It's a political paramilitary force

Finally getting around to watching The Pitt

KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business. -if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her. -if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet. -instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.

I'm about as jaded as one can be when it comes to SCOTUS, but I think Jackson specifically has earned our trust. If she issued the stay, there's probably a good reason

I think what is happening here is that Jackson is doing the 48hr pausing so the First Circuit (hopefully) declines to place a stay pending appeal (which would be a longer stay) and then the Court will be in the tougher position of delaying SNAP for a longer stay period.

The State of Wisconsin pays our governor $165,568 a year, and he's constitutionally ineligible for a raise while in office. By comparison we paid Luke Fickell $7,825,000 inclusive of salary and bonuses to coach the UW Madison football team to a 5-7 record last year.

JUST IN: Katie Wilson cuts Bruce Harrell's lead by more than half with today's ballot drop, cutting her deficit from 9908 votes to 4300 votes. She won today's batch of 55,952 ballots by 10%; that's *more* than she needed to win the outstanding ballots by. Over 50K ballots left to count in Seattle.

Finally getting around to watching The Pitt

laura loomer out here looking like 4 missing persons sewn together

but what does Karl Kautsky have to say about it

Pelosi wasn't perfect, but she was a great parliamentarian, great at whipping votes, and had some good one-liners.

And they should be thankful it's guillotines and not a Mussolini Farewell Party

Guillotines

The New York Times' liberal readership could bring the newspaper to heal in a matter of 2 or 3 months if we just coordinated. Ross Douthat could be out on his ass. Patrick Healey could be filing for unemployment. We just need to will it into existence.

Watson and Crick basically stole the work of a female colleague, so...

“if you elect Republicans they will actually pass and implement Republican legislation” is a sentence that should be banal but everyone smart understands is an extinction-level scenario for the party as it currently exists

Idk, I could see some use for the stocks personally

Historically, they started from a salvation from faith alone perspective and then drove preachers out of town who would preach the social gospel (because it made slavery look bad), so that the only acts they even talked about in a religious context all had to do with performative sexual purity

I'm far to old and married to have an opinion on Sabrina Carpenter's attractiveness

Gary Peters deserves more credit for being a spineless cretin, by the way

My kingdom for a senate leader who understands that part of his job is politics

He's probably just gay

I've been cutting my own hair since covid. I'm really sick of it, but the idea of going to a barber and paying $25 to have them get all pissy when I tell them "just make it shorter" for a haircut that ultimately looks the same doesn't sound appealing.

The New York Times' liberal readership could bring the newspaper to heal in a matter of 2 or 3 months if we just coordinated. Ross Douthat could be out on his ass. Patrick Healey could be filing for unemployment. We just need to will it into existence.

Good to see they aren't doing as well as they claimed, but we really need to start pushing people to cancel their games subscriptions

Lachlan Cartwright puts his magnifying glass on NYT's big subscription bump in the latest quarterly earnings report. www.breakermedia.com/p/behind-the...

I don't think "SNAP is a subsidy to low wage employers" frame is useful or correct. It implies that, if SNAP did not exist, these companies would be forced to pay workers more when the actual situation is that low wage workers would get the same wages from these employers as now but be poorer

state legislators should be paid more. otherwise the legislatures are full of dilettantes, cranks, and nepobabies. this is why you keep hearing about the craziest fucking state laws

It also means that someone who is reasonably successful in their private life (and not corrupt) will eschew political office. It's easy to say that $150k per year is enough for anyone, and it's sort of true, but if you currently make substantially more...

ICE agents will spend the rest of their lives making license plates

Lol, I tested this not too long ago and it is possible to make a map with minimal population variety between districts and >10% partisan lean in all districts! Be brave Illinois!

Here's a fun fact, you can't actually end scarcity. That's not a thing

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

You're not allowed to launch 250,000 bouncy balls down a San Francisco street anymore, because of woke

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

the message that people should take away from sandwich guy is that getting blackout and picking fights with cops always ends well. I am a lawyer* and this is legal advice** *this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize **for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs

We should just invade

one thing that's nice about canceling your New York Times sub is every week you get at least one or two stories shared on here that make you say, "yeah, it rocks that I did that, I only wish I could do it again." highly recommend you cancel yours if you haven't already

the problem here is that Stanley is not maintaining the dignity of anonimity and is instead implying he is virtuous. it's like voting third party. sure, you can! but you better be willing to take a bit of heat for your selfishness and not be indignant when it comes.

We are in this weird situation where we would prefer they not think they are going to prison, because it means they are more likely to give up power peacefully. But they also need to go to prison, and we need to build a consensus around that point

I can confirm that Jack Walsh is the best guy you can have on your jury. He will not nullify. Definitely include him in all of your political prosecutions.

Since the federal government announced charges against me and five others for protesting at Broadview, people have asked how they can help. Right now, I need support for my legal defense fund so I can fight these unjust charges—and for our collective First Amendment rights.

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

The fact that crypto has been around for like 15 years as an investment instrument should have disabused everyone in macro or finance of the notion that stock prices are driven by fundamental value. And yet!

Can we all just agree that data is singular? Please?

A lot of elected centrists are just mushy, conflict avoidant without strong opinions beyond "woah there, not so fast". Jared Golden is the rare passionate moron

they're calling it the world's worst constitutional amendment

My mother was good friends with a businesswoman who won her wrongful term case. After a merger with a larger business, the new CEO brought her into a meeting, shook her hand, and let her know that they were letting her go to put a man on the board 'because this is a family company'

Were there some messages I didn't see? Because the ones I saw were not bad, they were just funny

The media failed broadly, and continues to do so, but in particular Gen Z media and Latino media REALLY fucked up. Built an entirely fake fucking candidate to vote for.