Bananas

I love that tomorrow is raptor day. I love birds of prey.

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health, wait until you see what guns do.

Stand by the river long enough and the beavers will do your job for you. ~ [with apologies to] Sun Tzu

meanwhile costco was all “DEI is good and we’re keeping it, fuck you” and they’re now basically printing money

I feel less alone

I love this

Canceled my Disney+ subscription

Love me some patriotic veterans

This country & scotus need to realize this admin is trying to designate liberal advocacy groups & eg trans people as “terrorists” DT is literally saying if he thinks you’re a terrorist he can just kill you whenever he feels like it. Is it rational to think this will stop with alleged drug boats?

So much civility

First it was college education that made us liberal. Now it’s Bluesky. So sneaky that liberal indoctrination when people just talk to each other and learn stuff

Skeet of the day

This is hysteria. Just bonkers.

Many people don’t know this about The Fonz—he’s an avid and accomplished angler!

This Texas man’s monumental U.S. Supreme Court case killed the doctrine of “separate but equal” 75 years ago today, paving the way for nationwide desegregation. This is a remarkable story. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/19/s...

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This made my morning

www.abajournal.com/news/article... lean in, kiddo

🧵 Trump can’t pronounce “Azerbaijan,” confuses Armenia with Albania, and then brags about ending a war that never even happened. If Biden had done this, the headlines would scream unfit for office for weeks. But with Trump? The corporate media shrugs, just another “gaffe. @atrupar.com

i guess we're 20 minutes into #FridayFlyday so here are some Vancouver Island beach flies for coho salmon California Neil, a standard here & a fly that's got as many variations as people who fish it Once again, these are "black light specials"

There’s this one street close to my home that has a hill with an unobstructed view to the new parts of downtown Austin that have gone up in recent years. It’s like being in a completely different city. It reminds me of Battery Park City

One of the reasons I love tacos and breakfast for dinner is they’re usually super cheap, easy (and yummy obvs) Last night = 4 tacos (2 per person) ≈ $30.

Well that is a tremendously weird and ominous thing for an FCC chair to say.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

The new McCarthy era is born.

I get mail addressed to “Mr” Kendyl Hanks and I love it because I know it’s trash

Oh please not Robert Redford. It’s all too much

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.” Excerpt From Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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About 62 million people died in the year 2024, on this our whole planet earth ourworldindata.org/births-and-d...

This

Me trying to figure out how to use the new heartless curler which is basically like a satin pool noodle

How does this man still have a job

lol just now one of the playful pups from a nest in my yard dropped a nut on my chair from a limb above and stared at me mournfully like “you give that back”

What seems to be emerging—and not just with this new violence—is a deadly toxic combination of terminally online young people consuming misinformation and normalized hate—and the prevalence/accessibility of guns.

You don't have to touch grass but I strongly recommend doing something that will not involve staring at screens and dealing with rage-bait from total strangers. Joy is a practice. You deserve to take care of yourself. Max loves you.

A reminder to my fellow Texans—fall litters of baby squirrels are emerging from their nests to explore and forage. They don’t understand roads and cars. I’ve seen a lot of wee pups sadly killed on local streets. Please be careful and give them a honk to startle them, train them that cars are bad.

I don’t understand why Dems target Mamdani. This is good public policy. This is pro-child, pro-family, pro-economy. A healthy population of children is a long term investment in a robust, healthy workforce. (Just like investing in good public ed improves the economy.) And it’s just a good thing.

This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍

Nope, not pampered at all

For real are there retirement homes like the one in Thursday Murder Club bc sign me up

Just read about what’s going on in Texas

Those leftists are sneaky bastards. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

This is the whole notion of “common law” right here (and, as an aside, why I was in a constant state of frustration practicing appellate law in nyc)

I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…

As I’ve been saying …. bsky.app/profile/jess...

I will add that this political incongruity in when/whether to seek the death penalty is one of the big reasons it should be abolished.