I do not believe this vulgar WWE-flavored German-American-Bund Reichsparteitag stuff appeals to the mass of Americans the whole tacky & exploitive spectacle is off-putting & weird for a moderately popular ideologue podcaster most Americans hadn’t heard of before his murder

I’m in Frankfurt for work, and somehow local German tv has live NFL coverage and it’s…interesting They have German sideline reporters in the US (from Patriots OT Sebastian Vollmer), they will say “3rd down” as a loan word, but then if it’s “3rd & 10” they say “dritte und zehn“

I guess Trump’s latest saber rattling on Truth Social won’t help this…

funny how 2025 online anarchism is Rousseau flavored and 1905 real-world anarchism was Hobbes flavored

Anarchist in 2025: without government, people would return to their fulfilling natural state of mutual care & provide for each others’ essential needs Anarchist in 1905: I am going to stab a margrave

Man, this is such a weird hagiographic framing Erika Kirk was already a podcaster with a huge far-right Christian lifestyle brand and activewear! And who exactly are the competitors? Jackie Kennedy and Coretta Scott King? From nearly 60 years ago?

Alright my latest book is Providence Island, 1630–1641, The Other Puritan Colony by Karen Ordahl Kupperman At the same time Puritan emigrés went to form the Massachusetts Bay Colony, there was also a Puritan colony off Nicaragua, which failed, & some colonists went on to help overthrow Charles I

Is it just me or is Apple iOS keyboard autocomplete & autocorrect worse than ever? It makes insistent changes, like it assumes it knows what I wanted to say and keeps make edits, and then getting spacing & punctuation correct…it’s bad!

Happy Feast of Opinion to all who celebrate

Happy Feast of Opinion to all who celebrate

The prime minister of Trinidad & Tobago (where the bombed Venezuelan boats are alleged to have been headed) is psyched: “happy that the US naval deployment is having success…” “I have no sympathy for traffickers; the US military should kill them all violently,“ Persad-Bissessar said” 😧

Bosnian Croat commander of the Bosnian Serb Army Dražen Ersemović participated in the Srebenica Massacre after being told that he’d be summarily executed if he did not participate in the killings, and the Int’l Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia found duress mitigating but not exculpating

Love all the little trees and birds Leguat included Alas, two years and 20 days was apparently all these Calvinist emigrés could handle, and they tried to make a break for Mauritius where they ended up arrested by the Dutch governor

*the* central pillar of post-WW2 executive branch constitutional law was SCOTUS telling Truman he cannot take over steel plants to fight the Korean War Could not be more on the nose

The Venezuelans believe the U.S. intends to invade They point out the drugs argument is pretext because significantly more drugs come from Colombia (they are correct there is pretext do not really understand US political dynamics or rabid anti-Marxism & irrational militarism on the right)

JD Vance continuing build on his role as Mouth of Sauron, I see

“Hit roadblocks”? Really?

You think Archduke Ferdinand did enough hunting? Looks like Ace Ventura 2 His diaries record 272,400(!) kills www.visitcentralbohemia.com/experience/k...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s eldest child lived long enough there’s a nonzero chance she played Sega Genesis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Ge... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes...

Bosnian Croat commander of the Bosnian Serb Army Dražen Ersemović participated in the Srebenica Massacre after being told that he’d be summarily executed if he did not participate in the killings, and the Int’l Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia found duress mitigating but not exculpating

I always find it amusing when industry supply companies use the same marketing tactics as regular retail “SigmaAldrich: Our big autumn sale starts NOW. Get 15% your first order of 1-ethyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide with promo code FALL15!”

“As every lawyer knows (or is presumed to know), a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation…not a protected platform to rage” lol Merryman gave Trump leave to amend & refile within 28 days, but orders that the refiled complaint must not exceed 40 pages (less than half the original length)

No administrative stay. huh that’s so weird I could I thought that I read a majority in CASA say the balance of equities presumptively favors the government whenever a litigant seeks an injunction to block the executive branch‘s functions, and doing so is inherently harmful

TIL there was an attempt in the 1690s by French Huguenots to colonize Réunion in the Indian Ocean, but they ended up on Rodrigues instead, then jailed on Mauritius, then Java. and then sent back to Europe in just a few years, and the whole misadventure became a bestselling travelog

Gotta love the reply guy who takes the time to type out and post “who cares?” Thank you for your contribution, sir

Tbc, marijuana is legal in DC and there are 50 licensed dispensaries in the District, so feds are arresting and Pirro’s USAO is charging simple possession under federal law for activities that are completely lawful under DC law. And they threw him in jail for 3 days and seized his phone.

