“Remember the bamboo from Part 1?” Nah man, it was so subtle—a breeze on the cheek like—I barely noticed it Ryan.

How inclusive legal positivists look at morality

::Luther Campbell voice:: BLOCK THAT TANKIE! HEYY! BLOCK THAT TANKIE BABY! BLOCK THAT TANKIE! BLOCK BLOCK THAT TANKIE BABY!

Nice job ceding control of public health to a man who applies the progressive overload principle to eating squashed varmints.

John Roberts has had a profoundly malignant impact on America and deserves far more recognition for that than he currently gets.

This is why my most "scare the hoes" political opinion is: MAGA is avodah zarah.

She was a prof of mine in the 90s and the one I was probably closest to. What this drives home is that Epstein was an influence clearing house and it seems that in order to get that influence it wasn’t just okay to mention it, you had to *affirmatively pander to* his pedophilia. L

I regret to inform you the "Actually its Ephebophilia" beacon has been lit.

Mark it: Lindsey Graham or John Kennedy or some other analog will be on TV today educating us all about the Dead Man’s Statute.

I don’t rate them myself, but props to the Pontif on sticking to his guns and listing all three “Human Centipede” films. We agree on “A Serious Man,” tho.

I’m inclined to believe this but if he called someone “the rancid kishke befouling our national cholent” I’d be sold.

Mamdani will implement Charo law. “Stop and cuchi cuchi” will be restored in all five boroughs.

Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.

The arc of the moral universe is footlong but it bends toward justice

::extremely Westchester county voice:: “The trial drove a wedge between law enforcement and protestors.”

america yesterday

Dick Cheney had I think the arc of a lot of republican politicians of his age, in that they assumed the foundations of liberal democracy were so rock solid they could be freely fucked with to no great cost. Then woke up one day to realize all those cracks in the foundation they wedged open mattered.

Kash/Alexis surging to the top of the “Nightmare Double Date” leaderboard, blowing past midweek surprise debut at number 1, Vance/Kirk.

Chin up Toronto. Y’all had a *much* better showing against LA than Drake.

I got $500 on “this is the precipitating event that sets off the long brewing schism in the Catholic Church”

Change one letter, ruin a candy: Necro Wafers

[kool keith voice] i eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate

Only one of these images of the White House is real...

[kicks in door, screaming] BUSH V GORE

Reminded that when SCOTUS was deciding obscenity cases in the 60s and early 70s, the justices and their clerks watched the porn challenged as obscene. Except Hugo Black. He didn't flyspeck the porn because in his view, all obscenity laws are unconstitutional. Be a Hugo Black about Nazi tattoos.

“To insinuate that I did is disgusting” Graham let’s have a quick chat about about who, as between the guy with a Totenkopf on his chest and the guy who *sees* the Totenkopf on your chest, has the burden of proof here.

My Neighbor Totenkopf

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

Trump literally demolishing part of the White House to permanently deface it it with the tackiest shit you’ve ever seen in your life is A BIT ON THE NOSE DON’T YOU THINK?

“The Duck, I says.”

If you buy an NFT of a stock in OpenAI you should have to wear a big bell like a goat for the rest of your life.

March 4, 2013. Brooklyn Bowl. D’Angelo and Questlove working out D’Angelo’s stage fright and what was by then the nearly finished Black Messiah.

D’Angelo deserved to live older than 51 as a human being, but we are bereft as a species of music listeners for no longer being able to hear more of his work. there was more music there and it would’ve been the best you’ve ever heard.

A great tragedy. A towering figure. RIP to one of the greatest ever to do it.

Semifreddo: I sorta knew it was you. You kinda broke my heart.

The end of the world sounds a little like: “This is AI slop depicting something that didn’t happen, sure. But what if it wasn’t? And sure, I’m passing it off as real. But what if I wasn’t! What then, huh?”

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

the phenomenon that’s been going on for 20 years is more stark than ever: the court tells the conservative legal apparatus what it wants and they go manufacture it. as true with Heller as it is with birthright citizenship. it’s less balls and strikes and more calling the pitches.

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect. So profoundly reluctantly. But, good lord have they earned it.

people do not really understand that once a movement's popularity starts falling towards the 30% mark, it begins shedding even core supporters. this is because you can no longer maintain the information environment inside that core. there are just too many leaks.

The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia investigating Letitia James and James Comey resigned under pressure on Friday after Trump called for his ouster due to his unwillingness to pursue bullshit cases and IT'S A LONG DRIVE TO DEEP LEFT FIELD, HOME RUN #250 BY NICK CASTELLANOS.

Bayesian thoughts and priors

::Says “idiot” at ACIP meeting:: At least eight heads turn.

Stop indulging these losers.

these guys are not popular, they are getting much more unpopular very quickly, and they have absolutely no plan to turn any of it around. i'm not even sure they are aware that they need to, which is not a mistake a more competent regime would make.