Author Stephen King would write his own form of penitence for Howard’s death, as well. Two years after his murder, an eerie recreation appeared in King’s 1986 novel It, in which three homophobic teenagers throw a young gay man over a bridge and into the same stream, where he’s set upon and murdered by the novel’s antagonist, a shape-shifting embodiment of fear named Pennywise.
TIL It had some basis in (a tragic bit of) reality
The Trump admin isn’t planning to deport the few dozen Swedes overstaying their visas. I actually don’t think they wouldn’t mind boats of white pilgrims landing here today.
The thing is, these people always claim that their discrimination is “for the children”. It was never about the children, and always about the hate.
Not that tough
-NATO
Hayman has cared for Star ever since he was a chick, carrying him around in his pocket. Once the duckling grew up, he developed a taste for real ale and started following his owner to the pub.
I don’t know how to feel about this barkeep raising a boozy duck.
Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.
George Carlin
In a worst-case scenario, if heavy rain affects the Seine’s flow and increases bacteria levels, the triathlon could be changed to a duathlon, without the swimming portion.
The marathon swimming competition could be relocated to the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium in the greater Paris region, which already hosts rowing and canoeing competitions and can accommodate up to 15,000 spectators, organizers said.
It would be crazy if they suddenly made the triathlon a duathlon, but it does sound like there’s a real backup option.
He’ll either be caught leaving Europe (please don’t fuck that up EU), or any EU country will ship him back, if he doesn’t willingly go.
Seriously
Last year, several men incarcerated at Angola along with the New Orleans-based advocacy group Voice of the Experienced (VOTE) filed a class-action lawsuit alleging cruel and unusual punishment and forced labor in the fields of the maximum security prison, once a former slave plantation that spans some 18,000 acres. The men, most of whom are Black, said they use hoes and shovels or stoop to pick crops by hand in dangerously hot temperatures as armed guards look on. If they refuse to work or fail to meet quotas, they can be sent to solitary confinement or face other punishment, according to disciplinary guidelines.
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Maybe 2x check that math
Maybe one day we’ll learn to stop waging wars on nouns, the nouns keep winning.
Mf gentrified a black church in real time
Sorry, best we can do is requiring the 10 Commandments in schools.
In the evening, the president spoke at Stanford University and caused controversy when, addressing poverty, he said that people will “figure out a way not to starve to death” and that there was no need to intervene because “in the end someone will solve” the issue.
You’re the president, the buck stops with you. It’s so incredibly lazy to assume NGOs will pick up the slack from your poor leadership.
As someone that loves going into an office, I wish they let people who didn’t stay at home.
I miss the aspect of the pandemic where people were freer to stay home if they chose, and the roads were so much emptier. It’s better for people to work how they’d like to, it’s better for me trying not to spend an hour commuting, and it’s better for the Earth to have fewer people burning carbon twice a day.
Obrador, the outgoing president and Sheinbaum’s political mentor, congratulated Sheinbaum on her win.
“With all my affection and respect I congratulate Claudia Sheinbaum who came out victorious with an ample margin. She will be the first (female) President of Mexico… but also the President, possibly, with most votes obtained in all of the history of our country,” he said in a video posted on X.
Seems on track to be the largest win since 1982, which was a non-competitive election. This is a really impressive result.
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