Ella Langley, Choosin' Texas: youtu.be/hLOheGDwD_0?...

After personally leading the Knicks to the NBA championship, seducing the prime minister of Italy and winning the war with Iran, you are the greatest president ever, sir.

This is 100% correct. Many of the people who claim subscriptions cost too much willingly hand over the same amount for Amazon prime and middling shows on HBO Max. Care about civil society? Support a newspaper or long form journal. And stop complaining about paywalls that allow them to exist.

Wow, this is an extremely compelling case for the necessity of court packing by @andycraig.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net

We all need a smile today

Jane Kenyon, "The Shirt" The shirt touches his neck and smoothes over his back. It slides down his sides. It even goes down below his belt– down into his pants. Lucky shirt.

Went looking for the 300 foot “slit” or “slits” in the reflecting pool Trump keeps lying about. Didn’t find any of that. But did find plenty of signs the paint on the bottom of the pool has simply disintegrated. My latest pool report.

James Angus, Grow Your Own (Perth, Australia):

M.F. Husain, Blue FIgure and Tiger (1964):

Bob Newhart, Toupe: youtu.be/uau2DK4kwyo?...

Robert Mapplethorpe, Alistair Butler (1980):

Since its founding, Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of American foreign assistance, receiving over $300 billion (when adjusted for inflation) since 1946. When not adjusted for inflation, the total amount of bilateral assistance and missile defense funding provided /1

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The Iran Deal: -- no regime change; no turnover of enriched uranium or commitment to stop; no end to support for Hezbollah or suppression of democracy. What Iran did get: no more sanctions; probably a cash payment; de facto control of Hormuz. Bottom line: Trump & the US lost the war.

Back from vacation. Otto Fruendlich, Composition (1936):

What a snowflake.

They tried to hide but I got em anyway

Hey so those of you who thought the whole TikTok v. Garland situation wasn't a big deal because "it's just a divestiture", here you go. Anything we don't like is "national security" now. TikTok paved the way for this. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...

It's a good thing we went to war with Iran -- now at least we know how Trump will lose to China. ....

Typically, transactions blocked on national security grounds regard companies associated with adversaries. The Dutch just blocked a transaction with a U.S. company. That and more from @rosenzweigp.bsky.social:

"For the first time ever, the Dutch said “no” to an American company and blocked the sale on national security/public interest grounds." This is not something that would have happened under any other administration.

The Pax Americana was about American power, but it was also about American trustworthiness. For our allies today, association with America is increasingly a risk that needs to be taken into account and, if possible, reduced. New from @rosenzweigp.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-europe...

The Europeans Don’t Trust Us open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Share this three minute video of @hollybfletcher.bsky.social before the National Capital Planning Commission hearing today on the Trumpal Arch if it speaks for you too. youtu.be/TP4v40ax_uw?...

George Conway: "I support impeachment, full stop, of the president and his cabinet. It's the reason why I'm running." Donald Trump is "making everything worse."👇

Grand Canyon, East Rim [HT: @westernlens.bsky.social]:

Wow

For Memorial Day

Gustave Dore, The Creation of Light (1866):

Ex Trump White House Attorney Ty Cobb on Trump’s $1.776 BILLION Seditionist Slush Fund: “Todd Blanche sold his soul… this is really just a criminal conspiracy to steal money from the taxpayers."

NEW: How the Broadview Six became the Broadview Zero. My deep dive (dish?) into DOJ's ill-fated Chicago prosecution of @katmabu.bsky.social + 5, which died like a Hemingway character going bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/r.i....

“The DHS propaganda machine went to work. Headlines around the country declared that Sosa-Celis and two other men had ambushed and beat two ICE officers nearly to death, giving them no choice but to use lethal force to defend themselves. It was all a lie.” open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

The 2028 Presidential election is in exactly 900 days

My euology for my friend: open.substack.com/pub/prosenzw...

Daniel Radcliffe, Blackalicious' "Alphabet Aerobics" youtu.be/aKdV5FvXLuI?...

"State legislatures create districts in a way that lets legislators choose their voters instead of the other way around, and that's corrosive of democracy and the rule of law." If you missed @rosenzweigp.bsky.social last night at our webinar, check it out below.

This is one of the singularly most interesting and persuasive analysis I've read about the 2024 election. Not sure I agree with it all, but it is an amazing read: www.thebulwark.com/p/heres-what...

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Wanted: A Single Messaging System Consolidator App. Today, to "check my messages" I have to open up my email; check Bluesky Messages; Open Signal, Discord, and Slack and the, of course, look at WhatsApp and (more rarely) the still frequent SMS messages from my technical luddite friends. /1

Sid Bader, "I Wan'na Be Like You" youtu.be/jjI75I0H2PA?...

Must read from Robert Kagan: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Wanna be inspired?

“Huck shows great disrespect for the Court’s precedent in Dred Scott when aiding the fugitive Jim, presumably due to liberal indoctrination by the Widow Douglas.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/exc...

Edward Hopper, Hotel Lobby (1943)

I will miss my friend: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/reme...

Joan Miro, Birth of the World (1941):

Javier Senosiain, Nautilus House (Mexico):