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Much about the 'would the Framers be ok with gun rights for weed smokers' case is v funny but there is a serious part that hasn't gotten much attention The govt targeted this Muslim family, hit dude w/ these goofy charges, & detained him for months before trial ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/us-v-...

Fairshake AIPAC Leading the Future Could be some real weights around the necks of some Dems. (If Dems take back Congress this year it looks like they’re going to go through an awfully hard time for a foregone conclusion. Wonder if they’ve ever thought of playing on Story mode?)

Now that I’ve lived 50 mi from the nearest small city & 100 mi from the nearest large city I understand why born & bred locals avoid the trip - they cite overwhelm & just “not liking cities” but honestly, I think it’s generational trauma born from the absolute hassle of ever going anywhere.

Does anybody have the numbers on how many William F Buckley forever stamps have been sold? I’d love a comparison to the Muhammad Ali, Betty White and Dungeons & Dragons stamp sales.

The line about “what gets measured matters” isn’t even true now - everything gets measured. What matters now is what the people in charge think matters, and they decide based on who it matters to (and who doesn’t matter at all), and all this adds up to contempt both for workers & customers.

Brilliant. youtu.be/pozDsTv1smw?...

Relevant again, again, etc. youtu.be/r3BO6GP9NMY?...

Make it stick.

Did I think I was going to go get a temporary cavity filling - I am this many decades old and finally got a cavity! - today and therefore have to postpone recording? No. No I did not. This week can go to hell.

1) lol dying 2) how was Molly posting about this a month ago and everybody in crypto just figured it out in the last 24 hours

Yep. “Knowing who to be mad at is praxis” is Mariame Kaba’s quote and it is wisdom for these times. (1/2)

Polycrisis? What Polycrisis? open.spotify.com/episode/7dih... @farrahbostic.bsky.social

to figure out whether a prohibition on drug users possessing guns that passed in 1968 is still legal in 2026, one must figure out how drunk the Founding Fathers got in 1776 --the Supreme Court, basically ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/us-v-...

And an undersold story is how bad Boomers' retirement savings really were, and how few of them were sitting on real estate equity. The predicted transfer of wealth from Boomers to Millennials will be highly concentrated.

Just last fall, when Dem Rep. Chuy Garcia engineered something similar in Illinois, the House formally voted to rebuke him. So, will the Senate do the same to Daines? If anything, his offense is worse. Garcia schemed over one of 435 House seats. Daines did this for one of just 100 Senate seats.

I’m reminded of that tweet that says that men were able to successfully cast themselves as the less emotional gender by redefining anger as not an emotion

Um. “Failing to address”? Is it not a significant cause of measles outbreaks? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

/4 Anyway, a long-time theme of Trumpism, and an increasingly common theme of the Republican Party, is that violence is justified against protesters because protesters are evil. It’s a deeply foul, thuggish, un-American sentiment.

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

Good morning! Yes, this is he

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

At this point it seems like we should regard the senate refusing to curtail this war as, in effect, a declaration of war. Anything else is vulgar formalism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The more I dig into understanding this myself, the more baffled I am that reporters covering AI don't seem to write (or know?) much about RLHF. The ghosts in the machine who make your LLM so lifelike are actual people who live in, like, Kenya.

That's how you do it.

To cheer myself up I registered for the AAPOR conference. The thought of going to LA is keeping me warm.

I just got a weather notification that it might snow again and I think at this point the cold and snow are actually making me angry.

10/10 No notes.

Sorry, who is supposed to be “Warren’s former campaign manager” here?

This is just … not what the War Powers Act requires? Like… there are just no lawyers left working in the WH? Also they have this obvious authority to claim (even if you think it’s bullshit, as I do) and they don’t claim that, just full on imperial presidency… This is worse.

The further west you are, the more blood there will be in tomorrow’s blood moon lunar eclipse www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/glob...

The solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles (EVs) and wind turbines exported from China in 2024 are set to cut annual CO2 emissions in the rest of the world by 1%, some 220m tonnes (MtCO2). www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Now that the temp outside is about to be high enough that I’m not just struggling to keep my kitchen above 60 degrees… I’m about to get ambitious about baking bread.

The thing about the discourse is it’s always - I do mean always - disconnected from what people who are not actively participating in it are thinking/talking/aware of. You think most voters know what podcaster or content creator or consultant a candidate is affiliated with but they don’t.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

real significant lack of “who and/or what comes next” when it comes to the thought process behind assassinating khamenei

The Presidents since 9/11 have only sought Congressional authorization for the use of force twice. Every time we bomb Houthis, or Caribbean fishing boats, or Syria, or assassinate Iran’s leaders, Congress has been merely informed because they have not revoked the AUMF.

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger. www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

Senator Mullin that guy died in 1989

Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest. In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.

I’m having a hard time reading this in a way other then: “Let’s do this “the right way” - come present to us, we’ll have a vote, and give you an AUMF and we’ll see you in six months.” Do we think Schumer would vote against this action if the regime “followed the rules”?

The differences are aesthetic (more tattoos, cursing, Mar-a-Lago face, etc) and institutional (don't follow the Constitution). The one difference in the actual policy agenda is internal mass deportations. Otherwise it's basically Gingrichism.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Can we talk about the War Powers Act? §1541 lays out the purpose, which is to “insure the collective judgment of both the Congress & the POTUS” about applying US forces “into hostilities”. It reasserts Congress’ & to “make all laws necessary and proper” for such application of force. Good start.

Just remember the 2001 AUMF is still in effect. We’ve used it to strike something like 20 countries - and guys in fishing boats. The War Powers Act, to be candid, essentially authorizes POTUS to engage in nearly unlimited 60-day wars, and he doesn’t have to even tell Congress about it for 2 days.

WE USED TO MANUFACTURE CONSENT IN THIS COUNTRY, GODDAMMIT

they are going to be shocked when 10 seconds of lip service in a Troot Social video is not in fact sufficient political lubrication to get the public to swallow casualties.

Love it when an Onion article has been relevant my entire adult life

OpenAI said "sign us up, we promise to have no knowledge of your desire to do Skynet, hey look, the terms and conditions say you won't do Skynet, you seem like trustworthy guys"