“In 2003, the road to war in Iraq was paved with lies about nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. The path to a new conflict in Iran 23 years later has been lined largely with incoherence or silence.”

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC

Anthony Alvarez, 21, is a trans student at the University of Kansas. Since 2023, he has had four different licenses, in part due to prior anti-trans legislation and legal battles “Since I started living as myself, I knew that who I [am] was always going to be subject to legislation,” Alvarez said.

a bodega cat sprang out of its hiding place in a flower stand directly into georgie's path and hissed at her and georgie is not okay

if only there had been signs

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

someone made an Instagram reel where they just summarized my Epstein CBP investigation to camera and it got more views than the actual article and now I’m starting to believe that this whole video thing is real

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

It’s called the American College of Pediatricians. It is quite literally a single group.

about 20 years late but better late than never

this blizzard was so much better than the last blizzard

Like most rational and scientific minded people, I take my cues on the healthcare needs of minority groups from the Catholic Church, the Alliance Defending Freedom, and sundry rightwing influencers with a weird fixation on birth rates. I am the New York Times, a serious newspaper.

A lady told me that her dog “might not be friendly” this morning at the park and I asked if he would bite and she got really defensive and said “it’s his defense” and I do t think I’ve ever been so annoyed with someone in my life

Congress should amend the Epstein files act to require doj to rerelease the files according to whatever structure and organization existed internally, and with all the accompanying metadata about how and when the files came into their possession

this seems to be particularly good snowman snow the snowmen, they’re towering

the nimby wine mom revolution continues apace

the snow is deeper than Georgie in some places

It’s really quite a lot of snow

I want to give the dog owners of New York a locker room shouty talk about how we have a chance this week to put last storm behind us and really get out there and show the city that we and our dogs can clean up after ourselves and be a net positive but I don’t really know how to adopt the right tone

fox in the snow

lotta snow

just found out that British people say that the snow has begun to settle instead of saying the the snow has begun to stick

Next week: Did Germany really lose the Great War? Or did someone stab them in the back? 60 Minutes investigates

I don’t know enough about the different strains of Catholicism to say much, but I’ve been reading America, América by Greg Grandin and it feels significant that the “first American pope” is very much of the Americas, in all their pluralities

“The costs for defendants, even if ultimately exonerated, have been enormous, with many having their mugshots blasted by the government and some forced to languish in jail or have criminal charges hang over them for weeks and months.”

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

A hungry baby is more intelligent than an LLM

they both should get to hunt the people being weird about them for sport

the term “wasian” is bad and must be stopped

what the fuck

A small update to this story. CBP has now provided a statement: “Any claims of misconduct are thoroughly investigated, and appropriate action will be taken as necessary.”

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

"We Brooklyn Boys stick together," one CBP supervisor texted Epstein. "Atta boy", Epstein responded. In November 2016, Epstein texted the supervisor that another CBP officer had been “nasty”. “I will speak to him!” the supervisor responded. “I will handle it, formally.”

all I can add is Epstein apparently knew something about law enforcement and who they really serve

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation

“Some officers received financial advice, others, small gifts, and employment opportunities.”

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

crazy what happens when you do journalism based on how people actually are instead of writing “reported fiction” about how you imagine them to be

“No matter the specific framing, stories should avoid deferring to manipulators’ chosen language, explanations, or justifications.”

ok not to be a bore but I feel like maybe we should try not to mainstream the abstruse slang of a bizarre but decidedly disordered racist and misogynistic internet subculture just because the words are funny

I dunno if this is just a me thing or something that other people talk about but I feel like the rise of LLMs and prediction markets have really cemented for me my discomfort with the ways in which facility with statistical and probabilistic analysis are conflated with intelligence

"journalism is better when it's backed by live markets" .... is it?

"This information is significant to me because it suggests that within the Atlantic there was confusion about whether the piece was fictional"

Apparently it is Guardian style to specify the goodness of a dog, a very good rule

NEW: Two women incarcerated in a CA prison have come forward to report sexual assaults by a staff cook while they were working in the kitchen, paid 12¢/hr. They told me he threatened discipline if they spoke up. The prison concluded abuse occurred, a very rare outcome, but he hasn't faced charges.

just remembered this for some reason

every olympic sport should have one heat for dogs

sometimes georgie does this thing where she takes a single kibble out of her bowl, carries it into another room, drops it, examines it, eats it, and repeats and it lowkey seems like a diet plan she learned on daytime tv in the 90s