Eric Rauchway

Chief federal judge skewers U.S. Attorney’s Office, raises threat of criminal contempt over violations Minnesota’s chief federal judge said he’s found another 113 orders ICE has violated since late last month.

Judge Schiltz said he’s identified another 113 orders that ICE has violated in 77 additional cases since his Jan. 28 order.

A moment I often think about is how when Romney, a Mormon, was eyeing a presidential run, his advisors organized a meeting with evangelical leaders in 2006. Jerry Falwell and Franklin Graham then grilled him on the Trinity & the Nicene Creed.

Just imagine Trump being grilled about the Nicene Creed.

we live in Nixon's America

Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to answer 275 emails per day and argue with administrators. That’s why I chose a career in academia.

I am sure there are progressives who are confident they can marinate in that stuff and not have it affect them

I am not sure they are correct

Serious question: on that site what are the odds anyone you’re retweeting is a Nazi or -adjacent

Jokes on you, Oxford Street had been pedestrianised for years. It just now we're telling the drivers

“unlock”? surely you mean “invent”

"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's." Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman 1998

Same vibe (and he was correct)

the "ai-boosted" path is just the trend, right

like the continuation of the "internal combustion-boosted" path

New nepotism just dropped

Man fucking email is awesome it makes communicating 1000 times worse 65% of the time

To quote my daughter, "I wish I could do backflips. That way, when someone asks me an awkward question, I can do a backflip and then walk away. They probably won't follow me."

oh my

Today's snowballs could be tomorrow's F-16s screaming down Waverly Place, or a stealth attack by a fuzzy calico kitten trained to maim with razor claws. It could mark the return of youth gangs. Imagine the Jets and Sharks rumbling again. LEAPING again. It's not funny. Officer Krupke was my uncle.

Even Tony Kushner Warned Steven Spielberg About Making ‘Munich’ Kushner—who cowrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s controversial, eerily prescient film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—recalls telling the director, “You do understand that we’re going to get ...

"There’s one shot…The car is parked, and he’s looking out, and like six things are happening. And I remember watching that going, 'I mean, I’m sitting right here, and I’m seeing the machines move around and everything, and I don’t understand.'"
Tony Kushner talking to @coreyatad.com re MUNICH

apparently real anticommunists quote Trotsky

The Big Secret Hidden in the "Designated Survivor"

"if I could pick a single classified file in the entire US government to read, I wouldn’t waste my time on any of the UFO files, the Kennedy assassination files, or anything like that — I’d go straight to the ECG [Enduring Constitutional Government] plans."

The PM who turned PI: why is Gordon Brown delving so deep into the Epstein files? Brown is said to be driven by moral anger but insiders suggest he may feel guilty for bringing Peter Mandelson back into government

<deep Scots voice> just one more thing

right, it was the "horses became free" part where I checked out

The "paramilitary industrial complex" is a good coinage:

I genuinely love the design of WMATA stations

was Philip Roth like a fifth columnist or

it’s bad

Fire the writers. She's really named Marionette?

I know just the man for the job.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

"there are certain areas like news in particular where Twitter is now worse than useless. In fact, for breaking news, it's is an active liability…the Twitter that we may have once relied on and the Twitter that was fun and occasionally useful is well and truly gone"
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A history of recent X/Twitter

instantly assumed this was a kaiju situation