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You should read the article. But spoiler alert: the solution is using the leverage Democrats have with the upcoming appropriations/debt ceiling deadlines. Here's language you can use with your members of Congress.

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So, folks on here have probably caught a whole bunch of lawyers and law professors (correctly) lashing out at a law professor (Ilan Wurman) for suggesting there's some meaningful "literature" supporting Trump's attack on birthright citizenship that the courts didn't "engage with" It's worth taking

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@capitalweather.bsky.social Greetings from #DelRay

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Cartoonist Quits WaPo Over Censorship #ABlueView Ann Telnaes: "I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, “Democracy dies in darkness” tinyurl.com/ycx4ntrr Pls share this, in the hopes it'll reach a larger audience than if the WaPo had run it!

The most fun thread you’ll read today:

Ah yes, I see it's the time of year when the Philanthropy Industrial Complex (Big P for short) seeds negative stories about Mackenzie Scott because everything about the way she gives money undercuts their entire model... fortune.com/article/mack...

happy birthday, harry shearer! three comic geniuses: jack benny, mel blanc, and mr. shearer, 1951.

I wrote about the most interesting man you’ve probably never heard of, who discovered the real Noah’s Ark, and gives us a window into a fascinating world of the first humans who invented writing. www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-mirthf...

I think this is my first Bluesky sighting in the Washington Post wapo.st/3P9pD0w

BREAKING: Senate Dems' report on SCOTUS ethics inquiry decries "culture of misconduct," Thomas's gifts, Alito's failure to recuse, and Roberts's refusal to act. New, this morning at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/senate-jud...

behold my art

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My house is at the center of a dark blue patch 😀

An Impact in Elysium Planitia This image shows an impact crater in Elysium Planitia that was first discovered by the Mars Context Camera that formed between February 2012 and June 2014. More: uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_03... NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #science #NASA

As the Trump seeks to pull EV support and California seeks to double down, worth remembering the impact tariffs have had on the competitiveness of US automakers. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/b...

Me (watching the Lions run roughshod over the Bears): “They should call Detroit ‘the beast with two backs!’” Me (after considering briefly): umm no

It begins

@benjaminwittes.bsky.social offers a few things for which, their warts and all, he is "unironically thankful" and "optimistic that America has the tools to pull through this period as a vibrant, pluralistic democratic republic." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

92 year-old Oscar-winner Joel Grey pens this must-read op-ed about how the lessons of 'Cabaret' are just as applicable now as they were when it was first staged over 50 years ago. Heed its warning. Don't get distracted. Gift article to read, share and contemplate. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/o...

Ring around the moon tonight

“The state of most social platforms right now is that users are locked in and developers are locked out. We want to build something that makes sure users have the freedom to move and developers have the freedom to build.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/t...

This classic from @xkcd.com needs to be restated periodically. xkcd.com/1357

Your reminder that, if we were a more serious country where anything at all actually mattered, it all would have ended right at this moment:

Drives me nuts when people think of Ray Parker Jr as just the guy who did "Ghostbusters." He was one of the all-time great funk guitar players. Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan... Just watch this video, srsly www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNe...

We can ban Doritos or legalize weed. Your choice, America.

"kamala harris will protect your right to disagree with her" is something i haven't really heard from another surrogate and i find it genuinely compelling?

An open letter to Jeff Bezos (that he'll never read): It's you dude. You're the reason why people don't trust the media. www.techdirt.com/2024/10/29/d...

s-tier beatles cover imo www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOY9...