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November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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He also needs to sell 1 million humanoid robots. Noooot too confident that will happen, myself.
Quoted from NBC News: "Tesla announced Thursday that shareholders had voted to approve the biggest pay package in corporate history for CEO Elon Musk, in a deal worth up to $1 trillion over 10 years if the company meets a list of benchmarks such as selling 1 million humanoid robots."
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Magic the Gathering got that right
Magic the Gathering card called "Aragorn, the Uniter" that depicts Aragorn riding a war horse hard toward the camera. His skin is dark, his cape and armor gleam. His face is set and filled with righteous purpose. He is the king returned.
October 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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"But is it possible to find Palpatine saying he's going to become Emperor because he doesn't love democracy? I think that's very hard to find."
Chotiner: Wow. I would just say that I find it very hard to believe, especially with Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, who seem to me to be kind of out-and-out partisan Trump supporters. Sunstein: This is completely fair to question. Alito is an extremely careful lawyer and a very precise judge. He is clearly taken with a certain view of our culture that is shared by many of Trump's supporters. But is it possible to find an opinion which he says, I'm going to go this way because the President is the law, or anything that verges on that? I think that's very hard to find.
September 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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These are the people ostensibly in charge of posting to DHS's socials.
Assistant Secretary, Office of Public Affairs: Tricia McLaughlin Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary: Harry Fones Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Comms: Nathaniel Madden Deputy Assistant Secretary for Media Relations: Lauren Bis Deputy Assistan Secretary, Strategic Comms: Micah Bock Chief of Staff: Tammy Howard
August 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Naomi Wolf tweet saying "No! No!!"
August 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Ursula Le Guin, a taoist, has some thoughts on this: www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/119-the...
Water doesn’t have only one way. It has infinite ways, it takes whatever way it can, it is utterly opportunistic, and all life on earth depends on this passive, yielding, uncertain, adaptable, changeable element. The death way or the life way? The high road of the warrior, or the river road? I know what I want. I want to live with courage, with compassion, in patience, in peace. The way of the warrior fully admits only the first of these, and wholly denies the last. The way of the water admits them all. The flow of a river is a model for me of courage that can keep me going — carry me through the bad places, the bad times. A courage that is compliant by choice and uses force only when compelled, always seeking the best way, the easiest way, but if not finding any easy way still, always, going on. The cup of water that gives itself to thirst is a model for me of the compassion that gives itself freely. Water is generous, tolerant, does not hold itself apart, lets itself be used by any need. Water goes, as Lao Tzu says, to the lowest places, vile places, accepts contamination, accepts foulness, and yet comes through again always as itself, pure, cleansed, and cleansing. Running water and the sea are models for me of patience: their easy, steady obedience to necessity, to the pull of the moon in the sea-tides and the pull of the earth always downward; the immense power of that obedience. I have no model for peace, only glimpses of it, metaphors for it, similes to what I cannot fully grasp and hold. Among them: a bowl of clear water. A boat drifting on a slow river. A lake among hills. The vast depths of the sea. A drop of water at the tip of a leaf. The sound of rain. The sound of a fountain. The bright dance of the water-spray from a garden hose, the scent of wet earth.
July 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross saying "drawing cards is for closers only."
July 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer disheveled and saying “want beer”
July 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Control yourself. Otherwise, I’m afraid Le Guin would be ashamed of *you.*
URSULA K. LE GUIN 119. The Election, Lao Tzu, a Cup of Water November 2016 Americans have voted for a politics of fear, anger, and hatred, and those of us who oppose this politics are now trying to figure out how we can oppose it usefully. I want to defend my country, my republic. In the atmosphere of fear, anger, and hatred, opposition too easily becomes division, fixed enmity. I'm looking for a place to stand, or a way to go, where the behavior of those I oppose will not control my behavior.
July 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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this woman's editor dislikes her
Screenshot from the article being rightly skewered by OP (https://archive.is/p4zHj#selection-1809.624-1809.658) "Do liberals do this?" asks the woman seated next to me, a flaxen-haired accountant from Kansas City dressed in Jackie Kennedy tweed. I have to concede that usually they do not, unless copious amounts of alcohol and/or ketamine are involved. I hate how much I'm enjoying this. I also hate how much I want a pair of bedazzled white cowboy boots.
