Van

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don’t bother me when I’m watching planet of the apes on TV

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“someone needs to speak for the forgotten wife beaters, abusive boyfriends, family annihilators, stalkers, and basement incels, and I promise you that I will be that dumb motherfucker”

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it's not that he's changed his mind about trump, really. it's more that he's changed his mind about hitler.

I get that he’s taken it all back, including when he said he feared Trump would be America’s Hitler, but I guess my position is… I have never gone to work for someone I’ve ever in any point in my life compared directly to Adolf Hitler… and it’s a fair question… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump Taps J.D. Vance as Running Matewww.rollingstone.com Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his 2024 running mate.

Well you'll only ever really know you're living If you're totally sure that you're dying Maybe we get where we wanna go. I don't know. Fuck it Maybe the earth opens up and swallows us whole

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The thing is that I’m looking for a single day where I don’t have to say Fuck the New York Times and they’re refusing to give it to me

The main answer to that question is, surprisingly, because it does

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Book

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“It’s almost as if people are embarrassed or saddened or disgusted or enraged by the idea that someone so loved + so cherished + brilliant could also be common + small… What I find remarkable is that what so many of us love in Munro’s fiction is the way she reveals how common and small we all are…”

what i'm doing about alice munroblgtylr.substack.com why i hate art monster discourse

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We lost Michael Zulli today. Beautiful, lyrical, mystical storyteller, he was part of the BW Boom of the 80s with his PUMA BLUES, he drew some gorgeous stuff for SANDMAN, and a startlingly fun book about Alice Cooper. All that’s just for starters. Some people, you think will always be out there.

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The hardest any Marvel comic has ever gone: Micronauts 10

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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yep www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-end-of...

The End of Liberal Institutionalismwww.hamiltonnolan.com Excessive belief in institutions is a proven failure.

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A soothing computer voice states: “Simulation iteration approaching imminent collapse.”

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[guy who is very unfamiliar with the democratic party] well, surely somebody will do something about this

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AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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i have so much boundless contempt for these pathetic white men, who were blessed enough to be born in one of the few attempts at multiracial democracy in the world, and who panic at being no more valued than anyone else to the extent that they'd blow it all up and go back to divine right of kings

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I really need someone to tell me we are not absolutely fucked. Because it sure feels like it.

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The Supreme Court has sided with Nixon in Frost v. Nixon.

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JOHN R: Skip I want to ADDRESS this issue. [BAYLESS nods] You KNOW I am sensitive to the idea that the President is not above the law BAYLESS: Absolutely JOHN R: BUT!

The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.

Re: SCOTUS the USA is capital F Fucked

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the man has an undeniable, once in a generation talent for utterly humiliating every single person stupid or greedy enough to try to do him a favor

Trump has repeated accurate news reporting as "fake news" and described journalists as "enemies of the people." Journalists he describes as fair might want to do some soul searching. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...

Trump Hails CNN and ‘Very Professional’ Jake Tapper and Dana Bash: ‘They Treated Me Very Fairly’www.mediaite.com Former President Donald Trump praised CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash for their moderation of Thursday's debate.

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Normal people: enjoying their Sunday The WSJ: we gotta send out the push alert that says fuck the minorities.

So who’s “us”?

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I, for one, am looking forward to tonight's debate for one simple reason: Elder abuse whips ass.

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Adding "the Walter De Maria estate agreed to let me use an image of the Earth Room in my post about how much I like the Earth Room" to my list of things that I feel proud of but have no idea how I could ever brag about. (This is a gift link, non-subscribers can read it) defector.com/the-city-liv...

The City Lives In The Earth Room | Defectordefector.com Every few months, when the spirit moves us or just when we find ourselves in the neighborhood, we like to go visit the dirt. Sometimes this doesn’t work—if the person that sits behind the desk is taki...

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No headline could possibly top this for the rest of the week variety.com/2024/scene/c...

Ebon Moss-Bachrach Didn’t Read ‘Fantastic Four’ Comics, but ‘Some of My Earliest Sexual Visions Were ‘Elfquest’variety.com Ebon Moss-Bachrach talks about being cast in 'The Fantastic Four' reboot and what he remembers about reading 'Elfquest' comics when he was younger.

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it’s not just that, e.g., Clarence Thomas loves to be bribed. the conservatives really believe that spoils rightfully accrue to the powerful, and that exchanges of money and power are a natural and just part of politics

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SCOTUS says it's okay to bribe officials as long as you pay after you receive the thing you paid for

The final SCOTUS decision today is Snyder v. US. Kavanaugh has the court's 6-3 decision on ideological grounds, holding that the Section 666 bribery statute does not apply to "gratuities" given for public officials' *past* acts. Jackson writes the liberals' dissent.

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A few covers by Alex Toth on his birthday.

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Is praying for death the new quiet quitting?

just got a push notification with the headline “Is ‘tradwife’ the new ‘girlboss?’” and I am ready for death to take me