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ACT III, SCENE IV: Castle Elsinore

Enter Hamlet, dragging the corpse of Polonius. Enter Ghost.

GHOST: Mark me. But don’t mark me late for dinner!

HAMLET: Forsooth, don’t sneak up on me like that!

GHOST: Son, what wast that scene back there with thy mother?

HAMLET: Nothing! T’was perfectly normal! Just a normal conversation between a son trying to tell his mother, the queen, about the murther of his father, the king!

GHOST: Whilst in thy mother’s chamber? Ranting on and on about thy mother’s bed, and what she shouldst and shouldst not do in it? In graphic detail? It seems that thou wast more weirdly fixated on thy mother’s sexual relationship with thine uncle, rather than with my murder.

HAMLET: Nay, ’tis not true!

GHOST: Ghosts do not lie—thou canst see right through us! But seriously, I thinkst it’s about time for us to have a talk.

As Donald Trump made his first visit to the scene of the crime since the insurrection, the Biden campaign launched a new ad reminding people of that notorious event: You’d think of all people that members of the United States Congress would be reluctant to welcome the man who sicced a violent mob on them. But no, they greeted him with rapturous applause and even broke into a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday” and brought out a cake. The House members were beside themselves. Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene gushed about how “funny” and “sweet” he is in real life and how it’s just so, like, awesome that he mentioned her by name and everything! She hasn’t been this excited since that time she had front row seats for the Back Street Boys back in ’98 and A.J. winked right at her (everybody said so.) She was far from alone. Even the Speaker of the House came before the cameras to say what a privilege it was to have Donald Trump tell him how great he is.

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Dissent in the ranks It’s important to remember that as crazy as MAGA Republicans are now that the presidential election and the future of the Supreme Court does not hinge on the large numbers of voters chanting Don-ald Trump, Don-ald Trump like zombified extras in The Mummy. Trump is bleeding support he cannot afford to lose. The old, “death by a thousand cuts” routine worked against Hillary Clinton in 2016. It can work for Democrats and Joe Biden in 2024. Greg Sargent points to an item lost in Politico’s Playbook coverage of Trump’s effort to defund Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Trump prosecutions: “I don’t think it’s a good idea unless you can show that [the prosecutors] acted in bad faith or fraud or something like that,” Rep. Mike Simpson, a senior appropriator, told Playbook, speaking about the defund-Smith push. He denounced the idea as “stupid,” adding of prosecutors: “They’re just doing their job—even though I disagree with what they did.” Wait, what? Trump’s prosecutorial tormentors are not acting in bad faith or being fraudulent? Do tell!

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How might it be possible to decolonise a cultural edifice built on entirely colonial foundations? This is a question it would take unlimited political will and huge financial resources to answer. A more pragmatic goal would be to give the impression that such a process is at least underway. The British Library exhibition Beyond The […]

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🎼Look, look at the brain flying Ubu Don visited Washington, D.C. on Thursday to show off his debraining machine, only to find his fawning Republican nobles had already been debrained. Digby will be along presently with a more thorough account of yesterday’s Capitol Hill follies starring Republicans’ 34-felony-convicted former president and 2024 presumptive nominee. Suffice to say it’s udderly insane the tolerance MAGA Republican “leaders” have developed for self-humiliation. How these adults can live with themselves having sacrificed all self-respect on the altar of Trump is beyond comprehension. A major political party in the most powerful country on Earth has lost its collective mind. It’s gone from Andy Borowtiz satire to deeply unsettling. The U.S. Constitution may not be a suicide pact, but the Republican Party now is. Lickspittles and Toadies Sarah Longwell of Republican Voters Against Trump described how Republicans who once saw Trump as too corrupt, unfit, and uninformed (you fill in the rest) for the presidency have become Trump lickspittles and toadies.

The attack on Buthidaung - where thousands of Rohingya Muslims had sought refuge - has been called a "turning point" in what has been dubbed a "slow-burning genocide"

A trolley is about to run over five people, but your dad gets distracted by a nearby sports bar playing The Shawshank Redemption on one of their outdoor TVs. He just stands there watching the movie. Everyone dies.

When presented with the Trolley Problem, Dad uses the opportunity to rail against Waze, saying he knows better and GPS apps are making this generation dumb and useless, despite the trolley being on track.

After you explain the situation to him, your father approaches the conductor and begins asking questions about what kind of engine he’s got in this thing.

Dad attempts to parallel park the trolley. He has to choose between using the convenient rearview camera or twisting his neck back to look.

You present the classic Trolley Problem to your father. His first question concerns the ethnicities of everyone tied to the tracks. When you ask why it matters, he says, “Just curious!”

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Labour is ‘pro-business and pro-worker’. That is the message that Keir Starmer wants voters to take away from his manifesto launch. If you’re a Marxist, like me, then this statement is an oxymoron. But Labour has historically branded itself as a social democratic party that governs by encouraging compromise between bosses and workers. There are […]

Anthropomorphic animals sing their way through the anomie-inducing drudgeries of the night shift in this surreal animation

- by Psyche Film

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Tinnitus is like a constant scream inside my head, depriving me of what I formerly treasured: the moments of serene quiet

- by Diego Ramírez Martín del Campo

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“I felt helpless watching my family dying and not able to help them. It is a nightmare that I will never wake up from.”

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