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James Baldwin on why he did not join the Nation of Islam also offers one of the most cogent explanations for why political Zionism in its current ultranationalist form has been so damaging to Jewish culture.

“The Democratic Party is not in disarray; voters appear to be selecting candidates based on electability in the general election—a sign of a healthy, smart, motivated electorate. We should avoid unwittingly amplifying that false narrative.” roberthubbell.substack.com/p/dont-under...

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

A movie that completely holds up. Watch it with your kids

Mr Trump has the US stuck in a quagmire. No way to force the Straits without significant US ground forces. 200,000 IRGC…600,000 Army. Doable. Stiff battle. A year. To what end? Iran is going nuclear within 5 years. No allies. No voter support. No strategy.

The next Congress should turn ICE into a refugee resettlement agency

I don't have a lot of patience for uber-lefties but anyone with any grasp of history would say Democrats became great by (belatedly) fighting the segregationists in their party.

Oh hell yes

Happy 4th!

I was watching a show about the Titanic and when it ended I picked up my phone and read about the latest from Trumpland. The feeling was the same. It takes awhile for things to start going wrong, but when they do the fall comes faster than you could have imagined. 🍿

MELONI, to Trump: “.. my popularity is none of your concern. I suggest you focus on yours.”

the world falling apart sucks real bad, but it's amazing that New York somehow slipped into an Disney Channel Original Movie alternate reality where our problems are fixed by Mayor Socialism and the Power of Friendship wins basketball championships.

MIKA: Given your sexting, can you call for release of the Epstein files? PLATNER: Of course. I engaged in consensual romantic activities with adults. That seems like a fairly normal thing. Going to an island with billionaires to possibly assault children is a vastly, vastly different thing

NOT defending Platner's character, but this is very observant. Mainstream media outlets are pushing for Democrat's purity self inflicted wounds again. Gotta ask who is pushing for this. 👇

Trump loves to put his name on things so how about on the GOP? It bears so little resemblance to the old Republican Party, how about just calling it the Trumpists?

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

we created systems of communication that rely on statements invoking strong feelings to spread. then, immediately after, we started believing in lurid, pessimistic, hallucinatory versions of reality in which everything is always terrible. perhaps the two things are related! much to think about!

Do NOT mess with this young priest from CHICAGO who is now the POPE. #TBT

Perhaps the reason things have "vaguely felt bad" for the last 5 years is because you are literally holding a bad vibes generator in your hand all day, and it contains a million people all telling you that if you don't admit things are bad, you're a bad person who will be perceived as out-of-touch

Ouch

Why do I find the expression “go viral“ so irritating?

Step one: I punch a tiger!! Directly in the nose!! Ahahaha Step two: ???!!!????!!

As a country we have made a lot of mistakes in foreign wars over the last 2+ centuries. But I’m not sure we have ever looked as feckless, foolish, incompetent and ridiculous at the leadership level than right now.

Some media earnestly considering how this war will end. We know DJTs MO; he’ll c polls slipping, support ebbing, stocks languishing, inflation increasing or whatever and say “we have won, this is the most successful war in history.” and that will be it. Simple. Next distraction #epstein #iran

I HAVE SEEN ENOUGH. AS GOVERNOR OF THE FREE WORLD, I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM OFFICIALLY BANNING "KID ROCK" FROM CALIFORNIA.

This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”

Yup. We are being openly mocked because we have an idiotic WH occupant.

What a speech. Seems like the American era is coming to a close www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Everyone should use the phrase “import tax“ instead of “tariff.”

Ugh these refs are in the tank for SC. Terrible call on the replay

kinda starting to worry that an American Papacy has had unexpected ramifications for sports outcomes I care about

Ugh. No trick plays on 4th and 1. Just get the yard.

Whoops! 😂

Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature. 2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise! That "feature" is now gone.

392,000 followers on X.

Anyway, in honor of International Men's Day here's a J turn compilation from The Rockford FIles www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X7X...

Someone on FB posted a bit about how Republican presidents keep wrecking the economy and the next Democratic president has to fix it and the Republican president after that trashes things again, and I realized that we are the Party of Sisyphus.

Wow. Awesome

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

I appreciate that some venues, like the Stork Club in Oakland, are getting ahead of this trend by requiring all fliers be human made. "We don't care if it's a screenshot of the Notes app with the show info or a picture of a hand with band names written in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

If you wait long enough to cook dinner, everyone will eat cereal. Follow me for more recipes.

It’s the way the billionaire sponsors of the Heritage Foundation intend to have the poors pick up the tab, you big dummy.

Masterful trolling by Newsom of Trump’s sycophantic presser with Putin -