a real blast from the past! former Republican Congressman Joseph Cao, who unseated Bill Jefferson in 2008 in a total upset, was appointed to the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education earlier this year, and is running for a full term in the Republican runoff tonight:

Here’s Kaplan’s BAR® Question of the Day. I . . . really don’t think that this is a good question, and if I were running a bar prep service, it’s definitely not one I’d trot out as an example of the kinds of questions I offer. Curious what others think here. www.kaplanquizzes.com/bar/?id=3373...

Here’s Kaplan’s BAR® Question of the Day. I . . . really don’t think that this is a good question, and if I were running a bar prep service, it’s definitely not one I’d trot out as an example of the kinds of questions I offer. Curious what others think here. www.kaplanquizzes.com/bar/?id=3373...

so random xD

taking a look at that "ceasefire"

this is so, so, so awful

CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

extremely strange stuff here

I was mad about this so I blogged about it for @ballsandstrikes.org

Good one this morning from @yeargain.bsky.social on Samuel Alito's invocation of the "Aloha spirit," which turns out to be (I know this will surprise you) him cracking a deep-cut inside joke for online conservatives who think it's hilarious to make fun of Hawaiian culture

a giraffe disappears and tom kean jr shows up and we’re supposed to pretend these are two separate stories. wake up sheeple

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

I’m old enough to remember when Sharyl Attkisson, then at CBS News, accused the Obama Administration of spying on her work computer. It turned out the delete key on her keyboard was stuck.

good god

setting aside the weird, incorrect ad hominems, seems odd to blame "the curve," not basic mathematics, that only 10% of people can be in the top 10%

just a few months ago, Marlin Stutzman thought inflation was bad. now it's good! I can't keep up.

a totally gratuitous, racist smear on the jurisprudence of the Hawai’i Constitution as it relates to the right to bear arms from Justice Alito here.

Kagan points out in the dissent here that Alito is too much of a coward to even put Trump’s supposedly non-racist statements in his opinion.

I love our supreme court justices so much. It's unfair that I only get 9 to love. I think they need 6 to 14 more colleagues at a minimum for me to be a fan of

They went on to win Saddest Couple at Motherboy XXX

where was this rhetoric when Brandon Herrera won the Republican nomination in TX-23?

does this mean I’ll stop getting a fuck-ton of texts and emails “from” you soliciting campaign funds?

I think the thing I like the most about Claire Valdez is that she not only takes bold stands in support of trans people, but that when people on the right try to use those positions to attack her, she's just like, "yes, that is correct."

Eric Andre couldn't dream of making an interview this awkward

The Majority Whip of the South Dakota Senate was arrested for filing candidate forms with mismatched signatures. And it wasn't even for his re-election to the Senate; it was for a county precinct committeeman race!

my idiosyncratic view of eminent domain is that there shouldn't be much judicial scrutiny of what a taking is for (I'm pro-Kelo), but a greater willingness to find that a taking took place (outside of amorphous regulatory takings) and fair compensation to the property owners (this ruling is bad)

when I went to vote in 2024, I discovered, in horror, that I hadn't picked a third candidate for a multi-member election for the Lansing Community College Board of Trustees. I had no option in the moment but to leave the third choice blank. but if you don't know who to vote for . . . don't vote.

When SCOTUS sides w/ birthright, *please* refrain from "each side gets a little" takes. SCOTUS is wiping away *major* features of the post-Warren-Court legal order, in contravention of pretty clear precedent. Rejecting *the most insane* position the T admin takes does not wash that way.

this is gross, skin-crawling shit

stunned—STUNNED—that I must set aside my sprawling research project this week to turn to actual deliverables with real deadlines because of—even harder to believe—commitments I have voluntarily made.

last night, the orange boy was standing at the base of the stairs, staring directly up. I went over to see what he was looking at.

one the one hand, but also on the other

sometimes, I think about which celebrity would be the most amusing person to earnestly host a show like Love Island or The Bachelor. I'm imagining Tony Shalhoub, Jason Alexander, or Glenn Close. all committed actors who would have no reason to host such a show. and yet. I want to see it.

Do you know who would have a great business proposal to fix the reflecting pool?

It took 11.5 years for Elizabeth II to reach her 4th PM. Her heir Charles III will reach the same point in 3 years and 9 months.

[showing up to court with steroid arms] Hello I'd like one custody, please

Trump on the Reflecting Pool: "It's very strong. You couldn't, if you had a knife — I don't want to give anybody ideas — if you had a knife, you can't even cut it. So strong, so powerful."

impossible to keep strait

the vision for the Reflecting Pool once the criminal vandals have been caught and the algae is gone

odd that Republicans' treatment of Michael Dukakis in 1988 and John Kerry in 2004 didn't cause the left to go with The Joker

it's incorrect to say that the parties are the same. they're not. but when stuff like this happens, and it happens way more than it should, I can understand why some people think that they're the same.

a cleaned-up version of the spreadsheet that the Maine Secretary of State's office will soon post:

congrats John Roberts!! 😍 everything you've wanted and dreamed of since the 1980s 🥰 hope you're happy babe 😘

The claim that "Israel wants to kill its way out of every problem" is the sort of thing that tends to draw a DOJ investigation and the blocking of federal funds when made by campus actors.

yes, I imagine it was quite easy to persuade the Iranian government to [checks notes] do nothing and get everything from the U.S. government in return

these people have absolutely no shame

the problem with having someone in power with no principles who can be bribed, it turns out, is that THEY HAVE NO PRINCIPLES AND THEY CAN BE BRIBED

This would be utterly, flagrantly unconstitutional.