what is the difference between immunity for life and dictator for life?

it looks like the last guidebook to Texas mosses came out in the eighties?? before that, the most extensive treatment was published in 1954. wowowowowow!!!

i want to know what's going on but damned if most every show on msnbc is full of stuffed shirts from the right

Dug into the Roper poll archives to explore how Americans felt about student protests against the Vietnam War at the time. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I love my yard this time of year! Look at my bird eggs 🩵 spring has sprung! #birds 🪶 #flowers 🌸

Sorry I was late, the floor was lava.

No sound cuts through the somber air of a eulogy quite the noise of my wallet being unvelcroed

I will not let enemies poison my ambition with their toxic grace.

The most common penalty issued by universities against students who have sexually assaulted another student is a one-semester suspension. The second most common penalty is requiring the student to write a reflection paper. Those penalties are only enforced after extensive due process.

I want Linda Hamilton and Jamie Lee Curtis in an action movie where they’re both grandmothers to the same kid, and something Taken happens, then it turns out they’re both former secret agents, and there’s 90 minutes of them killing people. “They’re all outta fucks to give, but never out of ammo.”

It is not the central driving force, but we should recognize that an element of the right's response to Columbia etc. is rooted in broader hostility to higher education.

NEW YORK- In bombshell court testimony Tuesday, the publisher of the National Enquirer confirmed that Joe Biden* secretly conspired with the tabloid to benefit his campaign by publishing false sex stories about Bernie Sanders† and buying the silence of women‡ who had sex stories to tell about Biden*

Twitter is glitching in a super fun way, so reporters are having trouble live-tweeting the court hearing. Come to Bluesky, everyone!

i hope at some point we can stop using the phrase 'writ large' and get back to using the singular, 'dude'

Happy Earth Day! We live on the best planet. 🌎 🌲

i wanna hear the politically spicy jokes a George Carlin AI would make about pregnancy and abortion these days after it had gender reassignment

Hot take: I prefer the dark, stately halls of the old Natural History Museum to the new stuff. I go to the museum to disassociate and feel like I’m in old New York. This just feels too modern.

unbelievable $$$$

Yeah, all of you are misunderstanding me so I clearly said this wrong. Mea culpa. It’d odd to me that Yale or any private university is permitted to maintain its own police force because a private organization lacks the public interest that legitimates the exercise of police power.

Red moon rising (2021) - Dale Bissland

Cliff House: San Francisco, 1901

A bit of light reading on the train.

20% of all mammal species are BATS (Order: Chiroptera). They're the only truly flying mammal, with the fastest, the Mexican freetail, reaching speeds of 160 km/h (100 mph). An Old English name for them: "flittermouse" (likely from Germanic 'Fledermaus'). Old Norse is leðrblaka "leather flapper".

when juries are anonymized in the future maybe they can attend by zoom

Yesterday I attended a conference in Las Vegas for a far-right sheriffs group. It drew a parade of felons, disgraced politicians, election deniers, conspiracy theorists and, in the end, even a few sheriffs. My dispatch from the fringe: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Media in 1944: Some say we should not have reported on the Frank family living in that attic. But now, more than ever, freedom of the press is paramount.

i need a die or a spinner to use to decide which of my games to play first

the Court needs to become cozy with the idea of Social Media Influencers.. djt is a social media influencer, has been for a long time and as such his retweets hold a lot of influence over his audience.. he should not be given a pass from the gag order for retweets

And the justice system asks, “Why do people dodge jury summons?”

Open court is open court, and putting a gag order on journalists for what they hear in open court has its own issues with prior restraints. Journalists SHOULD be using discretion on what to publish, but that isn't happening. Best solution ime would be for judge to sidebar with the atttys when...

The First Amendment analysis of whether newspapers should be able to print identifiable details of potential jurors and put them in danger may be complicated. The moral, ethical, and social analysis of whether newspapers SHOULD is not complicated.

starting up a private equity firm that buys up other private equity firms in order to bankrupt them

I had laser eye surgery but disappointingly I'm still unable to fire lasers from my eyes. 0/5 stars, would not recommend.

LMAO

i really hope they come out with a sequel to Wonka called Oompa

Sometimes antique dealers will include bonus pics when I order photos from them, and I got these beautiful giant ice cats today. No date or other info.

today's vibe

crashes reported every 2.5 days now but reading anything into that may be premature www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

i should have become a judge; clearly i missed my calling

idk why people are worried about AI.. computers are already weaponized against us

extremely rich for Trump's lawyer to be casting aspersions on literally anyone else's social media accounts

If you can't stay awake during your own criminal trial, there is 0% chance you are making it through a high school graduation

It's extremely funny to argue that you can't get a fair trial in a jurisdiction where you've lived for most of your life, and where you have your name in giant gold letters on multiple skyscrapers, and where you operated your wildly succesful television show from, because everyone there hates you.

Ouroboros GoFundMe page be like "can't pay my bills, need help making ends meet"

A look inside protective custody for daffodils.

you can't even take a little nap in court anymore. due to wokeness