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I’m embarrassed to say I hadn’t heard of this author but now I feel compelled to show up at his BK event and get a signed copy.
Presumably this is what you get when you have an opinion about American History… … but your Opinion Page LLM is only trained on “personal liberties” and “free markets” slop.
What’s the downside of abolishing the Executive’s pardon prerogative altogether. Surely, we can come up with a better system than whoever can “get the king’s ear”.
They photoshopped the Spectator but cropped out the Epstein reference. Weird.
Any guesses on who next month’s head of the BLS will be?
I mean, IANAL, but I think among the first things they teach you is: 1. never ask the witness a question to which you don’t already have the answer; and 2. Assume the witness will lie.
I have a sneaking suspicion the old man is yelling at Kavanaugh. So maybe don’t flip the autopilot switch just yet. Of course, if it turns out he has a manila folder full of Steve’s tweets…
See also: Y2K bug “We wasted all that money fixing software and in the end nothing bad happened.”
They’re still grappling with the fact that it’s not A1 Steak Sauce.
As any graduate of the Leroy Jenkins School of International Relations will tell you, “Shoot First; Ask Questions Later” is a totally legit strategy.
I mean, ignoring international law to start a war and then invoking international law to try and end it sounds like a totally legit strategy.
Only 100%? Pffft. Get back to me when it’s down 1600% or 1700%. If he can do it for drug prices, why not crime?
What do we think the odds are that: A. Infections rise in public schools; and B. Private schools keep mandates in place and so are not affected?
Every state is purple; more people voted for Trump in CA & NY than in AK, AR, IA, ID, KS, MO, MS, ND, NV, OK, SD, UT, WV, & WY combined.
The Fifth Circuit? Did hell freeze over?
Because our healthcare system didn’t have enough perverse incentives built into it already.
Please tell me there was a follow up from the press to name even one of those “settled” wars.
So, is his plan just to kill all the criminals, seize their homes and give them to people who don’t have homes? Please tell me I missed a step here.
Do we know if Vance was the last person to meet with him?
Maybe you could send a strongly worded letter asking some very strong questions?
“And if we put some effort into the track, the trains will be ready to use it!” Sure, but I feel like this was the same rationale we used 25 years ago. Am I wrong?
Can someone explain to me like I’m five why we keep building fast trains for slow tracks?
On the flip side, I once had a cyclist yell at me for stepping into the road without looking. It was a one way street and he was going the wrong way.
Looks like there’s a whole bunch of bananas. London violent crime statistics July 2024 - June 2025 (source: www.plumplot.co.uk/London-viole... )
I mean it says not “more than twice” but it doesn’t say you have to use the decimal system for counting. I’m sure Alito et al. can fabricate a “history and tradition” of using the binary system and secure Mango Mugabe & his heirs another 8 terms.
Still negotiating how much $TRUMP coin they have to buy before they can get an audience with the king?
Will SCOTUS have to define what constitutes a “facially sufficient reason”? It seems that, if the mere allegation of wrongdoing is sufficient, the President could fabricate and level such allegations at every Fed Board member and clean house.
I was thinking exactly this. This *seems* to be a trivially straightforward opportunity to disabuse the regime (and its supporters) of the idea that EOs are laws.
Here’s an excellent analysis of this issue from @dcinbox.bsky.social Tl;dr: It turns out that, in many cases, Democrats are *not* using these words. Republicans are just telling people that Democrats are using them.
They were right… …but the slogan was terrible.
Is “Dread Pirate Roberts” still available?
“50 days” or 3.5 Standard Trump Deadlines.
The key thing about John Bolton and the FBI raid that no one is talking about is the fact that Trump still hasn’t released the Epstein Files.
There was a meeting and a whiteboard to workshop that one.
Well, except they’ll have to promote the new “design system”. Moodboard:
Fun fact: there are only ~30 coopers left in the United States, of which maybe only 5 still make barrels with traditional tools.
Following on from the “Kavcurrence” and whatever we’re calling the Opinions Sponsored by Harlan Crow… …the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social profs need to workshop a name for these KBJ Dissents which adequately conveys their scorching heat.
At some point we should discuss how Citizens United recognized Corporations as people with a 1A right to exercise political speech… …and how vocal they are when the “speech” is money. But when it involves actually speaking out in support of the system that sustains them, they are deadly silent.
But his Commander-In-Chief who, after getting fired from his last government job, stored government secrets in his bathroom, lied about having them, and refused to return them… …gets off scot-free and even gets his old job back.
What are the odds he’s just integrating illicit crypto proceeds back into the financial system?
There’s not a single positive comment. It’s on every post as well. It’s unrelenting. Fabulous.
Well, they do say opposites attract.
“We’re not cutting crime by 35%, we’re cutting it by 1500% or 1600%” Mathlete Mango Mugabe, tomorrow, probably.
