It’s a very Bluesky reading weekend! @cheriepriest.com and @scalzi.com were being read by different people at the same time!

if you live in the PNW and have hepa filtration units for wildfire times now’s a good time to clean em and replace the filters and make sure they are ready to go

@cheriepriest.com my wife just finished “It was her house first” and LOVED IT! Thank you so much for promoting it, so I could tell her about it. Any suggestions for best follow up?

Nothing summarizes the modern right better than this

@notalawyer.bsky.social “What is fgrit?” lol! 😂🤣

“Whether more men will take their cues from David Harbour’s hip-hop American sign language interpreter character, Floyd Smernitch, I don’t know. Probably not.” michaelianblack.substack.com/p/u-dtf

@mgoblog.bsky.social @mgoseth.bsky.social did you guys happen to catch Dusty admitting that Cadeau was purposefully using the Kobe assist, including on the first shot? I think it’s the first time I’ve ever heard a coach admit the existence of Kobe assists.

every time an old white dude tells you baseball needs to be “played the right way” and that bat flips are bad and whatever other racist trash they bring to the table, remember how fun the world baseball classic is for everyone but team USA.

This dude leads with the 14 words on his campaign website. I sometimes cannot believe this is America.

It’s beside the point I know, but I hate when reporters or opinion folks or whoever, asks a question and then refuses to engage with the answers. Just say you think we are all stupid and leave it at that.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

I’m watching Song Sung Blue and Hugh Jackman is killin it! Great chemistry between him and Kate Hudson too!

This sounds right, and underscores how badly Sen King and his cronies screwed up in the shutdown fight.

@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @jayapal.house.gov

I hate the way Dems message tariffs. They aren’t a tax on American consumers, they are a tax on American COMPANIES. This is a very important distinction and goes to the heart of TWO dem/rep divides.

*whispering* this is the performance of public virtue and should be feted

You can mod dog boobs into Animal Crossing if you want to, but you can't expect people to not think it's weird

@janiehaddad.bsky.social I’m just now getting to listen to the most recent StayAtHomeCast, and you forgot to mention that Ghislane Maxwell’s dad had spy connections with Mossad and KGB. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR. Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.

Every once in a while someone days something like “I hesitate to block, because they might actually not be trolls”. Yup. But you aren’t sending them to jail, and there are 10,000,000 other people to talk to. You won’t miss them, I promise.

If you’re gonna cave, cave strong. www.offmessage.net/p/are-we-hea...

i also think they just didn’t have any cards to play earlier in the year, and schumer gambled — correctly — that republicans wouldn’t be able to get it together on SNAP and ACA premiums once he accepted that both johnson and thune have surrendered themselves entirely to the white house

My two cents is everyone gets grace from me. Doesn’t mean that everyone who gets grace is the best person to be a senator. Maybe we can find someone who is a decent person that DOESNT HAVE A NAZI TATTOO. Seems like there should be one or two!

nothing like Republicans reacting to Bad Bunny, an American who was born in the United States and has lived his whole life here, by creating an "All-American" alternative Super Bowl halftime show

Such a good example of one piece of white privilege. I suspect many female lawyers have similar stories about being mistaken for a paralegal or court reporter. I also suspect black female lawyers have an entirely third set of stories about who they were mistaken for being.

I did not know that A Column For Sally Hemmings was part of a series!

In addition to the presumptuousness, these summations read like notes aliens are taking about the inhabitants of a human zoo

I don’t understand this at all. Churches WERE open, so wtf are they talking about?

Ken knows!

🚨 A very long thread 🚨 I need you all to actually come to terms with what happened last year. No, Harris did not run a bad campaign. You're just stupid. He ran on dictator shit, she ran on “He’s going to kill us all but I’m won't and here are the policies that will benefit you if you elect me”.

Is Bingo Hogan an actor from the Wire?

I think that a useful form of popularism would rest on this insight. You still have to sell your ideas to the public and find broadly popular values or desires to frame your policies. The poll chasers are wrong, but that doesn't mean you can ignore popular opinion.

To everyone comparing the run-up to the Iran War with the run-up to the Iraq War, let me present the definitive statement made by @tedrall.bsky.social in 2003.

@arikelman.bsky.social it doesn’t look like you check in here much, but just in case! Just finished your chapter in Myth America about the “Vanishing Indians” and it was great. A real viewpoint shifter for me!

@stacibaird.bsky.social thank you for all your work with the Community News. It’s important work! I would love to see a periodic article from a local farmer about what is happening in the fields. Not being in Ag, I drive past the fields and am like “why is there a big ditch?”

Completely unrelated. This is where the Washington Supreme Court sits. It’s called the temple of justice and it 100% feels like it should.

My hot take is that is is a bad thing to have a ghoul lose hate monger like Miller anywhere near power and if more journalists told the truth about this shit it would be better!

One of the weirder things about me is that I am admitted to practice before the Court of International Trade even though my practice hasn’t involved trade work for a decade.

Whose problem? Not mine. I don’t ever need to see Schumer being a do nothing or scold me because he pretends like he has no agency. I mean it’s a problem for the country that dem politicians don’t do their jobs, but not for me

I agree with this guy!

Unfortunately for us, the one period of time recently when there was a rapid drop in wealth inequality due primarily to a tight labor market is also the time when people, notably including the online political left, were obsessed with their sense of how horrible everything is going.

As ridiculous as this sounds, isn’t an AI “hallucinating” just as ridiculous?

Quite the payoff

A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.

Too much fun with this color way. Asteria doily and Appollo Mandala in Dahlia Halloween. #Crochet

fame, recognition and political power are all sitting there, waiting for democrats to take advantage of the moment!

There is no true answer, it just depends on your politics. (This is from Politico.)

Here’s to a great spring day!