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Fuck it: I think I’m going to finally break my longstanding boycott of TV shows. I’m definitely gonna try to finish The Sopranos and watch Twin Peaks, but what else do you recommend? Please have them be not too long and very manageable

Golden Age TV aspired to cinema & novels but Mad Men understood that television is a durational, not a narrative medium. the characters aged through the 1960s as viewers aged through the Obama era. streaming ruined this, but Twin Peaks: The Return understood it, as do soap operas

Yet another Tre banger

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa watches a dance performance in Damascus.

Ossoff says all the things liberal Zionists are expected to say but then he gives a wink-wink nudge-nudge by name dropping Michael Oren, one of the most deranged Jewish supremacists on the planet and letting the committee know that of all the people he could’ve chosen to write his recommendation later, he chose the former Israeli ambassador to the US… the guy who called a 2SS a “delusion” and demanded that no questions about the USS Liberty be asked when he visited the US Naval Academy and who claimed that college protests against Israel were actually just a “war on Jews.”

The Breaking Bad vs. The Sopranos debate is kind of moot when you realize that Mad Men secretly clears both. It’s the most galaxy-brained version of what historical fiction can be. We are all just characters in the thrall of the changing tides of culture and history.

I am genuinely saddened to see what has become of Professor Robert Pape. For awhile, political science was relatively free of anti-empirical Jew-baiting conspiracy theory chasing activists. Political science was different than Middle East studies. But the money is too good. Pape has decided to follow the John Mearsheimer model of prioritizing easy clicks and grants over accuracy and rigor.

Wild that huge swathes of the American left have a huge problem with Pete Buttigieg's stint as a management consultant with McKinsey but not Graham Platner's work as a Blackwater mercenary.

🚨 Virginia has joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. This brings America one step closer to a national popular vote for President.

ladies and gentlemen the quality of china watching sometimes

I naturally have fascist instincts, but I can't be a fascist because I am too smart and intellectually honest. Aesthetically, I love hierarchy, tradition, etc. But every non-liberal thinker is embarrassingly bad. There's no honest alternative.

Uninsured rate for children, by state. Texas accounts for a quarter of all children without health insurance in America.

The College GameDay crew discuss the current state of college basketball.