Nothing makes atheism more attractive than American Christianity

Apropos of nothing, it's rare to come across a short story that's so structurally inventive, and also such a kick in the gut: thediagram.com/13_3/talbot.ht…

Herman Melville once fell in love with Nathaniel Hawthorne and wrote a book review saying “Hawthorne has dropped germinous seeds in my soul” and “shoots his strong New England roots into the hot soil of my southern soul” and was perplexed when Hawthorne then ghosted him.

The myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people and people of color that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

A new California law could improve higher education outcomes among the formerly incarcerated kvpr.org/local-news/202…

Republicans should be forced to carry Kevin McCarthy to term, even if it endangers the life of the party.

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Listen to JoJo for she speaks great wisdom:

#PoorThings is gloriously weird af but omg the humanity and beauty on display is breathtakingly wondrous and rings so true … what a delight and Emma Stone is magnificent as is the whole cast. 🥰

The border we need to secure is between church and state.

Trump should drop out immediately. He is a convicted felon, he faces massive future legal jeopardy, it's completely inappropriate for a man like him to run for president of the United States. There are other Republicans who can run in his stead. This shouldn't be debatable.

Big day for the Christian law and order crowd when their leader is convicted of multiple felonies for paying hush money to a porn actress with whom he had an affair just after the birth of his fifth child by his third wife.

Keanu Reeves once said: "I’m at the stage in life where I stay out of arguments. Even if you say 1+1=5, you’re right. Have fun." Here are 9 things I learned from him:

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings.

I finally read the Project 2025's proposals for education. It's easy enough to say "abolish the department of education." I mean, who outside of Washington actually cares about how the federal government organizes its education programs? But what you might care about is that

Honestly don't want Trump to get shot, I just want Trump to not be president so that other people, like little kids in classrooms, don't get shot.

Rare pictures released of uncontacted Amazon rainforest tribe in Peru emerging near logging site abc30.com/post/rare-pict…

Ahem.