The murder rate in Tampa, where Benny lives, is nearly triple that of New York City
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The murder rate in Tampa, where Benny lives, is nearly triple that of New York City
Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do
I assume that given that there were tens of 1,000s of ppl attending the concert and an internationally famous band performing, they just didn’t think a camera would suddenly spotlight *them* — while accompanied by Mr. Chris Martin’s love commentary about them possibly “having an affair”!! 🤪
💯% Honestly, I think it’s sorta constructive hubris — whenever any band or cultural phenomenon gets TOO massive, there’s often an assumption that they can’t possibly have earned that level of acclaim and so deserve to be humbled (even if the artists themselves are not actually personally arrogant)
HEY!! I like Coldplay!! 😝 Just my humble basic opinion — plz don’t block me!! Kthnxbai…
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2025 Blue Jays game-by-game record: LWLWWWWLLLWWWLLWLWWWLLLLLWLLL🅆WWLLLLWWWWLWLL🅆LWW🅆LLLWLWWWWWL🅆WWWLWWWLLL🅆WLLWLWLWWLWWWWW🅆🅆W
THE BLUE JAYS WERE 8 GAMES BACK 5½ WEEKS AGO MY GOODNESS
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Hey everyone, just a reminder: A little more than a week ago, a Republican terrorist killed two people and injured two more in an effort to kill enough democrats to capture the Minnesota Legislature
I feel like someone should teach Paul Krugman the ways of using Emojis — They are so often the Pareto Optimal response!! 😝
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I don't really know how you don't look at the rise of illiberal reactionaries as *the* defining political trend of the Western World right now. People are reacting to the confusion and chaos of modernity by going into hysterics and trying to burn it down. So far, they're succeeding.
Indeed, it's basically *the very same mechanism that brings about both results.* I can never be too hard on our information environment because I would be absolutely miserable without the level of freedom and access it has given me. But what insane variance it brings about.
It's honestly incredible how polarized the knowledge environment is. If you approach things with the right mindset you, as a non-practitioner, non-student, auto-didact, can learn almost any topic extremely deeply. This coexists w/widespread acceptance of the most insane lies and delusions.
Unconditional surrender to this is real scary in thirty six hours. This isnt TACO its a cinco de mayo street fair. nypost.com/2025/06/19/u...
Judge: And so given all those factual findings, I'm going to exercise the discretion I have to ORDER THE RELEASE of Mahmoud Khalil
Judge: All this together suggests there is *something* to underlying claim that there is an effort to use the immigration charge here to punish the petitioner. I do not find likelihood of success, but I don't need to. My finding here is that extraordinary circumstances standard IS met.
Judge: Ms. Das today invokes 1A claim and due process punishment claim. In due process punishment claim, process is punishment. One argument petitioner has made is that he is being punished. Immigration process is being used not to vindicate immigration laws but to punish him for speech.
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Joe Walsh actually became a reasonably decent human being…same goes with Bill Kristol + David Frum…it took a few years, but my early 2000s self could Never!!
But just so we’re clear, Cruz is def the ass cancer, right?!?
Al Franken on Ted Cruz: “I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.” 🤪
I 💯% agree!! It feels so dirty and appalling to admit this — and reveals the absolute intellectual dishonesty + scumbaggery of Cruz in forcing us to so wholeheartedly agree with someone as loathsome as Carlson 🤪
…which would give “Immaculate”a number of potential different meanings here!! 😝
spirit of halloween did not deserve this take it back
The Trump administration’s table of authorities in this filing:
Contemporary LA’s paucity of public transit is notorious: youtu.be/AwKv3_WwD4o?...
Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.
I don’t think I agree with you on *everything*, Rachel — but 💯% agree with you on the brainrottedness of reflexive both-sider-ism!!
Really shocked that an admin filled with podcasters, social media influencers, reality TV participants, indicted felons, crypto bros, drunks, Fox hosts, drug addicts, weirdos, and unqualified ass kissing toadies can’t keep their shit together for 24 consecutive hours.
