Roe v. Wade was a 7-2 decision. But reactionaries made it their white whale, and spent 50 years building a far-right Supreme Court that would overturn it. I’m not saying the same thing will happen with birthright citizenship. I’m just saying that any dissent in this case will leave that door open.

I really resisted the Broadway cast recording of Newsies because I was of the exact right age to have an awakening via Christian Bale as Jack Kelly. But what this album loses in horrible accents, it gains in multiple key changes and an excellent fake-out ending to The World Will Know

My entire online existence seems to be an ouroboros of getting targeted ads for expensive clothes, clicking on those ads to find out they’re even more mind-bogglingly expensive than I expected, and as a result of those clicks getting ads for *even more expensive* clothes. You’d think I would learn.

I really hate April Fool’s day. This is not an April Fool’s joke.

If you speak about non-humans using feminine pronouns, there’s a good chance you also speak about women as non-humans.

Shout out to the guy playing “This Land is Your Land” at the Antone’s inside the Austin airport

I think I’m done hearing about how democrats eat their salads

Honored to announce that my new article entitled "Hold The Fucking Ball With Under 10 Seconds Left: A Non-Bayesian Analysis" is coming out in the Duke Law Journal.

Live your life in such a way that the Pope is not rebuking you, in particular.

13-year Senator who has run for President before thinks running for President again will be the new perspective the party needs

Arguably it is the functioning executive branch of the US government, at least in Texas. Way better disaster relief record than FEMA, at least.

HEB is the fourth branch of government in Texas

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Yes, but also 20ish years later I’m still bitter my idea for a southern Jersey Shore spin-off called Gulf Shores never made it to MTV.

Considering (1) your phones have WAY more of your identifying data [fine location, for example] and (2) airlines are leading the charge in dynamic pricing, it seems pretty logical to me that you’re going to be safer booking flights on a laptop.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

At this point in my career I’m pretty confident I could recite the entire United safety video script from heart, including actor intonation.

Big iced tea matchup on Friday

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

Crazy to think that six years ago this time, we had the last normal week of our lives.

a big part of being 40 is having terrible neck pain and then spending increasingly large amounts of money in search of the perfect pillow

Lots of folks who are pointing out that Talarico "ran on affordability" are missing the point that he also names villains. He's a populist. There's a big difference between: 1. "let's make things more affordable" 2. "let's take on the billionaires and corporations who are making life unaffordable"

Republicans have caused total chaos in Dallas County. It's instructive. Whether or not Trump attempts some sort of executive order to nationalize election administration, Republicans have an endless number of paths to create absolute mayhem in November.

This is really frustrating in Texas. Here's the @texastribune.org story: www.texastribune.org/2026/03/03/j... Rep. Crockett says "we're not going to have election results tonight in my opinion. Unfortunately, this is what Republicans like to do."

Unsurprisingly, shenanigans. If you’re not familiar with what’s going down in Dallas and Williamson Counties today, recommend reading up on it. This sort of chaos is the much likelier issue in November than seeing ICE parked at every polling station.

JFYI y’all Dallas County polls got a two-hour extension until 9pm, if you were planning to refresh your @texastribune.org returns obsessively keep that in mind

historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball

i think it's cool how zohran was like, yea i made some mistakes during the first snowstorm, so i'm gonna take everything i learned and do better this time around, and so far it seems like he has. accountability! responsiveness!

I have been lawyering for just under 13 years now. (I am old.) In that time, I have seen dozens of clients have good outcomes from staying silent and asking for a lawyer. I have seen exactly zero outcomes improved from talking to cops, and dozens of outcomes made worse. Don't. Talk. To. Cops.

Nothing but respect for the Petworth Wendy’s

I’m not saying I love the pope coz he’s still the pope and everything but OMG HE’S CUNTY IT’S REALLY FUNNY

Breaking: you cannot tariff a man on 5th avenue and get away with it

Schumer and Jeffries rose through the ranks because they deal makers, not fighters. Those days are long gone. We don’t need to negotiate a better deal to extinguish democracy.

medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

As we get into the Texas voting period, here is a reminder to shut the fuck up if what you say treats Texas as a monolith. We are larger than France, geographically, and our population is roughly the size of New York and Pennsylvania *combined.* And then add in the extreme gerrymandering.

Apart from anything else, the United States has no official language

time to remind everybody that the Super Bowl halftime show only exists in this grandiose fashion because a tv show called "In Living Color" stole the ratings from the NFL; the execs notoriously said, "get me Michael Jackson's agent" and thus began all the pomp www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

One thing about me is: now that I no longer live in DC (where there was a built-in Super Bowl party in the friend group) I’m never going to remember it’s Super Bowl Sunday.

I'm hoping shit like this helps open the eyes of people saying Chuck is doing the best he can. Do you see now why new rules or best practices (or laws!) can't be part of the ICE spending bill? It's gotta be gutted whole. It just obstinance or ignorance to stand ten toes down on it at this point

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

Apparently there was a city meeting in Hutchins, Texas, tonight. Hutchins is the location of DHS's newly announced 10,000-person concentration camp. What I've been told is that city officials were unanimously and adamantly opposed to it. Unfortunately, I'm seeing this nowhere online.

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

Used a shop vac today for the first time, it is the most satisfying thing ever (and yes I have a power washer). Anyone need their shop vac’ed?

The first car I bought with my own money was named Madame Psychosis. Also the reason I started using e-readers was when I decided to tackle Infinite Jest. I 100% started to read it for the bragging rights, but stayed for the its bizarre and intricate sadness.

If Joseph Goebbels and a rectal polyp had a kid.

Law enforcement officers have always been unmasked in this country until ICE started wearing them last year. *That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.

If you're Chuck Schumer and you sign on to a few modest compromise reforms, and then ICE promptly murders another civilian, where do you go from there? The only options are charge straight at ICE or endure a swift and ignominious end to your political career

America does not want you to fund ICE. Period.