James Harrigan

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Lox is not smoked salmon. Lox is brine-cured salmon. www.dictionary.com/browse/lox

I would pay a boatload of money for someone to teach my corgi Clyde or Claudia’s corgi Gracie to do this. But I think only Gracie would be adventurous enough to take to it

ht: @amazlngnature.bsky.social

Here’s some dog content to temporarily distract you from the mess happening in the world

a technicality that worked because of inexcusable incompetence by the city's attorneys. infuriating.

Roger Taney is offended, he's the WOAT and always will be.

increased housing supply leads to lower housing costs, who would have guessed it? Other than anyone who got at least a B- in intro econ, I mean.

The Nation's Data at Risk, Year Two - Ongoing Monitoring | Ron Wasserstein We're witnessing a quiet crisis that threatens America's economic and societal foundation: the degradation of our federal statistical infrastructure. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announceme...

The proverbial “slow-moving train wreck….”

The nation will suffer in the short and long run if Congress doesn’t pay attention to the risks of forcing our policymakers and citizens to fly blind.

www.linkedin.com/posts/ron-wa...

#econsky @aaronsojourner.org

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:

“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

hooray for you, Anna!

I have no idea why people are reposting this again, but it's making me happy. A subway classic!

Digital Corruption Takes Over DC Time to call crypto what it is: A criminal enterprise

good history in here. stablecoins are like highly rickety pre-Civil War banks, except worse and more dangerous paulkrugman.substack.com/p/digital-co...

good, promising players, but hard to see any of the five making an All Star team.

best thing on the internet today, 14/10.

There is ample coverage of Trump's depredations every day. A few news cycles about the tragic farce that was Biden's reelection campaign story don't detract from that.

you know that LFI has allied with the most virulently anti-semitic and Islamist elements of French society, right?

Want to trust federal statistics, like jobs & inflation? If so, you should object to a rule to make senior federal stats staff more like political appointees.
Find out more & how to comment on it here: (www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...).
Deadline: 5/23/25. Quantity matters, so repost.

This happened in my town. The Albemarle County Sheriff's department is responsible for security, and when I've been in court (for jury duty and as a civil witness) armed sheriff's deputies controlled the entrance, including screening for weapons. Conclusion: the sheriffs let these guys in.

my condolences.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

agreed on all counts, Western Conference playoffs look pretty great. In the East though, we're just waiting for the inevitable and sure to be epic Boston-Cleveland conference finals.

"Abolish ICE" remains an idiotic slogan.

...and what business in the world would make such an investment based on the mood swings of our mad King? And even if we did "reshore" substantial production, it would be at a higher price than we're currently paying - otherwise it would have already happened without a tariff. 3/n

If businesses see tariffs as high and permanent, then moving production to the US might become a better way to serve the (huge) US market. But if this will only happen if the tariffs are seen as permanent... 2/n

nice thread, John. I'll add just a few points: Although Trump's tariffs are crazy, the idea that higher tariffs would cause more goods to be produced in the US is not crazy 1/n

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

nice! you're a few days ahead of us, but ours will be there soon.

A one-time season ticket holder, the A's are dead to me, and should be to the Chron as well. I hope they lose every game from now until eternity.

"but most could not exclude the possibility that people who get vaccinated might have other dementia-protective characteristics, like healthier lifestyles, better diets or more years of education.

The new study ruled out many of those factors." 2/2

from the NYT Times article today: "Several previous studies have suggested that shingles vaccinations might reduce dementia risk, but most could not exclude the possibility that people who get Several previous studies have suggested that shingles vaccinations might reduce dementia risk" 1/2

This is Beau. He figured out how to rock back and forth all by himself. No human required. 14/10 a self-sufficient king