But what about people who noticed that the shop that tattooed him was in Croatia?

There is an infinite universe of cuisinarted bean pastes -- start with hummus, and expand the formula with different legumes, different oils, different spices.

If your beliefs are preventing you from doing things rather than motivating you to do things, those "beliefs" are probably just excuses -- papering over beliefs you would rather not directly confront. #praxis

The broader point about Trump wanting Greenland is that he is planning to give Denmark to Russia.

Hot take #12: The Great Depression was particularly depressing because we turned off the spigot of immigrants post WW1 and in the 20s. With fresh immigrants, the great depression would have lasted about 9 months.

Every day you live reduces your life expectancy by approximately 24 hours.

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Such savvy bookers! Seven out of Ten of President Obama's favorite 2025 movies had their Chicago premiere at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social! obama.org/stories/favo...

Under the 25th, if the President disputes his removal by cabinet members, it requires the same super-majority in the Senate that it would have taken to impeach him in the first place (the procedural advantage of the 25th amendment is that it speeds up the process, not that it lowers the bar).

Such an epic movie!

My mugger was a shaky, nervous, inexperienced, unprofessional junkie. We were in front of my house, and the chance that an older brother might seek revenge if I knocked out his teeth got him five 1989 dollars, but he accepted my firm rejection that I surrender my wallet or credit cards.

At the time, I liked the Clinton administration because he made room for genuine progressives like you, but Clintonian triangulation, Al Gore's commercialized internet, and China's integration into the US economy are all stops on the path that got us here.

Will the full epstein files include conclusive proof that Trump's birthday poem was forged?

This is just a pause between rounds to regroup -- the shutdown will be back in January -- and maybe even with court rulings that keep SNAP funding in place. It was already too late to extend the ACA benefits, so the justification is to minimize suffering heading into the 2026 elections.

The Trump administration's rationale for not paying SNAP benefits is that, in this case, their hands are tied and they are constrained by law: maybe the Supreme court will use this "victory" to suggest that they be constrained by law in their other cases before the court?

And, if you'll be in Chicago, mark December 1 on your calendar: www.chicagofilmsociety.org/calendar/cur...

I'm not saying it would apply to the internet that we have, but that the internet would have been different and better if Clinton and Gore had chosen to regulate it via the FCC (and, as a general principle, if Reagan and Bush hadn't changed the FCC rules around political speech).

I mispoke -- I meant the FCC fairness doctrine, frequently colloquially (and incorrectly!) lumped together with the equal time rule. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairnes...

Imagine a world where the FCC had not rescinded the equal time rule in the 80s and the social media algorithms were forced for follow it!

I love your story, but I don't love that people are using FB as the infrastructure.

It is convenient that many CEOs handed us a beautiful list, by showing up at T's inauguration, sponsoring the parade, and showing up at T's dinner parties.

Hot take: AI is not getting smarter -- it's just that social media has so completely degraded human intelligence that people think AI is improving at the same rate as their brains are atrophying.

I fantasize about a library style set of shelves on rollers, so I can fit a dozen shelves into the space of three against the wall.

Marvy!

he was always kindofa creep: exiledonline.com/malcolm-glad...

With the real possibility that the red states will change electoral laws and stuff ballot boxes to give their team 90% ballot victories, suddenly, the electoral college is looking like a pretty smart idea!

I love that kids are being told that reducing crime is the best way to resist authority.

And they made money off the deal!

Including during Democratic administrations -- Clinton addicted the DNC to large-donor cash, hamstringing progressive politics for the following three decades and Obama imagined that writing checks to Elon and skipping anti-trust enforcement of big tech would secure Democratic hegemony.

Only plausible if Federal Reserve remains independent and the dollar remains sound.

My mind reels at the implication that the administration is greenlighting bribery and wanting to own the companies that corruptly undermine foreign governments.