Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) Sonia Sotomayor Smiles for Palestine
Our Stop the Wars rally found its way into Princeton University’s Reunions celebration, where we spent several hours making our anti-war case to the approbation and disapprobation of the several thousand revelers marching in Princeton’s annual P-rade. Among those apparently expressing approbation was Princeton alumna Sonia Sotomayor, as revealed in this photo, in which she…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on They Can Hear Us by Irfan Khawaja
If you live close enough to Newark to get there, I would urge anyone who can to go to Delaney Hall and make your presence and opposition to it known. The urgency of the need for physical presence can’t be understated. Delaney Hall is by design a …
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(Policy of Truth) They Can Hear Us
Our people’s distress calls won’t go unheard, eitherGuest post by Paulo Almiron and Resistencia en Acción NJMay 25 It’s been a year since Delaney Hall reopened. Sobibor and Auschwitz also opened around May, staining the spring with blood in their respective years. I’ve been at Delaney several times to interview people and bear witness to…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Monday is for heroes, sort of
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Hi and Lois, 5/25/26 I feel like I’m one of the last pedants holding onto this fact, but…
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(xkcd.com) Flag Design
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Our World in Data) Five million children die every year — what do they die from?
To reduce child mortality, we need to understand what children are dying from.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Imagine being less alert than Dagwood. Shameful
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Blondie, 5/24/26 Blondie over its multidecade run has chronicled America’s increasing suburbanization and corresponding car dependence. Back in…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Saturday quotables
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Mary Worth, 5/23/26 I’ve given it a bit of thought and I’ve come to the conclusion that “The…
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(The GiveWell Blog) May 2026 Updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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