I’m bored of this prompt, let’s flip it around: what line sounds like an online meme but is actually from classic literature or an old film? I nominate one from Singin’ in the Rain: “She’s so refined. I think I’ll kill myself.”
The destruction of Gaza and its people by Israel is the most catastrophic symptom of both the climax and breakdown of the post-Cold War international system, both an emblem of Israel's impunity via US support and a model of what may lie ahead globally in the 21st century
One thing that happens is how we always compare something bad like it “raises pollution equal to adding 3.5 million cars” or something good that “reduces pollution equal to taking 5 million cars off the road”
and we’re never like, “huh what if we just … dealt with the cars”
Tens of thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District plan to walk off the job on Tuesday over stalled contract talks. They'll be joined by teachers in a three-day strike that will shut down the nation’s second-largest school system. https://t.co/RNAw2usjmu
You're not going to believe this, but the sensationalistic story about a St. Louis gender clinic promoted endlessly by the right wing and held up by prominent center-left writers has completely fallen apart, @ryanlcooper details:
https://t.co/MxdazCFSle
The U.S. has effectively decided that it would rather have the Federal Reserve deliberately make virtually everyone in our country poorer than substantially increase immigration. https://t.co/pQ9pYnSnpy
Which do you think is more likely:
That 50,000 years of city-building was getting it wrong, until the car industry stole all our urban land 100 years ago and "fixed" things?
Or the past 100 years of car culture is a mistake/anomaly that will be corrected soon this century?