The Bay Area seemed like such a mystical and magical place as little as 20 years ago. What the hell happened?
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The Bay Area seemed like such a mystical and magical place as little as 20 years ago. What the hell happened?
Via "One First," my quick stab at the legal authority President Trump will likely claim allows him to deploy un-federalized Texas National Guard troops to Illinois; why such a deployment without Illinois's consent *ought* to be unlawful; and the options Illinois will have for litigating that issue:
It's not the same problems. It's worse. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sect...
WTAF. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sect...
Good overview here www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sect...
These problems are even bigger. As a constitutional matter, the deployment of unfederalized Guard personnel into a nonconsenting state can never happen. Never.
Anyone who participates in what appears in context to be a proposed military occupation of Chicago “because crime” will be doing something that is illegal and is obligated not to do that. That’s all I’ll say.
Interesting. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
I'm wondering what the 9th Circuit guys think of this, given their previous action.
lol wut
Unlike most OU fans and alumni, I don't hate Notre Dame (in fact, I kind of like them). That being said, I strongly dislike Lou Holtz and how his Play Like A Champion Today sign has become more associated with the Irish than any other program and how he trademarked the phrase. Not that anyone cares.
Seriously. bsky.app/profile/anna...
Okay, f*ck every federal official (elected or appointed) and employee participating in this shady-as-hell, bad-faith attempt to remove these kids in violation of their due process rights. Good thing these kids have advocates and a responsive judge assigned.
I've read it. The period I'm talking about is pre-WWI. The immediate post-WWI red scare and the oil discoveries in the 1920s effectively killed the socialist movement in OK.
Yes, but even if the author meant otherwise, Oklahoma was a hotbed of socialist politics in its first 20 years or so if territorial/statehood existence.
Maybe he's going to reveal himself as the Antichrist to the shock of his evangelical followers. Lol.
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/t...
Only if you make them write papers about how great you are for their grades.
Counterpoints: fascism and "Florida Man"
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…
As another OU football season dawns, just wanted to put this out there: f*ck the SEC.
I'm not going to post it here because I don't want them getting more traffic, but the Free Beacon had a more in-depth article about these actions and how they're intended to prevent UN action on Palistinian independence or recognition outside of the Israeli-preferred peace option.
Time for the upcoming UN General Assembly to announce a venue change to Geneva. apnews.com/article/isra...
Lol.
No one's arguing guns are causing the violent behavior, dingus. They're saying guns exacerbate the death and destruction and other impacts. If accessing guns were more difficult, some people would still have violent impulses and try to hurt large numbers of people. It just wouldn't be as easy.
Robert E. Lee was a mid military tactician, a traitor, and a loser. His best maneuver was the retreat. Other than Chancellorsville, he was entirely unremarkable. His one accomplishment may have been saving a little college in Virginia. He doesn’t deserve honors. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Whee. #WhiteSox
Your students have time for intramurals?
I like the cream colored ones with the blue hats w/red brims, objectively. But these ones sure do inspire some good nostalgia.
Relatable
Resign or impeach him.
In other terrible news, AI "Death Panels" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Dammit, Jerry.
It will never happen (for reasons), but any other fanbase would have started "Sell the Team" chants long ago.
He played for the Yankees longer than he played for the Rangers, and I recall news stories that he and his family lived in Connecticut when he played up there. So "New York Yankees?!" in the mold of the old Pace commercials is spot on.
Tag the man. @colorado.gov -- still feel this way?
WTF. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Proposed HUD timeline puts working families at risk of eviction journalrecord.com/2025/08/27/o... #Oklahoma
Less expensive, too
Finally got around to watching the music video for the first single released from Florence & the Machine’s forthcoming October 31 album. Florence is going full Florence, it would seem.
So I get in the car after meetings in Tulsa and start the drive home to OKC, find the White Sox game on Sirius XM, and proceed down I-44. Sox had a 1-0 lead. It was the beginning of the 5th inning...
Architecture, period--not just skyscraper architecture. There are gems and history all over the place.
I hate these political decisions and don't see how they possibly meet our professional ethics obligations. If we're going to have an adversarial legal system, we need competent representation of both sides in legal disputes.
Even if they lower the charge so they don't need a grand jury indictment, I find it hard to believe a trial jury won't do the same thing.
Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Only not civilian and at higher cost. Congrats, Republicans. You've brought back a twisted and more expensive New Deal.
