Lawrence Hurley

It’s an interesting question because a Dem Stephen Miller would have to be willing to go to war with mainstream media and Dems in Congress. That would be quite a change.

I was reminded the other day that if Trump's birthright citizenship order went into effect, basically the only people in the U.S. who actually have proof of their citizenship close to hand are naturalized citizens, who actually have a certificate to show for it.

I read "Dubliners" for the first time in decades. So good.

30 years ago, “The Day Today” nailed the way right wing cable news is covering (for) Trump right now by feasting on distractions:

We are living in a very strange world

Turkey’s Erdogan Fires Statistics Chief After Record Inflation The president of the Turkish statistical institute, Sait Dincer, was removed from office and replaced by Erhan Cetinkaya, who had been deputy president of Turkey’s Banking Regulation and Supervision A...

um. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Supreme Court raises the stakes in a Louisiana redistricting case The court ordered new briefing, suggesting it could be poised to further weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act.

More:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

SCOTUS certainly seems ok with gerrymandering its own docket

Supreme Court appears have significantly raised the stakes in a Louisiana racial redistricting case that it was supposed to decide in June but didn't. It now asks for briefing on whether the state's attempt to comply with Voting Rights Act means it violated 14th Amendment.

There is no debate to be had when Trump does something so brazenly and openly. Just use your eyes.

Maybe Kash Patel can find the real job numbers hidden in a burn bag.

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

Like clockwork

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I honestly think it would be better if the NYT wore its heart on its sleeve like a British newspaper and stopped all this “paper of record” nonsense. No one buys it.

It’s kind of wild that in trying to push the narrative that Trump was not playing footsie with Russia, the Trump administration is pushing what is likely Russian-created disinformation.

Justice Kavanaugh defends Supreme Court's handling of emergency Trump cases The conservative justice pushed back against criticism that the court is not explaining its decisions in cases that arise on the "shadow docket."

Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh defends how the Supreme Court has handled an increasing number of emergency cases brought by the Trump administration, pushing back against the criticism that the justices are failing to explain themselves.

In what universe was Clinton's impeachment (which resulted in acquittal) more impeachmenty than Trump's?

Read the documents that prove Hillary Clinton OK’d plan to ‘smear’ Trump with Russia collusion Special counsel John Durham uncovered the information during a multi-year probe into intelligence activities during the 2016 election.

Pretty remarkable: The New York Post and others are currently running with a document from the (strange and fascinating) Durham Annex that the Durham Annex (a few pages later) says is a Russian fake, all in the broader interest of debunking "Russiagate" nypost.com/2025/07/31/u...

They don't even have one of these in Hereford, England, from whence the breed originated.

In Kansas City there's a Hereford bull on a plinth, because why not?

Justice Kavanaugh defends Supreme Court's handling of emergency Trump cases The conservative justice pushed back against criticism that the court is not explaining its decisions in cases that arise on the "shadow docket."

Justice Kavanaugh today defended how the Supreme Court is handling the emergency cases arising on the shadow docket that Trump usually wins:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Republicans confirm former Trump lawyer Emil Bove to lifetime appeals court perch (NBC News)

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From the OpenAI community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...

Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

Kansas City bbq recs?

Trump explicitly ran on this in 2016

Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here.

Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?

Trump: I think so. He stole her.

And this is in Nebraska, not in a blue state.

Luke Farritor. Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions

NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled

The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”

NO PAYWALL!

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Many years ago, I covered the original litigation over the Obama administration's endangerment finding. And now here we go again:
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Not to mention the danger of cops mistaking an armed civilian for the perpetrator and everything that would go with that.

TV’s best (and worst) historical epics: from Wolf Hall to I, Claudius Sweeping dramas set in days of yore are everywhere. But which are some of the finest television ever created? And which are little more than an excuse to show naked backsides?

I would add the first season of "Rome" to the list of good historical dramas.
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