Hearing of the ICE escalations, my son, Emoji Fortnite looked up from his calculus and paraphrased Cicero thus, "Non nobis solum nati sumus ortusque nostri partem finitimi vindicat."

My wise daughter, Salomé Athena, replied, "Vrai. Un État ne peut être meilleur que les citoyens qui le composent."

consumer spending sentiment is at the lowest since both 2008 and 2020. did something bad happen in both those periods

say what you will but this truck is producing some of the most on the nose images for how stupid this year is already

Oh my god, they're trying to re-cast Zack Snyder, who is only rescued from being a true Ayn Rand disciple by being too meatheaded to understand her, as a Leftist Hero fighting capitalism.

Eggers' films have this really compelling use of conservative fears around sex without falling into necessarily siding with those fears, the jeopardy and evil often being inflicted on the characters by their or others' attempts at conforming with those fears.

oh well in that case

Happy 2-year anniversary to Pentiment.

not saying anything groundbreaking here, but I really think "politics as a form of content to be served up and consumed like all other forms of content" has been an enormous, underrated disaster in terms of giving folks the illusion of being informed while essentially being gamed like a drug addict