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The Rob Crowe
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"This is the neighbourhood that @adriennedgruber exploring in her essays, writing about the various ways that bringing life into the world is tangled with death." Kerry Clare picks Monsters, Martyrs & Marionettes as a Book of the Year on Pickle Me This.
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@PinkoStevens @JoyceCarolOates Uh, ask Mary Beard but I do not think so Joyce.
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@JoyceCarolOates The Republic is pretty famously the book where Plato argues in favor of men and women receiving the same education on the grounds that their apparent intellectual differences were a matter of upbringing, so a woman philosopher-king isn't at all far-fetched
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a philosopher-friend born in Greece who has only read The Republic in its original Greek has said that there is no indication that the Philosopher King might not be a woman. (which seems far-fetched to me but my Greek-born friend must surely know.)
what feels constricted & claustrophobic to some of us, who value the imagination & individuality, seems very attractive to others who might prefer a hive-like world that is secure, settled, & resistant to change like Plato's Republic.
Tim Lees@TimLees2
@JoyceCarolOates Most radical notion in The Republic is the idea that people should not want office -- that it would be disastrous to their livelihood, rather than (as now) an opportunity to get rich.
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@hermannkarlovic @JoyceCarolOates To the Finland Station and Patriotic Gore were as influential on me as any modernist novel. I am worried about turning 60 because I may want to study Russian like Edmund!
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@JoyceCarolOates I love Wilson. Sontag was one of the first intellectuals I read, and so I chafed somewhat against her as she had against interpretation. I love Wilson and know he would never want to be mistaken for an academic.
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no, Mary McCarthy & Edmund Wilson would not be considered "academics"; Wilson in particularly would have bristled at the notion. presumably, this brilliant literary figure could have had a life's sinecure at Harvard, Yale, Princeton but insisted upon his independence.
so too with Susan Sontag, who also wanted to remain independent.
yet, they were very friendly with academics, & no doubt gave lectures & talks at universities. I did not know Wilson at all but knew Susan somewhat: she was famous for showing up at lectures without having evidently prepared as (it is said) Oliver Sacks did also.
hermann karlovich Joe A@hermannkarlovic
@EvaRiver4 @JoyceCarolOates But Sontag wasn’t an academic, and Walter Benjamin wasn’t either. Do critics like Mary MacCarthy and Edmund Wilson count as academics, though they only occasionally taught to make ends meet. And Bloom was big ole career academic
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@JoyceCarolOates They were far too multifaceted to be consider academics. And I know Mary was Episcopalian, despite Catholic school and I suspect Edmund was as well, though atheistical mostly. And did not have the MFK Fisher experience of not being able to go to the Nixon household because Episco
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🇺🇸 Farewell and thank you for the warmth of your welcome and the kind support you gave us throughout our first visit to the US as King and Queen, in this, your special anniversary year. We leave a piece of our ❤️ behind and take a little of yours back home with us. Until the next time… God Bless America.
- Charles R. & Camilla R.
📷 @ChrisJack_Getty / Getty Images
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If the former deputy secretary of state can acknowledge that genocide was committed at Gaza, we should expect mainstream institutions (NY Times, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, the networks etc.)
Murtaza Hussain@MazMHussain
Former US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman says that Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip but also that the U.S. must keep supporting it. She also says the war has benefitted Russia and China and that Iran may just end up controlling the Strait of Hormuz indefinitely: bloomberg.com/features/2026-…
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This is ridiculous. AI-made Community Notes spitting inaccurate wrong statements and infecting my posts EVERYDAY.
The links used to write it conclude "There’s no way to verify Despina Manaki’s birth year".
We want a SERIOUS Community Notes service.
RATE IT AS UNHELPFUL.
Massimo@Rainmaker1973
Pope Leo XIII is the earliest-born person ever captured on film. He was born in 1810 and filmed in 1896.
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the more we hear about The Mammoth Ballroom With the Mammoth Bunker Beneath the more uneasy we are feeling.
why is this so important to T***p? why, right now? in the midst of a war the president has started?
no other US president has ever obsessed so publicly about something so (apparently) minor which has virtually no bearing on the lives of 99.9% of Americans, will not improve anyone's life to any degree, or make much difference in US history. security is an issue anywhere the US president goes including his golf courses. unless he plans to never leave The Mammoth Ballroom With the Mammoth Bunker Beneath there will always be security issues so the literal ballroom is hardly the issue.
any ideas what The Mammoth Ballroom With the Mammoth Bunker Below really entails?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Lindsey Graham: "If you don't think $400m of taxpayer is a good investment to create a secure facility at the White House ... the number one job of national security would be to protect the commander in chief, and to have infrastructure under the ballroom that is very national security-centric."
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The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank.
It just published a 30-year study showing immigrants paid 14.5 trillion dollars more in taxes than they received in government benefits.
Every single year. For thirty years. Without exception.
The country was lied to.
Here is what the study found.🧵
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After 10 years Mark Zuckerberg is firing all the teachers, displacing the students and closing the "revolutionary", tuition-free primary school he and his wife founded in California. Says Mark, "We discovered that helping people just doesn't work"
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I’m sorry, I was reliably told this was going to be privately funded.
Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree
Sen. Lindsey Graham R-SC, Sen. Katie Britt R-AL, and Sen. Eric Schmidt R-MO unveil plans to authorize $400 million to pay for a new White House ballroom.
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Eric Kaufman, a conservative but fairly honest political scientist, did a bunch of work showing opposition to immigration in the west is primarily driven by racial fear not economics. And the Trump admin is largely driven by the same.
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NEW - Greg Bovino, former U.S. Border Patrol Chief: "Our culture is definitely in jeopardy by those hundreds of millions of foreigners that, as you say, don't care about your culture... that to me is a greater threat than a violent criminal or a terrorist."
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My parents both went to college but hoo boy I’ve seen firsthand how much the intergenerational PhD bump makes a difference.
The Missing Data Depot@data_depot
It's not surprising that professors come from highly educated families. Yet the extent to which the professoriate comes from families w/ a PhD-holding mother or father is striking. While <1% of Americans have a PhD, 22% of university faculty members have a parent with a Ph.D.
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@G0ffThew Uggh, and uh Geoff you know Spanish but not French despite have a French spelling of your name. I am familiar with this Vancouver thing but still it puzzles French is <<la plus belle langue du monde>> but yes not practical in US & lower Canada.
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*sigh* welcome back, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann episode 4 discourse
AnimeTrends@animetrends
El autor de Kamiina Botan tuvo que dar la cara luego de que todo internet acusara a su tercer episodio de tener una animación desastrosa. El autor 'HEY' aclaró que la repentina caída de calidad visual no se debió a que el estudio se quedara sin dinero ni a problemas de producción, sino que fue una "decisión artística" y experimental 100% intencional. La serie no se quedó sin presupuesto. Simplemente decidió verse así.
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BREAKING: Eye-popping news about Kash Patel! Guess his eyeballs couldn’t stand the strain and the pressure, bugging out all the time while constantly being forced to look the other way from trump’s (and his own) crimes. Sad!
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