The source of this is the current Director of the NEC 🫠 If there was ever evidence the AEI and their ilk exists to pollute economic talk with knowing falsehoods, this is it

This is very entertaining to watch and I bet the defense attorneys are having a particularly riotous time. It’s the “Call an ambulance, but not for me!” meme distilled into legal form, the ultimate Reverse Card, pick your metaphor. Fuckin’ get ‘em

This probably also explains why Boutros wrote a desperate press release trying to spin the grand jury testimonies and deflect blame from himself.

“Fee to whom” is a weird question to now have to possibly ask. Is this suggestion a fee paid now to the *US*? Is there, like, not a plan for a stoppage of Iranian attacks, or is the US now swindling shippers with the imputed specter of Iranian attacks? Or is the fee to Iran, for US protection??

If politicians really want to “save childhood,” they can start by ensuring every child has three meals a day, a safe place to sleep, and safe access to education. Banning social media does nothing to help kids who don’t have basic resources.

Bluesky as a whole should be intellectually hostile to this RFK-ass bullshit. It’s the gateway to antivax stuff that literally kills people.

Absolutely zero transphobes / “GC”s will pick up on the irony of this piece, let me tell you. Mom says “My daughter’s gayness was rapid onset, I knew she was a little gothy but still my blonde-hair-blue-eye-alabaster-skin daughter, there were NO signs”, daughter says “Of course I couldn’t tell her.”

Netanyahu is half correct here. Toppling was not a goal (and he said this “conditions” part clearly in his first interview after the war started), but the conditions he referred to were civil unrest, which hasn’t played out. Current regime is more hardline; likely more unpopular, but not weaker.

Idk if Google’s AI is correct, but it seems to think Iran’s navy would cost maybe $15-30 billion to replace.

It’s interesting the government here had an opportunity to describe its ban in its own terms and chose to characterize its list of targets by communication simpliciter. Algorithmic radicalization (vague as that may be)? No. Extreme or illegal content? No. Lack of moderation? No.

Oldie but a goodie.

With alt text because this is so good everyone should get to enjoy it.

The Kennedy Center stuff is nice but let me know when people start John Browning the slavers at Delaney Hall

Alt Text added so this doesn't read like a joke with a bouncer guarding the entrance to the punchline

“Thomas and Alito dissented, would murder man” we play the classics and *only* the classics on channel SC63

“We’ve published our report on the issues in academic humanities and we will not publish our supporting data” Is this a fucking bit?

I still can’t believe he’s so obsessed with her that he has a literal keyboard shortcut for “Harvard Law School clinical instructor and trans activist”. World historic weirdo material.

Still funny to me that there’s a common myth (in a manner) than knife crime is a particular issue for the UK. The homicide rate due to knives is lower in the UK than it is in the US! Y’all are actually pretty safe, it’s enviable. Except, of course, the pogroms after a knife attack.

Ben’s white supremacist sourced hit job didn’t work on Mamdani, and he’s had it out for Alejandra for who knows how long—getting to sneer at both her and NYC does make him happy (if not paid), simple as

If the answer to a grand juror’s question “are you presenting more evidence?” is not “yes” then I think the juror should be totally fine to say something like this without being accused of prejudice.

lol

As an American I bristle particularly at the idea anyone in British government would say the standard for applying conservative government guidance is "common sense". Didn't Paine close the door on that, like ontologically?

The new guidance is advertised as "finally" clarifying the law, moving from a state of discretion ("use your best judgment") to a state of common sense ("use your best judgment [legally threatening]"). Clarity!

Tbf I don’t even know if anyone actually pretends Zaid Jilani is progressive, or even left of center, or even moderate.

The opportunity to use any photo of this event of “a people” and they chose the giant banner literally saying “The State of Israel Official Delegation” lmao. Unserious, but funny shit

Tlaib for President (serious)

I get the feeling Boutros is a fucking idiot

Governmental abuses in immigration cases highlight how due process has not just been denied through callous and illegal means, but how people facing immigration charges have been short thrifted on due process as legal procedure, too.

Also obligatory “Kathleen Stock is not a feminist either” from the screenshot.

Relative importance weights are updated ~quarterly and last I checked, “eating away from home” has seen a decrease while the price index for that category has been increasing fast (the opposite for eating at home), indicating substitution because people are NOT optimistic about finances.

Looks like this guy is getting Broadview 6’d (leaving the case in the hopes the judge doesn’t find out what he did to the grand jury).

Jackson, unsurprisingly, provides a very straightforward case why the conservative majority is wrong.

US Attorney General recovering from bout with Pam Bondi, doctors planning treatment steps after worrying second malignant tumor discovered April 2

“one nation sending dangerous people into another” is basically saying that Florida would get to determine classes of dangerous people as a matter of sovereignty, not fact, which is an obviously brainless position. Drivers licenses can be, and are, revoked for proven danger, including from US cit’s.

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Queer Harmer

More legal challenges against segregation? Fuck yes please.

Trans women are evil manly men unlike me, a white cisgender man who has done the work to deconstruct my male privilege and arrived at "trans women are the problem".

Happy Hour with Tony “Double Neat” Dokoupil

Not to treat this place like LinkedIn, but I have now both graduated with my PhD in statistics from Texas A&M (which, despite interference from the BoR and other TX political actors, has a great statistics program), and accepted an offer to begin a postdoctoral position at USC in the fall.

“Labour has lost many SEATS to Reform, it has lost VOTES more to the Greens.”

As an American that first item (ending the right to trial by jury) alone is a five alarm fire. “Kill the red coats until they stop” kind of item.

he's been rushed to johns hopkins landscaping

I implore everyone to read this brilliant book review of Kathryn Paige Harden new book on the genetics of criminality. It cuts right through the bullshit to state plainly what Harden's project really is: eugenics bullshit and grifting lareviewofbooks.org/article/orig...

And impeach and remove the current six conservative justices on the court.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Disbarring is the minimally acceptable consequence, in fact. Bordering on unacceptable avoidance of accountability.

The UK is led by parties and a media that is institutionally captured by people deluded by lies and spreading lies to millions—they lie as they breathe, saying kids are pissing in litter boxes! The press hounded a trans doctor halfway across the world, and still they attack her! This is madness!

And again I have to harp on this, the talk was one that students and faculty were watching from their own homes or their offices, emphatically away from Stock, because it was happening online. And it was a talk about GC / anti-trans ideology in academia, not about Stock except by oblique reference.