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The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

How do you sell Paella to Minnesotans? “The hotdish of Spain” 😂

At a game at Wrigley, telling my niece about the first time I saw a game here in the summer of 1998, and a player came up who was born in the summer of 1998.

Alan Dershowitz will spend eternity in a hell of his own creation, surrounded by delicious pierogies, always just out of reach. From J. Thomas’ dissent: “Dershowitz now asks this Court to overrule Sullivan and related precedents.”

“No amount of evidence of racial animus against Black people will be enough to convince a majority of justices that racial discrimination has occurred,” Adam Serwer argues about the Supreme Court:

(1/4) I saw yet another post attacking Jake Tapper for his book on the cover-up/denial of President Biden’s decline while in office, and it occurred to me: considering *only* its immediate and then lasting effects, that scandal might actually be bigger than Watergate. Consider:

In the book, she describes him posting vicious insults of her. Including calling her “Maggot,” just prior to their meeting in which he was perfectly gracious. To a great extent, it’s just kayfabe.

Since the start of President Trump’s second term, The New York Times has been documenting examples of moves by members of Mr. Trump’s family or the families of top aides to profit off of Trump administration policy actions. Today we take another look.

Got mine in the mail today. @petersagal.bsky.social @fieldnotes.co . Glad to have my own personal physical copy for once.

This Op-Ed in no way diminishes Nixon’s crimes His point is that in *today’s political/media environment,* it wouldn’t have been much of a scandal. Is he wrong? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/u...

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Alito reacted with offended surprise when Sotomayor read a dissent from the bench. Justices are supposed to tell the others in advance. SCOTUS official says: he *was* told. “There was a misunderstanding in J Alito’s part.” What was the misunderstanding? www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...

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My eyes blurred as I read this, not sure from what. petebuttigieg.substack.com/p/a-terrible...

Toward the end of this interview, Haberman and Swan make a point that seems obvious, but I haven’t heard anyone lay out: if the Dems do win a house of Congress in the fall, and start issuing subpoenas, what makes anyone expect the WH would honor them? youtu.be/y1NlWtFh1p0?...

Beautiful line from Bill Clinton at Barney Frank's service today: "Who are 'we the people' and how do we define 'a more perfect union'? The rest [of the Constitution is background noise."

I've had a few VIPs on our shown in person, including sitting governors, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Treasury, and none of them had the level of security that Anthony Fauci brought with him. Why? Because there were two people already in jail for attempting to kill him.

Feeling sad and stressed? Josh will fix that! Temporarily, but still!

From today's SCOTUS decision removing TPS protection from Haitians and Syrians, written by J Alito:

I buy this.

This interview with HRC was really fascinating, in that it was the first time I've heard her defend the "basket of deplorables" remark, agree with Trump's '25 air raid on Iran, and absolutely *crucify* Joe Biden for running for re-election. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

On the fourth anniversary of "Dobbs," I suggest reading, or re-reading, the jointly written dissent of Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21p...

OMG, Starlog was my bible as a teenage nerd. I used to rush the HS library to find the new copy when it arrived. That said... and this isn't relevant to the below news... but I recently picked up an absolute classic of SF I thrilled to in my youth... and... it is... not good. Is this common?

Superb. No notes.

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

IANAL, and can't opine on the rigor or wisdom of her decisions, but obviously winner of Best Name, District Judge Division.

I read everything Haberman writes, including her bio of Trump, and I still didn’t know or forgot this: her first contact with him was when he cold called her to claim he had just been about to make a Big Deal with someone who had just died in a plane crash. youtu.be/6RhV6GzVfrY?...

Serendipitous Bluesky chuckle.

Director Patel still takes the FBI jet to travel the four blocks to see it.

Typically fine column by Philip. One way to look at it is that we have a general misunderstanding of what "democracy" means. To the people studied, it means, basically, "nobody can tell me what to do," which on its face, isn't wrong: "No Kings," and all that.

This and falling asleep at meetings are the two ways I feel a bond with the President.

Now, now... hang on a second. I'm intrigued! Say more, tiny particle.

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Big if true

All true. It’s also a factor that serious substantive news that presents the complex reality of any given situation has for years been steadily losing audience to people (of all persuasions) who shout things their audience already knows.

An amazing story worth reading for reasons beyond its finding that a cult leader controlled a politician who rose to oversee US intelligence: 1) it’s a 1st person narrative about how investigative journalism is done 2) It’s a primer on how personality cults operate 3) Proves the Post lives.

At a certain age, looking at your own Wikipedia page starts to feel a lot like reading your obituary.

Thanks to @hodgman.bsky.social, I read this novel over the past month or so... really haunting and beautiful, and not quite like anything else I can remember reading. It's essentially the story of one man from birth to death, and nothing extraordinary happens.

Great work of explanatory, visual, & public-interest journalism by Michael Keller, Eli Murray, Danielle Ivory, Irineo Cabreros of @nytimes.com, on thousands of needless deaths caused by monster-ization of US vehicles. (Image: Chevy Silverado 1998 vs 2021) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🧵: Out of all the deaths of people I did not know personally, none affected me more than the suicide of the writer David Foster Wallace in 2008. I remember vividly (as one does with Major Life Changing Events) picking up a copy of Harper's in 1996 in a NYPL branch and reading "Shipping Out."

Or as he might have put it: "Certain indicators lead us to believe that future breathing may or may not continue, as conditions dictate."

Boosting!

"Will the tyrannical emotional state that brought us the war now be applied inside the United States?...The attack on Iran began with a longing -- a subjective sense that violence is pleasurable and can bring a utopia in which desires become reality." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

In which VP Pence praises his former boss for “decisive” action in Iran but bemoans the deal to end the war devised by person or persons not named. www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

On Sunday Night Baseball: Jason Benetti: [The batter] is going up left on left, much as you did, Rizzo. What would you do? Anthony Rizzo: Watch the first pitch. See what he’s offering, let the algorithm take over. [First pitch, called a ball.] Benetti: That could have been a strike… [Con’t]

Rep. Casten arrives at a similar point as I did in my thread about the responsibility of journalists, but with more colorful language.

Oh, no. Those dinosaur books with the brilliant illustrator Mark Teague have been a mainstay through both my trips through parenthood.

At the Reflecting Pool and guys