Robin (spooky version)

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

A blue hour view of the Chicago skyline as seen from Adler Planetarium. The lake, in the foreground, is awash in bright, colorful reflections from the lit skyscrapers. “CUBS” is spelled out in office lights in the Aon Center. Other buildings are lit blue and red for the Chicago Cubs

#FlyTheW

i don't care for this level of tension

It's from a very extensive compilation of her letters called, if I recall correctly, just "Decca"

Her life spans a huge chunk of the 20th century, interacting with other influential people, so a really good subject for engaging correspondence

Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210" It reads: "Dear Joel: I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country. I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities. Sincerely yours, Charles M. Schulz" At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

A picture captioned "At home in the 1980s, Decca played her favorite game, Boggle, with her husband and Maya Angelou" Three people sit around a coffee table, intently staring at a Boggle tray of letters.

Her full bio is fascinating, from being a hardliner young (running away at 19 to try to fight in the Spanish Civil War with her first husband, the nephew of Winston Churchill) to becoming a civil rights activist and journalist later in life and (pictured) playing Boggle with Maya Angelou

Federal worker unions are suing over what they contend are the Trump administration’s unlawful threats of mass firings if the Republicans and Democrats in Congress can’t reach a budget deal by midnight, forcing the US government to a shut down www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Administration’s Plan for Mass Firing of Federal Workers During Government Shutdown Violates Law, Unions Say The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the American Federation of Government Employees today filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration.

BREAKING: AFSCME & AFGE have filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s threats of a mass firing of federal employees in the event of a government shutdown.

Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case –- "

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

Victory for the Rat Rebellion!

And I said that the question for me is: How do we win Senate seats in places like Kansas and Missouri and Ohio? I said I would like to see us doing things in red states like running pro-life candidates. People got really upset about that. And I get why. But in 2010, when the Affordable Care Act passed, there were 40 House Democrats who were pro-life, at some level. You had to do this whole negotiation with this guy Bart Stupak.

Can we stay with that? I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but the immediate thing that springs to mind, for me, in that question is not who you’re abandoning, but: How do you square the fact that reproductive rights have proven to be pretty popular in red states? I’m thinking about referendums that have been passed such that they’ve had to change the rules. How do you separate that? Like, there are people who didn’t vote for Kamala but who say: Give me my reproductive rights. I was using pro-life as an illustrative example. But there are many red districts in this country, and there are states that we do not even think about competing in anymore. I’m not talking about Ohio here.

If you will take this very gentle pushback. Yes, please. You’re here for it. [Laughs.] What immediately strikes me is if you take the reproductive rights example — which I know it’s not necessarily the example that you would hold out. But I think the problem with musing about that is: Abandoning it is a very real possibility for people who don’t have the option to fly to another state or do X, Y and Z. So I suspect when they hear somebody of your status, even if it’s not the example you mean, putting it out in the air, they feel — and it’s not just that you’re putting it out in the air. You’re putting it out in the air and then saying: I don’t necessarily even mean that one. But if you’re going to say that, I think you really have to put the data behind it. I think that’s really important. I will stand behind it. I will say, and I think this is actually the nub of it — I’m glad we’re here.

I'm fascinated by this exchange where Klein is complaining about the response to his call for pro-life Dems

Coates challenges him, using data, and Klein first says oh "that was just illustrative." But later confirms he means exactly that, without ever acknowledging that the data doesn’t support him

Literal riding, too. On a horse.

I think packing is likely easiest to get political will behind, but I have a vindictive wishlist of ways to just make the job worse.

Jurisdiction stripping is on it, but if they want originalism, let's put the Court back in the basement of Congress. I'm sure the tourists won't be too distracting

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

The backs of two jomahs. The longer is black with heavy gold embroidery with menorahs and stars of David; the shorter is white embroidered with gold hebrew letters, stars, and what appear to be palm trees

There's a hotel in Bukhara that has opened a small Jewish history museum—it has some really amazing examples, though it didn't give the full background story

I admit that the experience (and description) was possibly distorted by sleep—the most intense part seemed quick to me

Okay, that felt big because it was basically right here. Rude for the earth to do that at 3am, frankly

Well, that was certainly a pretty intense (but quick) earthquake in SF

/s/Daniel Zachary Epstein Daniel Zachary Epstein Epstein & Co. LLC 8903 Glades Rd Ste A8 #2090 Boca Raton, FL 33434 Tel: 202-240-2398 dan@epsteinco.co (pro hac vice admission forthcoming) Counsel to Plaintiff President Donald J. Trump

This is far from the biggest problem, but if my name were Daniel Epstein (and I worked in Florida), I simply would not name my law firm "Epstein & Co. LLC"

Incredible that anyone takes this seriously when you can immediately see what the AI "enhancements" do to the shirt.

This is the Boston Marathon internet sleuthing nightmare on steroids

The sentiment comes through, but you're missing an important "not"

Dark orange sky over San Francisco roofs

Wow, yeah, that day was surreal. I had just moved to the city (in the middle of the pandemic, which was terrifying enough), and walking around felt like the end of the world

What is Congress supposed to do here? Specifically authorize the spending? Pass a statute that says it's illegal to impound it? They've already done both of those things.

This is *wild*

But I guess it makes a dark sort of sense that the next step in "tech designed to try to help you" -> "tech that pretends to help you while stealing your data" is -> "tech that yells at you while stealing everyone's data"

Not to brag but I don't need a wearable chat bot to shit talk me all day because my brain came with that feature pre-installed

"There's nothing to go back to now," I said, as a life-tenured Circuit Court judge

Fahrenheit 351

I can't tell if Sammy Sosa actually doesn't know the words to Take Me Out to the Ballgame or if that was an elaborate tribute to the Ozzy Osbourne version of the stretch

Yes, this is great and horrifying reporting.

I also just listened to an interview with the author of the Fort Bragg Cartel, about crimes of special forces guys at home and abroad, and this definitely tracks on the hubris, impunity, and lack of any oversight.