Alton B.H. Worthington

Well that NYT Amy Coney Barrett interview starts off… weird.

on one hand, you're vindicated, in a way, but on the other hand, you wasted time and grace on someone about whom you knew better. so you're both damn fools.

tfw you give someone the benefit of the doubt, and they disappoint, but not surprise, you.

*coughs politely in NJ/pork roll*

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

Re: previous quote post, it would be cool to see over vs under-representativeness of donations by age for these folks, too. "donations skew older than wealth/income share" vs "donations skew younger than wealth/income share"

I literally just got done teaching a lecture on ways of visualizing distributions of measures and these are great viz I wish I had for the lecture slides (as is the Bonica viz in Jake's first reply). Wild stuff.

Be part of this, show up for #NoKings on Saturday — and join up with an organization afterwards — do what you can, it matters.

Opinion | Amy Coney Barrett Is Looking Beyond the Trump Era

When asked about originalist views on executive power, Barrett talked about the unitary executive which gives presidents immense power

Next month the justices are hearing the first Trump merits case of his second term www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

mein Gott

gonna put this shit on my 24h of Lemons car

Again, Mark Zuckerberg's kids go to a screen-free school with 14 students total and multiple specialized tutors

If that means some random GS-14s need to be convicted of Big Boy federal crimes so be it, these people are never again going to do the right thing otherwise

If Congress doesn't want to assert their Art I prerogatives and the exec doesn't want to enforce the law then we need a new governing document

honestly, thinking about installing arch

Seriously, maybe it is finally the Year of Linux on the Desktop

I put on my wizard hat and robe

i sprayed coffee on the screen, thanks faine

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

"and when you dream you see the monster, the monster wears your baby's face."

people gotta treat this behavior the same as we treat shitting on the floor

The executive branch not spending the money that Congress has told them to spend is bad. The executive branch spending money on things for which Congress has not given them money is also bad (and, arguably, worse).

A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days

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kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

"the Pope ... needs to shun humanitarian progressivism" is a a sentence someone decided to advertise this piece with. That is a choice someone made

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Great data and vis source if you want to talk to students, family, etc, about tariffs and prices:
www.pricinglab.org/tariff-track...

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Useful data to consider when we talk about increased teacher absences in the last 5 years.

Everyone loves trade policy uncertainty (/s)