Unfortunately this is the sickest possible burn Britain could give us on this year of all years

AI update: I was having trouble finding cases. I left Westlaw and googled "cases reversing a conviction for [statute]." Google's AI summary suggested a case where a federal appellate court reversed for insufficient evidence. GREAT. I pull the case and... nope, it's an affirmance.

FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK: Marco Rubio just had a man arrested and jailed, and is seeking to deport him, because he publicly supported Petro and opposed a presidential candidate in Colombia that Donald Trump would prefer to be elected. He committed no crimes and had an asylum application pending.

Both kids are reading books instead of packing. I’d be more proud if I didn’t want to yell at them to get back to packing.

No surprises here - #Arctic Ocean stripes are off the scale. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else in the world. #ShowYourStripes ➡️ Explore your own climate change stripes: showyourstripes.info (Global) and app.climatecentral.org/dataviz/warm... (U.S.) What's it like in your area?

“This place can be so cool if we let it” is my new #America250 slogan, thanks @andre-carlisle.bsky.social

noticing a lot of people forgot what our greatest modern philosopher said about patriotism

Saturday crossword in 40:51 (why am I getting slower?); still no cheating

Important news: I saw lightning bugs tonight for the first time in maybe 30 years.

every time people from outside of the united states visit, i warn them that american dispensary-strength weed is going to be like drinking 151 compared to what they’re used to and no one ever believes me

Having the Tartan Army in the states has felt like stumbling into an RPG sidequest that unlocked a secret party companion

zooming out a bit, the costs to all of us from jailing these people for so long are almost incalculable. these are actual human beings with lives every bit as rich as yours or mine. they are just wasting away to no benefit for anyone, save geogroup.

i realize most people have never spent any time in lockup and very few who are reading this have spent more than 24 hours in jail, but any significant time being locked in a cage is going to have profound impacts on you. it is a deeply traumatic experience.

You will not read about it anywhere, probably, but as of Yesterday the IRS doesn't have a chief counsel, not even an acting one, because Trumps/Bessent's shill Ken Kies acting appointment has expired under the Vacancies Act, and no one has been appointed in his place.

The NYT has been sharing this recipe for Juneteenth, and it’s pretty great, but you cannot use whipped cream; it won’t set right. This is what Cool Whip is for! Also, make the pie crust thinner than you think.

Yes, the blue paint Is peeling off the Reflecting Pool. Our photographer went to the Lincoln Memorial. This is what she saw. washingtonian.com/2026/06/19/p...

I’m not watching the match, but I do like the USMNT’s stripey jerseys

pausa de hidratación

I’m not watching the match, but I do like the USMNT’s stripey jerseys

“Boston Beer Co. said that from Thursday to Sunday, the Tartan Army drank four times what the company normally stocks during a typical four-day holiday stretch like the Fourth of July.”

I have to admit, I thought these four years would be really bad, but I didn’t think there would be this many metaphors.

I love what @bencollins.bsky.social is doing with InfoWars and at some point we need to talk about having me on to discuss the actual time we put chemicals in the water that turned the snails gay. www.discovermagazine.com/female-sea-s...

I am in fact working today BUT I think public defense is consistent with the spirit of Juneteenth

The county jail is not permitting inmate visitation today in celebration of Juneteenth.

The story of our nation is incomplete without the ongoing work of liberation. This Freedom Day, let us honor our ancestors through joy, action, organizing, and reparative policies that bring us closer to freedom. Happy Juneteenth, family!

I'm back to doing the crossword, mostly, after a few years away from it. Am I imagining it, or has the NYT relaxed its rules about indicating in the clue when the answer will be an acronym? I also feel like I'm seeing more names crossed with names.

OK DORKS, I HAVE DATA FOR YOU. Here is the party split on emails to members of Congress about the OMB rule proposal. We really need more yelling at R's! They can say they don't know about the rule if we don't ✨ensure✨ they have heard about it. TAKE ACTION HERE: fight2win.standupforscience.net

historians are divided on whether trump was actually a real person, or the stories of a large series of petty tyrants over a period of perhaps 100 years whose stories got merged and blended together back when AI was unsophisticated and new

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

Mamdani's speech at the Knicks parade was easily the best I've ever heard at an event of that sort. I posted the whole thing on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Highly recommended.

Amusing to hear British announcers refer to seeing “the Mexican wave, here in Mexico, appropriately enough” to U.S. viewers, who only know it as the wave. There’s nothing uniquely Mexican about it. It’s just that the first time Europeans saw it was during the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.

wat

Pretty remarkable to me that as a 24-year-old law student, Sonia Sotomayor made The Washington Post for reporting a law firm partner to Yale after he asked her racist questions during a recruiting dinner ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/clarence-t...

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Octavio Daniel Cabrera Valdez was building a life for his family in San Antonio. He has an 8-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter who depend on him.

dudes rock

The sweet peas are really going for it at the moment! 😍👃🏻💚 #TinyJoys

lol

Oh, is it not normal to do the Spelling Bee while you’re in labor? (The Bee does not track streaks, but I would still know if I missed one.)

I appreciate how people are conducting themselves here

This is America and we reserve our top-tier team names for the Hispanic alter egos of minor-league baseball teams

there is a word for requiring people to work and refusing to pay them! a whole Civil War was fought over it & the Constitution was amended! and yes I know about the prison slavery exception to the 13th Amendment's prohibition -- but that doesn't even apply here! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Autistic children as young as 18 months are being injected with human stem cells derived from umbilical cords in unapproved, unproven and potentially harmful “treatments” encouraged by Robert F Kennedy Jr. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Big rubber stamp restock today! 🐦✉️

A pregnant woman was denied prenatal care for a month. A man diagnosed with leukemia grew sicker after missing two months of treatments. A woman had a throat tumor that obstructed her breathing; it became so painful she could no longer speak. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/17/m...

ICYMI: My second book, "Why Sustainable Seafood Matters," is now available for preorder! Preorders are important because they signal interest to the market, and you can get 30% off list price by preordering using code HWSSM !

Dropping large brass spheres on the floor at 2am is a sacred ritual in upstairs neighbor culture

Gimme Magritte, boys, and free my soul / Ceci n’est pas une rock ‘n’ roll / Green apple face