Noah Shusterman

"Nothing which was being done, no matter how stupid, no matter how many people knew and foretold the consequences, could be undone or prevented. Every event... looked rather like the expression of some unredeemably stupid fatality." -Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Oh, you're just noticing the way I'm talking to you now. You see, it turns out I am an American citizen after all. Apparently, I just plumb forgot about it. Say, let's take a relaxed attitude toward work and watch the baseball match.

"Why do we have to call them 'agents provacateurs'? Why can't we just have an English word for them?" "Well, see..."

"Now when I say 'hello Mr. Thompson,' and press down on your foot, you smile and nod."

The frequency with which I wind up reading People Magazine these days isn't something I had anticipated. (Their coverage of the Cornell rape and ensuing... mess etc., also excellent).

Radar: ahhh, Bach....

It's more of a Shelbyville idea

I'd rather laugh with the Steelers than cry with the Saints

"There is now a second very low bar for the AHA leadership to try to clear: not only allowing its membership to condemn a genocide but also distinguishing its treatment of dissent from the tactics of authoritarian figures it has, in its best moments, publicly denounced: McCarthy — Nixon — Trump."

History as a field relies on public access to knowledge, especially knowledge of those in power. The AHA's insistence on secrecy from its leadership would be unacceptable from any similar disciplinary association. For historians, it is an attack on our mission. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

I'm beginning to think that this might not be our year. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Civility begins with impeachment.

Preaching to the choir here on bloosky, but: -yes, a "member of the community" kept things from getting worse; -still, 4 people are dead, 3 of them kids, because we let a teenager have a gun; this isn't a "win" for the NRA -the laws that armed the dad who intervened also armed the school shooter.

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don't have maps..."

Freedom's just another word for Nothing left to lose Nothing, and that's all that Tanner left me But feeling good was easy, lord, When he sang the blues And feeling good was good enough for me Good enough for me, and for Tanner McKie www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

General rule of political discussions - you want to control what topic people are talking about. Republicans want people to be talking about Ilhan Omar. And not, say, ICE murders, Jeffrey Epstein, rampant corruption, Putin, the cost of living, Natalie, Iraq, I could go on.

City workers usually move fast to dismantle a guerrilla crosswalk or bench, often arriving in a matter of hours. IMO that's part of the activists' power: They show that government *can* quickly change streets—even if it seldom does.

"I am, however, a witch."

I saw Argo in the theatre. Liked it a lot, was glad that they had era-specific music BUT once I heard Little T&A I knew that it hadn't come out yet.

Uhm... gonna skip the hyphen, thanks.

"When they had come within range, the son of Tydeus, he of the loud war-cry, called: ‘What mighty man are you, among mortals? I have never seen you on the field of honour before today...'"

"So you're saying there's a chance..."

Ruin a book by adding a word The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Reflux Test

paging @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

"... until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old."

"for the security of a free state" - b/c this doesn't look very free.

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

Come for the sports journalism, stay for the Guy Debord reference.

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This was super informative. www.thecut.com/article/trum...

“the driver of an SUV SOMEHOW left the roadway and crashed into them”

Inneresting. I'm always skeptical of anyone who says "our best electoral hopes are to support the positions I already support anyway." This, it ain't that.

If the recipe is "letting the GOP elect the worst president ever, who proceeds to run the US into the ground, which then creates the conditions for winning back a few senate seats," it *really* isn't worth it.

Timeline Cleanse 🤕

Sometime in the coming session, the six of them will meet to decide whether or not Pike's soul will go to heaven.

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

Yeaaaah boy.

So you hate waffles?

Dinner, you ate it, there is none left,

fortunately i have evolved beyond base, childish questions like "are the eagles good"

"So he spoke, and thereat pale fear seized them all, and each man gazed about to see how he might escape utter destruction; Eurymachus alone answered him, and said: “If thou art indeed the Mayor of Ithaca..."

St. Joe's folks be all, "et tu, NYT Crossword?" #NYTXW

This is extraordinarily well written.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Drink for the job you want...