Janet Yellen in FT oped - Trump’s attack on the Fed threatens US credibility. History teaches us that chaos follows when leaders undermine the independence of central banks www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
"Here’s a section of the CBO report that Trump and his courtiers missed: 'We estimate that the changes in tariffs will reduce the size of the U.S. economy...The increases in tariffs will make consumer goods and capital goods more expensive.'" www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-four...
deploying highly trained soldiers at the cost of millions of dollars per day to do light janitorial duty really will make the capital cleaner and is the kind of thing they would impeach a democratic politician for doing. trump always gets to play on easy mode with the unlimited money cheat
Texas Voters are seeking to block the state's new congressional map before the 2026 midterms, arguing it constitutes a racial gerrymander. Voters offered evidence that a Republican state representative said the redraw was based on race, not partisanship. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This website is incredibly useful at times, for just about any sport. www.sportslogos.net
This is a different ornitho bird than what's on the BP hats. BP hats are like early 90s, and this one looks more like the ones from the late 2000s immediately before they switched back to the cartoon bird.
In his head, more like unitary executive/legislative/judicial. He is just "the branch."
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are getting married. Good for them. I'm sure everyone will be rational about this.
I read this meme as satirically highlighting how only the Cracker Barrel design changes merited cries of "wokeness" or "communism" from the right.
"Further ado" and "farther adieu" are also joined by "further adieu," which is pidgin Midwestern for the hours-long saying of goodbyes after a house party or family dinner.
Like when you turn the corner heading southbound on I-5 after landing at SeaTac and all the sudden Rainier is out and directly ahead of you.
I can’t recommend Bluetooth shower speakers enough. Allows podcasts, audiobooks, or favorite radio programs throughout my morning routine. Also a good way jumpstart my brain before work.
My 11yo nephew has it down pat, including a good understanding of specific context where it will have the greatest impact. And yet I somehow always fail to anticipate it. Lol
I feel the same about "in this economy?!" jokes, especially when coming from elementary-age children.
Who knew that the GOP would willingly and enthusiastically walk right into every caricature-like criticism the left-wing of the Democratic Party lobbed their way over the last 30+ years?
This is patently unconstitutional. For one, 18 USC § 700 has been void since Texas v. Johnson (1989) and United States v. Eichman (1990) under the First Amendment. Second, there is no federal authority for an anti-flag burning statute. The national government does not have a general police power.
How can any American watch this cringeworthy royal court cosplay and not want to throw up? "Thanks to your infinite wisdom, your majesty, we have given arms to the troops occupying the imperial capital. They are an extension of your holy will."
Not in the way JFK or Reagan used the phrase, but maybe still in the way Winthrop did.
Does this mean everyone's walking around with really pale skin and giant dark circles under their bloodshot eyes?
And the response is so simple. "Maybe they adopted or used a donor. It's a future/advanced society, so maybe they have other technological or medical advances that make other things possible. Who knows?"
Trump is a communist. Noted.
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” ― Confucius
May I present to you Democratic leadership as portrayed by The Good Place's Committee
Regular reminder, for every time he tweets something like this, ABC and NBC don't pay for broadcast licenses. Their affiliates do (yes, they each own some affiliates, but most affiliates are independent). Also saying you'll lose a license based on editorial choices is so very much a 1A violation
Like, it’s painful.
Keep digging for verifiable information, regardless of who might be implicated.
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell. Listen to the survivors.
Why am I--an Oklahoma resident whose cell phone number has a Texas area code--getting campaign texts about the Miami, Florida mayoral race?
Wife and I have been rewatching "The Good Place." It's amazing how the Democratic leadership acts like the Good Place's 'Committee' in trying to respond to the fascist direction towards which the rest of the government seems happy guiding us.
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
I have several friends who love it (and one who is completely obsessed with it on an almost religious level).
I’ve never seen an episode. Lol.
Or go to Urbana or Madison on some football weekend to participate in the festivities.
Louisville (drive time less than 5 hours). Baseball, bourbon, horse racing, Victorian architecture, riverboats, Olmsted-designed parks, decent food scene and museums.
I do not recognize this at all.
Is it faux pas to wear a team polo to a game? Asking, uh, for a friend.
Still sad we never got to see the Eclipse in anything.
“[HPD Detective Kyle] Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks.”
SROs and boarding houses FTW
My youngest nephew started his 2nd peewee football season this morning. He's #7 in red, and he's super excited to be playing center this season.
Agreed, if you're talking about DC. Everything about Chicago or other places is speculation at this point. Theoretically, Posse Comitatus would prevent a mirror of DC there or in other cities.
[Don't get excited, don't get excited don't get excited...]