WAR RAVAGED

this is just fucking insane. i feel like i'm hallucinating reading this. we just finished getting hot cocoa and blackberry thyme coffeecake and now we're taking the babies to an ancient forest to watch the old people doing tai chi. this could not be a calmer happier city

People who thought two million Covid deaths among US residents alone was a small price to pay for their own anti-public-health career advancement are now running the country’s health systems.

Native Americans condemn Pentagon move to preserve Wounded Knee medals reut.rs/46I9oj6

This is how farmer “anxiety” winds up on Page One. @usapolling.bsky.social

This bumbling cluster fuck of ICE kidnapping a guy, dropping his gun on the ground (because the dude doesn't even have a fucking holster), nearly drops his glasses, and then threatens to shoot a bunch of people, might be the most perfect encapsulation of the agency I've ever seen

You have got to be kidding me

If no one is above the law, when are you indicting Tom Homan?

Democrats should demand an explicit override of the Court’s reading of the ICA. Otherwise there isn’t much of a point to negotiating on spending and appropriations.

Real saying the quiet part loud here

Feds Scrutinizing Potential Insider Trading in Major Crypto Deals

yes, there is a large ideological bias among most higher education faculty. but this is not the solution to that problem. it is not the function of universities to stroke the egos of conservative pundits. and why would we want to spend tuition (and taxpayer!) dollars on that?

I don't want to ever hear about textualism again in my life

trump's numbers on economic policy are worse than bush/obama's during the financial crisis

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

I was hoping for a statue dedicated to the victims of Cracker Barrel and Jimmy Kimmel Live.

the kids are all right mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115...

"Would you say the US is in a political crisis?" Yes: 79% No: 18% Quinnipiac / Sept 21, 2025

Ignoring the legality of Trump’s tariffs, they’re idiotic. Half of US soybeans used to be exported to China; now is zero. Trump will use tariff income to pay US farmers, but soybeans are being grown for nothing, adding to greenhouse gas emissions. Idiotic.

The bottom line—which people don’t like—is there’s not really anything revolutionary about LLMs. Trace language models & chat bots from ELIZA and it’s been a smooth progression. LLMs have more impressive grammar, and a richer context base (the entire internet’s worth!)

But LLMs being mostly right IS NOT AN ENGINEERING ACCOMPLISHMENT. It’s not magic, it’s not “nearly superhuman.” it is a human accomplishment, the compiling of all human knowledge online, a task that we have been toiling away at as a species for 30 odd years now

what I find so incredibly frustrating about people ascribing LLMs with “nearly superhuman” abilities because they’re “90% right about stuff” is that that was an extremely human accomplishment. LLMs can do that because Wikipedia does that. LLMs are summarizing Wikipedia, a human project

Page One in Indy: The tariff/trade war “consequences for US farmers could be catastrophic in the coming years.”

new mad magazine has an inspired cover

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

Shareholder capitalism makes everything terrible.

A lot of free speech absolutist are being awfully quiet about this sort of thing.

Birthright citizenship's scope is not unclear in constitutional law. The words of the Constitution do mean what they mean and doctrinally, the issue has been reinforced by many legal precedents over and over at SCOTUS. Here's a brief by two historians tracing the history. 1/

I don't care who he took to prom

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

I wrote about John Roberts as the chief enabler of the prosecution of James Comey—and how his jurisprudence gives cover to other sham investigations and prosecutions, like that of Lisa Cook, that judges simply have no power to second-guess for corrupt motive. nymag.com/intelligence...

On a rainy day, I received the death penalty for flag crimes. www.jconline.com/story/news/e...

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It's so funny that Mamdani is supported by *exponentially* more Jews in NYC than is this genocidal, Nazi-defending piece of shit:

it’s Friday night, baby, you know what that means. Time for the court of clothed catholic wizards to remind us that the law is fake as fuck when Trump says so. bsky.app/profile/epic...

also everybody who wrote a 'Don't panic, liberals. I have known [X appointee] for twenty years and they are a principled upholder of the law' should be laughed out of the room every time they voice an opinion in future.

until there's a Republican congress and a Democratic president, in which case it will suddenly be very important. the country cannot function as a real democracy with corrupt, partisan serial liars controlling the Supreme Court; it has to be the first priority of a new administration.

I may not get anything else but we should at least get a little break at the camps to tell Neal to eat shit

Ah, see; Biden should have said he was forgiving student loans as part of his foreign policy and then it would have been all good. Easy goof to make.

Night Court made getting arrested at night seem fun as hell

That power wasn't originally there then, but it's originally there now.

Huh https://www.levernews.com/content/files/2025/01/1985RobertsMemo-Budget.pdf

Elon Musk does seem uniquely stupid enough to publicly demand the release of files containing the revelation that he went to the island for wealthy pedophiles with the world's biggest pedophile

This is an infuriating and shameful scandal. The Roberts Court is condoning Trump’s law breaking, again, pure and simple. There is no serious path forward for democratic government without Supreme Court reform.

You might also remember when Ken Starr was forced to resign from Baylor University for failing to act on the reported sexual assaults of at least 6 students.

pack the fucking supreme court. 50 new justices, or maybe 100.

I’m honestly kinda morbidly fascinated by this idea. The Gang Reinvents Mandatory Palestine. It’s an idea so bad it goes past so bad it’s genius and right back to being bad.

Republicans threaten to do what they’ve already done if Democrats refuse to vote for terrible bill www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/repu...