The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

Please think about blocking, or at least unfollowing, @cwebbonline.com until he addresses and remedies this.

I was really not worried about the hantavirus until this administration started saying more and more forcefully everything is fine

My "this is not a golden calf" t-shirt is raising questions &c. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

1/ Update on what we know about the evolving hantavirus situation, strap in. A Swiss man linked to the ship has now tested positive after developing symptoms after disembarking. He received an exposure alert, sought care, and tested positive. This means there are 3 deaths and 5 suspected.

"Guess who was working on an mRNA vaccine" uh I dunno maybe a company founded to work on mRNA vaccines? "SURPRISE. Guess who is working on new videogames? Nintendo." Really. Wow. This changes everything.

Going around again. Still worth the watch.

Thinking back to one of the greatest hater editorials of all time, along with its sheepish correction (49 years later): 🧪https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/1920editorial-full.pdf

/7 Anyway if I had to describe my differences with FIRE’s politics (as opposed to its legal work), it would be this: I would defend the right of the Nazis to march at Skokie, but I would not afterwards invite them to speak, nor present them as heroes of freedom.

Brilliant surgeon announces success of complex and lengthy operation to remove object he shoved up his own ass

Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!" Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!" Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI." #NihilismAndTechnology

The good news is the planes can now be used for Halloween stores

I assume the reason that the entire GOP is slavishly pushing the ballroom nonsense is not that they agree that the ballroom is actually important but they understand Trump is flailing and needs a win, even a pathetic one.

i hate that these people keep making me say (relatively) positive things about bush but i think its so stark how will ferrell literally made his career shitting on bush and bush never called for snl to be canceled over it

notice the casual conflation of “free speech” and “no big deal” as if these are not categorically different claims; the contempt for his colleagues; and the inability to distinguish interrupting class out of retaliatory spite from the protest of an address by a public official

You know you guys fired the photographer who took this photo.

Thanks to the FTC spokesperson who suggests that @wired.com “Stick to computers.” But no.

Book about how engagement metrics and the Internet killed journalism titled “Tragedy of the Comments”

This is horrific. I feel physically ill. (Reposted with ALT text)

Two weeks ago The Free Press let a whiner publish 2000 words ab how I got his book review cEnsoReD. It was pure nonsense from the moment it went out—but I spent the next 14 days trying to get them to post an Editor’s Note and admit reality. They won’t. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.

This is my favourite.

I am, and it is, and no, they don't

Obviously not a substitute for Congress doing its job, but now would be a good time for Clinton, W, Obama, and Biden to say something jointly.

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

Best plausible option right now is Trump seizes on something, anything, as an excuse to save face while kicking the can down the road again and we're back to this point in a week or two.

Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

BREAKING: Austria has closed its airspace to US military involved in war the Iran.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Here is the image, via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social, that stirred the White House's ire

A lot of SCOTUS decisions are dumb, badly reasoned, even dangerous, but merit compliance out of respect for the rule of law and the Court's position under Article III. A decision denying birthright citizenship is a challenge to the constitutional order and should be understood as such.

This is so nauseatingly Un-American

Been thinking about it since I saw JK Rowling posted this yesterday about the IOC's new policy, calling Imane Khelif a man. Imane Khelif was born female. She was raised as a girl. Her original birth certificate says female. She's always been a woman. But sure. "Men punching women."

It keeps getting more powerful profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday/

Airport bound? ICE is assisting TSA, and border checks are up. Don't wipe your phone—it's a red flag 🚩 1️⃣ Android: Power off, boot up, don't unlock, switch to Guest Mode. 2️⃣ iOS: Disable Face ID to force Passcode (5th Amdt protected). Step-by-step guides attached 👇🏾

We should all be sure to spread these videos far and wide then

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

Why are techbros

/2 I still think it is astounding and a sign of the moral rot of institutions that the focus is on him being friendly with Epstein and not specifically on conspiring with Epstein, convicted sex offender, how to take advantage of a younger and less powerful colleague he calls a racial slur.

I can't compete with this.

One of the things I've learned recently that has not filled me with joy is how hard it is to hold the government accountable when they violate rights. So many things Trump's regime has done to people are illegal, but without recourse. I blame @kenwhite.bsky.social for this knowledge.

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Worth noting that this response actually concedes that what Pritzker said is true.

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

Has anyone been able to identify the “if you raise your voice, I erase your voice” agent? Because that’s someone who, for public safety, should be named and identified and warned about.