Suetonius, in 60 AD, upon learning of Boudica

That settles it: Dems should run more dinosaur hunters.

England hasn't attacked this ineffectually on 1st July since The Somme.

The SSPX’s position is: “We are the only Catholics who are allowed to choose the bishops we like, rather than acknowledge the bishops we are given.” Everything else is just handwaving. Also

Bunch of guys crying that the people who were citizens yesterday are still citizens today, and the country will never be the same again.

A classic format for understanding authoritarianism!!!

Yep. If the test for birthright citizenship is the "domicile" of the parents, well, "domicile" is a subjective test (you can be a resident of one place and a domiciliary of another), determining who derived citizenship at birth might require complicated inquiries into the parents' hopes and dreams.

Every time a SCOTUS decision comes out with the wacky conservative theories (majority or minority), I think about the lost opportunity the liberal justuces had in Anderson to spell out how and why 14A/Sec.3 applied SQUARELY to Trump. I’m still mad they punted on that in some apparent effort at unity

Yes, Congress should be able to do these things. A court this contemptuous of Congress deserves to be packed by Congress, not only to correct these disastrous precedents but also because Congress needs to show both Article II and Article III who’s boss.

Man, and I thought Haberman and Swan were bad about sitting on explosive scoops for too long.

Hearing that Kean may make an appearance tomorrow, suggesting that he has finally assembled the scattered pieces of the Kt’m blade, allowing him to open the Heb’naretch Gate.

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Tom Kean stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better.

Pixar make this buddy movie

This is a dangerous pattern with this Court: They find a delegation paired with a constraint, decide they don’t like the constraint, but appear totally untroubled by the idea that Congress delegated the power only *because* prior precedent assured them their constraints would be binding.

Google's decision to foreground AI responses to standard internet searches is incredibly damning evidence of the fundamental incapacity of AI, and I don't understand how that's not obvious to anyone who uses Google even casually.

Since we're talking about the difference between 1976 and today here's a link to a piece about Jesse Lemisch's amazing collection of "bicentennial schlock," currently housed at the Beinecke. (gift link) 🗃️

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.

This is why physical media is still so important.

Russia is a gas station with nuclear launch codes but it's out of gas and the nukes might not work

so, 250 is gonna be a bust, but the next presidential term *could* host an “America 256”. kinda throw an 8-bit themed and more fun version

how is this cat doing Blue Steel

"the Instagram algorithm isn't that good" The algorithm:

You’re tellin me nobody ever gets diagnosed with just a single sclerosis?

Kudos to the Imagineers, man - this new Hall of Presidents animatronic is *incredibly* realistic.

Whenever there’s discussion about comedy not aging, I think of the Aristophanes play The Frogs (405 BC), which starts with a double act discussing how you can’t do fart and knob gags anymore because they’re too old fashioned. Comedy ages fine, because it’s basically always the same.

The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.

Pretty sure the whole shrimp discourse is just a psyop to sell the Onion. I’m afraid if you thought Alex Jones was bad then @bencollins.bsky.social should scare you right to HELL!

Americans when they hear Europeans don't have air conditioning

LEAVE HER ALONE

What the?

There's an old saying in Butler--I know it's in de Beauvoir, probably in de Beauvoir--that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... gender... the second time as... as... it's funny if gender keeps happening.

Trump: "There are no autistic people over seventy." Me: "The first Nero Wolfe novel came out in 1934."

yes to all that and do yall remember discovery zone? what a place. the net bridges. the roller slides. the tube mazes. the ball pits. crazy stuff.

The LC Discord cooked up some thoughts on the scandal naming convention

Like I need the friggin POPE on my ass ….

Really hot day.

"Chevalier Ousts Espaillat" what kind of Alexandre Dumas-ass city are you jokers running up there

Come on, you didn't think I wasn't gonna show you the footage, did you? Here's what they shot. Jim Henson pronounced himself "very excited" with the result. It was going to work. (My favorite part starts around 16:36, when Jim as Kermit can barely contain his laughter at a curious cow.)

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

“Go brush your teeth and THEN we can talk about the Holy Roman Empire” is a sentence I always dreamed of getting to say to my child

Dumbest joke that always gets me

Rarely has a joke been more carefully calibrated for a platform’s demographics

I would like to run a TTRPG about the large hole. “There is a large hole. There is also a major Russian military presence around the large hole. What were they digging for? Why did they stop? Did the Soviets dig too greedily and too deep? Can we allow a large hole gap?“

Just think about it, the great-grandson of a Soviet General Secretary ended up surrendering for a Big Mac.

Not ten cents! It's nine cents! (They just get it 3.333 trillion times.)