A Sufi Sage, The Personification of Melancholia (1615)

The global right, from the US to Turkey, is shameless. They plunder Marxist thought. They quote Gramsci and Lenin. They abuse World Systems Analysis. They repurpose all of it for more savage capital accumulation and bloodier imperial rivalry. +

Remember when some leftists on here defending the Georgian government for its anti-NATO stance during the recent protests?

Maybe the single most despicable man in elite Turkish politics and there's a lot of competition.

This is bad history. He didn’t immediately order more offensive tactics. He immediately sued for peace. He didn’t go on the offensive until a year later. The Persians also weren’t greatly weakened by their own efforts. And it wasn’t ‘soon after’. It was 16 years later.

The day Vance first posted about Springfield, his staff member asked Springfield’s city manager if the claim was true. The city manager says he said it was baseless. Vance left the post up, then Trump said it at the debate anyway. (Via The Wall Street Journal)

I like TasteAtlas more and more. Thank you for this! #BosnianCuisine

It is pretty funny that between 1964-1972 both the GOP and the Democrats suffered epochal defeats that ended up setting up the groundwork for what the two parties would become. Almost think that such colossal defeats herald fundamental shifts in the parties more than victories

Post-debate poll by YouGov/Economist 🟦 Harris: 49% [+4] 🟥 Trump: 45% [=] 🟪 Other: 2% [+/- change vs 9/8-10] —— Trends Aug. 20 - 🔵 Harris +3 Sept. 3 - 🔵 Harris +2 Sept. 10 - 🟡 Tie Sept. 17 - 🔵 Harris +4 (new high) —— Generic Ballot 🟦 DEM: 47% [+1] 🟥 GOP: 43% [-2]

I'm still a bit confused how a 70s Leftist German folk singer can simultaneously look so northern German and so Megrelian/Laz/Abkhazian.

This was in The Economist in May.

I'm trying to work but the only thing happening in my head is Ladytron by Roxy Music.

“So I get a call from Nasrallah asking if I can get a deal on a bulk order of walkie-talkies…”

The Barbarian Right doesn't get to play the physiognomy card on the left when Trump is having an affair with Loomer. I'm sorry. She looks like Longlegs.