Please god let it be the last word

lmao. reading the opinion on the Texas gerrymander, the court, reasonably, ruled that (a) the Trump admin had sent Texas a letter demanding that it dismantle districts based entirely on their racial makeup; (b) that Texas acknowledged this as their motivation when they did this; (c) this is racist.

It is not well known that the cattiest and sassiest people on earth are federal judges. From Judge Brown's decision in the Texas gerrymandering case

Someone should write a Moynihan report on our elite class, explaining that their problems are not socioeconomic but the product of a pathological ghetto culture.

This is in response to the Christmas mural by a shopping centre in Kingston-upon-Thames. The owners have this comment. I urge you to through and judge for yourself.

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..." Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

"In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker’s Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom"

depeche mode voice: reach out and text faith

I find the phrase “makes history” nonsensical. Have you seen the stuff historians study? Just dropping an old piece of farm equipment down a well or accidentally freezing to death in a glacier gives you a good shot at the history books

Are we in the cool zone yet

this whole paragraph is an exercise in the pose of knowingness, and illustration of how making being "more reasonable than the extremists" the whole core of your intellect leads inexorably to believing in nothing at all

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"This person's view, who was there for a lot of this" is this accomplice's name "John Barron", "John Miller", or "David Dennison"?

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

"writing is unnatural" yeah Jeff, we can see that's clearly true for you at least

Watching Beau is Afraid and 1) I love this movie and 2) Julia Antonelli nails Mini Parker Posey.

I genuinely don't know if they're playing dumb, i think it's real for a lot of them. I've worked in male-dominated industries long enough to know that a lot of men hide their real reactionary colors until they think they can trust you

gotta be honest I would tune in for Werner Herzog/Cormac McCarthy/Svante Pääbo

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects. US transport spending increased by 30%, but: —Funding for non-highway projects flatlined —Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure

every company in 2025

This is where I remind the class that Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames' memoir about being American expats in 90s Russia where they talked about how awesome it was to sexually assault teenage girls had its foreward written by Limonov

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

two tickets to this movie please

Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.

Q: Now Bond, I trust you will take better care of this grappling hook luxury watch than the last four, this is yet another one-of-a-kind timepiece ZOMBIE BOND: HHRRRRNNGGHH *eats watch, spits it out. reaches for Q's head* BRAAAAINS Q: really Bond, you're incorrigible

I read a lot of books. I know all the big long famous man books. The Iliad is my favorite. It was meant to be spoken quickly like a man not read on paper like a girl. You can listen to it by clicking here, a link to The Odyssey, which is the same book I’m talking about

On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.

If they truly believe this then they ought to have no problem ending insurance for Congressional members and replace it with HSAs so our tax dollars "don't go to insurance companies" or even better FSAs and at the end of the year they give the remainder back to taxpayers

Rafael Veraza was trying to leave a Sam’s Club parking lot when a federal agent drove alongside a line of cars, spraying chemical irritants occupants of the vehicles through open windows — including his 1-year-old daughter, Ariana. “My daughter didn’t have to go through this."

Sorry one more

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

The Stillsuit if I wrote Dune

Hopefully you’ve all read this excellent piece by Peter Coviello, about why you should never talk to the New York Times, or in general any media with a preconceived agenda. But also see his “Is there God after Prince?”, written just after Prince’s passing… lareviewofbooks.org/article/is-t...

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Master and Commander but Star Wars. HMS Surprise is New Republic, Acheron is First Order, setting is Outer Rim. Or if you do the book, make Aubrey early Imperial still clinging to codes of honor from the Old Republic and the Americans are the Rebellion

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

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.

All emergency stay applications out of the First Circuit go to her.

/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.

there is virtually no debt funding in AI and no one is really overweight on debt other than OpenAI, which will become a division of Microsoft more or less by mechanical operation of its idiotic deal with them if it is insolvent.

this appears to be the Brit version of the community-i-can-excuse-racism meme?