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Not a Rita Hayworth poster…
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How about Desert Power?!?
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Ahh. White Sox. Of course.
So…is the new pope a Cubs fan?
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FARLEY'S CHARACTER: Point o' order 'dere Bill, Ditka an' Jordan cannot die at the same time, as the only person who is strong enough to kill Jordan is, in fact, Ditka. POPE BOB: Dat is true, dat is true. (raising beer mug)
"Our guest this week on Bill Swerski's Superfans is our good buddy Pope Bob, thanks fer comin' Pope, I gotta theological one fer ya: let's say Ditka an' Jordan die at exactly the same time, Saint Peter's up there at the pearl gates n' all 'at, who's Peter lettin' in first"
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The Pope is a White Sox fan, which is a good sign that he understands and can empathize with human suffering
Bill Swerski: Da conclave picked a Chicago boy
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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BREAKING: Trump is pulling the Ed Martin nomination! WELL DONE! Pushback WORKS!
Vance: "Which regime in the world has civil nuclear power and enrichment without having a nuclear weapon? The answer is - no one." Germany, Netherlands, Brazil and Japan all have civil nuclear power and the ability to enrich uranium. None have nuclear weapons.
Take 3 minutes to listen to Draymond Green talk about Gregg Popovich
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Mark Carney deployed unbelievable levels of blandness in defence of Canada. Blandness like you've never seen.
Trump dealing with PM Carney is an embarrassing and sad situation. Trump ego. Narcissism. Ignorance. Insulting. PM Carney dignified. Intelligent restrained.
Reporter: I was watching your face during the meeting.. what was going through your mind when the President talked about erasing the border.. Carney: I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind Reporter: Oh I could
Wow, wow, wow Declassified National Intelligence Council, Sense of the Community Memorandum: "The Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States." Now consider: DOJ lawyers saying opposite to courts!
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At least Ted can give the Rockets some good suggestions for where to stay in Cancun. That's where he runs every time there's a crisis in TX.
A big "thank you" to Ted Cruz as well! #Warriors
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So two elections, in countries among America's closest (erstwhile) allies, and the center-left parties not only beat the center-right party but the center-right opposition leaders lost their own seats. In Australia I guess not as exclusively abt Trump as in Canada. But still a big, big factor.
Trump is singlehandedly revitalizing the global center-left
At least one other judge is prepped to do what Howell does here--point out that the problem with Paul Weiss was not a NatSec issue. It was just that they hadn't bribed Trump yet.
![Second, and tellingly, the Paul, Weiss EO contained a virtually identical security clearance review provision to the one at issue in this case. Compare EO 14230 § 2, 90 Fed. Reg. at 11781, with Paul, Weiss EO § 2, 90 Fed. Reg. at 13039. As discussed, see supra Part III.B.1(b), the Paul, Weiss EO was revoked only seven days after its issuance when President Trump reached a “deal” with that firm. See generally Paul, Weiss Revocation Order, 90 Fed. Reg. 13685. While the Paul, Weiss Revocation Order summarized that firm’s agreement to, inter alia, “adopt[] a policy of political neutrality with respect to client selection and attorney hiring; tak[e] on a wide range of pro bono matters representing the full political spectrum; commit[] to merit-based hiring, promotion, and retention . . .; dedicat[e] the equivalent of $40 million in pro bono legal services during [President Trump’s] term in office . . .; and other similar initiatives,” none of these agreedupon policy or practice changes appear to explain or address how any national security concerns sufficient to warrant the Paul, Weiss EO could have changed so rapidly. Id. § 1, 90 Fed. Reg. at 13685. The speed of the reversal and the rationale provided in the Paul, Weiss Revocation Order, which focused only on agreements to advance policy initiatives of the Trump Administration, see id., further support the conclusion that national security considerations are not a plausible explanation for Section 2.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreibf4neutbr35rydx6sxznmmy6bkmbsajs4gs3khw57y6ilf6cbvt4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Howell notes that Trump fucked up his most recent claim about Perkins Coie; it is suing him, not vice versa. 🤣
From her opinion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Beryl Howell has thrown out the entirety of the Trump EO targeting Perkins Coie, including any security clearance restrictions tied to the EO. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The US government, which has claimed it has to destroy American universities because a few pro-Palestinian protesters are evidence of unchecked anti-Semitism, is defending an actual neo-Nazi party in Germany.
