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Heard someone refer to them as “President Beavis and Vice President Butthead” and I can’t stop liking this.
March 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Heard someone refer to them as “President Beavis and Vice President Butthead” and I can’t stop liking this.
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In advance of the Oscars tonight: a lot of comedy heroes let you down. They become unfunny/bitter/closed minded. Conan is the exception. He has grown & evolved & is funnier than he’s ever been. He’s also an extremely kind and lovely human. Just a sincere post to say: Conan rules.
March 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
In advance of the Oscars tonight: a lot of comedy heroes let you down. They become unfunny/bitter/closed minded. Conan is the exception. He has grown & evolved & is funnier than he’s ever been. He’s also an extremely kind and lovely human. Just a sincere post to say: Conan rules.
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Really liking the people of Vermont today. Great job! No trash allowed.
March 2, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Really liking the people of Vermont today. Great job! No trash allowed.
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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez warmly embraces Zelensky at today's Ukraine summit in London.
March 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez warmly embraces Zelensky at today's Ukraine summit in London.
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3/2/25 London Emergency Summit attendees. Remember them.
March 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
3/2/25 London Emergency Summit attendees. Remember them.
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Isaac Cruikshank (1793)
!["The Martydom of Louis XVI, King of France — I forgive my enemies, I die innocent!!!"
----- [from the Public Domain Review] -----
It was an execution that defined an era. On January 21, 1793, four days after he had been convicted of high treason and crimes against the state by 693 of the 721 deputies of the National Convention, King Louis XVI was guillotined. The gruesome event took place on the Place de la Révolution (formerly the Place Louis XV, soon to be the Place de la Concorde) and came to represent, both in France and abroad, the changing nature of the French Revolution.
Of course, the way artists at the time depicted Louis XVI’s execution depended on their own political convictions — or, lacking those, the political convictions of their patrons or audience. The primary sentiment many throughout Europe felt was fear that this act of violence was a prelude to others. This is clearly evident in the English print Hell Broke Loose, where a swarm of devils beat drums and blow trumpets among the free-floating words Ça ira (“It’ll be fine”, an emblematic song of the French Revolution) and Vive la Nation (“Long live the nation”).
The English cartoonist Isaac Cruikshank emphasized the brutality of the execution by first portraying it inaccurately but symbolically, in a picture that has the Duke of Orleans (who, though he supported the Revolution, would be guillotined ten months later) holding an axe over Louis’ head while Marie Antoinette (who would be guillotined nine months later) pleads for mercy.
Horror at Louis’ execution was in fact frequently mixed with horror at the efficient modern machine by which the execution was carried out.
His death was by the guillotine, which, ironically enough, Louis XVI had helped design. An amateur locksmith generally fascinated by mechanical things, Louis had suggested that the device use an oblique blade rather than a crescent one to make certain that the head would come off at the first blow, no matter the shape of the neck](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ewb37o2ftablnrgx3ma45l3b/bafkreie22jpp7ujbwn5bgtss3fmoe6ygn4s5dhlky4rfglxdwrkxxrng5e)
March 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Isaac Cruikshank (1793)
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Just had this cartoon removed from the Zuckhole. Apparently breaches standards on nudity...
March 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Just had this cartoon removed from the Zuckhole. Apparently breaches standards on nudity...
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We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.
February 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.
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Governor Walz has it right. I miss hearing his plain, common sense talk.
March 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Governor Walz has it right. I miss hearing his plain, common sense talk.
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March 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” ― Elie Wiesel
I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” ― Elie Wiesel
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🇺🇸CNN: Vance is vacationing in a remote ski town in Vermont, and we did see some protests today lining the streets, including one protester who held a sign that said:
“Go ski in Russia, traitor”
“Go ski in Russia, traitor”
March 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
🇺🇸CNN: Vance is vacationing in a remote ski town in Vermont, and we did see some protests today lining the streets, including one protester who held a sign that said:
“Go ski in Russia, traitor”
“Go ski in Russia, traitor”