Words I have lived by.

When the Supreme Court struck down Biden's policies, it was tempting to think: "At least these limits on executive authority will bind Trump if he comes back into office." But no—the court's skepticism of executive power vanished on Jan. 20, 2025. This dynamic is obvious to anyone paying attention!

My "Please don’t murder my children" sign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my sign.

Surprisingly good parenting advice from the construction site.

Why would you do a thing like that?

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

Look, I get the Bluesky discourse, honestly. It’s an annoying website full of scolds. But what I think most commentators miss is that it’s also the first website where everyone on it is of the right age to have a close personal relationship with the music of The Hold Steady

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

You're in good company, friend, welcome.

The problem with stopping escalatory violence is that it requires political factions to see the other side as not an enemy. You can't only find violence targeted at yourself as abhorrent. Which is difficult to square with months of cheerleading for deploying the military to Democratic-run cities.

Seems in violation of at least the spirit of 37 CFR § 1.11.

🧐 where are the ornamental bits?

Translation: “The Pope was just practice.”

Every lawyer should get the day off in observance of the fact that they actually failed to indict a ham sandwich

The best part of this photo — which is a good example of how photographers make art — is the slogan “American workers first” on the banner observed by troops who’ve been forced to pick up trash and do landscaping because the president on the banner illegally fired the American workers who did that.

Go read a book. Specifically read a fiction book. There’s so much good out there and it’s enriching and wonderful and it’s so easy to fall out of practice at it.

Federal agents doing slapdash safety check checkpoints because they have nothing better to do than harass American citizens is repugnant to our foundational principles. We should not tolerate it in a free society.

Sounds like everything went well, Phil Haack. Here's your share of the contract.

Just to level set on this: What they have experienced are some of the worst things that a government could possibly do to people. There is absolutely nothing that happened here that should have happened. The people responsible for this should have it follow them the rest of their lives.

One of the most important patterns of the past few decades that has to break is the idea that you only get one shot to stop a crook and if they have the numbers that day, you have to take the L forever, the crook is now a respectable official.

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Back for a moment to note that the words “due process pause” are among the most appalling I’ve ever encountered. Happy 4th of July, everybody!

the president may not like the idea of spending $7 billion on after school programs, but it IS NOT UP TO HIM. what this administration asserts, again and again, is that the president has sovereign authority over nation

He is dancing dancing and he says he has done musical theatre all his life

This kind of legal wand-waving is a highlight feature of Trump 2 authoritarianism and I wish it was easier to explain -- its very much Stephen Miller trying to yell magic words to seize power www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

It's always interesting to compare the numbers to the Tea Party protests and the respective coverage of them.

It’s a lot of work to carry your four-year-old at 10,000 feet, but the view was worth it.

the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought

In times like these, I appreciate supportive software like 7-Zip.

Its insane. Without civil legal aid, homelessness will explode, creditor abuses will become increasingly onerous on the working poor, the elderly and people with disabilities will lose benefits, and domestic violence will become a greater trap for women and children.

There's no meaningful argument for why masked goons need to abduct kitchen workers and do so with the full protection of the law and military gear. Everything that leads to ICE using flashbangs on civilians protesting disappearances is a policy and moral failure.

Former USPTO solicitor Thomas W. Krause, in a letter opposing the nomination of John A. Squires to be the next USPTO director: "Patents are strong enough already." www.scribd.com/document/869... Here's Krause's full letter: www.scribd.com/document/869...

they can take my em dash — and i mean the fuckin' robots — from my cold option shift dash

Bring back the 1983 HBO Feature Presentation intro

Sadly, I haven’t been able to use “smells so bad it’d knock a buzzard off a (manure) wagon” in court.

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sorry what

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

If we are going to weather this night - hopefully a short one - we are going to need to summon some sincerity and be willing to be 'cringe' in committing, in public, to the ideals we hold. You cannot keep a republic with apathy and nihilism. You can't do good history with it either.

so, so much of what people rightly hate about "tech" has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with the pathologies of venture capital outlined in this thread

Aragorn kneels. Gandalf places the crown on Aragorn’s head, and proclaims: ‘Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure!’ The streets are strewn with flowers as Aragorn enters the City and begins the climb up its seven levels.

Friends.