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Once again I'll reiterate that the way AIPAC has been transformed into this creeping villain behind every unwanted election result is feeding a resurgence of antisemitism, and that goes triple if the winner is Jewish and was opposed by AIPAC. Please please think about your words here!

I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.”

The Army Mountain Warfare School looks gorgeous inside

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

Oppositional Defiant Disorder is basically the defining feature of huge swaths of our politics now

They’re going to threaten this stuff, they’ll hamfistedly screw up the implementation, commit seven atrocities, and still lose every election that matters in November. We’re now nearing the “fuck you, do it, see what happens” stage of this confrontation IMO

Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh

This is potentially a very big deal - hoping we see a bunch of papers with really old aDNA from Africa soon! Access to that information could answer a lot of outstanding questions about migration back to Africa, admixture with archaic humans, population structure, and much more.

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

My hot take is that Lindsey Graham did many contemptible things but if you’re furious that his Senate Democratic colleagues are posting nice things about him today you need to put down your phone, get some fresh air, and remember a time when a colleague you disliked departed this mortal coil.

This paragraph gave me an epiphany about Matty Y. It's not that he doesn't understand how politics words. It's that fundamentally, he doesn't understand *what politics is.*

total and utter mystery what the primal social ethic of the early church was

Most people don’t realise South America is this big

This is an explanation, not an excuse or justification, but there are so many white-collar men who - whenever they're interacting with men who code as more grimily masculine - will accept social transgressions, comments, and general shittiness that would never fly otherwise.

i am once again vindicated in thinking that the vast majority of nominees should make it past a state level election before running for federal office

Mamdani is performing. He is a former artist from a family of directors. He is putting on a character. You think that he is authentic because he is good at it, and is extremely disciplined and never/rarely breaks character. This is not an anti-mamdani post: it's a reason he's an effective politician

hot take: no one actually wants 'authenticity' in politicians: people want a performance that is both competent and has them as the target audience. lots of politicians derided as wooden and stiff are being more 'authentic' than politicians who are personable and likable, who are performing

humanities teach you to think critically, I say as I uncritically share a screenshot of an article I didn't read