Kim Scheinberg

One of the many reasons I hate this is that it takes advantage of the fact that people won't do the math.

$4,200 is $11.50/day. For a family of four, that's 96¢ per meal.

James Baldwin: "It is the innocence that constitutes the crime." By which I believe he meant willful/ convenient/ strategic ignorance.

"The rich people who now form his social circle"?

It's crazy weird how he has no agency in who he surrounds himself with

Retailers Dealing With Increasing Levels of Theft and Violence Report emphasizes importance of preventive measures, coordination with law enforcement

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.

The existence of this photograph (which is a real photo of a real person at a Mamdani campaign event) is enough to establish for me that voters writ large have absolutely no grasp of what policy is or how any given policy impacts their lives. It's all vibes.

I got to spend a few hours with you nearly 40 years ago in NYC while you were getting a tutorial on some fancy (for its time) screenwriting software

You dashed off a comedic preamble to the Declaration of Independence and most definitely did *not* disappoint

Elie Mystal on why the GOP needs the illusion of a Trump third term

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

If anyone is wondering why the NYT seemingly showed so much courage on this particular day a year ago, it's because two days earlier WaPo declined to make a presidential endorsement and lost 10% of their subscriber base overnight

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

CBS News is dead.

A right-wing content mill is about to take its place.

Paramount deserves to hemorrhage money over this. Cancel Paramount+. Boycott their movies in theaters.

The political Right is waging a war on journalism and truth.

Kick them in the profits.

That smile says "people are going to be giving me, the Vicar of Christ, sports jerseys for the rest of my time on earth, and that is not a problem I thought I would have in my papacy."

SHARE Food Network - Catholic Charities DC The SHARE Food Network offers nutritious groceries at a 50 percent discount. Food packages, which include fresh produce and protein items, are available monthly through a network of community-based ho...

If you’re in the Baltimore area, and need to cut food costs, there’s a program run by Catholic Charities called Share Food. It’s basically a bulk buying & volunteer packing community that gets you a 50% discount on groceries. I used the Denver version for years, and never saw any proselytizing.

COUNT I

Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.

COUNT II

The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???

me: a guy here was arrested for assaulting a woman while he was cosplaying as a nazi officer

Dad: what is cosplay

me: *explains*

Dad: sounds like a nazi who stopped "cosplaying" as a normal person

This man's ability to randomly say insightful thing while also putting cosplay in quotes is a trip

In 1931 Dorothy Thompson interviewed Hitler, belittled him, & was subsequently kicked out of Germany when he became Chancellor

Ken's thread and an offhand comment from @bcdreyer.social inspired me to track down the book that came out of that interview, _"I Saw Hitler"!_

www.npr.org/2025/03/14/n...

Every single civil libertarian/right to privacy argument that was laughed off over the past fifty years looks pretty prescient right now, huh?

Thinking about how, when George W. Bush Jr. ran for president, it came out that he was basically an alcoholic, irresponsible failson *into his 40s*, despite being given opportunity after opportunity (a whole f'ing baseball team!). Then, when he finally decided to cosplay adult ...

The weaponization of the justice system is escalating - with the DoJ now acting openly and aggressively as the regime’s instrument to go after the political opposition.

It’s not a consolidated autocracy yet. But this most definitely isn’t rule of law either.

A really good way for the Democrats to prove that they aren't fundamentally the same as Republicans would be for them to clearly and unambiguously disavow Cuomo over stuff like this, and the fact that they aren't racing to do so should suggest a few things about how wide that gulf really is

My torts exam writes itself.

Our dog is at the window barking like mad as she watches four coyotes chase a rabbit

And I have no idea whose side she's on

The through line of a lot of our present dysfunction is an absolute refusal to put service over self among people who seek, or hold, positions where you absolutely must put service over self.

it's so telling that Cuomo is resorting to gutter racism in the final days of this race, but let's please not make the same mistake as with Trump & assume this is disqualifying.

Fun fact: editing Wikipedia to further your own economic interests may lead to the Wikipedia entry being commercial/regulable speech as to you; wonder how that will work for Grokipedia (cf. tushnet.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-...)

An old rabbinic teaching: "It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it."

The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after. And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before. If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too. Saw this & thought I'd repost

Reposting with Alt-text:

Portland, OR, if you're losing SNAP benefits I just saw Heretic Coffee on SE 28th will give you a free breakfast, no questions asked, starting on Nov 1st, just ask for the SNAP breakfast

a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes

a day in an american life