Literally the only statement from an elected official I’ve read this morning worth our time. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov take note!! Thank you @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social CC: @hebagowayed.bsky.social

Status report, "#ChaletChef cooking schedule": So w/today's electric-service interruption, I won't be cooking stage 2 today, as I wouldn't be able to photo it in daylight. —Yet *LOOK at this lovely stew. (It's my opinion that meat-filled suet puddings started as a way to stretch stews. FIGHT ME.)😏

Courtesy of @heymerle on Tumblr: "Extremely lifelike." :) apnews.com/article/owl-...

I’m reading Dweller on the Threshold by @transmisc.bsky.social and Our Protagonist has just had a screaming fit at her asshole ex while gaming online with some people and she forgot to mute while yelling at him and they all applauded so I’m saying: get this book.

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

We’re only hours into Trump’s most recent shitshow and we’ve killed 85 kids. Ben is correct. We are not the good guys.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

Larry is the best

NEW: Georgia removed nearly 471,000 voters from its rolls last summer — roughly 6% of all the state’s registered voters. Now voting rights groups are suing, arguing the state is illegally hiding records about how the purge was carried out.

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks new DHS policy that would allow arrest of thousands of legal refugees. "The new policy turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare," Judge Tunheim wrote. Tonight, at Law Dork:

A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...

New research from CLASP & Univ. of Colorado finds increased immigration enforcement is pushing U.S.-born teens in mixed-status families to work more & enroll in school full-time less. Enforcement policies don’t just affect immigrants; they reshape outcomes for American children.

love to watch grown men get paid nine figures to plot out in realtime what the average 12 year old already knows

RIP Neil Sedaka, who was always extraordinarily kind when he’d visit the Today Show set. 💔 “My mother wanted me to be a classical pianist,” he said. “But I loved pop music. I loved melody. I loved the idea of three minutes that could change your life.” “Laughter in the Rain” (1974)

Just to say a bit more about this: military personnel get to choose which school or program to attend, though it has to meet certain guidelines the military sets up. What Hegseth is saying is that: if you, an officer, think that the program that best meets your needs is at e.g. Princeton, tough.

New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues. In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."

JUST IN: A federal judge says the Trump administration has been “terrorizing” refugees — violating the promise America made to them when they fled persecution at home — by locking them up illegally. He blocked the policy for those in MN storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Department of War” is hilarious. When DOD had that name: 1) It did not include the Navy. 2) The Air Force and (blech) Space Force didn’t exist. 3) The name indicated it was for temporary emergencies. We had a small standing army. States raised regiments for wars. No big military establishment.

ProPublica union members are “inching toward a potential strike, in what is believed would be the first such job action in the news business where how to deal with AI is the chief sticking point.”

Went to a protect-your-neighbors-and-resist-ICE training at a local church and part of it was de-escalation training and it amused me that the two most recent de-escalation incidents they recounted were further-left people getting upset at them.

My weirdest creation is almost old enough to drink.

Major props to EVERYONE that showed up and out at the last several council meetings to stop this from happening!

FWIW. :)

This isn’t a deferral, it’s a ransom note. The Trump Administration is using kids as pawns in their campaign of retribution against our state. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

The new movie is made up of footage originally shot in the early 1970s, which Luhrmann found in storage in a Kansas salt mine. n.pr/4qW0hmX

As an Eagle Scout, I'm calling this bigoted trash.

this nightmare law is patently unconstitutional and for the sake of every trans person in Kansas I hope the courts are ready to rule that way, and quickly

My store is open to people who, for whatever reason, never became librarians. I just want everyone to know that librarians are my favorite customers and they give the praise I most earnestly seek.

As someone who represents men and women approximately equally, I can tell you from the calls I am getting this year that people are not ok right now.

Let's outlaw scheduling meetings without first. I don't care what my university account calendar says, it's not a reflection of my availability, and even if it was, that doesn't give you the right to commit me to anything without my consent, kthxbye.

At least the birthright citizenship case resulted in having the US Catholic Bishops file a brief that schools the right-wing Catholic SCOTUS justices on actual Catholic Social Teaching. With a "Table of Authorities" like they've probably never seen. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”…… /1

Making them pay to have their licenses invalidated and then reissued is yet another thing they can sue about.

Thread. Also, it would be helpful if more people would stop and THINK THINGS THROUGH for like FIVE MINUTES before vexing the rest of us with their thoughtless reactions. You cannot talk about food and restaurant culture without also talking about immigration. They are deeply connected

There is a real argument that the Trump administration's ICE excesses are radicalizing judges of all political stripes against him and his admin. Decisions made by ICE (and the agency's general shrug at court orders) have dramatically brought down DOJ's reputation along with it.

Yesterday I filed an #AmicusCuriae brief at #SCOTUS in the birthright citizenship case. It presents stories of 3 families of Japanese ancestry--w/o legal allegiance to the USA--to show citizenship derives from birth on US soil, not parental loyalties. #lawsky #skystorians tinyurl.com/3hy76638

This just popped into my timeline and is so apt a simile that I’m jealous that I didn’t think of it.

There are millions of people who have that stomach. We just need to get them into public office.

"An Ohio federal judge sanctioned two attorneys Monday for repeatedly submitting false and inaccurate citations generated using artificial intelligence, calling the conduct the most egregious violation of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 he'd seen in his 46 years on the federal bench."

After MN's US Atty Rosen attacked the accuracy of his figures, Chief Judge Schiltz double-checked his list of 96 violations of court orders in 74 cases in MN for January. The recount showed 97 violations in 66 cases. But there’s more ... 1/4

OBI WAN: you don't need to see his identification STORM TROOPER (getting really hot in the suit): fine. move along. OBI WAN: and these aren't the droids you're looking for STORM TROOPER (lunch break was supposed to be an hour ago): i truly do not fucking care man. think for one second about my life

Wasn't aware that IKEA of all things makes a decent home automation hub, and various devices it can operate with. And you don't even have to assemble it.

First they came for the...

A photo released last month by the Justice Department as part of the Epstein files that showed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Epstein's island in the Caribbean has been removed from the Justice Department's website.

“And the aliens are wonderfully alien but they still feel like people, and the ideas are wonderful and build on each other logically until a T-rex is eating Pavarotti in Central Park and it makes perfect sense and even feels somewhat inevitable,” says [ @tkingfisher.com ].

UPDATE: Here is Lamberth's written order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... And I am still writing a report for Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

BREAKING: Judge Lamberth issues an order to show cause, ordering the warden and all named in the motion and papers to respond by March 3, with a hearing March 4. He also partially granted the TRO request, ordering defendants to present a detailed plan to protect Pinson & Moreno by March 3 as well.