June 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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costs a bunch, but this (and its progeny Consuming Corruption) is a good player killer in mono black
Magic: The Gathering card called "Corrupt" 5B Sorcery Corrupt deals damage equal to the number of Swamps you control to target creature of player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way. [There are things beneath the murk for whom the bog is a stew, a thin broth in need of meat.]
June 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Many other outlets are going with "Senator forcibly removed" in their headlines, which is accurate. Most people won't see the NYT's weird news feed commentary unless it's shared on social media.

The NYT's headline and sub are much more reality based:
NYT article with headline and subhead reading: "Live Updates: Senator Is Forced to Floor and Handcuffed After Confronting Noem in L.A." Senator Alex Padilla had briefly interrupted a news conference by the homeland security secretary. A judge will hear California's request to limit the role of the military in immigration raids.
June 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Ursula Le Guin’s translation is also great
BEING QUIET Brim-fill the bowl, it’ll spill over. Keep sharpening the blade, you’ll soon blunt it. Nobody can protect a house full of gold and jade. Wealth, status, pride, are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing.
June 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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"It matters," Qui-Gon said quietly. "It matters which side we choose. Even if there will never be more light than darkness. Even if there can be no more joy in the galaxy than there is pain. For every action we undertake, for every word we speak, for every life we touch—it matters. I don't turn toward the light because it means someday I'll 'win' some sort of cosmic game. I turn toward it because it is the light." - Qui-Gon Jinn, Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray
May 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Guy standing up meme with text "Sam Altman is a very ugly man"
May 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Distracted boyfriend meme where the boyfriend is labeled 'Count Dooku', the girlfriend is labeled 'pedestrian bigotries', and the woman in red is labeled 'genocide'
April 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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I see this, I know I've hit
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April 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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James Bond being tortured by Le Chiffre in CASINO ROYALE, but Bond is labeled "english" and Le Chiffre is labeled "The New York Times"
April 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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There's a great article from 2022 about the sexuality of authoritarians that gets at some of this.
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wha...
"Theories of how to get yourself twisted around enough to find yourself in this position abound. People sympathetic to evolutionary biology or psychology will talk about the feminizing environment of the vagina-supposedly putting a penis in there bathes it in feminizing hormones. Those who favor a psychosocial explanation will talk about homosexual tendencies. This follows from the supposedly perverse desire to have sex too much. As a man, you are going to have sex with women so much you get bored and need to switch to men (delightfully, this theory taps into the original use of the term "heterosexual" as a kind of hypersexual perversion of "normal" desire). Lastly, people who have a straightforwardly reactionary political orientation will get right to the point: you, as a man, admit that a woman has something you want? Sounds gay. Only a gay man would want something a woman has."
April 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Fuck yeah. Reminded me of this poem:
From the Tao Te Ching, Ursula Le Guin translation: TECHNIQUES Can you keep your soul in its body, hold fast to the one, and so learn to be whole? Can you center your energy, be soft, tender, and so learn to be a baby? Can you keep the deep water still and clear, so it reflects without blurring? Can you love people and run things, and do so by not doing? Opening, closing the Gate of Heaven, can you be like a bird with her nestlings? Piercing bright through the cosmos, can you know by not knowing? To give birth, to nourish, to bear and not to own, to act and not lay claim, to lear and not to rule: this is mysterious power.
March 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Frederick Douglass being relevant as ever.
Frederick Douglass in a letter writes of John Brown and the broad, lasting impact of his assault on Harpers Ferry. Highlighted text reads: “The only penetrable point of a tyrant is the Fear of Death. The outcry that they make as to the danger of having their Throats Cut, is because they know they deserve to have them Cut.”
February 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Superhero The Tick holding a spoon in the air and yelling "SPOON!"
February 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Eric Foner’s one of the greats.
Cover of Eric Foner’s book The Second Founding: How the civil war and reconstruction remade the Constitution
February 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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SMG got me tearing up with this one.
Screenshot from the linked article: Gellar, who had been opposed to revisiting Buffy as recently as 2023, expressed openness to the idea in a December interview promoting her latest series, Dexter prequel series Original Sin, on which she is a special guest star. “It’s funny, I always used to say no, because it’s in its bubble and it’s so perfect,” she said. “But watching Sex and the City and seeing Dexter, and realizing there are ways to do it, definitely does get your mind thinking, ‘Well, maybe.’” As to whether a potential Buffy revisit has to be a prequel, she said, “No, it could be anything. It’s a universe. And it makes you realize that in this world, we need those heroes, I think, more so than ever.”
February 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM