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The number of people on the first boat make it at least plausible it was migrants. But the boat was too small to be headed for the US. (obs this doesn't make it not murder, but it does give an alternative motive)

The constitutional right for Republicans to win elections no matter how hostile the electorate is against them

just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

The Supreme Court deciding it's entitled to its own facts is every bit as corrosive to democratic society as the breakdown of shared facts/reality caused by media fragmentation and negative partisanship

What we know is that table stakes for EVERY Democrat running for office is SCOTUS reform that includes expansion, term limits, and mandatory retirement.

Whether to impeach any of corrupt 6 should be a conversation

what's telling at this point is that this is also the consensus outlook of any serious legal observer

even people who spent years arguing about how there was a consistent legal philosophy, even if we disagreed with it, have now come around to "yeah they're just partisan hacks"

once again, "the supreme court will act as a bunch of partisan republican hacks" is the single most accurate heuristic for predicting its behavior, putting any coherent legal theory to shame

because fuck you, that's why

also, Spotify doesn't pay royalties at all for tracks with less than a thousand streams.

and sometimes if an album gets a sudden surge of fan interest, Spotify deems it "unusual listening activity" and just removes the album, as happened to my last EP.

The only frog boiling scenario that turned out to be true was the media's obscene obsession with the novel over the true

Depends on the course. I once had a foreign language final that was open dictionary and it felt like a reason not to learn the material.

My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.

My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.

Here in Boston, we’ve made it more costly for Fenway to abandon trans youth and trans adults by protesting in front of their clinic, by severing ties with them, and by disrupting their gala and public events.

I suggest local activists elsewhere investigate similar potentials for disruption.

The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.

The coup was over in hours because people said no.

One of the most striking things about these ICE/BP raids is not that they’re all kitted out for war while going after people who didn’t do anything wrong and don’t pose a threat, but that they always bring a camera crew.

clown 18th hole, nutty-putty, old forge, new york, 2002

clown 18th hole, nutty-putty, old forge, new york, 2002

Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >

She eventually let me keep it on, but I had to lie a little bit and say my passport photo was from before I got married (rather than from before I started wearing tichels).

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"

Galaxy brain meme. Panel 1: Jonathan Harker found paprika hendl spicy because he is pathetically English. Panel 2: Hungarian paprika ranges from mild to very spicy; it's perfectly possible our friend Jonathan was served the spicy stuff Panel 3: "paprika hendl uses sweet paprika" recipes change quickly over time an dplace, Jonathan may have been served a regional variant Panel 4 (text running off bottom): PAPRIKA USED TO BE SPICER holy shit it used to be spicier before sweeter peppers were cultivated in the 1920s. plus the machine to remove the spicy pith and seeds was only invented in the 1860s. 19th century Hungarian cuisine was simply spicier than its modern counterpart. not to mention how even "mild" paprikca can cause indigestion which is why it's so frequently served with sour cream

WELCOME TO THE DRACULA PAPRIKA DISCOURSE!!

(meme from tumblr, not my own, original link seems to be dead now)

As a reminder: The USIP building was raided and taken over by DOGE (with assistance from federal and local law enforcement) despite being an independent agency and owner of the building. Litigation is ongoing, but Trump does not own this building.

Yes. I wore a plain black one on purpose, so it is not even super obvious it's not just dark hair.

Then she asked if I had any paperwork proving I needed a religious accommodation. But she dropped it when I asked what kind of paperwork.

Everything about our current reality would’ve been considered hack sci-fi writing in 2015 but the Donald J. Trump Institute for Peace is next level

Got a new ID today. The clerk had the nerve to tell me that my tichel "is not what Jews wear" when I asked to keep it on for the picture.

Exactly. There are a LOT of bad interviewers out there who like to make potential employees jump through weird hoops and the sooner people realize that this is a co-equal process where everyone in the process needs to approach it in good faith, the better.

At the last MN Council of Non-profits conference, I sat in a session that was about accommodating autistic people in the workplace and this was something I found incredibly important: Job Interviews do not have to be a test of how good a person does 1:1 with surprise questions.

Trump's white nationalist aides are churning out vile videos glorifying migrant suffering. But Trump-MAGA are *losing* the online culture wars over deportations, because the humane side is info-warring better.

Check out @paulwaldman.bsky.social and me on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2038...

Really think we should be saying this more to counter the defeatism and doomerism out there. We're winning these information wars: