the president is using the power of the government to hide his involvement with the most notorious child rape ring in world history

We all have Canvas pages but you don't need to use them. I have a course packet & I email students.
Don't put assignments up on Canvas, don't post anything there if you can help it.
This year I put up a podcasted lecture from when we had classes cancelled from snow. That's it.
Ignore it.