Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
There’s a LOT of bad shit going on in this country but to me (yes, I’m biased as a doctor) this is at or near the top. This is infuriating, disgusting, and incredibly stupid all at the same time and I truly hope when this is over this guy and everyone carrying out his orders go to prison
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTINA SMITH: Researchers in MN made a breakthrough in childhood cancer in Black kids with a grant. But it seems that according to your proposed rule, this type of research wouldn't allowed bc it's 'DEI.' VOUGHT: We are against DEI policies. We have intended to rid of them whenever we possibly can.
This was perhaps the ultimate presidency-ending scandal when Joe Biden made the exact same, simple transposition mistake during what was otherwise a lengthy and detailed conversation about foreign affairs at a 2024 NATO summit.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump repeatedly refers to Zelenskyy as "President Putin"
I want a reporter to just make up a bullshit industry and let him claim he knows more about it than anyone— “what’s your expertise in Pool float criminology logistics bakery?”
Once again, if Biden had said this….Oh, what’s the use?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"
It’s getting trite but if this were Biden the NYT would have a full spread about his unfitness for office
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump: "The roadside bomb is a bomb that goes on when you're driving your little around, and it goes on and you have no legs, no arms, and no face"
One day, America will be a serious country again. But alas, not today.
Maybe if we start calling our body parts gun-sounding names like “revulva” or “shooterus” the GOP will stop trying to regulate them.
It was a funny sarcastic “I am the antifa algae saboteur” post which no one in their right mind would take seriously. However, this country is completely out of its right mind. Shut the Fuck Up Friday is now celebrated every day, walk with your god and your lawyer when shitposting.
When a legitimate reporter that you know is there legitimately asks you a legitimate question and instead of trying to answer the legitimate question you want to question their legitimacy, you know they've lost the plot. They have no answers. They're zombies waiting for Trump to tell them what to do
"Everything Trump touches turns to crud...The idea that the world’s oldest republic...the nation that invented republican values...puts up with it, that’s what really shocks me." On the pod, @pkrugman.bsky.social is just brilliant on Trump and our national decline: newrepublic.com/article/2121...
Krugman: Trump’s Unnerving Mental Breakdown Signals Nation in Decline
Economist Paul Krugman discusses all the ways Trump is causing our country to deteriorate—and what it means that our country puts up with his worsening megalomania and desecrations of our republic.
newrepublic.com
Someone please mash up Narcissus and the Portrait of Dorian Gray into the tale a demented man who thought to see his own magnificence reflected in, well, a Reflecting Pool and instead saw failure and algae and decay.
me when JD Vance says “us millennials”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.JD Vance: "What we told the Iranians yesterday is that when you guys engage in what us millennials might call trash talk, you can't expect the president of the United States not to respond and not to correct the record." (Trump threatened to assassinate Iran's negotiators yesterday ... )
"The Indian is my wife" i don't have much sympathy for usha vance but still the way he talks about her is wild
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoJD Vance: "I have joked that I have two very very important people in my life -- an Indian and a Pakistani. The Indian is my wife and the Pakistani is Field Marshal Munir. I've probably talked to Field Marshal Munir more than I've talked to anybody else over the last three months."
It is time once again to discuss the Most Dad Things we have done in the past year. A couple of reminders: - gender is a social construct, anyone can do Dad Things - you need not be a parent to do a Dad Thing - the definition of a Dad Thing is entirely subjective and maybe made up I’ll go first:
Vaccines save lives. This is the FIRST time that ZERO cervical-cancer deaths have been recorded for this age group, and it’s thanks to the introduction of a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV). Yes, you read that correctly. ZERO.
Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study
The HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has reduced the risk of dying from the disease before the age of 30 in England to almost zero, the first study of its kind showed Thursday.
ctvnews.ca
If you've seen the Juneteenth flag, but don't know its history or what it means, you can read about it in the words of Ben Haith, the man who designed it. Happy Emancipation Day! ✊🏽 #Juneteenth capitalbnews.org/juneteenth-f...
The Juneteenth flag, explained
The flag’s designer shares the story and inspiration for his design.
capitalbnews.org
Being in a healthy, freak-matching relationship with a fellow vagina-haver is absolutely peak. Would highly recommend
Transphobia is part and parcel to ⚪ supremacy. Scratch a transphobe and you'll find a racist. And the UK is very racist. It's one of the reasons racism in the LGBTQA community makes no sense to me. The enemy is the same. But the praxes for combating each is sometimes different. Makes it harder.
