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I am very insulted none of my education appears on the list.

I will say this nice thing about Jefferson, whom Adams considered a dear friend: along with Adams, Jefferson is the primary reason why the United States has been uniquely obsessed with measuring things, collecting data, and creating libraries.

I already bought a bottle of wine for the weekend and I might need to get a tall boy on the way home, instead.

"Your VA-provided medication takes your 80% rating down to 20%, so now you're below the 30% threshold and we don't have to provide you with any medical care, including that medication"

is the kind of antilogic that would have happened if that rule had taken effect.

Akazawa two thumbs up

tfw you spent the last year constantly flying to DC to negotiate tariffs

Say what you will about Gorsuch, but he is a big nerd and I appreciate that.

ROBERTS, C. J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II–A–1, and II–B, in which SOTOMAYOR, KAGAN, GORSUCH, BARRETT, and JACKSON, JJ., joined, and an opinion with respect to Parts II–A–2 and III, in which GORSUCH and BARRETT, JJ., joined. GORSUCH, J., and BARRETT, J., filed concurring opinions. KAGAN, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, in which SOTOMAYOR and JACKSON, JJ., joined. JACKSON, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. THOMAS, J., filed a dissenting opinion. KAVANAUGH, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS and ALITO, JJ., joined.

Why we had to wait so long for the fucking tariffs opinion.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

There's so many good things about Adams yet we've seemingly adopted every smear from Jefferson's presidential campaign and forgotten about the crucial role he played in our Revolution.

They man who first advised throwing off oaths to the Crown, the man who was the voice of the Committee of Five, the man who was initially mistakingly thought to have written Common Sense: always seemingly forgotten to make more room for Jefferson and Madison, those agrarian landlords.

My guy John is always left out.

What a weird time I live in where the sight of this brings me joy and comfort, like a Roman standard.

Going to the DoD MWR Libraries webpage and still seeing that DoD seal I know and love brought such a good feeling.

They took down the American flag to put up a Trump banner. Man, if you can't use this visual and story in communications, I don't know, what can you do

Opinion | Soil, Not Blood, Determines U.S. Citizenship

Akhil Amar: “Crucially, nowhere does the text [of the 14th Amend.] use the words “parent,” “parents” or “domicile.” Had it done so, the amendment’s framers and ratifiers would have needed to wrangle over countless complexities, large and small, raised by these words.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

It's Hegel's Prestige Battle but it's typing text into an LLM

Wait, you're telling me Twitter discourse ISN'T real life?

Everything I know about InfantryDort I’ve learned against my will

The Supreme Soviet for these guys is a group chat with all the worst substack writers you can think of

Not sure about that one, but I do know a quarterback's value lowers the more teams they are traded or cut from.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Imagine how fun it would be to be the British cop arresting Prince Andrew.

“Oi, you pedophilic wanker, hands where I can see ‘em, no funny business.”

This website is free

Musk on Twitter 2/17/2026: You can just take a picture of your medical data or upload the file to get a second opinion from Grok

Elon posted this yesterday. Just for fun I did it with my before/after cancer PET scans that I had already posted online. In the "before" scan Grok missed the massive tumor lighting up my liver, and in both scans it flagged a non-existent "area of concern" in my chest. Other than that, works great!

- most American Christians are not evangelicals
- Beshear has held the line on LGBTQ rights better than a lot of far less religious Dems
- James Talarico is right not to run as a Reddit atheist in Texas

These people never grapple with the reality that the right not only outspends trans people 20:1 but they also control social media algorithms and many legacy media institutions.

They never ask the questions why public opinion changed and why certain issues are so central to the debate.

America’s Generals Shouldn’t Face Political Loyalty Tests Keeping politics out of the military is what keeps the military out of politics.

"To punish an officer for having served under a particular senior leader is to misunderstand the very nature of military service." It looks like that is what Hegseth is doing.

New from @markhertling.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4roeU3t

An incredible piece of journalism

Look, I can't stand Newsom, but you'll get no argument from me on that one.

Hell, Hegseth's own press releases/memos use acronyms with Ds!

Nobody in my neck of the woods have stared replacing their Ds with Ws other than the occasional "DoW." A real name change would require wholesale reeducation.