I’m atheist, and Richard Dawkins almost converted me to Christianity.

but allowing plainly disingenuous Republicans (and their Democrat enablers) to conflate Omar’s criticism of the state of Israel and its boosters here in the US with an attack on Judaism is some serious bullshit.

No one is claiming there is no antisemitism on the left — there certainly is, just as there is homophobia, racism, misogyny, classism etc.; we live in a culture built on those things and it’s absurd to think the left would magically be exempt from them — but allowing plainly disingenuous Republicans (and their…

There’s an old legal saw that if the facts are on your side, but the law is not, you emphasize the facts. And if the law is on your side, but the facts are not, you emphasize the law.

Thank you for this piece. To this point:

Which makes it the War and Peace of the MAGA world.

Unionize this fucking hellhole of an industry.

Let’s rewind the clock to about 1980 or so. Reagan picks up the baton of an anti-government platform from Barry Goldwater, after Goldwater’s acolytes effectively assumed control of the GOP. What followed was a systematic expungement of anyone and everyone that didn’t toe the party line, ultimately leading to the…

...the posts were not meant to be public—they were “the result of an ongoing family dispute.

To be fair, though... all of the Disciples were total shitbags. That’s kind of the actual message of the gospels, if you pay attention and think about it.

Robert Jeffress, you are a disgrace to the church. On the contrary to what you claim, what you and everyone like you has done is exactly what Jesus was warning about.

Unrelated but the new Kotaku pride logo owns please never change it back

• In a horrifying interview, Virginia congressional candidate Nathan Larson, a white supremacist, also admitted that he’s a pedophile and rapist. [HuffPost]

If only he’d followed this handy guide!

Get a load of this: Cohen’s financial records from the Treasury database were leaked by an official who became concerned that other, much more alarming reports appeared to have been wiped from the records.

I mean, the US kind of was at its best post WW2. We had just emerged as the heroes of quite possibly the closest thing to a “just war” in history, were basically free to dictate the fate of half the planet with no one questioning us, and were able to produce and sell damn near everything to the world because we were…

You are definitely the most pathetic out of the three.

My favorite joke that was made was that the only two white guys in the movie are Martin Freeman, who played Bilbo Baggins, and Andy Serkis who played Gollum, making them the Tolkien white guys.

reading your post a 2nd time i am reminded that yesterday was the anniversary of Voyager 1 taking the photo known as the Pale Blue Dot. you were sounding a bit Sagan like and i thank you for it...

And in our desperation we turned to a city we didn’t fully understand.