Another tidbit the breathless Sheinbaum stans seem to ignore is the eradication of collective injunctive relief in - every (potentially) injured party must bring their own suit... to the newly party-picked courts.

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Aw yeah that’s what charts were designed for

Jeremy Ra inhabits the conflicted mind of chimpanzee caretaker Janis Carter in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: "Alien." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/jeremy-ras-janis-carter-lives-in-gambia-for-years-to-rehabilitate-lucy-the-chimp-back-into-the-wild/

This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."

This week's top story: The long game that research historians played depended on the impractical approach of waiting out the natural death of the traditional narrative, a creation story of frontier exceptionalism that was baked into the Texan identity.

Kavanaugh Arrests

Oranges. And boxes. So simple yet so perfectly balanced by Luis Egidio Meléndez of Madrid, whose day is today.

Nailed it. They're aware of how little control they have of the military and can't figure out how to change that.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

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To put it another way: The Supreme Court may be damaging its own legitimacy with its own lower courts even faster than it's damaging its legitimacy in the eyes of much of the public. I don't know what that means or looks like over the long term.

What movie changes the plot if you add a random "L" in the title? No Country for LOLd Men

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL

the other half of this that I've never really gotten over: this all but explicitly amounts to valorizing being "asleep". people are really out here wielding "I have no idea what's going on, historically speaking" as a credential

Hegseth, imagining himself while onstage today.

Ukraine’s FM Andrii Sybiha published a flight map of drones coming from Hungary, adding it was made “for blind Hungarian officials.”

Reminder: There are feeds consisting of House Democrats bsky.app/profile/imag...

Kagan: The so-called irreparable harm that the Trump administration says it suffers is merely "the price of living under a Constitution that gives Congress the power to make spending decisions through the enactment of appropriations laws...a frustration any President must bear."

This could have been an e-mail.

casual remarks like this i think are a data point for capitalism having died of natural causes sometime in the last ~30 years

This is what it looks like to be *for* something.

Me, contemplating a basketload of fitted sheets: "Is there a version of life where you never have to fold laundry?" Me, thinking: "Yes, there is."

America doesn't have a deep state, but dragging every flag officer in the military to Quantico for public weigh-ins is how you get a deep state.

BREAKING: After a two-month investigation, federal prosecutors in Virginia were unable to gather sufficient evidence to support bringing criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress, sources tell ABC News.

The internet of things.

Happy birthday, William Faulkner (#BOTD 1897)

A Victorian thrill seeker enjoying the volcanic gas on the island of Vulcano, just off the coast of Sicily. View more photographs by the pioneering volcanologist Tempest Anderson here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/tempest-anderson-pioneer-of-volcano-photography

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I don't think they need forgiveness!

‘Elmore Leonard’s “ten rules” provide an insight into the creative process of a stylist who exhibited the kind of sentence-level mastery you rarely see paired with the nuts-and-bolts rudiments of plot and action.’ J. Robert Lennon on the crime writer: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I also want to point out that this is a very effective rhetorical tactic—adding some anodyne comments (whole foods are preferable in general to “ultraprocessed” foods as nutrition for kids) to go along with the objectionable ones. It’s meant to get people to lower their guard and be credulous.

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If Trump is allowed to sue people and companies while occupying the presidency, then Kenvue should be able to sue him into oblivion for this shit. Like the Dominion Voting Systems cases.

This really is one of the most thoughtful, reflective, genuine High Holiday messages I’ve ever seen from a politician, Jewish or otherwise.

Currier & Ives, Prairie Fires of the Great West Imagine the American Lit. class you could build around this one picture.

Technologically advance a band: Burning Crossbow

I swear you threaten to invade and occupy and colonize a country 7-800 times and they get all bitchy

Hoping that somewhere out there, whoever ran the Twitter account Toxic Theology Watchdog is watching the Kirk memorial service and barking until they're hoarse.

Why does gimli have an axe, shouldn't he have mining equipment, like a jackhammer

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

“You’re paying $100 for your prescription? Eighteen months from now the drug companies will be paying YOU $900.”

Josef Hoflehner, 24 Hr Service, California, 2014 Gas pumps like supplicants.

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.