Disney stock price last 5 days. Pour it on.

This post has now been deleted. Suggesting it really was a DM to Bondi, violating presidential Records Act, and basically all national security protocols. But who cares. All the laws are for trampling now.

Here’s all the ways you can take action against Disney, ABC, Sinclair, and Nexstar for silencing Jimmy Kimmel and attacking free speech. Share WIDELY. #BOYCOTTDISNEYABC

Joining in boycotting ABC/Disney. Dropping my Disney subscription. (they'll soon discover that appeasing authoritarians just makes them demand more) #boycottDisney #boycottABC

Talk to me again about "liberal" cancel culture.

When the US conducted drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, the legal authorities were dubious and initially covert. I did not like it then. These strikes are NOT covert. POTUS is bragging on them. If you can brag, you can tell us the legal authority used for the strike. This is a crime otherwise.

Anyone apologizing for this admin is probably not long for his job.

In addition to my just-now post on prison conditions, this is also true. Why would any foreign firm now gamble in a US location?

This is a consequence of the built-in unaccountability of ICE. It is non transparent and resistant to oversight. It is massively made worse by current leadership, but the structural problem was already there.

Here you go, Republicans. Here's your shooter. A 22-year-old white man from Utah. Born and raised in a conservative Christian household that loved guns and Trump. Dad's a former sheriff. Radicalized online into gaming meme culture and who carved video game lines and 4-chan quotes into the bullets.

No AUMF. Under what legal authority did US use title 10 forces to lethal effect in international waters? Imminence? Please. This was a war crime. newrepublic.com/article/2003...

Someday we’re going to invent batteries that can store energy and it’s going to be awesome. 🤡

Roman centurion days, "welp, that's coming out of your pay" as they watch it sink through the clear Mediterranean water. (Yes, I know about Roman equipment in middle republic) www.heritagedaily.com/2025/09/inta...

3 cheers for the Daily Tar Heel! Student journalists doing the work. www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...

“At the Army Command and General Staff College, they use Root. I call it Furry Afghanistan. The cat faction is the NATO military occupation force, trying to win by submission. The raccoons are Pakistan, breaking all the rules." - @sebastianbae.bsky.social, game designer and research analyst at CNA

Hello lawyers: since POTUS can't run again, can criticism of his policies be a partisan act in terms of the Hatch Act? The Act focuses on election work or standing for office. The gray area comes when one criticizes a candidate. But he can't BE a candidate. So?

Tammy Duckworth is a national treasure.

"we have chosen not to move forward with this engagement consistent with the U.S. Air Force Academy's non-partisan obligation" Speaker had no plans to talk about Trump. The AF is confusing "non-partisan" with "criticism"; Speaker was not going to endorse a candidate.

The WPAOG is a private organization. There is no duty of obedience. This is compliance in advance. Cowardly. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Not to mention the websites. Good god the cost.

Words fail.

We live in the stupidest of times.

Bottom line: the administration is required to make the legal authority for the strike clear. Under what U.S. Code was it conducted? I also must note that the Obama admin did not do us any favors in its long refusal to address similar questions re: strikes in Pakistan and Yemen.

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.

More grist for the mill that says AI is neither fully artificial, nor intelligent.

I am generally the last to criticize a coach after 1 game, but let's just say that old white men forcing an institution to hire an old white man (and pay him and his family gobs of money) is not a solution to all problems. #Belichickera #UNCbudget #retiredforareason

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Permanent chyron.

Does anyone know the origin of college football coaches walking on field surrounded by state troopers? (Watching Belichick at UNC tonight...ugh. This is an unrelated question)

Tariff take job. www.startribune.com/iron-range-l...

Given how economic shifts respond to political change more slowly, I for one am glad the destruction began so early in this term, so its effects can't be blamed on the next guy. (obviously, I'd rather it not happen at all, but I like the blame falling in the right place).

Speak friend, and enter

McSorley's pub. Manhattan. Founded 1854. Same decor, no doubt. Same bartender expression.

Staggering chart from the FT. Each of Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta (MAMA!) are set to spend over $100bn annually on capex by 2030, more than all four combined in 2020. All because of the LLM-triggered AI boom... on.ft.com/3HwH8Y8

Haven't painted since the pandemic. But picking up a few now here and there. Greek mercenaries for any number of ancient armies.

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

Every bit of this.

This is DOING history. medium.com/@elizabethmi...

I don't want to overreact too early, but this may become a problem for the very very many academics in DoD. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Great weapons systems (especially expensive ones) aren't helpful if you can't afford to buy the munitions. We're shooting them at cheap missiles and drones.

A well preserved #Roman infantry helmet (Niederbieber type) and a lorica hamata (chainmail) found in Rainau-Buch, dating 3rd century AD. On display at our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen. #Archaeology 🏺 📷 me

Own goal after own goal, after shooting themselves in the feet. Giving away the game in the name of I don't even know what. www.npr.org/2025/07/24/n...

Royal Navy ship that fought at the Siege of Quebec in 1759 found wrecked in Orkney, Scotland. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

It seems increasingly clear that this is how democracy dies. Gerrymandering into painful geographic contortions that clearly favor one party over another leaves officials unaccountable. Even registering as an independent won't fix this because they're based on past voting patterns.

Is it wrong to feel sooo much schadenfreude?

dawg we're going to lose a war

NEW: The Iranian regime is pursuing a relatively unchanged nuclear negotiating position even as hardliners continue to advocate preconditions that would amount to a rejection of renewed negotiations with the United States. Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate07...