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by liberal japonicus As I mentioned, I'm having trouble determining the amount of Schadenfreude to take when things happen lately. This one is a conundrum https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/trump-epstein-files-maga An open thread for all your Schadenfreude needs.

by liberal japonicus I often see videos with titles like 'Why young people can't communicate', which I usually find to be someone from my generation making pronouncements about younger people and explaining why everything has gone to shit. I normally don't click on the titles but when this Ezra Klein interview titled How The Attention … Read more

by liberal japonicus This has been reported in several places. In a new discovery about this mysterious yet often familiar species, researchers have found ancient evidence of a Neanderthal "fat factory" in what is now Germany. Operational around 125,000 years ago, the factory would've been a place where Neanderthals broke and crushed the bones of … Read more

by liberal japonicus The comments on the previous post are closed (because we are obviously a Communist collective that can't tolerate a diversity of opinion) so here is an open thread. Have at it.

by liberal japonicus Re: BigBadBird McK had been banned basically for being deeply rude, has apparently tried coming back under a different handle, so this new version is likewise banned.  There is some other evidence, but given his last comment, it seems pretty clear that BigBadBird is a sockpuppet. さよなら。

by liberal japonicus I like this substack newsletter, ChinaTalk by Jordan Schneider and I thought this piece was quite fascinating.There are a lot of competing points and it would be impossible to summarize them, but the introduction gives an idea I recently hosted a 2-session reading club for Abundance, bringing together paid subscribers of my … Read more

by liberal japonicus In New Yorkhttps://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/nyregion/nyc-democratic-primary-election-mayor   Anyone following closely and can discuss the role of Lander, WTF Clinton was doing endorsing Cuomo, and anything about the ranked choice system, feel free!

by liberal japonicus Seems appropriate

liberal japonicus1914by Wilfred OwenWar broke: and now the Winter of the worldWith perishing great darkness closes in.The foul tornado, centred at Berlin,Is over all the width of Europe whirled,Rending the sails of progress. Rent or furledAre all Art's ensigns. Verse wails. Now beginFamines of thought and feeling. Love's wine's thin.The grain of human Autumn rots, … Read more

Press conference in Minnesota. No Kings demonstrations around the country and around the world today, counterpoint to North Korea lite in DC. Open thread.