Director of the CIA William Casey to President Reagan, 1986:

Really tempting fate with this one…

Right into the subtitle hall of fame

if your bathroom look like this you don't need to worry about the capital gains tax

This is so insane

Hi, I’m a NYer who lived in Chicago for 2 yrs. It has its charms but I found it mostly miserable: the winters, the measurably worse violent crime, the exceptional scale of segregation, the vast transit gaps, the monotonous suburban sprawl into farmland. It’s cheaper for a reason.

Lee Kuan Yew was so real for this

Everything I've ever read about "re-unification" therapy demands that the quacks who promulgate this poisonous hokum on behalf of child-abusers should be, at the very least, drawn and quartered.

Teachers on their way to work:

yeah somehow mostly everyone else saw that one coming

People made fun of me for saying Columbia would never be the same after the encampments, but since then the president has resigned, public access to the campus has been restricted, they're trying to formally ban dissent, and this is how the fall semester is starting.

Here's the thing: Churchill was a huge fuck up, screw ball and all round villain who was wrong about just about everything: wrong about World War I, wrong about Gallipoli (a major disaster of his making), wrong about Ireland, wrong about India, wrong about the gold standard,

Neoliberal political culture: the US's public universities, one of the greatest achievements of American democracy, deteriorate while multimillionaire cable news hosts pretend they are historians and historians from private 1% schools pretend they are political analysts.

Friday

The masculine urge to have a cigarette and an espresso in front of a pork store

“Are you ready for 2025!?” Me:

Bruh Mike Mekus