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“Oh, for crying out loud.”
For fuck’s sake. Is this a fucking joke?

“Get outta town.”
Are you fucking kidding me?

“Ya gotta help me out here.”
Come the fuck on.

“Well how ’bout that!”
That’s fucking great! Holy shit!

“Boy, I hear ya.”
Shut the fuck up.

“Excuse me?”
The fuck did you just say?

“Dang it.”
Fuck.

“Doggone it.”
Fuck!

“Well, shoot.”
FFFFFuuuuuuuuuucccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!

As thousands of people took part in central London’s coronation festivities, Lula da Silva was nearby. After attending the King’s coronation, the president of Brazil was invited to 10 Downing Street, where he met with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Minister James Cleverley. In stark contrast to Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency, Lula has begun his […]

The Supreme Court spared Glossip’s life — for now. But his fight is far from over.

The post The “Power, Pride, and Politics” Behind the Drive to Execute Richard Glossip appeared first on The Intercept.

Tlaib’s resolution commemorates 75 years since Palestinians were violently expelled from their homes.

The post Rep. Rashida Tlaib Asks Congress to Condemn “Israel’s Ongoing Nakba” Against Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

Brad Leithauser has been publishing poems and novels, much of it brilliant work, for forty years. When he was a young man he imagined writing a book about the structure of poetry. It has recently appeared—has been haunting his imagination for decades, and now at last is available between two covers. Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry is a lifetime’s worth of education on the craft, a handbook, a book of essays, yes, but each one geared—in the manner, say, of John Hollander—to particular elements. There are chapters on “Stanzas,” “Enjambment,” “Rhyme and Rhyme Decay,” “Iambic Tetrameter,” even a chapter on the boon afforded English-language poets by English’s odd spellings, and another on “Rim Rhyme” (“where consonants are held steady while internal vowels are shifted around,” like “light” and “late”). Though the title phrase means “rhyme” as a kind of synonym for poetry in general, this poet does argue for the power of rhyming—the relationship between two words—as being, still, central and generative to the art form’s vitality.

Khader Adnan represents a political culture that has come to permeate Palestine for years, a mode of collective resistance that cannot be easily crushed, silenced or killed. Even in death.

The post How Khader Adnan Unified the Palestinian People from an Israeli Prison Cell appeared first on MintPress News.

“The idea behind [Swedish Death Cleaning] is simple: At a certain point in your life, you should stop accumulating more stuff and start dealing with the stuff you’ve already accumulated so your loved ones won’t have to do it after you’re gone.” – Lifehacker

Life is temporary, but Swedish Death Metal is forever. We, the members of the band Bloodstained Odin, will help you destroy all the shit in your house so you can die on a pile of broken litter. You will be remembered not as a part-time math teacher at Nieblas Middle School, but as a demigod who stayed true to their mission of destroying shit instead of subscribing to society’s fucked-up rules about getting organized.