The same, but with beignets from Cafe du Monde. I used to have one every decade or so, hoping my memory was wrong.
Thoughts are my own, not my institutions. Father, husband, law faculty at my 11th school. Enjoying the Palouse.
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The same, but with beignets from Cafe du Monde. I used to have one every decade or so, hoping my memory was wrong.
If the battery won't start in Louisiana, you really need a new battery. Just MHO.
LOL because one of my kids (many years ago) solemnly pronounced as I put him to bed that I had a brain the size of a walnut. In discussion later, he said, "Well, at least I didn't say it had the size of a peanut." So now I'm wondering if a walnut comparison would be unparliamentary.
I'm guessing the article was written with AI.
Classic move. I think Hacker did this in Yes, Minister.
I think long ago I did some work for that horse guy as part of a volunteer group from my school. If so, I really do think they do good work, and I'd hate for them (and all the neighbors) to have their places rendered unliveable for years because of this pit.
Two hundred trucks a day will destroy the road, and I'm guessing there will be periodic explosions and lots of dust. I have a lot of sympathy for the neighbors. And then have no plan for dealing with that? It sounds like they were taking approval for Granite.
Speaking purely for myself, and without having had the benefit of reading your article, I'm wondering if a school has the power to prevent a faculty member from (say) misgendering a student in the classroom.
We're well over the 50 incidents documented in our investigation now. Here's one from this week from @opb.org, reporting that a young girl was also in the the van of Mam-speaking farmworkers from Guatemala when immigration agents broke the driver window. www.opb.org/article/2025...
17 is getting us to pickleball and badminton. IMO he worries about that our health and exercise, so he leads us on forced marches and worse. Last weekend, he led me running, with a pack, up a hill, and I told him that the people I was passing would call adult protective services for me.
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NEW: A JAMA study finds that "between August 2022 and December 2024 ... Idaho lost 94 of the 268 OBGYN physicians practicing obstetrics." Just 20 new OBGYNs moved to Idaho in that time, "and 114 of the 268 baseline obstetricians" stopped practicing, left the state, or retired.
What the actual hell was CBP looking for? This suggests a very specific pre-existing investigation that was done in coordination with the FBI to target him in particular.
I've seen a t-shirt, "This is NPR. We read the book." Apparently this happens so often the NPR people feel they need to make clear that this is not their practice.
The world‘s largest #falconry museum located outside of #Boise, has just expanded www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...
So true! I could tell from the cat that you all were hoping for rain to break the heat and humidity. They slowed me down, summer running in Baton Rouge. When the breeze picked up a bit, I went faster.
Living in the Palouse, I've gotten used to a different perspective on summer rain. I saw a forecast that said there was no chance of rain for 10 days.
Fair point, but if Trump were well-advised and prone to take good advice (yes, I know), he'd move to stay the WSJ litigation for the reason that he filed only to keep the statute of limitations from running.
"I don't know any working class people" might be true all by itself. Adding qualifiers lets one convey a feeling without actually lying.
Under a new legal agreement, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and two county prosecutors won't prosecute some doctors for referring patients for abortions out of state. #idpol
No worries. I thought it might be the AG trying to appeal a settlement between local prosecuting attorneys and the ACLU, which would be really unusual but not as ridiculous as appealing a settlement that the AG agreed to.
I haven't been following it, which is my bad, but I don't understand what the basis for the AG's appealing a settlement would be.
Nice to know that the wild bees like cilantro. I worry about them. I kept honeybees, and the losses in honeybees are tragic, but at least we know about the losses and beekeepers will do what they can. The wild bees get a lot less notice and concern.
Definitely a legit concern.
For shopping, Flying M can be a fun way to get small unusual things that are easy to take home.
Even more hilarious was trying to explain baseball. Baseball is legit complicated, and with my meh Russian, he said he understood about half the game.
The Boise Hawks? Minor league baseball is quintessentially American, nothing he could do in Poland, and hot dogs and/or ice cream, if so inclined, would make it perfect. I took a Russian guest to the Everett Aquasox when he was in Seattle for the Goodwill Games and it was great.
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A pay phone. I saw one this weekend and I was gobsmacked.
Ya gonna use this instead of the tale of the pot the next time you have to explain alternatie pleading?
The North Rim is spectacular, but I've never stayed at the lodge, and now I never will, but camping in the National Forest outside the park was easy and suited my budget.
Shorter lede: People who think Donald Trump was already perfect also think he's improved.
