A couple snaps from a week up north

Biked home from northeast in the rain and had to dodge so many people lighting fireworks in the streets. I don’t remember it like this.

Made this at the cabin. It was a hit.

One thing I’ve said a lot is that a component of the trans panic success is upper-middle/upper class excessive investment in children’s sports as a pathway to elite college access and the resource hoarding ingrained in that impulse.

I don't know why but I feel like bluesky can help with this. Is there a place on the internet SOMEWHERE where I can view old RFPs for various government contracts? For free?

"But I saw a cyclist roll through a stop sign once!" The only serious approaches to street safety involve slowing down drivers and making it harder and more uncomfortable to drive at unsafe speeds. Everything else is just crumbs.

useless, totally unable to meet the moment they were one vote from overriding the fourteenth amendment retire and give your job to someone who understands the stakes

Ezra Klein is bad, folks

Yeah, I hate to say this is true, but it is. Four justices agreeing is a signal that this is now the benchmark for any conservative jurist. “No more Souters” will turn into “no more Barretts.”

PLEASE STOP DESCRIBING BIRTHRIGHT AS 6-3, I AM GOING TO GO INSANE

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

Please will someone find out if Wurman himself was the recipient of birthright citizenship? Based on his parents’ immigration dates and their proximity to his birth, it’s relevant that someone who is basically leading the (pseudo-)intellectual charge of this benefited from it.

Wait, so we're like a tragic-accident-to-a-liberal-justice away from SCOTUS just line-item vetoing the 14th Amendment?

Man, f*ck this Court.

oh holy shit it’s only 5-4 on the constitutional question! the plain words of the 14th amendment only get five votes! this is much worse than I thought, these people need to be stopped

Theyve mobilized faster against this than anything in the past 10 years and to me that pretty much says it all and justifies what so many have said about them collectively for anyone willing to pay attention

The lesson should be "stop accepting their bullshit framing." We KEEP DOING this shit, and it doesn't work! Stop ceding entire swaths of policy to the worst people in the world. That is how we got where we are today. Stand up and fight, goddammit.

So has anyone else noticed this insane series Law360 is running? www.law360.com/articles/173...

This week in the garden - never without raspberry seeds stuck in my teeth, green beans, golden oyster mushrooms (planted before I knew 😩), one blueberry

Lunacy. Here's Emmer 10 years ago.

Ruled on the side of cancer.

Two words. This sucks.

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2028 is going to be a fucking extinction-level electoral event for so many of these incumbent Dems who have coasted for years without any serious challenges. This cycle is the clarion call for ten times as many primary challengers to take on suddenly-very-beatable-looking incumbents.

NY Election results sure making me wish Amy had a real challenger.

This is a fight between the volunteers of the Democratic Party and the consultant/billionaire class of the Democratic Party. That's what it is.

Klobuchar took a break from not acknowledging trans Minnesotans to vote for another Trump candidate

The practical effect of this sort of nonsense is people will start insisting on trials, and the prosecutorial apparatus will break down from the backlog

NYT just sent a BREAKING push notif to alert the public that the admin knew it was turning green earlier than they let on

I’d love to read, say, 1200 words from a really good writer on why exactly the reflecting pool thing has turned into the durable embarrassment across media that a lot of other, equally public scandals or screwups could have been in the previous 18 months

you could not waterboard that information out of me

I do not think the right gets that what it is doing is incredibly counterproductive. If the punishment for engaging in non-violent activity is the same as committing acts of violence, it makes violence more likely, not less. But the right is incredibly stupid, as most authoritarians are.

Thinking of the folks currently in the dragnet in MPLS in the wake of the Prairieland sentencing today This gov wants to bring down those us who dare to resist fascism at every turn. Do your best to protect yourself, yes, but don’t be afraid. We are on the right side of history here, & they know it

It really is in the URL 😃 https: //www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/eli-lilly-unusual-weight-loss-drug-trial-compassionate-use-retatrutide-trump/

This weekend DoorDash tweeted about the World Cup but repeatedly tagged T-Pain, as if they were mixing him up with NZ soccer player Tim Payne. T-Pain got in on it too, acting confused. Turns out it was all a "partnership." No ad disclosure on any of the posts. www.theverge.com/news/954145/...

It's really bad. I'm very worried that her campaign is completely ceding the TV and online ad space.

Salary $200,000-$450,000

Which non-profits’ volunteers are being used as scabs at Target Field tonight??

Ours is 90% yarrow now. It’s tall and weird but monoculture lawns are weirder!

Duluth and lake time with friends. Almost feels like summer has started.

If you really want to get precise about it…

jesus christ

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

Even if you are not an over-40-and-from-Youngstown-but-now-living-in-DC person, there is also some additional next-level lazy scriptwriting tonight. THE COMPANY THAT TURNED THE REFLECTING POOL GREEN IS CALLED … GREENWATER SERVICES. @fahrenthold.bsky.social with the scoop:

I have a feeling no one is editing Rainville’s summer intern Juliana’s messages.

New CA11 case details how the government was able to identify users of a dark web CSAM site: By arresting one user, taking over the user's account, and messaging other users w/files infected with code that contacted FBI servers w/true IP addresses. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

The organizers of the #SaintPaul Classic are vehicular cyclists who actively oppose safe infrastructure. Tell them to pound sand. The good news is, you can ride the StP Grand Rounds for free any time you want!

Killed the first couple sets of squash bugs today. But in better news - starting to see some progress! Black caps, the first tomatoes, snow peas.

"I don't Gemini to my friends!"