Matthew Taub (blog: Unapologetically Jewish, not on BlueSky, to my knowledge) calls out the deliberate conflation of criticizing a country's government and criticizing an entire ethnicity, everywhere in the world. Link: open.substack.com/pub/unapolog...

Where is Mitch McConnell? The meme industry has come up with some ideas.

Academics, beware!

From Camus’ La Chute (“The Fall”), my non literary translation: I wonder sometimes what future historians will say about us. One phrase will suffice for modern man: they had sex and read newspapers. After this powerful characterization the subject will be, I dare say, exhausted.”