OK, that’s fair — as an Anglophone / Allophone 🇨🇦 whose riding growing up I believe was named Don Valley East, I have to admit that I was pretty amused by this post
I mean, they probably *DO* actually and to some degree sincerely view themselves as liberals / leftists!! They just are either so politically unaware or good at cognitive dissonance that they do not comprehend or accept the practical political consequences of their NIMBYism!
Look at you being all fancy with your (stopped) military time clock 🫡😝
Q. ‘Has Pierre Poilievre called to congratulate you?’ A. ‘I haven’t heard from him. I don’t know that he will. That’s up to him.’
I think people voted for Fanjoy because he is the kind of candidate who would call to congratulate his opponent.
I’m more of a (former) political theorist type, so have a wonky interest in the usage of political / ideological labels… One point in your favour is that the ppl I’ve listed have themselves become queasy about the label “libertarian” as they’re uncomfortable with how it’s been deployed in practice
Well, trying to intro you to some? YMMV — As an hardline partisan political ideology, there’s a lot of nonsense. As a critical POV deployed against possibilities of sclerosis, corruption, or capture of government institutions — including in liberal democracies — it can offer some useful insights
Some examples of ppl who do or at least did identify as (either centrist or maybe even “left”) libertarians who are not idiots: bsky.app/profile/norm... modelcitizen.substack.com www.niskanencenter.org
I’d say that it’s closer to having an affinity to (negative) “liberty” in a stark abstract sense, but not necessarily a great idea of how liberty is achieved in concrete practice. There do exist “left libertarians”, BTW (not saying I’m one of them): en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-li...
“Populist leftist” vs “centrist” is *not* the correct frame RN! As shown in AOC’s apology to Conor Lamb for being unfamiliar with his game — Lamb + Pritzker may be ideologically less “leftist” than other Dems, but what’s important is their willingness to fight: www.thebulwark.com/p/some-weird...
💯 Actually realizing the “liberty” part of “libertarian” here…
JPMORGAN: “.. Today's US trade and inventory data have prompted us to revise our 1Q US GDP estimate to -1.8%q/q saar––significantly worse than our previous estimate of 0%.” 🇺🇸
Maria Bartiromo breaks news to her viewers that GDP contracted in the first quarter and it sounds like she's announcing the JFK assassination
A/S/L?!? 🤪
Republican fiscal hawks:
In the law firm executive order cases, DOJ takes the position that an injunction barring implementation will only be enforceable against the govt agencies named in the complaint. So Perkins Coie just amended its complaint to name all the relevant fed agencies. The case caption is now 40 pages long.
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This should be a basic lesson from other countries’ opposition movements vs. authoritarian regimes!! Opposition might consist of liberals + capitalists + religious conservatives + socialists / communists — no need to try to make them agree on anything besides than restoring rule of law + democracy!
I meannn — Love, Actually was fun and heartwarming in a corny way…and it had Keira Knightly and lotsa other charming ppl in it…we can’t be highbrow + refined *all* of the time, right?!? 🙈🎄🎁❤️🩹✨
I have very unexpectedly developed a lot of respect for Clement + Judge Luttig — I suppose less unexpectedly for the latter recently — who have shown themselves to be actual constitutional conservatives / republicans (small-r) 🇺🇸🫡
They might have won a handful pretty freakish ridings in the West, maybe?? But, yeah — would’ve lost Official Party status…
It do be like dat sometimes…unfortunately…
True evil 😶💔