Eldritch Millennial

…..something about a mummy…

I need more coffee.

A real prosecutor would be embarrassed by losing cases like this, wasting taxpayer resources on a hopeless and partisan case But a trump loyalist doesn't care about that and knows just indicting someone can ruin their life (and cost them $10,000s in legal fees to defend even a joke case)

Come on, we can’t start brining this up until November at the earliest.

This is just holiday incest creep, or at least creepy holiday incest.

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

Margaret Atwood recalls in an interview in 2012 what was said to her as she was touting ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ around book publishers…

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

This is the correct response to the question. Media needs to read the 22nd amendment

Who could have predicted?

The real tell is that they never ever work with patient or provider groups on their plans. Obama spoke at the AMA annual conference and published in the NEJM. You can’t even imagine Republicans (let alone Trump) meeting with say the American Cancer Society to develop their plans.

Truly deranged! Tons of right-wing moral panic fuel in there. If that's what's going to inform what Musk's LLM churns out, it's an attempt to brute-force reality to match his political beliefs.

We all know this is a direct result of conservative media just openly lying to its constituency and the absolute cowardice of the mainstream media to effectively call it what it is.

We’re the Husbands from Every Haunted House Movie, and We Think You’re Just Not Giving Our New Home a Chance Now, Muriel, no one said that moving was going to be easy. It’s been a chaotic time for all of us. And, true, our new place isn’t perfect. It doesn...

"Sometimes, BethAnn, to get a historic home at such a steal, you have to take a few lumps and bumps. Or rashes. Or unexplained bite marks."

Neomedievalist memes are doing white Christofascist work Given that the white supremacist running the account churns out offensive content like the hatemonger he is, it might seem silly to focus on just one DHS Instagram post.But as a trained medievalist, t...

DHS is the "gift" that keeps on "giving" and by that I mean a factory for white supremacist messaging. I got mad about the neomedievalism from last week, for @religiondispatches.org :
religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...

The majority’s order spells out an argument that the government does not make, presumably because the government recognizes the lack of factual support. The argument in the majority’s order proceeds as follows. FPS has 776 officers, but only 497 officers are trained to protect federal buildings. Robert Cantu, the regional FPS director, asserted that, from June through September, “115 FPS officers have had to deploy to Portland.” The majority’s order first assumes that all 115 officers—nearly a quarter of the agency’s officers with relevant training— were stationed in Portland in late September. The majority’s order next reasons that such a diversion supports an inference that Portland is a significant source of staffing woes. But that argument impermissibly adds facts to Director Cantu’s vague, carefully worded assertion. Crediting his assertion, we know that a total of 115 officers from elsewhere were deployed in Portland during the preceding four months. The record contains no information about how many officers were in Portland at any given time. For all we know, FPS sent a different 8 officers to Portland every week for 14 or 15 weeks, meaning that Portland’s drain on FPS’s staff from elsewhere on any particular day was 8 people, not 115. Indeed, the only

description in the record of a “[s]urge” in officers was the deployment of 8 officers. The fact that there were 26 FPS officers on duty on September 6, as the majority’s order emphasizes, Order at 27 n.13, says nothing about whether any or all of those individuals were from somewhere other than Portland. The record does not reveal the number of local FPS officers. Even if we assume that FPS deployed all 115 officers in June, it strains credulity to assume that all 115 of them remained in Portland for four months. What were they doing during the month of August, for example, when there was only a single incident at the ICE facility during the entire month? The record does not tell us. Indeed, the record does not shine light on the most pertinent information: in the days leading up to September 27, how many FPS officers from elsewhere were in Portland? The only hint in the record is a reference to some officers from elsewhere leaving Portland and returning to their home stations. This factual deficit in the record weighs doubly against the government. First, in the present procedural context, the government bears the burden of persuading us that a stay is warranted. See Nken, 556 U.S. at 433–34 (“The party requesting a stay bears the burden of showing that the circumstances justify an exercise of that discretion.”). The government cannot rely on factual ambiguities of its own making to meet its burden.

Second, and perhaps more revealing, the government is the only party with access to the pertinent information. The government presumably has a record of who was deployed to Portland and when. We do not know why the government chose not to file a declaration describing the relevant details. But it cannot submit an ambiguous assertion and then ask us to interpret that assertion in its favor. See Doe #1 v. Trump, 957 F.3d 1050, 1059–60 (9th Cir. 2020) (“The government cannot meet [its] burden [to demonstrate irreparable harm] by submitting conclusory factual assertions and speculative arguments that are unsupported in the record.”); see also Clifton v. United States, 45 U.S. 242, 248 (1846) (“[I]f the weaker and less satisfactory evidence is given and relied on in support of a fact, when it is apparent . . . that proof of a more direct and explicit character was within the power of the party, . . . it may well be presumed, if the more perfect exposition had been given[,] it would have laid open deficiencies and objections which the more obscure and uncertain testimony was intended to conceal.”).5

This is complete bullshit, which was built upon by the panel majority, as Graber meticulously laid out in her dissent on October 20. For DOJ, now, to be like, "Oops, all our math was intentionally vague and/or deceptively wrong and all happened to favor us," is not credible.

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

Fascinating piece on AI and Tech Bubbles!

www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...

How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught

There is a serious silencing campaign on teaching honest histories (perpetrated by federal officials). Important that the NY Times is covering this (great quote from @adamlaats.bsky.social), but all educators must be aware and push back for our students and nation.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

for the rest of the month I implore you: sign off all your emails with

kind regourds,

and because i can imagine the bad faith reading of this, what i am *not* saying is that everything about the extant democratic party is hunky dory other than its total absence of a communications/propaganda infrastructure. what i *am* saying is that this absence puts a hard limit on reaching voters

Taking a break from the horrors: I am happy that the Orioles answered their managerial question quickly.

"i took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, found it difficult, and badly understood what i was being asked to do" is not a great sign

A BBC headline reads: "Trump does not rule out seeking third term – but says he will not use VP loophole"

THERE IS NO VICE PRESIDENT LOOPHOLE. IT'S NOT AMBIGUOUS. NO SERIOUS SCHOLAR OR ANALYST THINKS THERE IS A LOOPHOLE. STOP JUST GIVING TRUMP THE PREMISE, FFS.

The party that has spent decades pontificating about personal responsibility is evading responsibility for keeping the government open when controlling all three branches of government.

So, a child was losing weight (the implication is the stress of the Alpha School's methods) so much so her pediatrician recommended additional snacks, and the School's untrained "guides" (who are not teachers) withheld those snacks from the child until "she met her learning metrics"?

You can see how differently the media covers Republicans perfectly in just this post alone

No panicked follow up on his health, no pushback on the batshit 3rd term non-sense.

an economic system that rewards greed and lack of empathy and exists for private individuals and corporations to profit MIGHT be the actual issue here. it’s not “mental illness”. an SSRI and therapy for capitalists isn’t going to change the goals of capitalism.

The man clearly had a stroke, or TIA, or some other event earlier this year.

Everything Looks Perfect From Far Away An essay on "Peak Indie," inspired by Chris DeVille's book Such Great Heights

This new piece by @ericdharvey.com is so thoughtful and points to the fact that “indie” became, across the 2010s, an identity representing the “tasteful” individual subject, the neolib “subject of interests” par excellence.

ericdharvey.substack.com/p/everything...