oh you’re posting on r/sourdough ? And it’s your first ever loaf? you are a little bread baby? “Is this good?? 🥹🥹” how many of you are there? it’s a perfect loaf. I know you know it’s a perfect. It has Ukrainian PM braids on it. You are posting on r/sourdough. I hate you. just be normal & brag

Anyone have insight into how this process works? Is it formalized at all or is it basically completely arbitrary? How does the Home Office know who to ban - is there a complaint or visa component? Eg, UK banned Fred Phelps of WBC-did he plan to go to the UK or was the ban just a statement of values?

This is how to do it. Sen Chris Murphy also tells me: "Everybody in that chain of command has to think hard about whether they want to be part of the execution of that order." He predicts bombing Iran's power plants/bridges will kill thousands at the outset. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2087...

This is an extremely sick person. Each Republican who refuses to join us in voting against this wanton war of choice owns every consequence of whatever the hell this is.

Those who don't know Grotius make the world atrocious

We need a worldwide ban on edgelordism.

Unfortunately this (very necessary) $65 million in add’l funding for trans care is imo unlikely to happen, just like other expensive campaign promises (free buses, CityFHEPS expansion, more library funding) because we are out of money, and City Council/State won’t make up for fed cuts/Adams errors.

Great thread

/4. Fourth: Advocacy does have a moral component. Lying about law and history in an effort to make millions of people stateless is not “doing law the right way.” The notion that advocacy is morally neutral or even inherently good if performed according to cultural ritual remains vapid and harmful.

Ian Wurman today:

The contradiction between what Wurman put in his scholarly writing, versus what he put in a court document, where he is under penalties of perjury, is enough, IMO, to initiate tenure review at any self-respecting academic institution.

"It's your fault I told you to kill yourself, actually, your sentence was slightly unclear" what the fuck is wrong with you

It is outrageous to bully MJS of all people for his invaluable service of real time summarizing often 50-100+ page decisions, accurately, identifying the Court’s sophistry while also noting legally important distinctions. He is no stooge for this Court and is among its biggest critics. Shame!

Really excellent essay

One of my least favorite rhetorical things these days is when republicans defend Trump’s bizarre behavior by saying “it’s up to the president, he’ll make the decision, as is his right” & shit like that. I know he can make the decision that’s the whole problem. His choices are bad and he keeps lying.

They should lose their jobs and licenses to practice law. This isn’t about academic freedom because they’re lying: they don’t actually believe what they’re saying. Stripping them of their professional privileges for dishonesty is unproblematic.

again this is the type of shit that has been considered evil for roughly as long as we have had the word "evil"

Mamdani and City Council need to take away as much discretion from NYPD as possible, whether through traffic cameras or reassigning its duties to other agencies.

Having read a lot about some of these folks I truly believe they've managed to convince themselves there's a critical mass who thinks just like them. Bari helped them do that. In reality, the reactionary oligarchic brunchlord actually doesn't have a popular perspective. Imagine that!

one thing that frustrates me quite a bit about modern opinion-writing is that hardly anyone tries to argue with a particular person or a specific argument. it's all gesturing towards people saying something. take this piece for example. setting aside the merits of the argument, who is the target?

I hate that they're even called apps in Windows and macOS. They're programs. Grow the fuck up. Apps are chicken tenders.

National conservatism has always been the ideology that loyalty is only owed to the nation if it is run by conservatives, going back to when they supported surrender to the Nazis in June 1940 on the grounds that German occupation was the price to pay for eliminating the hated Third Republic.

The fluid definition of "libs," "the left," or whatever on Bsky is social poison because it simultaneously puts everyone at risk of excommunication and lets nobody be accountable for their claims about this or that group. "Liberals" can mean anyone from Paul von Hindenburg to Bernie Sanders here.

An organization called "Track AIPAC" makes a scary graphic of Daniel Biss, who has received zero AIPAC dollars. You look at this & assume he is an AIPAC stooge. It is purposefully misleading and deceitful. If "Track AIPAC" tracked actual AIPAC spending, Biss would have a nice green graphic instead.

NYC dog owners: you pick up your dog’s poop?

City Council term limits was a huge mistake. bsky.app/profile/jmar...

Netanyahu sucks, AIPAC sucks, but "we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby" is just code for "blame Jews." Trump wasn't forced to do this. Trump's supporters—like Kent—weren't forced to elect him and embolden him. They're not absolved of any responsibility.

The GREAT Oracle at Dolphin, one of the ALL TIME BEST oracles, says we're showing more "hubris" than any other aspirant! A great word, hubris, one you don't hear very much any more, but we're bringing it back, strongly

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Look, I love Hell Gate, I subscribe to them and you should too. But this piece of trash is beneath their usual standards. Just to give you an indication of how fucking dumb this interview is: they link to an article in @thecity.nyc, with the link text as screenshotted here.

Inwood Hill is far and away the best park in Manhattan. On Saturday morning you can stop by the farmers market and then go look at some birds and a nice bridge.

Pro se party responded to decision email with “suck a dick,” now noted in file as “party confirmed receipt”

With a new City Hall, it's time for NYC to tap the immense potential of public space. Thankfully, it doesn't have to look far for inspo. In @citylimitsnews.bsky.social today w/WXY's Rob Daurio, highlighting some of our fave projects across the 5 boroughs right now. citylimits.org/opinion-mayo...

I say Blooski (easier and more fun) and it hurts me that I’m in the same camp as Senator leghorn.

Wurman will say or do anything to get Duane Benton’s seat on the 8th Circuit. I bet he’s nominated within the year.

I do not think that’s what she’s saying based on the post-script but rather she’s specifically against new electronics that purport to solve problems but don’t. But her determination for what is a useful electronic & what isn’t appears to be nothing more than “I don’t believe whatever tech bros say”

sorry to be an old-fashioned scold but there is something deeply pathetic about being an adult and shoplifting just because you kinda feel like the rules don't apply to you

Who, besides Janet Mills, is a bad “Schumer pick,” and who counts as a Schumer pick, anyway? I don’t know what goes into “recruiting” candidates but this year Schumer has been credited with some stellar picks: Mary Peltola, Roy Cooper, Sherrod Brown. I bet he preferred Conor Lamb, too!

Republicans voted down Schumer’s attempt to end this war.

This is correct. State bars have utterly failed the test of the moment. In the most pathetic ways possible. They would absolutely love to be relieved of their duty to regulate DOJ lawyers!

reading over Malliotakis v. Williams and lowkey think New York courts/the NY Redistricting Commission should be like...since the Supreme Court clearly lacked jurisdiction to intervene in the case at this time, we are treating it as the nonbinding advisory opinion that it is, thanks for the input tho

this is where i've been at for a while, same with the oil states providing the Trump criminal family with all their money laundering needs you lose cynical realpolitik alliance privileges once you start enabling fascism in my home

Sarah Isgur is easily the dumbest Court commentator these days. just a completely uncritical view of anything they are doing. RIP SCOTUSblog

I love the X Suit Facebook ads, they are so bad. It is the worst suit in the world and I can’t look away.

Not every elected Republican wants to execute their Democratic colleagues but there is not a single one who will protest or object if it happens.

Rufo and the rest of the reactionary podcast class can redeem themselves by shutting the fuck up forever and never participating in politics again, after of course they serve their prison sentences for the obvious corruption they’re all involved in.