"the timing of the DOJ letters, the [...] scope of their inquiries, and their willingness to give us extension after extension made me wonder more than once if the DOJ was not actually interested in our response, perhaps because they showed—from what I saw—that we were complying with the law."

It's so clear when you read the documents that that is what this is!

1. Paying extra to board a plane a few minutes earlier than everyone else is for chumps. 2. Every human being is worthy of your time and respect. 3. Clean raw egg off a plate asap that stuff is like cement. 4. Consume frozen custard whenever the opportunity arises.

Bingo

This is a important conversation to have. It is incredibly expensive and time consuming to care for the elderly and for people with disabilities. We need lower care costs and higher govt support that doesn't require completely draining assets to get care. www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...

Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity

Is the issue that there are homeless people on the downtown mall or is the issue that 90% of the stores and restaurants there are stupid expensive? www.cvilletomorrow.org/some-busines...

When we provide direct negative feedback to men they find it emasculating, and the social punishment for emasculating a man is extreme

Oh wait, I didn’t realize it was female historians specifically who ruined the work place.

Theresa Gillespie Isom flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat while running on Medicaid expansion and helping rural hospitals.

Jesus Christ

My sister has had a heartfelt “congratulations Zoltan!” Facebook status up for two days now and nobody has corrected her and I don’t know what to dooooo

lol

a jump scare of a post!!!

Just so we are clear: ICE went into a day care center—a private business—without a judicial warrant, and unlawfully kidnapped a worker in front of parents and children.

Do you think a human being wrote this Newsweek headline without having read the article beneath it, and so without understanding that the Supreme Court did *not* rule on Trump's tariffs today? Or do you think some AI wrote the headline and made the mistake?

Then when the bubble bursts, the US taxpayers will already be on the hook. “Too big to fail” redux. Meanwhile these folks will continue to collect on their massive compensation packages.

George Washington had strong opinions on this actually

Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

LOCAL ELECTION RESULT: Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board. For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.

Thank you, politico playbook, for explaining why the Dems' huge win last night is bad for Dems, actually.

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

how long til Mayor Habibi

yup, it's a non-ideological cross-cutting campaign that can help dems perform well with people aligned with them on an axis other than D vs R (this is also how trump won in 2024, just with prices)

"If Republicans want a return to political influence in America's dynamic economic and cultural powerhouses, they're going to have to learn how to appeal to the complex folkways of urban dwellers"

Remember, we learned in 2021 that a win by the out party in a Virginia gubernatorial election fully nullifies any presidential mandate. I don’t make the rules

Dems winning in Virginia will directly lead to thousands regaining the right to vote. Spanberger can reverse GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin's reinstatement of a Jim Crow-era lifetime voting ban for felonies. Dem lawmakers can also put a constitutional amendment on next year's ballot to permanently end it

two Youngkin headlines that capture his governorship boltsmag.org/virginia-gov... boltsmag.org/fourth-amend...

I could hear the cheers from the black student union all the way to my dorm, it was lovely. Then I went out in the hall and heard the girl in the dorm across from mine call her mom and say “yeah, we just need to, like, shoot him.”

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

I saw a Cuomo ad last night that was basically "if there's another 9/11, we need a mayor with experience like Andrew Cuomo," and it made me wonder, wait, what was Andrew Cuomo doing on 9/11? Well, he was probably preoccupied with damage control for this: nypost.com/2001/09/10/p...

it's just avocado toast all the way down 🫠 an infinity loop of avocado toast

I would read the hell out of a deeply reported piece on how the media/political elite addiction to Twitter is shaping their views, which in turn shape the views of millions of people. It's a total reality-warper.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

It's not a crime to heckle

Sounds right.

I'll conclude by noting a tension. The implication appears to be that writing history based on the perspectives of the oppressed and the marginalized is, along with taking the Declaration's claim about equality as a worthy aspiration, part of an ideologically-driven "elitist" project./13

This case underscores how SCOTUS made it impossible to hold immigration cops accountable for the abuses you see in all those videos. A federal task force cop manufactured evidence to put an innocent woman behind bars for two years. Because of SCOTUS-conferred immunity, the case never got to a jury.

Interesting article from Contingent: contingentmagazine.org/2023/08/12/a...

It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets

Had so much fun recording this episode with @katyghistory.bsky.social and @jeanettepatrick.bsky.social that I had to bring it to @declarationstories.bsky.social! Much more to come about Polly Palmer in When the Declaration of Independence Was News--coming in exactly 6 months 😱

Good lord just read the compact. Absolutely no one needs it.

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

With its "medico-electrical apparatus," was Dr. James Graham's "celestial bed" in his "Temple of Health" in 1779 London a prototype for DJT's "med bed"? There are just too many ways in which the #18thc is a useful guide to the hucksterism of 2025 America. daily.jstor.org/the-prince-o...

A good take! I nearly had a rage hemorrhage reading that DOJ letter. We're just getting leaned on by the mob.

🥴 I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing' but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

I'm all right with this.