Robin

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is:

(To be fair, I might have called cherry blossom season a hell-hole while I lived in DC because of all the tourists. But it was lovely to happen to overlap with the blooms earlier this year)

Still no, as a matter of fact—Andrea is his grandfather.

Cuomo's not going to brag about being related to a woman!

Fly like a butterfly, be like a bee

Divight D. Ewennower is a delight, but yep, there's something particularly hilarious in the garbled prayer of Baruck Obama

Everyone of a certain age remembers where they were when President JEK was assassinated.

Poor Jehn...

AI generated picture that vaguely resembles President JFK, but if he were older and also had a totally different jaw and chin, labeled Jehn E. Kennedy

Jehn E. lol

Ironically, putting 2 and 2 together is something chatGPT also can't do, particularly if it's the two bs and two rs in blueberry

Thank you for saying this—glad it's not just my brain that can't read this font. I also saw Phuffy, and then somehow got all the way to Phluffy, which seems a lot more fun.

This is troublingly accurate

Two recommendations:

Go see it in a theater that has a bunch of people—much more fun when others are laughing

Read the credits! They put so many jokes in those (and someone's Netflix password!)

Okay, I let Bluesky convince me to go see the Naked Gun, and it did not disappoint!

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Jesus

Are we sure the system is glitching on the tattoos and not just assuming he's wearing a starmer mask?

Fun family story: my grandmother was an organizer of the packinghouse workers in Chicago and featured in a documentary about union women

When she passed, Pete Seeger sent a lovely note with his regrets for the memorial that said "sing Woody's song (with one or more of the better 3rd verses)"

1. Marvin Miller was hired to run @mlbpa.bsky.social in 1966, and deserves great credit for his transformative work helping professional athletes get paid what they're worth.

But he almost wasn't. Before they hired Miller, the union was very close to offering the job to:

Richard Nixon.

Seriously.

This is the final form of political horserace coverage swallowing all actual political news reporting.

Who needs to know what's actually happening when we have astrologers (or psychic animals, or ouija boards) to tell us what will happen?

Yes, but there's another vacancy on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals right now, and vacancies on other appeals courts as well.

The Senate Dems' failure to fill the seat and treatment of Mangi was appalling in itself, not because it would have stopped Bove specifically.

Yeah, each of these major Trump cases could be an advanced CivPro class all by itself!

The en banc call is about the Court's decision on the stay pending appeal, I believe. This opening brief is on the merits of the PI appeal.

So many cases are being essentially decided at the stay stage, but they do have to eventually brief and argue the appeal itself.

I've lived in big cities nearly all my life, and had a lost wallet returned (including figuring out where to drop it off), a stolen phone retrieved, and a dropped credit card pointed out to me more than once. And I've done similar in my time.

Lots of people choose to help when they can

Luckily, you've now got the perfect image to forever haunt any people who don't use the proper name of the Sears Tower

The Sears Tower looking insanely creepy during a blackout, including the impression of a scary face topped by a crown of spikes. It looks like a giant humanoid evil robot or a demonic Minecraft creature.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"

The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

ESPN's tribute to Ryne Sandberg

"Is this a" meme, with the man, labeled NYT, gesturing at the orange Pac-Man ghost (Clyde) and saying "Is This AI?"

"Is this a" meme, with the man, labeled NYT, gesturing at the orange Pac-Man ghost (Clyde) and saying "Is This AI?"

I cannot stress enough how little information about the various misconduct allegations appears in Judge Newman's Wikipedia page, in stark contrast to the many paragraphs about how she was "unusually cognitively intact" for a then-96 year old.

My favorite thing about Judge Newman is that one of her supporters (or a clerk, in between running her errands) has clearly edited her wikipedia page.

Every topic related to her misconduct or lawsuit ends with a quote from her defenders.

My favorite thing about Judge Newman is how clearly one of her supporters (or a clerk, in between running her errands) wrote her wikipedia page, where every topic related to her misconduct or lawsuit ends with a quote from her defenders.

Only real judges can hold you in contempt