If you haven't been since last summer over a year, the new terminal is a big change. On landing, one of my Boise-based colleagues thought she had gotten on the wrong plane. Unfortunately, even for those in the area, flying from it in summer is challenging because there are fewer flights.
Fly PUW! For a modest investment at the vending machine, you can get enough Cougar Gold to feed a family for days. 🙂
Nothing much happens until the vote on whether to rehear it. If most judges want to rehear it, the chief judge and 10 randomly selected judges, will do that—It's called "en banc" hearing—and the original opinion is vacated, legalspeak for has no effect.
This would be reheard by a lot more judges, and they wouldn't just look at the transcripts from the prior argument. There's a quick summary of the court's rules here: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/ge...
As an old myself, I'm wondering how much energy the folks who are offended by that have.
She must be almost done now, so wishes for luck are a little late—but congratulations to her on an amazing achievement.
I don't know about you, but I would sure be tempted to click on ads like that just to mess with their algorithms.
Sorry. That's a brutal drive to do in a day. Take care of yourself.
It's tough duty, reporting on tragedy. Treat yourself right.
Similar. I'm sticking with local places and Costco from here on.
I had a judge who said he would just as soon have us seated to make objections in a trial to him. Opposing counsel and I kept standing. We weren't trying to ignore the judge, but it was a pretty strong habit from appearances before other judges.
Per this article, they burned some parts in the week ending June 29th—and were going to burn more on July 15. wwrn.org/articles/3963/ Hat tip to @invictusghost.bsky.social‬ for the post @ bsky.app/profile/invi...
On the machinations, the Supreme Court decided that these cases are enough like its decision letting states deny trans health care to make the lower courts to look at them again. To me, it's very hard to predict where this goes because the anti-health-care decision has really confused reasoning.
The New York Post put the shooting in Iowa. They later fixed the headline, but the URL remains to identify it as an Iowa shooting: nypost.com/2025/06/30/u...
Coeur d'Alene has the highest concentration of right-wing white nationalists of any area in the country. Here is why today's terrorist attack on firefighters was probably carried out by liberal Democrats.
USFS firefighters are the federal government. It may have been city firefighters who were shot, but it's fair to say that the shooters could be too stupid to know the difference.
It's sad but an excellent indication of my nerdiness that it only took about three seconds for me to decide that was my fav.
Not that I'm in the dating world, but it would be 1031 for me.
I have to think you're overthinking it. I have two rice cookers, but I've gone back to making rice in a pot. That way I can customize a little, and I'm in the kitchen for other things anyway, so it's no problem to watch a pot.
Yes. Again, I'm in no position to compare, but it may be that Qatar was easier than this. It's much easier for me to run a good pace in 100+ F in the dry Palousethan in Louisiana's lower temps but very high humidity.. Obvs you need to hydrate, but at my mediocre pace, I can manage the heat.
These players are MUCH more fit than I, but I doubt that much affects their ability to cool. Conservatively, I'd guess they'd ordinarily burn 300 KCal per game, and each Kcal raises a liter by a degree. I haven't watched the games, but I'd guess that heat management is a major part of strategy.
Fair point. I've never been to Qatar, so I can't compare, but I did recreational middle-distance running in Louisiana, and it's brutal. Even months of acclimating to the heat and humidity, the limiting factor in my speed during summer days was my appeal to shed heat.
I imagine FIFA got used to ignoring questions like that when it staged the World Cup in Qatar.
Crapo's first words of his speech on the Senate floor just now were a misque "making the 2017 tax cuts permanent presents a problem... I mean, PREVENTS a problem..." 🙃
I think about the reporter who said, "People Be Lying." When media members ask for a legally unenforceable guarantee from a liar, they just help promote the lie. Shame on Tapper.
As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)
Thanks!
If you wouldn't mind sharing the name, I'd love to know. There are a lot of bar takers who would love a quiet place to stay during the exam, and there exactly the type who wouldn't disturb other guests.
Mind you, I'm not sure about that, but to me the big challenge is the political process of getting new justices on the Court. But if the political process allowed for non-Trumpist justices, it boggles the mind to think that they would honor decisions by a lawless and corrupt Supreme Court.
It might be better than that. Now, the Supreme Court is enforcing its preferences by ignoring precedent, so a subsequent court can undo its work by respecting the prior precedent. By contrast, the reconstruction court wrote on a blank slate, so precedent unambiguously constrained later courts.
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government is now offering options to attend remotely or to finish outside the US. Trump's spite is increase the US deficit in an area, education, where it's been quite successful. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Thank you. You reported research on the effect of name familiarity on voting that I didn't know, which shows that the media's biases in reporting can have really pernicious effects.
