DID YOU SEND THAT LETTER TO HARVARD?

Seems what's old is what's new in America again. (SIGH).
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/192...

I'm not saying that New Yorkers are weak-kneed cowards, but I am saying that Massachusetts has set the national example for how to treat tyrants since 1775.

What stage capitalism is this?

In today’s installment of batshittery, Co-presidents Beavis & Butt-Head were standing on the WH lawn, grinning like two newly de-flowered incel assholes who just realized they could turn democracy into their own goddamn “CALL NOW!” segment on QV-motherfucking-C.

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Keeping up with the news makes you think that somewhere, locked in a room, there's an immortal and very much cursed Billy Joel chained to a computer, endlessly churning out a dot matrix printer paper tapestry of fresh WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE lyrics in some kind of Sisyphean punishment.

So this was a campaign promise not an observation.

looking forward to the many press conferences during the next pandemic where we’ll be forced to listen to someone who sounds like pennies in a garbage disposal and looks like fried chicken skin telling us how to stay healthy

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

in celebration of Tom Holland and Zendaya’s engagement, please enjoy this moment from 2017 when she turned into a literal 😍 emoji and we all knew it was for keeps

In his address to the UNSC, Michael Knights argued that an effective response to Houthi aggression should include strengthening the UN verification and inspection mechanism, preparing sanctions against actors who violate UN resolutions, and taking steps to interdict arms transfers.

Here is my write up in @thenation.com about yesterday’s awful anti-trans hearing at SCOTUS.

If I made the arguments Alito and Barrett made when I was in law school, I would have gotten an F. Unless my professors were bigots like them.