My academic bluesman moniker is Lightnin' Johns Hopkins

Ships Like Luger #RuinASongWithASpoonerism

a surprisingly cogent case that the trump administration is significantly tied to the sinaloa cartel and especially their cryptocurrency fueled money laundering operation

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

Chilly morning fog still hanging around over the FiDi

As a useful reminder for your readers, Prasad began his campaign against the pediatric covid vaccine months before there was a pediatric covid vaccine. sciencebasedmedicine.org/dr-vinay-pra...

After she tried the stuffing on thanksgiving, my wife gave me some sage advice

It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories: • Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption). • Sex criminals. • War criminals.

The “we can’t possibly build more homes because our infrastructure isn’t perfect” argument is ubiquitous in San Francisco housing debates. It’s effectively saying “sorry, no home for you until all infrastructure is perfect — go live 100 miles away.” The argument is also factually baseless:

Captured Court, funded by creepy billionaires, defending $700 billion annual U.S. subsidy for Big Oil. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

I’m going to be clear. In my opinion, none of these people can be trusted. Prasad and Hoeg made their careers out of an agenda to take down COVID19 vaccines. It is so incredibly dangerous to have these people at the FDA. They are a threat to the entire U.S. vaccination program.

Saviorship Bias "Obviously, we need to up-armor his head, groin, and thighs so He can come back from his next mission"

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms ... enthusiasms. Enthusiasms.

This Untouchables remake is surprisingly good

Trying my first Waymo ride. Have to say … this is really fucking cool. The route visualizations—especially the highlighted pedestrians—are really neat

You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.

“I was just following otters.”

Happy Chompsgiving!

Happy … Thanks … giving!

This is the only herb I acknowledge at Thanksgiving

1. Begin the Begin 2. Finest Worksong 3. Feeling Gravitys Pull 4. Radio Free Europe 5. (tie) Wolves, Lower / What's the Frequency, Kenneth? / Discoverer / Harborcoat

Wowee. New favorite American novel: THE PASTE-POT MAN by Edwin Lanham. Lanham was pals with Bob McAlmon and Kay Boyle in Paris in the 1920s (was briefly married to Boyle's sister!) and became a modestly successful mystery/crime writer and screenwriter. TPPM a late-life roman a clef.

Damn, what a cast!

I just donated to Aftyn Behn, imo your dollars go far in a low turnout special like this, and this is a great time to help them get what they need to close. Throw her a few bucks if you’re inclined, and if you know anyone who lives in Nashville/Central TN, give them a friendly reminder to vote!

Emerson finds TN-7 basically ~tied ahead of Tuesday election, with Trump underwater in a district he won by 22. A winnable race for Dems. If R’s lose this race their ability to control the House *this year* is a real issue. Link to donate to Dem Aftyn Behn here: secure.actblue.com/donate/aftyn...

Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League Cronenberg's Basic Instinct 2 De Palma's Ambrose Chapel Spike Lee's Prefab Sprout musical

JFC

Dems need to keep repeating it, and they need to say what mean. “You can refuse illegal orders, examples of illegal orders are: intentionally harming or targeting civilians, engaging in unauthorized domestic LE actions, falsifying records, or anything else that clearly violates the US constitution”

Pete Hegseth bullying Mark Kelly?

Isaac Chotiner Examination

Trump refusing to pardon the turkeys this year unless they pony up some crypto equity

Said it before, I’ll say it again: Bari Weiss is the Gertrude Stein of opinion journalism

Reminder that the primary diagnostic tool for Dunning-Kruger is the subject's response to the verbal prompt, "Isaac Chotiner for you on line one"

so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?

“Sir, Isaac Chotiner is now roasting people on Twitter”

Chotin, Chotiner, Chotinest

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Just hit me: Brad Pitt in BURN AFTER READING

A movie that takes place where you're from

Costs are up bigly, and this is what Trump has been focused on. Malicious clowns.

Zut alors!

How did we never get a Karloff biopic starring Abe Vigoda

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

Duh: MTG slept with Olivia Nuzzi

They line up perfectly.

Wait til Mamdani holds up a stagecoach in the rain

Trump after that one hour private meeting