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“...a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable.” economics, public policy, art and literature, philosophy; Rice owl; recovering full-time college adjunct (you may have known me as “tex” in the other place)
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Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out. www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...

who could have imagined that the people currently in power would be so incompetent

What a horrible day to have eyes and the ability to read

Glup Shitto could not be reached for comment

So at what point does it become legitimate (morally, practically, if not strictly legally) for states that are the targets of this focused attack to withhold federal taxes as much as they’re able?

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

woke grok is at it again

Im probably gonna get in trouble for doing this,but Im gonna do it anyways I keep seeing all y’all stealing my Raising Canes cutouts and taking me to cool places,,, DO IT! Whoever steals me and takes me on the best adventure this summer,, I’m gonna pick one of ya and take ya to Canes with me

I suggest that those outside of Texas follow our politics because we seem to be ground zero for what they will try to cram down the rest of the country.

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

Driving to the gym, windows down, blasting the audiobook for Middlemarch like it’s the song of the summer.

This is tremendous content but it’s also bad from an economic institutions perspective that “your CEO is now beefing with the president” can knock ~15% off your market cap

so many good skeets today…just some really great stuff 🤗

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Twitter right now

Trump is still in the pocket of corrupt billionaires. Fight Trump's billionaire tax cuts. Musk is still a corrupt billionaire. Fight Musk's corruption. The GOP budget will still kick millions off their health care. Fight to kill the bill.

As 'gotchas' go, "I willingly supported someone I knew was involved in major child trafficking crimes but actively kept it under wraps until now" is... an atypical approach, I'll say that much

I feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous content

lol

O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

oh hell yeah this is getting real good

Omg

dude is just gonna keep posting through it, lol

i’m currently on day 5 of a 7-day twitter suspension and my only regret is that i can’t laugh at elon on this, the day of very funny stuff happening on twitter

hang in there, little buddy!

lol…lmao, even love to see it…let them fight wish none of this had happened in the first place, but i’ll take a little schadenfreude where i can get it still so much work to do to expel these ghouls from public life and undo the damage they have wrought

I hope Netanyahu and his fellow war criminals rot in hell Never again, my ass

Ross Douthat asks “what makes art left wing?” empathy and an accurate interpretation of reality next question

Make them arrest you >In defiance of Trump’s announcement last Friday that he was firing her, Kim Sajet — the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery — has continued to report for work, conducting meetings and handling other museum business as she did before

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, … The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

When a federal judge starts a ruling about the government's actions with an extended retelling of Kafka's "The Trial," you know the state of democracy in the good old US of A is in tip-top shape 🙃

Ugh, he just gets better. 😩

Demonstrating that returning people erroneously removed from the United States is perfectly possible.

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The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

if i were running for congress, i think a pretty good platform would consist mostly of: - tax the rich - Medicare for All - some secret third thing

The way nobody can drive well anymore because of GPS — not just atrophied turn-by-turn navigation, but the way ppl no longer know the layouts of their town or the names of roads or what to do when the map doesn’t match the terrain — that’s what genAI is doing to communication skills and literacy

I stopped eating steak years ago when I realized I didn’t like the steak, I like all the seasoning and marinade and stuff

What a telling exchange here. Scholar @kateshaw.bsky.social with the analytics and the scholarship just bursting a hole in these political theatrics. Watch the staffer's reaction.

They're literally doing the meme