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Historian at the Evergreen State College, occasional/lapsed banjo player, IndyCar fan. Olympia, WA. 🏳️‍🌈
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What's happening here is the guy clearly knows that the described behavior is illegal but also knows the president wants him to do it so he won't get the job unless he does it but he's not smart enough to find a way to claim a legal excuse for this illegal activity so he's cornered

I'm not certain anything is as difficult to pack for as a week in Indianapolis around the 500 mile race with in-between weather predicted. I need race wear, formal wear, casual day wear, clothes for visiting-my-great-aunt, and everything in between. Prayers up!

Extremely my interests

Just let us know how to turn it off, sir

Imagine saying this about a calculator. Or spellcheck.

Yeah, a good rule of thumb is that Sen. Warren is almost certainly wrong about what will protect consumers...

big internet and little internet are different don't at me

I keep being like "man the vibes are crazy at Indy this year" and then I remember the time Scott Dixon got mugged at Taco Bell on pole day and I start to think maybe this is just what Indy means

All crew, Again, please do not insert unknown USB drives from random planets into computer ports on the Enterprise. Worf

Big time fan and supporter of TeamUSA

Well, not sure on the complimentary to insulting I'd rank these fictional character matches in the quiz going viral but I guess I'll take them!

This is what's cool about IndyCar fans in general. While most of us have drivers we love (and despise), there's a shared sense that the spectacle is what we root the most for.

Yes the Shwartzman, Sato, O'Ward front row that we all expected.

Sato has started in the top 6 two times at Indy. 2017 and 2020

I'm just so ready for him to come out

Pedro Pascal at Cannes speaks on America's political chaos: "Fear is the way that they win, so keep telling the stories and expressing yourself and fighting. F*ck the people that try to make you scared and fight back. Don't let them win."

WHAT IS TO BE DONE

When it’s 5:50 P.M. and you’re the IMS employee informing people qualifying is over

“What is will power?” asked Toad. “Will power is trying hard NOT to do something that you really want to do,” said Frog.

Will Buxton is just not a very skilled announcer

Sato rules

This student has greater moral clarity than all the rich consultants telling Dems to sacrifice trans people for electoral gains.

Just awful news. Neighborhoods I used to call home seem to be devastated. A cluster of three historic churches I grew up in have likely been destroyed

The law professors who are arguing against birthright citizenship in the US are reinventing a common law decision from 1677 about allegiance and aliens that was pivotal for creating a common law of slavery in England’s empire. — a logic recreated in Dred Scot. — rejected by 14th amendment.

Trump absolutely did not write this. "His skin is all atrophied" is a major tell. That just isn't his voice at all.

One purpose of the 14A was to upend the twisted logic of the Dred Scott decision, which in part claimed Black folks could be enslaved because they weren't citizens. The 14th reverses that, to say that because people are citizens, they cannot be slaves. It is, thus, very much *not* "about slavery."

100% this. John Bingham, the man who, more than anyone else, wrote Sec 1, basically thought the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14A's immediate predecessor) was basically unnecessary because the constitution as it already was granted birthright citizenship to everyone.

Also I wonder if originalists' recognizing that there were no "illegal immigrants" at the time of the founding of the Fourteenth Amendment means there can't be any now.

Thrilled to learn from DOJ's argument that the 14th Amendment applied to the "children of former slaves, not illegal immigrants, who didn't exist as a class yet" that modern firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment!

All through the last three episodes of Andor I thought "This is just absolutely arresting and superb filmmaking" but was hyper conscious of the escalating constraints ending with the canon of Rouge One. The more it wrapped up, the less I expect to feel anything. But then it ended and I was in tears.

Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of? RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.

They should put Tony Gilroy in charge of Star Wars I think when a franchise is 50 years old, it should grow up

Quote post this picture with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe.