WaPo: the official newspaper of Court House station, Arlington

Is it too mean to ask so many people who apparently do not like reading why they are so active on a text-based social media website?

“Friends in Low Courts”: How Tennessee Dismantled Its Own #1 Federalism Ranking ij.org/cje-post/fri...

Yeah, I don't think people understand the baroque lengths of cruelty dogpiles will go to once someone has been deemed a socially acceptable target. Individually, it's just one person venting their rage, but when it's dozens or hundreds of people, it takes a very real toll.

And again, I don't think there was any cognitive dissonance here: the mob had spoken, I had been judged, and deserved nothing but my prescribed punishment. Any attempt to turn sympathetic eyes away from me, even if it involved blatant, easily-refuted lies, was justified for the greater good.

This was exactly what happened to me (albeit on a lesser topic). When I could successfully get someone to understand what I was saying, rather than admit they had originally misunderstood, I was accused of lying about my original intent. Many of you are deeply unwell.

Pretty despicable misrepresentation.

It's not just that the FBI director is acting like a spoiled child; he keeps repeating the dumb lie that Van Hollen was "drinking margaritas with a felon" when he visited Kilmar Abrego Garcia. As a reminder, it was a stunt from the El Salvador regime, who put sugar-rimmed glasses on the table.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

I was listening to an interview with Judy Blume and she was talking about how she basically had no adults to confide in or ask questions of growing up, and this bewilderment was in the characters of her books. I love Judy Blume's books, but this is not normal. This means you didn't have parents

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

wtf SLS

It's the Tommy Tubervilles of this nation that have failed to assimilate with this nation's creed.

With a year of data in, the results are clear: the marginal ICE arrest is NOT a criminal. You can barely even tell on the right side of these charts of arrests of convicts when an ICE operation starts and ends. The spikes for noncriminals are massive.

one theme running through toby's essay that i think deserves more emphasis is this: reactionary centrists like starmer are simultaneously bullying towards their own supporters and grovelling towards their opponents. it is this abject lack of self-respect that makes them seem so weak

I, too, am old enough to remember when the entire National Conversation™️ focused on the need for Democrats to Tone Down The Rhetoric because of fears about Political Violence.

FYI trans Americans with a Canadian ancestor can apply for expedited processing on their applications for Canadian citizenship!

Understandable concern about not just the midterms but what comes next, seating the House on Jan 3. It's not as simple as Johnson could refuse members. But there is real potential for mischief or worse. Callais has appreciably increased the danger. So here's what they might try, and how to fight it:

I would like to go back to when I didn't have to write something about the 20th Amendment every couple of years.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS issues “GVRs” in the Alabama cases—vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. In practice, this means Alabama can now redraw its congressional districts in time for the midterms:

a through line of my software engineering career is that you can never go wrong with bucket sort. Comparing many items? bucket sort fuzzy search? bucket sort

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

It's still good

🚨 NEW TOOL for U.S. legal journalists ⚖️ I turned @allyjar.bsky.social's incredible crowdsourced Google doc on accessing state court records into an interactive map. Check it out and let me know about any errors, missing information, or ways I can improve this thing (link below)

One of my sister’s goats just delivered her first of two babies! This guy is Han Solo and he’s the cutest thing I have ever seen. Lookit those ears!

Lynx held a moment of silence for Alex Pretti and Renee Good ahead of the season opener at Target Center:

You saw the article that burned up Bluesky last night: Virginia Dems can immediately lower the retirement age for judges—and get an all-new Supreme Court. In just 5 minutes, @yeargain.bsky.social & @davidnir.com will do an impromptu Substack Live explaining it all and taking your questions!

Worth noting that the bad data was provided to SCOTUS in a DOJ brief, submitted by DOJ lawyers.

The 17th-century philosopher John Locke's method of compiling a “commonplace book”, a notebook used to gather quotes and excerpts from one's literary wanderings — a kind of personalized encyclopedia of quotations: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...

If the valid standing precedent is the legislature can call a convention and the convention can itself directly adopt a new constitution without ratification by referendum, regardless of existing procedure, either that's still true or else Virginia's constitution as it exists is wholly illegitimate.

Living in an age where I can see my favorite authors just casually talking is such a bright spot amidst *gestures at the rest of the world

I have never experienced such a concentration of readers--not of my stuff, but of fiction in general--than I have on Bluesky. It's why I keep coming back to yammer about whatever I'm excited about.

The future is unwritten and we should act like it.

Huh. This is pretty wild. My only question I guess would be whether there’s enough time left to do all of the pieces of this thing, but if they have the ability to capture the court enshrined in the constitution, they oughta use it.

Third day in a row that NOTHING has gone through the Strait of Hormuz.

For some broader perspective, it's usually 150+ ships per day.

every time I or other professionals post about how we find carefully managed AI tools useful - whether journalists, historians, coders, whatever - , a bunch of people show up to insist that we must be wrong about our own workflow.

Every book I’ve bought this year (and it’s been a lot of books) I bought because of Bluesky.

Our movement can’t match the money of these Fascism Funders, but we’ve got something they will never have: The power of the people. We could use your help to elect Randy to Congress — you can join the organizing work that’s happening in CA-22 from anywhere ahead of the primary election on June 2. 👇

This week, the DCCC decided to support @villegas4congress.bsky.social’s corporate-backed opponent in the CA-22 primary. Now the Fascism Funders that have tried to buy Democratic politicians in other states are lining up against Randy — the only candidate in the race who refuses corporate PAC money.

dudes rock

This is no different than anti-vaxxer reasoning. We dont need these institutions (vaccines) because we dont observe the overt racism (disease) anymore

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

No one should have to live like this! I've had luck with Google Fi as my provider, and a Pixel phone. My calls and texts are screened via software.

you mess with the bull you get the horns. you mess with the goat you get the woodwinds. the horse has the string section and the rabbit is on percussion

So both Microsoft and Google have killed their paid search APIs. I discovered this the hard way last night when I set up my Google Web Search API, and it would just error with no other explanation. They must really be worried about creating an infrastructure moat against the API companies.

I spoke to a colleague in the financial sector who put it quite simply: I don't care what Iran says, or what Trump says. I just count the number of ships passing through the Strait. That's the only tangible data point that matters.

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.