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JD Vance blocked us on Twitter, but follows Andrew Tate. Says something about what JD really values, doesn't it?
JD Vance blocked on Twitter because we tweeted the statement he made about Trump 10 years ago--before naked opportunism set in. “Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.” --JD Vance on Trump
Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks, Separated for 400 Years, Have Been Reunited and Put Online www.openculture.com/2026/06/leon...
Never thought we'd see the day when the American president seems as whacked out as a totalitarian theological regime, but here we are.
Looking back at this 1982 ginsu knife commercial, it's not surprising that America would eventually fall for Donald Trump and his schlocky political sales pitch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=usfi...
The Met Releases High-Definition 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects: Sarcophagi, Van Gogh Paintings, Marble Sculptures & More www.openculture.com/2026/03/the-...
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Bush 2003: “Facing clear evidence of peril, we can't wait for the final proof that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud” Trump 2026: "Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime"
Remember when JD Vance was interested in how "our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it?" x.com/JDVance/stat...
“The [Republican] Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984
Nice juxtaposition on Wall Street Journal. Iranian government cracking down on their protestors, right next to ICE agents shooting our own citizens.
Goebbels Ends the Careers of Five Comedians Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime. NYTimes article. February 4 1939. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
The World’s Most Famous Organ Piece Played on the World’s Largest Fully Operational Pipe Organ www.openculture.com/2025/09/the-...
Grateful that the Catholic church gave America another chance to show that it can produce substantive, moral leaders. Now hoping that Pope Leo XIV can deliver and redeem.
JD Vance—a completely unprincipled opportunist—blocked us a couple years ago on Twitter b/c we tweeted the following words, and only these words: “Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.” --JD Vance on Trump
Harvard is 388 years old. It has survived a revolutionary war, a civil war, world wars, plagues and more. An authoritarian government will just be a blip on its radar screen.