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Sunday, February 16, 2025
Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Abraham Lincoln
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Ella Emhoff
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Hannah Arendt
Monday, February 3, 2025
Srđan Cvijić
"I never liked the metaphor of the frog in a slowly boiling water, but it applies very well to our situation," Srđan Cvijić at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy said. "One decision at a time, our regime has stripped Serbia of its democratic system. It didn't come overnight. First they captured the media, then the judiciary, then other independent institutions, then they started rigging the elections, and finally they are trying to strip us of the right to freedom of assembly.
"So my advice to Americans is never relax, always be on guard, democracy is not given, not even in the land of the free," Cvijić said. "Things can go backwards, you have to fight daily for your rights, otherwise someone will take them away from you.
"The most important thing to defend is solidarity and human decency," Cvijić added. "Do not allow the enemies of democracy to lower your own standards of political behaviour."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/03/europeans-democracy-advice-trump-americans
Friday, January 31, 2025
Joseph Welch to Senator Joseph McCarthy
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Attica Locke
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Roxana Robinson
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Casey Johnston
I'm always fascinated when dance intersects with strength and muscularity in women, precisely because the vast majority of people presume someone who is strong and muscular can't and won't be graceful at all. They think of being "muscle-bound," with the muscles preventing swift or fluid movement or having a good sense of rhythm or timing. Ilona is an extremely talented athlete in addition to being strong, but her physicality defies even the conventions of most team sports—stereotypically, the bigger you are, the slower you are, the more "likely" you are to play the role of defensive brick wall than nimble striker.
This is why I love to see the Ilonas of the world come through and defy conventional thinking about what bodies can do based on the stereotypes we assign to certain aesthetics. She's a beautiful dancer, which is especially saying something for someone whose job is not dancing. More to the point, she embraces all of her gifts wholeheartedly, flipping her partner bodily through the air and balancing him on her shoulders.
This is not to say that someone like Ilona only matters because they can dance, or whatever. But to the extent we are not often treated by very-very-mainstream media to the art of a woman like Ilona asserting her physicality, it's a reminder of how narrow that lane can sometimes be, and what we miss by allowing mainstream media to be the arbiters of visibility. In conclusion: She fucking rocks, what a gift to humanity.
-from Casey's newsletter, She's a Beast, 12/5/2024.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Tommy Vietor
WONKETTE
Wait, What? What The Fuck? Is This Happening? MY GOD.
But I watched this FUCKING MORON babble and shit himself, while the supermodel badass tough smart lady ran a flawless, magnificent campaign, and I knew you were worrying about nothing. Oh you, so silly, your dumb little fears! I knew we had this. I knew it was a BLOWOUT. Maybe with TEXAS.
And never for a moment did I think that after we’d lived through this, we’d affirmatively sign up to do it again.https://www.wonkette.com/p/wait-what-what-the-fuck-is-this-happening?hide_intro_popup=true