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Add "between my legs" to a movie title You Can See Everything Between My Legs

Expanding the Court is the moderate position

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Team Paxton appears to have sent out fake mailers to Texas voters impersonating a trans student group and claiming to want to help kids secretly transition. The actual group said they had nothing to do with it, despite the mailers copying their aesthetic, and the address traces to a random UPS box.

One day soon we're going to find out that every profitable tech company is actually engaged in circular finance and at least half their revenue never existed.

He's so good at this. Have a listen:

So now we know that a Zacharia is one half of a Scaramucci.

What's up,

Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

Email did to white collar work what the washing machine did to housework: creating as many problems as it solved. See, as Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows in More Work for Mother, washing machines made washing clothes much easier, but in the process, it also shifted cultural norms...

Now that is quite a photo. (Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times)

The newest episode of Slow Horses—wow. Best one yet, in any season.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.

The last half of this quote wasn't circulating nearly as much yesterday, but it's actually the clincher. God bless this brilliant, gifted, absolutely deranged man.

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

Four days before yesterday’s ICE shooting in the Bronx, Judge Gary Brown of EDNY (Trump apptee) listed 7 outrages in an ICE case before him, including evasive & apparently perjurious testimony, post-hoc sworn arrest warrant containing false info, woeful lack of training … 1/2

Democrats will never learn.

Remember when the current frontrunner for NFL MVP was our quarterback? We’re a long way from those days. #BlueCy

“you got that hit mail piece on Talarico?” “sure thing, boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked” “what?”

The Wave Building in La Baule, France, designed by architect Pierre Doucet in 1979 thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/8299993...

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

FUN FACT: The Bible doesn't say *anything* about abortion. Ever. Well, except for the time God provides a handy recipe for a magic potion to induce an involuntary one. Numbers 5:11-31

A huge chunk of elite poli-tastemaking is writing essays from the unstated perspective “Let’s just act as if this obvious liar is being genuine,” like people’s lives are just the score in a debate competition.

This week I released a song I wrote about missing the Iowa I grew up with, before Kim Reynolds and rest of the Republican Party decided to make it dumber, crueler, and less free. youtu.be/pqWOnPiSRU4?...

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

So life now is just entering one-time verification codes again and again until we die, is that right?

Well for one thing I think we’re gonna need to call them something else

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

*youth pastor voice* You know who else was betrayed after a private dinner by one of his twelve closest friends?

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

"why would I deceive you?"

Good horsey

Students at the high school where I teach are circulating a petition to stop the use of generative AI by staff at all levels of the district, demanding actual human work for actual human kids. I have so much hope for the future. The kids are alright.

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

This point, from my recent interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for TNR, is so crucial. Trans people are desperate for relief from the relentless Republican attacks impacting all of us. When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair.

All I see is Mondrian when I'm waiting for a train at Green Park!

Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.

The Cat Righting Reflex is the official name of the process cats use to automatically correct themselves mid-fall and land on their feet. It develops between 3 - 9 weeks of age, and is responsible for the greatest wikipedia gif of all time.

On the one hand these AI models need miles and miles of server racks full of very special chips in order to function. On the other hand, I’m told, they might become super-intelligent and decide to kill us all. But, forgive me, if they did… couldn’t we just, like, UNPLUG THE SERVER RACKS?

Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.

“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.