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As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst

Real critical thinking requires triaging the questions you’re qualified to tackle solo based on a clear-eyed assessment of your own competencies, not a ludicrous assumption of omnicompetence.

Like, thematically, Nolan is using the Odyssey to almost speak *as* 'western civilization' and then what he says is, "you men (very much *men*), with your violent inhospitality, your greed and appetites are what has destroyed civilization by breaking the bonds between people."

You know what USA team has won 4 World Cups and didn't need the president to step in and cheat for them? The Women's soccer team.

And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social on why we must defend public libraries: “There is a reason the culture warriors hate the library. It is the same reason that Americans should defend it with our rights. No political spin doctor can sell us what is freely given at one: the right to think for ourselves.”

Please be considerate while you celebrate. 🐶🐱🐿️🎆

Oh my god we **did not have a president** for the first, we date America's birthday to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, I'm losing my mind.

but only part of the backlash is the jobs or even the software high school graduates entering the workforce see that the country is too corrupt to function they watched you all lie for a decade before either fully embracing historically corrupt fascism or being too pathetic to stand up to it

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

compared to what actually needs to be done, dems in va steamrolling the state supreme court in this gerrymandering fight is very very very easy and they need to do it just to show us the entire party understands the assignment

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

NOPE. Release all the damn #EpsteinFiles. This cannot be papered over so such abuse can continue. Not an option.

Hegseth imagines himself defending "Western civilization." But the West has also made important contributions to the idea that there are moral limits on what we can do in war, from Cicero through Augustine, Grotius, Kant and more. He discards this inheritance. 6/ newrepublic.com/article/2083...

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

Why isn’t Elizabeth Warren the Senate Minority Leader?

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

This isn’t getting enough attention for me

In the video of Trump talking to the US men's hockey team, when he says "I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that" as a joke about how annoying it is to have women around, the most painful part for me, are all the hockey players laughing. Actually laughing.

If a Prince can be held accountable, so can a President.

I would have hoped by now that some dude would have written an op Ed about how straight women’s reaction to Bad Bunny - a man at peace with himself, emoting publicly + queer culture - underscores that the Manosphere bros are performing heterosexuality for other men and have no idea what women like.

I lived in the UK during early covid and for a while there was this thing where everyone went outside at a certain day/time to cheer for NHS doctors/nurses/staff, and well I think it would be lovely if we did that but for booing JD Vance

I’d love to hear a Democrats calling for a general amnesty for undocumented immigrants. They could put limits on it, like no criminal record in the last 10 years if they think it’s a step too far, but they should be reminding people that Ronald Reagan supported an amnesty back in the 1980s.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

Abuser logic.

I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.

NEW: The DOJ has filed a motion to block the appointment of an independent monitor to release the Epstein files in the Ghislaine Maxwell case. The DOJ argues that federal courts lack the authority to enforce the Epstein Transparency Act… 1/

It is the absolute and unmistakable duty of every US military officer to refuse orders to behave aggressively to Greenland or Denmark. Every congressperson and senator should reiterate this.

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

Also, the guy who killed someone dropped an F bomb. So the only difference between him and Frey is killing someone.

BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph

The guardsmen who killed four students at Kent State in 1970 also claimed they were afraid for their lives. The judge in the case said that the claim was invented after the fact and was preposterous -- and deplorable.

The time for state police to arrest the ICE agent is yesterday. You may still be able to do it now. Once that's done, start investigating those who participated in the cover-up.

If we're doing an economic civil war, then blue states need to prevent their residents from paying federal taxes

Make it viral.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

We have to remove Trump from office. It's that simple. We won't make it through another year of this. I want to win the midterms, but I also want them to happen. And this just isn't sustainable.

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

At the stage now where it's probably easier just to assume anyone still using that site is using it for this. I mean, there's no good answer to the question "what are you doing on the AI child porn site?" and we should be asking public figures and orgs that _exact_ question all the time