It’s been a long and hard journey, but this letter I received today has made every heartache, smear campaign and sleepless night more than worth it!
Christian Nationalist Paul would shriek "OH MY GAWWWWD, THERE'S IDOLATROUS OBJECTS OF WORSHIP IN ATHENNNNS! WE NEED TO TAKE OVER ATHENS AND MAKE IT HAVE LAWS ACCORDING TO OUR BELIIIIEEFS, OR WESTERN CIVILIZATION IS DOOOOOMED!" Actual Paul preached the sermon in Acts 17:22-31
I’ve reached full retirement age and applied for benefits. Historically the review took up to 30 days (per website when I applied). It took 60 days to process my application so, yes, time was doubled.
Amber Alert: Idaho Keep your eyes open for these two teen siblings. May be traveling with adult siblings in Grey Honda sedan with Utah plates. Kidnapped, last seen in Monteview, ID on 6/23/25. May be heading to FLDS compound in Mendon, UT.
We academics only capitalize the first letters of words. For capitalizing everything, see @angrynidaho.bsky.social
Yes, it definitely has that sound.
Yes. Anyone who's done oral argument will, ten minutes after its over, think of three things they should have said differently, but that's not like this. I totally agree with those people who are saying things like they'd be yeeting themselves into the sun.
If you have in mind Judge Kacsmaryk, I'm thinking you weren't going to end up as friends anyway.
This is much worse. I can see a second-grader calling a kind teacher "mommy". Here, the lawyer's tone of voice is dismissive, and the word is belittling.
Yup, audio on.
Vacated—meaning, effectively, a nationwide injunction? Not holding my breath for Senator Grassley to say anything about this.
I barely survived puberty in an era of no language, knowledge, or resources. Thankfully my attentive mom saw my misery, and my note. If I’d lived in a time when there is language, knowledge, and resources? But told you cannot have them? I would not have survived that.
My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.
After reading this, how would anyone trust any version of Elon's artificial intelligence to drive a car?
I only wish they were the only country of idiots. Alas, there are plenty to go around.
The Senate Majority leader is lying
So probably better than Idaho now in real terms.
That's bad. Idaho has improved lately, to $100 for contract work, but that's still not a lot.
I used to use "Hush, little baby, don't you cry" but with my own improvised lyrics, like "Daddy's gonna get you a pizza pie."
I'd heard the joke about a lawyer calling a plumber and getting a bill of $300 for two hours work. The lawyer said, "$150 an hour? That's more than I make and I'm a lawyer." The plumber said, "Yeah, it was more than I made when I was a lawyer, too."
Trump is reducing the ability of American universities, which produce enormous benefits for the US, to compete internationally. Other countries would welcome a world-class university.
Wrote this in the summer of 2020, definitely a good sign to be dusting it off now. "Less lethal" weapons are tools of colonial occupation marketed to police, and tools of police marketed to colonial soldiers. Anti-civilian weapons more than "less-lethal" www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
DHS FIRING ON US FOR A MINUTE STRAIGHT OUTSIDE THE DETENTION CENTER. Please watch and share. EYES ON LA! FUCK ICE!
IMHO it was a screwup by FSB to start with the Kia. They've got to mind their budgets, but with the high officials corrupt, no one worth bombing is going to be driving a Kia.
Amazing. Respect the lede.
No, because that was the part they agreed on.
Ah, reviving, "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."
Congratulations, Jane!
Yes. IMHO, the opinions of many people are in a state like quantum uncertainty—they doesn't exist one way or another until polling. Once an individual person is polled, that opinion might get hard to change, but most people aren't polled, so polling results change a lot.
Trump can say this, but Trump guidance doesn't override the law, so it won't protect them if they're prosecuted for manslaughter or sued for wrongful death for refusing care.
Could be. I'm sure the grifters were just using ChatGBT, but it's very interesting what it picks up from the zeitgeist.
Fiscal conservatives wouldn't have voted to cut funding for the IRS. They're for higher deficits and tax cheats.
North Idaho has its own administrative code? I guess its planning on seceding.
Reminds me of "Young Men and Fire" and "The Big Burn". I sure hope we don't have another bad season, but with the cuts to staffing I can't muster much hope.
Counting bodies is not what the diversity standard does. It really does look at efforts. I've been at institutions that were majority-minority that got dinged for not having efforts and conversely schools that were very white that met it. Etc., etc.