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i’m stealing from @mtsw.bsky.social here, but we are seeing — on the national level — a very common red state dynamic. republicans tanking the economy and destroying the most dynamic sectors in order to produce a brain drain

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

If we are in a postconstituional environment where green card holders can be deported for mere speech, then yes, Professor Cobb is correct.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Yesterday's conversation on Curzio Malaparte between Maurizio Serra (author of Malaparte: A Biography), Stephen Twilley (translator), Franco Baldasso, and Andrea Capra was recorded and can be watched here—

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I straight up did not get Great Gatsby until someone pointed out, a decade after I was out of high school, "He spent his life living as someone he wasn't, obsessed with a woman who he thought was someone she wasn't, and was killed because someone thought he was someone that he wasn't."

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

I appreciate Josh's elevation of the term "anti-constitutional," which is different from "unconstitutional." Deciding not to spend appropriations because you don't feel like it isn't some outré theory of the Constitution. It's just an assertion of power, a rejection of constitutionalism altogether.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

man he's a perfect synthesis of patrick bateman and gob bluth, isn't he? so perfect that i don't have to say his name for you to know exactly who i'm talking about

submitted 10 days ago • 164 comments

BREAKING: The Trump Administration is considering shuttering the facility built to replace the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which Timothy McVeigh destroyed. The news comes just one month before the 30th anniversary of the truck bombing. www.kosu.org/local-news/2...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Anytime you find yourself going mad with power, that’s a great time to ask, ‘Wait a second here, could the gods be wishing my destruction?’

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Oklahoma agricultural exports were worth $2.4 billion in 2022. Total ag output was $8.5 billion. Trump’s farm tariffs would mean about a 25% hit to the state’s ag producers.

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Highly recommend Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn, a haunting “surf noir” set in southern CA in an eerie late 70s/early 80s wasteland of runaways and bikers and punks. Reminded me of Bolano, and George Sluizer’s Spoorloos. Top shelf.

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one right answer, rhymes with Light Tokeum in Fling Shade

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Cardinal Lawrence breaking in to search the Pope's apartment and discovering a receipt for 3000 unclaimed copies of a confidential report titled "Summons to Conclave"

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SCOTUS orders a new trial for Richard Glossip www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Hern won 60-34 in November. www.newson6.com/story/67b7b1...

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 23 days ago • 75 comments

My review of @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's Absolution, at World Literature Today: www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/a...

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My review of @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's Absolution, at World Literature Today: www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/a...

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Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

submitted 25 days ago • 234 comments

the Bastard Sons of Oliver Reed

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I think 2 things are clear: 1. Both Drummond and Walters have recently seen polling that shows Stitt is surprisingly unpopular with OK Republicans. 2. Walters is running for Governor.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

While John Roberts is one of the key villains in all this, he also made it clear Trump can be removed from office by a simple majority in both houses of Congress.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

This is kind of ironic. The Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce was a major funder of an independent expenditure campaign through the primary, runoff and general election in 2022 that helped get Walters elected to the State Superintendent position in the first place. www.oklahoman.com/story/busine...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The “J.D.” stands for “Just Doesn’t have it.”

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

This is my move, both for the C-trucks and anybody else who has it coming. Hit old Gov. Keating with it one time walking into the Civic Center for a Vince Gill show.

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Read Danielle Sassoon’s letter explaining how Eric Adams’s counsel offered a quid pro quo, Emil Bove told the other DOJ lawyers in the room not to take notes, and then made the deal. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

submitted 31 days ago • 49 comments

The #2 official at the United States Department of Justice literally gave the Stringer Bell "is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?" warning to the Manhattan prosecutors pursuing the Eric Adams case.

submitted 31 days ago • 45 comments

Good piece, but I’d add that Dwight’s opening act (The Mavericks) will, without a doubt, put on the best show this city will see in 2025, and it won’t be close.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

submitted 33 days ago • 2066 comments

power-of-the-purse-snatching

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this type of smug cynicism is corrosive to the very core of democracy

submitted 37 days ago • 126 comments

The Impeachment handbook by Black and Bobbitt is an important resource right now (and a surprisingly engaging read, for legal writing).

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Canada and Mexico are Oklahoma’s two biggest trading partners. About 40% of the state’s total exports go to those 2 countries. Worth about $2.5 billion to OK companies in 2023.

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You can’t overrule Youngstown Sheet & Tube by EO.

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turning a gallon of raw sewage into a gallon of clean water that's safe for the environment takes less than 24 hours and costs 2 cents.

submitted 44 days ago • 29 comments

NEW PIECE: I've rushed out coverage of the state of play of the Impoundment saga and why it is so important. Read all the gory details www.crisesnotes.com/everything-a...

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