The purpose of a system is what it does.

This is a funny story to me personally because when I was a TA at Brown a decade+ before LLM's existed I gave a student a C for a ridiculous phoned-in essay and the professor summoned me to his office to inform me "Brown students do not receive C's" english.elpais.com/education/20...

By a single vote, the Supreme Court has upheld the Constitution. Where do the justices go for their apology?

Rogan: marmalade…that’s like jelly? Paddington: marmalade typica- Rogan: that’s what fucks me up, people and dogs having different words for things Paddington: no sir I’m a bear Rogan: we had a Dr on that said bears evolved from dogs finding mushrooms, it’s one of those things that blows my mind

It's really cool that the Supreme Court understands that a document written in the 1700s can be slightly out of touch with the modern time when they think it isn't racist enough.

I don't know why a bloc of Reasonable Moderate Centrists refuse to take the threat seriously enough to adopt policies that would attract the votes of the decisive left-wing bloc of American voters.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

No need to be coy about this: the city treats parking garages as a profit center (people driving in from out of state to spend money) and housing as a cost center (schools, busses, hospitals, etc for residents)

Assholes just cannot stand pressing 1 for English

“To no one’s surprise, the Democrats and their socialist allies botched America’s 250th anniversary with a so-called celebration that absolutely no one showed up for,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

“You beat Paraguay? You?” “Sure, you didn’t?”

If the child was really strong and pure of heart I would

This is true: prior Congresses were not jealous enough of their power so they delegated too much of it to agencies that are not accountable to them. Neither Trump nor the Supreme Court created this problem: irresponsible Congresses did, and only responsible Congresses can fix it.

Cool

We can must and will repeal the Administrative Procedures Act

[guy standing up at town hall] it's good when bad laws are toothless

That's bait

Quoting because it's a large account

I recently read the wonderful book "The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer" which is a biography of the OTHER Protestant revolutionary, and a remarkable thing about the theology of the large band of cranks and weirdos who made up the Reformation is their obsession with suffering

I subscribed to the Economist because of some crazy Bank of America scam then made the critical mistake of logging into my Economist account through the Apple Podcast app and it made my podcast app unusable until I canceled my Economist subscription. Congrats to everyone involved.

Did Trump's campaign committee write this headline

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

I just saw the largest Guardsman on Park Protection duty I've ever seen, maybe 10 inches taller than the next guy in his little squad and for the purposes of narrative logic I hope his nickname is "Tiny" and they make him scrunch up in the back row of the Sprinter van. "Ok back there Tiny?"

"Information, uh, wants to be free"

Just walked by a teenage weed dealer complaining about how his customers are always trying to reach him at all hours of the day and night and had to resist breaking the news to him that weed is legal now

we really don't talk about how centrists have gone insane in the past 4 years

“Why is Mamdani getting all the attention for doing stuff every municipal Democrat does?” Because he brags about it and they brag about means-testing playgrounds! People don’t want that shit any more!

ICE out of Washington DC.

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“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

Kat Abughazaleh, who claims to be poor, posted yesterday about buying fast-casual shrimp twice in a day.

Interesting: D.C. will pay an undisclosed settlement to resident Sam O'Hara, who was handcuffed by MPD for playing the "Imperial March" tune from Star Wars while walking behind National Guard troops in the city last September, per the ACLU of D.C. O'Hara was detained for 20 minutes.

Eric Adams Among Lineup Of Children Escorting Turkey Players Onto Pitch

They hate our way of life and want to replace it with another foreign to us.

This is a perfectly reasonable statement of values but it's not an argument. When did a politics of grace become necessary to liberal democracy? What preceded it? Was John Adams more or less graceful than Thomas Jefferson? Was Truman more or less graceful than Mitterand?

Poor guy

Makes you think

seeing as europeans are once again arguing this week they don't need AC in a lethal heat wave I invite them to consider the best path forward: calling us hogs while nonetheless quietly adapting to our way of life

Hope nobody in DC owns a dog or a newborn

Is that good

Yes, obviously it is suspended, but is it operating or not? Useless TfL app.

I've had this weird fixation lately on why they keep talking about "unconditional surrender." If you think about it for even a second most wars don't end with "unconditional surrender" because that's not a comprehensible war objective.

Makes you think

I have never seen a "kabuki" theatre performance, I understand it's a venerated art form, but I am familiar with the English concept of a "dumbshow," which I think captures a similar idea. Since nothing can be done to improve people's lives the figures simply move around the stage silently

"The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State" (1884)

More and more people are asking whether moderation in the pursuit of vice is better or worse than extremism in the pursuit of virtue

I love Andrew Lloyd Webber because he takes so many shots on goal. He wrote a musical about soccer that closed after one week because nobody wants to watch a musical about soccer but you don't get Jesus Christ Superstar without The Beautiful Game