It must be so cool to live in a functional republic.
This is like the makeup on his hands—thick, clumsy, obvious, and destined to call attention to the very thing it’s attempting to conceal.
one vote for calling it El Superniño
When I try to explain to students how corrupt and controlling Huey Long was, I note how he'd announce what the state legislature would approve and what it would deny ahead of its sessions, and then the legislature would do exactly what he said.
Anyway ...
AAUP NC VP Tori Ekstrand argues that "institutional neutrality" as imposed on UNC system schools not only chills academic freedom and free speech, it forces universities to surrender their ability to protect their educational and research missions. www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
The correct analogy is in Alice: "Why, the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and, if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. So you see, Miss, we're doing our best, afore she comes, to—"
The thing is you gotta be obsessed with the Nazi regime to even reach for a Bonhoeffer reference here and you gotta be an incredibly twisted soul to think Bonhoeffer’s nonviolent heroism is the tragedy we can’t repeat in that story.
When all of these guys, musk, Christian nationalists, etc, talk about suicidal empathy, what they’re actually doing is preparing you well in advance for the day they demand you murder your neighbor.
That mail carrier wasn't delivering mail. But people are getting 1st class mail weeks later. Yesterday I got a card postmarked May 11th!
Mail via US Postal Service that took 3 or 4 days is taking weeks.
DeJoy's cuts are paying off. Imagine election implications:
Most Californians vote by mail.
Brazil supreme court finds that Eduardo Bolsonaro – who resides in the US - tried to get sanctions put on judges trying ex-president over coup plot
This piece calls both Lander and Goldman "liberal Zionists", but Goldman does not even recognize that Israel is occupying Palestinian territory, which puts him to the right of even AIPAC.
Trump posts a lunatic rant: "Therefore, to add a slight bit of intrigue but, for the Good of the Nation, I will not approve FISA without THE SAVE AMERICA ACT going along with it. Not complicated, actually, the Republicans fell into a trap. We are cancelling the Senate Hearing RE: DNI today"
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Rep. Brandon Gill: "We particularly need the left to tone down the rhetoric ... somebody is gonna listen and believe they are the next Dietrich Bonhoeffer and act on that and that's what we're seeing here."
The author is a professor at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
The justices could invalidate laws in 14 states that allow ballots that arrive after Election Day to be counted. An NBC News Decision Desk analysis shows how many votes could be at stake.
When Musk talks of "suicidal empathy," he really means we'll have to cut loose all the civilizational dead weight to save the parts of humanity "worth" saving.
“Musk’s vision of the world is extremely anti-humanitarian," one of the authors of "Muskism" tells us. 5/
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The ‘Super’ El Niño Has Arrived. Here’s How It Might Affect the World’s Weather and Economy
The fight over the Kennedy Center—and Trump's enormous, humiliating fig leaf—as parable. It's fights like this as far as the eye can see. www.offmessage.net/p/detrumpifi...
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Reuters has a livestream of working trying to remove algae from the reflecting pool 😆
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The naturally occurring climate pattern, characterized by warm surface water in the Pacific Ocean, that has just started could be one of the strongest ever recorded, according to experts
www.smithsonianmag.com
We are already in a battle for historical memory. Proceed accordingly