OTOH, sub sandwich assaults have dropped 100% in the last 5 days.
Very good of Hegseth & Vance to agree to hold the presser in a space where Miller isn’t exposed to direct sunlight.
So the 90 year old white hippies are invading DC and terrorizing its black population? Do I have that right?
I prefer the 90° swivel (timed with the door open/close) to make room for people getting on & off while preserving the spot. Not practical or polite on a crowded train/busy platform but effective in less busy situations.
JFC. Who TF asked that question?
Well, it’s… err.. a chocolate cake from Germany. Lol. Except it has a cherry layer in it. (A vital piece of data which I was not given the first time I ordered it and which, depending on how dark the chocolate & cherry layers are, may not be visually apparent to the unsuspecting degustator)
TIL German Chocolate Cake is *not* another name for Black Forest Gateau.
She really needs to work on her used car salesman face. Because that one definitely says: “No way the rubes fall for this again.”
I had forgotten that the “MS” part originally stood for “Microsoft”.
Putin came to Alaska, wound him up like a little toy, and then left.
ChatGPT’s view is that it’s AI-generated (75% probability based on stylistic analysis) and then human-edited (>80% probability based on statistical analysis). Also, super cool that she thinks only Putin (and not her husband) can end the war.
First study: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Second study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
There was some study a while ago that said hurricanes with female names cause more damage because people don’t take them as seriously as hurricanes with male names… …and then there was a later study that said that was all BS.
[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
And Putin will speak first after that conference too.
He’s going to do his usual trick of taking in the one interpreter and stealing their notes afterwards, isn’t he?
It seems some manufacturers and regulators are getting the message.
Interesting use of the active voice to describe the kerb as the harmful perpetrator. (As opposed to headlines where the car is the perpetrator: “pedestrian struck by car”)
As someone who knows next to nothing about this proposal, I’m curious what the plan was to get them on board. I mean it seems this outcome, while disappointing, was entirely predictable, no?
The GAO has only been around for ~100 years. Is the court saying prior to that there was *no* enforcement mechanism for Congress’s power of the purse?
If you raise Marion Barry, “many people will get eyebrows”.
Pretty sure the National Capital Planning Commission would like a word.
It seems they’re just using “social disorder” as a catch-all for “non-criminal things that are annoying”. Society is messy and disorderly. These people would call a SWAT team because you’re standing on the left side of the escalator.
A = {The topic(s) of a Congressional hearing that calls *me* as an expert} For most people A is extremely small - it’s not even big enough to get you out of the house in the morning. RFK Jr doesn’t grasp how enormous A’ is.
That’s gonna leave a mark. Seriously, mayo stains are the worst.
Would that even be necessary? It seems clear this Congress would happily write the president a blank check to keep troops on the streets for as long as he likes.
There’s no Senate (or House) Committee on the District of Columbia any more… So I assume the notice goes to Paul / Peters on Homeland Sec & Govt Affairs… …and Comer / Garcia on Oversight & Govt Reform?
The Brits voting for Brexit seems like a distant second at this point.
I think we learned from Hegseth’s debacle… …where exactly nobody in the WhatsApp group chat expressed surprise at being invited to a convo about a classified military operation… …that it’s SOP for this administration. 👊🇺🇸🔥
You’d think, after 10 years in pull-ups, the child would’ve figured out how to do it themselves.
Turns out I did not need two guesses.
Also, if you meet an atheist who has faith, you should tell ‘em they’re doin’ atheism wrong.
What’s the polymarket on his official statement including a claim that there will be peace in Ukraine “in a couple of weeks”.
The First Law of AI tools: The level of understanding required to know *how* to use any given AI tool… …is inversely proportional to the level of understanding required to know *when* to use that AI tool.
They should contact their own MP.
And then we have politicals making decisions like this.
So… “Are you going to count everyone?” “We’re going to computer this hard so we can figure out what the computer computered.”
Do we know what the critical dates are for this? I mean the administration’s strategy is to complete its constitutional violations before the legal process can get its pants on. That works when you’re deporting people without due process. It seems harder for an event that’s 5 years away.
If it’s a hoax, why do you need a meeting at all?
Yeah, that could totally happen given the frequent updates that are made to this document. I’d like to see the Root Cause Analysis for this Production Defect.
Looks like they haven’t “tidied up” the footnotes yet.
Tomorrow in the editors’ meeting: “Look at the clicks we got!”
“people”. Him He means him. Always Only Him.
Sooo… …you don’t want retribution but your opponents “deserve” to be investigated?
It’s going to be less than hilarious if it doesn’t.
I guess that reduces his “1500%” price cuts down to a mere 1250%.
And is their “move the defendant” shell game the only thing thwarting a habeas petition or a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit? Or is there another reason?
I mean the media has often been great about giving equal time to Climate Scientists and Climate Change deniers… …and that “all views are equally valid” approach has totally not screwed us.
