Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) Those Corpses in Yemen
Just to state the painfully obvious: The “Signalgate” controversy broke this past Monday, March 24th. It’s now Friday, so five full days have gone by since it began. In five days, I think it’s safe to say that 99.44% of mainstream discussion on this controversy has focused on the Trump Administration’s inappropriately having used Signal…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Gap Week: March 28, 2025
Hey folks! The conclusion of our look at the Siege of Eregion in Rings of Power will have to wait a week because I am off to a conference this week, the annual meeting of the Society for Military History, this year in Mobile, Alabama! I’m set to talk about how Roman military commanders were…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Housewives … cooking steak? This I gotta see
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, 3/28/25 There is, as is often the case with Blondie, a Lot Going On Here, but let’s…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on In Defense of Mahmoud Khalil by First World Problems | Policy of Truth
[…] rightly horrified (at least those of who are) by the treatment of Khalil Mahmoud, Badar Khan Suri, Mapheze Saleh, Ranjani Srinivasan, Momodou Taal, Rasha Alawieh, Helyeh Doutagi, […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) First World Problems
I was at a migrant defense demonstration Thursday evening in Elizabeth, a small city in northern New Jersey. The man pictured below spoke to the crowd; unfortunately I didn’t catch his name. He told the story of how he was detained by ICE for four years, shuttled around detention facilities and jails in Essex and…
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(QC RSS) Animal Style
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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(xkcd.com) Terror Bird
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Spring has sprung
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! Family Circus, 3/27/25 I’m not entirely sure what this is even supposed to mean, but I guess it…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – A real man
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