Blake Rocap

We’ve known this since the days of Robert Moses.

Good public transit creates transit riders.
New highways create drivers.

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

"After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university."

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Sorry for the snark, was thinking more specifically about the actual physical and technology difference between that scoreboard and the ones at other stadiums, which enables better graphics.

Do you think having a bazillion dollars to spend on it makes a difference or nah?

Dan

As my grandmother used to say about things one would 'like to do',
"Wish in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills up first"

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

I'm doing the best I can panda.

Bushmills? That’s Protestant whiskey

Also I don't recall you studying that hard.

Just a perfectly constitutional Kavanaugh stop. I'm sure this gentleman will have no problem getting restitution for this assault in the courts.

Texas is back!

Academic apologist for fascism: "There's a lot of things that are actually good about this poisonous fettucine alfredo. There's butter, there's homemade fresh pasta, and there's cheese. I'm not a fan of the antifreeze, but I think we ought not be hasty in not eating it.

#Satire

Trump, Hegseth rally troops at rare meeting, rail against "woke" standards Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth touted the new name, the Department of War, saying "the era of the Department of Defense is over."

Trump's lecture to military leaders that US cities should be used as "training grounds" against the "enemy within" shows it was never about crime or immigration.

It's about normalizing the misuse of troops against Trump’s opponents to create a military personally loyal to him, not the Constitution.

Cruz’s uselessness to the people of Texas and the United States cannot be overstated.

To me it seems even more basic than this. The “harm” here is just them having to keep following the settled rules while their (novel and weak-ass) arguments about why they should get to ignore those rules gets litigated.

That’s no harm at all.

DOGE was a failure because its entire premise was flawed, and, on top of that, the people who ran and implemented it were both arrogant and ignorant.

I think when I signed up I gifted a sub to her address

A search of my inbox does not surface it.

a man and a woman are sitting at a table talking to each other and the woman is saying `` nevermind '' . Alt: a man and a woman are sitting at a table talking to each other and the woman is saying `` nevermind '' .

Ahhh, sign up link tomorrow.

Wow, I'm shocked to see that the $16 million extortion payment that ABC made at the end of last year wasn't the end of it. Literally no one expected Trump to come back asking for more in the near future, yet here he is.

If you follow me and would like to do something nice - please repost this link to my son’s new iPhone/iPad app!

It’s a drum/sound machine app that is pretty sophisticated and a lot of fun.

More technical specs can be seen at “Punchline Drum
Machine” in the App Store.
🙏

Charles.pizza/punchline

Let me let you in on a secret, most federal judges don't believe that other federal judges higher up the food chain are one bit smarter, or any more faithful to the law, than they are. And yet, by and large, they fully accept the legitimacy of review and potential reversal of their decisions.

Why?

Only an Idiot Would Think We Need Anti-Abortion Democrats It's beyond time to stop listening to Ezra Klein.

Only an Idiot Would Think We Need Anti-Abortion Democrats www.jezebel.com/only-an-idio...

Surely there's a viscosity limit to the 5 second rule, call it Haenschen's corollary

What to Expect Next in the Trump Administration’s Strategy to Meddle with the Vote Efforts to protect the coming elections must begin now.

Over the next 15 months, we can expect a coordinated campaign — backed by the full power of the executive branch — to undermine confidence in our election system. Here’s what to expect, and how key actors can be ready to respond: bit.ly/4fRIqtA

Headline and lede from Time magazine (did not make the magazine cover) with a generic headshot of Minnesota House speaker Melissa Hortman that reads Minnesota Lawmaker Melissa Hortman Killed, FBI Hunt Suspect Jun 15, 2025 — Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed by an individual impersonating a police officer. -- Hortman was assassinated by a far right extremist along with her husband and dog. The man had a long list of Democrats he planned to kill, and was caught after shooting Minnesota Democrat John Hoffman and his wife Yvette who thankfully survived

Headline from time with a photo of Charlie Kirk at the event where he was murdered, smiling and waving at the crowd. The preview time has shared indicates that this will be the cover story of the next magazine. The headline reads The Killing of Charlie Kirk and the Political Violence Haunting America

The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.

Scott L. Cummings, UCLA School of Law, is publishing The Autocratic Legal Playbook in the UCLA Law Review /
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