Michael Stanford

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

HOP

Never give up hop 🐸

the portland frogs are just so great

every portland frog video and picture brings joy. a real "we will win" vibe from those frogs together strong

to Catholics, the monstrance is considered the literal presence of Christ. outside of Mass it’s often used for what’s called Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, which is anything from sitting in silence to a whole prayer service with readings and music, with the monstrance on the altar

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

800 lb Gorilla line

Self-proclaimed leftists determined to pooh-pooh the United Sates fighting the Nazis and Imperial Japan in WWII as not actually a good thing are engaging in absolute loser bitch shit, don't @ me.

This kind of partisan political message, under the guise of a public service announcement, is illegal on several levels.

Non-Trump Republican judges seem to be doing a better job recognizing the stakes of the present moment than the modal elected Dem.

Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self. ⁦ @bariweiss ⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are. Order Life with Baum!

like a daughter to him

Disgusted barbie

This is either super comradely or this is Arya’s list.

52 is in the middle because he’s the size of The Hound.

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

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the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

The Mark Bray situation is so completely fucked right now and if you're a journalist you need to start saying how it's fucked because you're fucking next. They won't stop at academics.

Would you describe the legal setback as being just…a minor one?

All else equal — ceteris paribus, as the economists say — if you were to just grab that expensive watch from the jewelry store counter and walk out the door, you'd be better off.

Only all else would not be equal.

Lots of data-centric political punditry is basically "grab the watch".

This is the kind of shit that a competent regulatory regime should nuke online sportsbooks from orbit for.

You want to be in the pocket of every risk addicted 20-something dude in America you get limits slammed on the size of the edge you can take against them.

this is an impressive feat of wrongness

-I have no idea how they did the inflation calculation but it's roughly 5-6x too high
-Bob Cratchit is explicitly depicted a skilled office laborer, not destitute
-inflation calculations over two centuries obscure huge shifts in prices of necessary goods

E-bikes have evolved into e-motorcycles. Law enforcement is lagging behind. Serious injuries are on the rise in emergency rooms around the country, as electric cycles become bigger and faster. Lawmakers and police departments are scrambling to address the problem.

My unpopular urbanist opinion is that big, hyperfast two-wheelers are a menace and should be banned from bike lanes/paths (with enforcement).

These things endanger everyone riding a bike or legal e-bike. Worse, they deter some from even trying.

I am never going to be a fan of a politician. That way lies disappointment. But Pritzker right now is the person I think is calibrating it right.

This isn’t negotiating about social security with W. You either get that or you don’t.

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

a fortunate quirk is that doing food and medical support for impoverished children, foreign and domestic, *also* is about the biggest bang it is possible to get for our buck.

so you can analyze aid on a moral basis or a realpolitik basis and you get the same answer: we should do it

This isn’t the first time Miller has used the term “plenary authority” with respect to the Presidency. He did so already in March, but that time he was referring to the president’s authority in foreign policy. What’s new here is now to say this absolute power also applies domestically.

Which is to say—even if you dismiss the intrinsic value of the art of writing, which you should not JFC, communicating clearly is a skill in and of itself as much as any technical discipline, and a valuable one.

I’m a signal processing engineer here to tell you that there’s huge demand for people who can express ideas clearly in any language. Every work team needs someone who can synthesize ideas into written or spoken words and get the team onto the same page, literally and figuratively.