To explain briefly, PGCs can be used to give rise to sperm or ova cells In avian biology, PGCs can be genetically modified, then injected into embryonic chickens, and they mature in the host (usually a male) and produce mature gametes (usually sperm), but there still then needs to be a host hen

Bari expressly describes Allen as “canceled“ while he’s on her widely distributed podcast on a book tour in which he openly discusses the serial pedophile he used to be friends with www.thefp.com/p/woody-alle...

Plus ça change

“well we don’t have to get rid of the diversity committee, just call it the belonging committee or whatever” “just make Juneteenth optional“ “ugh just hire the kushner kid” “just say Gulf of America what’s the difference“ “just pay the settlement, we can’t have our account frozen” “just pull Kimmel,

Josef Goebbels personally delivered the eulogy at Horst Wessel’s funeral, then they wrote a song about him and made it one of their national anthems, and the played it regularly on the state-run radio

[sigh] here we go again Once again, Colossal Biosciences is tech bro grift and journalists don’t need to reprint their press releases uncritically (and they only claim they’ve made Nicobar pigeon germ cells!) They will not ever produce a live dodo www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

ah, well

Again! Using the merger approval process as leverage to achieve other ends. It’s the playbook for this admin

The fear of retribution runs deep and on even the most arcane of subjects At any academic conference these past six months, just openly mention the word Harvard and everyone acts like Scooby Doo just saw a g-g-ghost

In case anyone wondered what secondary character from 2005–07 Cindy Sheehan has been up to lately,

In a weird First Amendment case, MAGA judge Kathryn Mizelle holds that a St. Pete Beach, Fla. city permit restricting a restaurant’s outdoor music to string instruments only and amplified music only on weekends is an unconstitutional content-based speech restriction

By our premeditated killing of 14 people, we have managed to strengthen Maduro, and trigger massive military & militia enlistment and armament in Venezuela and deployment of Venezuelan navy resources www.france24.com/en/live-news...

[sigh] here we go again Once again, Colossal Biosciences is tech bro grift and journalists don’t need to reprint their press releases uncritically (and they only claim they’ve made Nicobar pigeon germ cells!) They will not ever produce a live dodo www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The House passed two bills, HR5140 and HR4922 DC law currently charges offenders in 18 in juvenile court (almost entirely under seal), with a few exceptions for very serious offenders by persons 16–18 or 15–18. HR5140 lowers the age to be tried as an adult in all cases to 14 (eight Dems voted yea)

One reason they’re doing this btw, beside general frothing evil, is in DC the U.S. Attorney’s Office (Pirro) has jurisdiction to try adults in DC courts for most offenses, whereas the DC Attorney General (democratically elected Brian Schwalb) has jurisdiction over juvenile court proceedings

It suddenly occurs to me that in today’s media environment, people would lose their minds upon learning Lee Harvey Oswald had moved to the USSR, had a Belarusian wife, and tried to go to Cuba

Fête de la Vertu stuff seems to show up in stores earlier and earlier each year

man, I don’t have a lot of insight here but “remember how I was engraving bullets?” 🤨 is quite a text…also from the texts reproduced in the indictment, the defendant‘s overarching concern was “my dad will be pissed I lost grandpa‘s rifle”

There is literally unsealed deposition testimony from the Giuffre v. Maxwell civil case from women who say Ghislaine Maxwell *sent them* and *told them* to have sex with Jean-Luc Brunel, “the owner of a large hotel chain,” Marvin Minsky, Glenn Dubin, Prince Andrew, Bill Richardson, and others

appears the nutso defamation claim has been assigned to Judge Steven Merryday He is a George H.W. Bush appointee (who I assume must like or trust Trump some because he just took senior states a couple weeks ago, giving Trump a vacancy)

Was curious what the political class reaction to the 1984 assassination of liberal radio talk shock jock (yes, that used to be a thing) Alan Berg, and I can’t find any reference to the Reagan Administration mentioning it, and it’s not mentioned in the congressional record until 1987,

Was curious what the political class reaction to the 1984 assassination of liberal radio talk shock jock (yes, that used to be a thing) Alan Berg, and I can’t find any reference to the Reagan Administration mentioning it, and it’s not mentioned in the congressional record until 1987,

On the French Revolutionary Calendar, tomorrow is the last day of the last month of the year (30th of fructidor), but because there’s no way to cleanly divide a solar year no in metric terms, they just tacked on five end-of-year feast days:

ive never seen anything like rhetoric coming from the right in the last week, this is absolutely insane and it needs to stop and people in power need to start speaking the fuck up like right the fuck now