Mark

Mark

@dcwritermark.bsky.social

“Just a kid from Brooklyn”

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Walter Keonig gave us a terrific performance of telepath Alfred Bester on Babylon 5. His deadpan contempt made him one of sci-fi’s most memorable villains.

Zeteo is sexist garbage. Progressives should stop calling Rubio a "cuck." The word was built by the alt-right to shame men as unmanly—it only works if you accept that a man's worth is sexual dominance over a woman he "owns." Use it and you're arguing in their frame, not yours.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

An incredible episode early in Marco Rubio's career, that previewed exactly how he would come to operate in the following 24 years. Read our new profile: zeteo.com/p/secretary-...

Hey, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Progressives should stop calling Rubio a "cuck." The word was built by the alt-right to shame men as unmanly—it only works if you accept that a man's worth is sexual dominance over a woman he "owns." Use it and you're arguing in their frame, not yours.

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

"‘Secretary of Cuck’: How Marco Rubio Learned to Love Waging Trump’s War on the World" Rubio was once a supposedly reasonable Republican, even the GOP’s ‘savior.’ Now he’s Donald Trump’s ‘Narco Rubio’ and overseeing a level of violence his staffers are terrified to question internally. From Zeteo:

These are Hello Kitty characters representing the five key endangered cat species. Nearly half of the world's 40 wild cat species are threatened with extinction due to habitat loss, fragmentation, and poaching. 🙁

“Used Cars” (1980)—starring a very young Kurt Russell and directed by Robert Zemeckis—is one of my favorite screwball comedies. And after watching it for nearly half a century, I just now noticed that Betty Thomas appears briefly in the film as a stripper dancing on top of the cars.

This freaks me out because whenever he says “most people don’t know,” it’s his way of acknowledging that he doesn’t know something. And that means we have a president so dumb that he struggles with how to spell dumb.

A newly released photo confirms that Mitch McConnell is alive, but he has been avoiding public appearances after a recent transporter accident.

Hasboro is taking pre-orders for a Scooby Doo Mystery Machine Transformer, and I’ve never purchased anything in my life as quickly as this.

“And do you have a list of political figures you plan to arrest if you should seize power?” “Absolutely, Shannon. Starting alphabetically, there’s Christopher Aaron in Topeka, Kansas, followed by…”

Michael Friedman@mfriedman803.bsky.social

“Democratic Socialists of America” Co-Chair goes on Fox News with the group’s newest campaign ad for the upcoming mid-terms. www.mediaite.com/media/news/d...

I’ve noticed that the leftists who lazily call Whitmer a “corporate stooge” sound an awful lot like the rebels asking “What have the Romans ever done for us?” in Life of Brian.

What if the Roman Empire had developed steam locomotives? Rome’s real superhighway was the Mediterranean, since grain from Egypt could be moved by ship at a fraction of land cost. Rail would have changed that math and probably made Alexandria–Antioch–Ephesus a rich overland corridor.