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Oklahoma is also on that list for me.

Daughter was sorting recruiting flyers (started college this year) and held up a letter from Oklahoma. “Should I consider this one?”

It was a very definite no.

Between this, the resegregation of the military, and the retooling of the Department of Justice to focus on (fake) discrimination against white Christians, and eviscerating Civil Rights Act enforcement, they have nearly erased the structural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

It isn’t supposed to be read, and classes that merely read it instead of perform it are doing it wrong.

Like, say, Animal Farm and The Once and Future King?

(I vaguely recall some afterward/epilogue that was even more heavy-handed than the original book … also Once and Future King? I forget.)

Something like this?

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Tell me more about your disdain for Bradbury?

Quite possibly my least popular take

Everyone misunderstood Deep Thought. He didn’t say the answer was 42. He said it was “For tea, two.” That’s the answer to life, the universe, and everything

She is precious and more people share her opinion than she knows.

When you quote out of context, it misses they asked for “unhinged” opinions.

I understand my disdain for Catcher isn’t popular, and I’m okay with that.

They did ask for *unhinged* opinions!

Also: his second book is wildly overrated. The entire thing is a Gary Stu.

Worse than that, I think they ruin appreciation for literature classes.

I see your Great Gatsby and raise you Of Mice and Men.

The biggest problem with Dracula is we know who he is and what he is before we start reading the book.

It’s difficult to imagine a time when that wasn’t the case, but trying to read it in that light makes it significantly better.

Shakespeare is so much more fun when actors can use their bodies and voices to emphasize the crude jokes.

For women, see several of the fun, excellent books by T. Kingfisher.

Hemlock and Silver and The Clockwork Boys are fine examples.

parole and payroll.

Catcher in the Rye is wildly overrated. (See also Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, and High Noon)

To Kill a Mockingbird should be read much more widely.

Fahrenheit 451 should be required reading.

1984 is desperately in need of an abridged version.

Appears amended by the paragraph at the bottom.

Re #2, that’s not how I read the bottom paragraph of the screenshot. It seems to say the transferred funds keep their original expiration date.

Re #1, I’m not seeing the sunset clause the screenshot. Is there a cite for it (or am I just blind)?

Then you get U.S. vs U.S., which gets laughed out of court as “go solve your own problems”.

I worry no one can challenge it because no one (other than the unit the $ are being taken from) has standing.

I believe working capital laboratory overhead charges set aside for RDT&E (e.g. from 10 USC 4123) are 2-year money.

(Not a comptroller, and admittedly this stuff is super complicated.)

10 U.S. Code § 4123 - Mechanisms to provide funds for defense laboratories for research and development of technologies for military missions

I understood that overhead money from working capital units has a two-year spend window.

See, e.g., www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/... (I don’t know where the window is defined, but this is an example of overhead-driven RDT&E funds).

I recommend disconnecting TVs from networks as a standard practice (or not connecting them in the first place).

Most brands nowadays do show recognition and phone home watch data. 🤮

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

After commenters deriding the appearance of TX NG troops made photos of their deployment to Chicago go viral, the Texas Military Department quietly recalled and replaced them

For their appearance.

They didn’t send the Guard to serve.
They sent them to be seen.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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It’s always about sex, unless it’s about power. Then it’s about power and sex.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.