It’s astonishing how much of the noise and daily stressors of city living are simply a result of cars and traffic.

There was an independent state of runaway slaves in Brazil that lasted for nearly a hundred years and successfully resisted six Portuguese military invasions called Quilombo dos Palmares.

As a former teacher, the whole "kids need access to smartphones because they're an important part of learning" can be answered very simply: none of them use them like that

Christian Zionism is a sick joke.

We need to treat Israel as we did apartheid South Africa. Under Netanyahu Israel has become a rogue nation that breaches international law with impunity. Words of condemnation won't cut it, we need meaningful sanctions, and a policy of isolation until Israel changes course.

Mandatory parking minimums are one of the biggest threats to historic preservation efforts. I hope more preservation organizations will step up and help retire these outdated rules from another era.

my husband spent four days with 9 of his oldest friends. i asked him if there was any news about their marriages, kids, families, jobs, etc. he said no. i asked what they talked about. he said they mostly tried to name every state capital and then every african country

I do think that everyone is developing a kind of low-grade insanity from the constant anxiety that Something Bad Is Coming, this kind of general sense that the game of musical chairs we’re playing is about to stop, and that tension is driving everybody absolutely nuts

La cena.

Reingold is accusing her "childhood best friend" of being an antisemite, rather than someone with morals who doesn't want to be associated with a genocide denier who justifies starving kids. As for the weaponization of antisemitism to use as a shield, it's right here, sheesh:

MTG is now going on major conservative programs and telling them about Palestinian children starving and being killed. Sometimes I think I get something wrong but despite all the hate I don’t regret for a second encouraging my congresswoman to go down this path.

Yet another GHF contractor has come out and confirmed what Aguilar said and what the IDF soldiers have told Haaretz, and what most importantly, hundreds of Palestinian eyewitnesses have said: the GHF and IDF are indiscriminately slaughtering aid seekers.

''How you Remind Me'' is a great song.

I have an idea for what we could do with 100-acres of Commonwealth owned land just 10mi from Downtown Boston on a Commuter Rail line… 🏡🏡🚂 📍Weston, MA

Israel flunky (John Spencer Jr) tries to attack an actual IHL scholar and get him sanctioned by his university for sharing Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם's reporting, which debunks his atrocity propaganda. I'll explain this to you again: The 8,900 named deaths come from an IDF list of 47,653

Follow History Speaks if you want a comprehensive and fact-filled debunking and rebuttal of Israeli propaganda on death tolls and civilian casualties in Gaza. He’s a machine.

It’s funny how views of Xi Jinping changed a lot over the past decade. I remember when he was considered the next tyrant who would turn China into a despotic shithole. These days, you have even his biggest Western critics begrudgingly admit he’s competent and not that bad.

I always liked Jimmy Eat World ever since the late 90s.

Daniel Except - Tammany Hall is taught. Modern corruption is taught depending on who is writing the textbooks.

I want to point out that POSCO was probably the most productive and efficient steelmaker in the 80s so the long hours weren’t a waste. Truth be told, industrialization is incredibly brutal and if Korea didn’t do these things; they wouldn’t have industrialized effectively.