I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1812

I keep having this horrifying thought: if some Iranian were to assassinate a U.S. or Israeli politician within, say, the next year, there would be moral equivalency. It would, in essence, be tit-for-tat. How long does that last? How long until the good guys reclaim the moral high ground?

I read the brief. It's un-serious. It tries to use federal Indian law to argue for stripping birthright citizenship for undocumented people without understanding of Native history. Read the actual experts, Ablavsky and Berger, on federal Indian law & "subject to the jurisdiction."

She said, "Oh, these kids and rock and roll — that is just sped up rhythm and blues. I've been doing that forever.”

And this is why my YouTube commentators rule. One of them pointed out that Hegseth folds his pocket square to look like service medals and lolololol. You will never unsee it. static01.nyt.com/images/2026/...

Trump has always been an asshole (obviously), but this still seems to me like classic dementia-associated disinhibition.

This whole enterprise relies on the kind of unsophisticated understanding of the law that law school is specifically designed to do away with: i.e., that the law is about using 'magic words' rather than what it really is, which is identifying and managing ambiguities. LLMs are not there yet.

There is still no doubt in my mind that there is more antisemitism on the right of the political spectrum, but boy does it feel like it's growing faster on the left these days. Not good.

Had to try it.....

I know I shouldn't be shocked, but WOW.

The Afroman case is so emblematic of the farcical degeneracy of the criminal and civil justice systems.

I think the Israeli government holds really terrible views which it tries to convince the US government to agree with, and also that it didn’t have the power to force George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003. A lot of people struggle to believe both of these.

The biggest crime of the last decade, in Marc's mind, was that people made fun of him when he said stupid, offensive things (which he's done a few times). His entire support of Trumpism was in the belief it would free him up to continue to say offensive shit. Everything else is secondary

Fully endorse the Afroman exception, but also feel the need to say "only say yes/no" is the single hardest thing to get through to clients/witnesses!

Always fun to see representatives ragequitting.

Well, better than Noem at least (but still awful and evil, to be clear).

Well fuck.

When will congress get to the real issues? RIGHT NOW.

DAMMIT, UNIVERSE! Stop doing things that make me favourably inclined toward Rand Paul and Thomas Massie.

I think this is really it. And, as ever, antisemitism is evil in and of itself, but it also makes it infinitely harder to critically assess Israel's role, which here deserves scrutiny.

I just clued into the Afroman defamation lawsuit. Amazing. Absolutely amazing content. Actually, it surpasses mere content. It is art.

He's going to this exact phrase more and more. I think it's at least partially dementia coping.

loser shit

Sore losers. Disgraceful bsky.app/profile/jomb...

Qualified immunity is the enshittification of the legal world.

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

This Canadian says oui, s'il vous plaît!

🇵🇸 You have to love this! Limerick's Palestinian community doing debkah in the city's St Patrick’s Day parade. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

If you didn't know this already have a fact to brighten your day. This is my cat Boris when he played Jones in Aliens. He was picked because he would hiss on camera because he was not a nice guy.

Apache women seek court intervention as federal land is turned over for copper mining International COMPANIES!! Tell me, whose voice is controlling the country? Hint: it’s not We, The People. #SheShed #SaveThePlanet #EndCitizensUnited apnews.com/article/ariz...

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Can't help remembering the time I was invited to a big St. Paddy's Day dinner (in the U.S.) and in attendance was a friend's father, from Cork. I daresay he shocked the whole place when, as he tucked into his corned beef and cabbage, he said "This is amazing. What is this?"

JFC. Words fail.

I just have to say, one more time for people less familiar with the legal system, it is absolutely BONKERS to see the government get this treatment.

By definition you never have to hand it to Iran, but I will say Macron in the shades was a nice touch.

Before anyone does this: you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta to hand it to" Joe Kent.

So, if there really is a plan to have marines take Kharg Island, I'd love for someone to tell me how that's not a (excuse the term) "kill box" situation? I guess the Trumpers think Iran won't destroy its own oil infrastructure--but, uh, I personally would not take that bet.

Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns over Iran war. x.com/joekent16jan...

heads up on a screenshot that's floating around www.yahoo.com/news/article...

A double Matt Yglesias-Jeremy Peters NYT Monday is something none of us deserve.

Reprehensible evil by Opus Dei 🤬

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

Lives permanently tramatized by the Mad King's war.

Well yikes.

This is a lovely piece. I don't know if Ms. Abughazaleh will win the primary tomorrow, and I understand the carpetbagger accusations (though I would quibble). If she does not win, I hope she finds a place in the progressive communication ecosystem.

The Corning Museum of Glass was the big one for us--which, if you happen to be nearby (for some strange reason), is actually incredibly cool!

He's right -- the case is incredible. But I also feel the need to say that AI's greatest service to society so far has been demonstrating how many people in positions of leadership are really abject morons deep down.

Trump found a new way to raise prices. For no apparently reason we're losing 200,000 commercial truck drivers in one fell swoop, thanks to rule barring immigrants who are asylum seekers, refugees or recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, from obtaining commercial licenses

Disinhibition is a frequent sign of dementia www.rawstory.com/trump-267622...

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for