he is losing he is flailing and doing untold amounts of damage that we are all going to be cleaning up for years to come, but he is losing

One of the stories that does a good job explaining why CA oversight of jails is failing miserably is this series. When people doing the hard work quit...it's a sign! calmatters.org/justice/2024...

If either a slave of the palace or a slave of the freeman take the daughter of a man (gentleman) and she bear children, the owner of the slave may not lay claim to the children of the daughter of the man for service.

Roses are red I like to sin

The future Republicans want

These agents "don't know how to operate in these situations,” said former DOJ attorney Christy Lopez. Their behavior “is on par with the worst protest policing and just law enforcement that I've seen from any department, even in their worst days." With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

Trump’s et al attack on the Pope is widening fissures in the Christian nationalist coalition.

Sounds like a firing is a comin'

I think Meg White is a good drummer just by the standards of being a good drummer but I think she’s an exceptional drummer by the standards of having her extremely strange husband come home one day and say that they were starting a band and had to dress alike and also she’s his sister now

Happy Tax Day y'all

How do you sell that everyone's taxes will have to go up to pay for this war this idiot started? We can only hope the rich get hit harder than everyone else, yet everyone will have to pay for it in some way.

👀👀👀 @asharangappa.bsky.social @renatomariotti.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social

No problem with number 1. I’d *prefer* 2. I’m not religious, so I’m indifferent on 4. He may have me on 3, because it could mean living next to a bigoted asshole like Dale Partidge.

Stick 'em all in one resolution, with one or down vote. Let's see who actually believes in standards of decency versus scoring bullshit partisan political points.

What should we do about judges who wrote insane opinions during this time to curry favor? There are a lot of red pill judges who will continue on this path even after he is gone. Their opinions will continue to just be in opposition to what they see as anti-MAGA. Should they be impeached & removed?

There is no McTry.

Greatest. Correction. Ever.

They’re dropping like flies. 🍿

This is the way.

These photos of Earth from the Artemis II are truly stunning, and they put a lot of our petty problems into perspective:

Happy Easter 🐣

Christianity is the biggest, most profitable scam in America.

Incredible branding

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

You can see here the extensive reconstruction work done after the assassination attempt

I think about this description of Steve Bannon a lot.

Obviously

Todd is the man who was fired for refusing to hand over Eisenhower’s sword to Trump. He’s GREAT at making history fun and relevant on social media. Worth making his dream come true. 🙂

One of my faves

I've posted it several times before, but the hardest I have personally laughed at a tweet.

I laughed until I cried

Oh?

Buried in here is another data point for an obsession of mine: kids sports “travel teams” are insane, a huge drian on financial resources, and the free time of particulalry moms. And for what? The dream of athletic scholarships? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...

spotted in chicago

protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics

Suburbs of Sacramento.

I am delighted to announce a series of talks sponsored by the Chicago Humanities Festival, curated by me, on the history, meaning and future of the Constitution, titled (not by me, I swear!) Peter Sagal's Constitution Sessions, beginning in May with three great events. www.chicagohumanities.org

This is all Doug Wilson-speak

White House Xitter account posted something bizarre. What’s “launching soon?

"Indivisible, the organization primarily responsible for the No Kings protests, posted this: No ICE. No wars. No Kings. These words fitly spoken may not quite qualify as scriptural apples of gold. But they do capture the moment and the message awfully well." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

get in losers, we're forming a popular front against fascism

very large and hard