Tyler Austin Harper He is managing to do something almost impossible though

If Corn Pop was real I suppose I can believe in Uncle Blue Plate Special.

I’m really surprised by this because I believed that Laura Loomer was still chained to the doors of the NY Twitter offices. I guess I had imagined that she was now just a skeleton.

TIL the Vatican conspired with King James I of England to keep people from knowing about Bel and the Dragon.

vo Distressing, because it means Chicago has no excuse for any of the bad art people make here :/

lawyer: the highest stage of homework

Donald Trump could get on the 1 train uptown right now and do the funniest thing.

Zebra mussels: terrible for the ecosystem, great for crystal clarity in waters of our inland seas

The corpus of pseudo-scholarship these goblins are generating is incredible.

Huge news: The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has become the first federally recognized tribe to get a portion of their land back in Illinois. Illinois now has tribal lands.

reading hobsbawm's bandits, nodding and muttering to myself 'the hamburglar is a social bandit'

Translation: “Setting aside the substantive issue (which is not important to me), this person is not respectable.”

Much of elite journalism consists of this little maneuver.

This is hilarious.

Unbelievably humiliating

Some nice news to share to end the week: I'm excited to start a new The British Academy funded project 'Colonialism and Migration in Global Perspective' working with an all-star team including Evan, Anita Huizar Hernandez, Carla Sepúlveda, Hamoon Khelghat-Doost & others thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-briti…

David Menschel 'feeling uncomfortable is not the same as being unsafe' - exactly! Good piece of writing.

What should I read in order to figure out who to blame for the poor quality of the CTA?