polyzelos

polyzelos

@polyzelos.bsky.social

teacher of ancient world things

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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

“Gulf of America”?! Trump wants more things named for Amerigo Vespucci. This old 13-minute clip from This American Life explains why. Amerigo was the Penthouse Forum of his day, telling big lies about the New World and selling it as only a true grifter could. www.thisamericanlife.org/216/give-the...

thisamericanlife.orgGod Shed His Grace On Thee - This American LifeA fable of how America got its name, and how it was named after someone who was a fraud, but the kind of fraud people love, the kind of fraud who knows how to please a crowd.

What's more embarrassing, Tom Cruise delivering an absurdly intense "football is important" speech, or Harrison Ford praising Jeeps like they defeated the Nazis? Do these guys need the money? Did they make some really bad investments? How did they end up doing those commercials?

Kendrick Lamar could have doubled down on his Drake diss by saying nothing. It would have been legendary to do the halftime show without any reference to Drake. But I guess the beef is all he has going for him now.

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Ingraham: The instagram posts from nut bag people ..people celebrating. This this is a sickness, honestly, it's so disappointing, but I guess we shouldn't be surprised.. up next, the other big news out of New York, Daniel Penny, a lot of people think he is a hero.

Alito is off the rails: "I am concerned that some federal courts are succumbing to the temptation” to rely on standing as a way of “avoiding particularly contentious constitutional questions." When will his colleagues on the Court pull him aside and explain how the justice system works?

Okay, I'm just going to say it. I think it needs to be said: There is a market for a New Yorker magazine that only comes out once per month. Do I know anyone at the New Yorker who will help me develop a version of their magazine that doesn't make you feel like shit for falling so far behind?

Holy shit. Chuck Tingle asked the inevitable question, and the world will never be the same.

Chuck Tingle@chucktingle.bsky.social

wait is cameron more attractive than ferris and you never notice because ferris is supposed to be cooler

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