E. J. McCarthy

BEACH (with seahorse)

I'M AT THE BEACH

BEACH RULES CATCH SOME RAYS

Why does the decor of every beach house seem like it was designed for a person with amnesia who needs to be reminded where they are

A very important fact considering the gravity of what Abbott is threatening to do

If PBS and NPR stations survive the shutdown of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, then they no longer have to give a shit if the federal government is upset with their coverage.

I want to be clear about one thing since the Chicago press isn't getting it: This is NOT about gerrymandering. JB Pritzker is NOT a hypocrite. Texas is already gerrymandered.

This is happening because Texas law dictates that redistricting is to take place every 10 years. 🧵

More clashes with Department of Homeland Security in downtown
Los Angeles

Texas Democrats leave the state to block vote on redrawn House map backed by Trump Texas Democrats are leaving the state in an attempt to prevent the state House from holding a vote Monday on new congressional maps that Republicans hope will net them several additional U.S.

BREAKING: Texas Democrats leave the state to prevent a vote on Republican-led congressional map overhaul pushed by President Trump.

YouTube video by King Tubby - Topic Scientist's Englishman Dub

Scientist's Englishman Dub - King Tubby www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFuV...

"I like gentle people, because there are so many in the world who are not gentle."
Ernie Pyle

Anchor Books, the original "egghead paperbacks," was brilliant editorially in the fifties, and also graphically because the art director from 1954 to 1960 or so was Edward Gorey. His covers for Anchor are hauntingly beautifully and unlike anything in American pubishing before or since. More tk...

Black Panther Party’s Illinois history recognized with heritage trail The Black Panther Party Heritage Trail in Illinois marks 13 locations in Chicago where it the political group made history.

I like this type of public history project. We need more. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/02/b... [gift link]

Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election

Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There “Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.

Assuming we have a functioning judicial system in 2029, we will need to establish an apparatus to determine the culpability and penalty for officials who made things like this happen.

Remarkable reporting via @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and @mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

When the terror of ICE is so evident that your city’s local street artists do what they can to help spread potentially information. Sign by Emeyewhisky.

They’ve basically tossed aside the actual constitutional interpretation thing in favor of just working through the legal code and deciding what they don’t like.

Contrast this with Lonnie Donegan (as Letterman witheringly called Fallon) inviting Greg Gutfeld to be a guest on The Tonight Show

YouTube video by justatinafan Ike and Tina Turner-I Can't Believe What You Say-1964

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All the pundits who criticized Biden for his preemptive pardons should be ashamed of themselves. He knew exactly who Trump is

YouTube video by RootsDaughter41926 Sheila Hylton - Breakfast In Bed (Original 1979 - UK Loversrock)

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Did you say “admitted to the bar in 2024?”

The DEI of it all. This is insane.

I am baffled by the Washington Post's sanitized framing of this story. The Supreme Court is clearly going to "rule on the law" -- that is what courts do! The news is that SCOTUS signaled that it might gut the VRA entirely.

Compare WaPo and Democracy Docket's headlines. Which source do you trust?

I agree with this and I would add that there can be no Democratic Stephen Miller because Democrats despise radical proposals. Proposals that call for uprooting what exists. Mamdani is proposing relatively tame policies coloring within the lines and look at how the elite Dems are reacting...

So let me get this straight: Jack Smith investigates a guy who tried to overturn an election and incited an insurrection… and he’s the one being investigated?

We’re not a serious country. We’re a banana republic with better branding…but that’s going to shit, too.

best plage for it

Pete Alonso LAUNCHED that home run! 🔥

Before they remove her page, here is Dr. Erika McEntarfer's BLS bio page. She's a 20-year career official PhD labor economist.

Cuomo comic - people said my political career ends in disgrace but I’m writing a new chapter one in which my political career ends in abject humiliation

Thank you @guyrichardssmit.bsky.social

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

"Write what should not be forgotten."
Isabel Allende, born on this day in 1942

The economy is so good that I'm firing the BLS Commissioner for reporting numbers so grim I refuse to believe them, and also demanding the Fed cut rates typically seen during a recession.