Andrew Case

Am I so prolific that ChatGPT writes like me? In some cases, yes. One reader uploaded my entire corpus to the plagiarism machine to see if it could write like me. And it did. Just worse and stupider and with even less accuracy. Quite the feat!

Anyone who cares whether it was a lie already knows.

Breaking on MS NOW:

The Trump Justice Department FAILED today to secure an indictment against New York AG Letitia James.

DOJ could attempt again to indict James. — via Carol Leonnig

The poem “vespers” by Louise Glück, about trying and failing to grow tomatoes.

It is a substantial amount of work just to keep up a few tomato plants, as I learn anew each year.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told Somali residents to call 911 if ICE shows up wearing masks to arrest undocumented immigrants — and said police will “immediately respond” and “intervene.”

If you didn’t know why we objected to the term “war on drugs” forty years ago, maybe you do now.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

My first college essay (on King Lear) was pedantic and juvenile. My professor wrote it “deserved the very least” (a c minus). I dusted myself off, learned what I could from the feedback, and tried to do better. I am deeply grateful, thirty years on, that she cared enough to tell me I was wrong.

Tina Howe. Absolute legend.

Enlargement of the AI designed house showing that a small room with a sink is labeled Bedroom 4 and Full Bsth 43.

And few of them would realize your fourth bedroom and third bathroom could be the SAME ROOM.

To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.

All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.

JUST IN: A federal judge in New York (appointed by Trump) has ordered the Trump administation resume a deferred action program for young undocumented immigrants who faced abuse/neglect in their home country. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The article: Vogue
The TikTok: Teen Vogue

And saved it for now!

Once this child is learning, say, fluid dynamics in his second year of graduate school, he will no longer be “good at math” if he cannot collaborate with peers. And by then it will be too late to learn.

That’s nothing when confronted with the villainy of @zacharylesser.bsky.social and his brother — the evil of two Lessers.

“Somehow, Palpatine returned.”

Federal jury awards $112M to immigrants illegally held longer by Suffolk authorities in years-old case Suffolk County plans to appeal the decision.

It’s in Newsday, a great local paper with a paywall. www.newsday.com/long-island/...

What they are asking for is what Stephen Miller means when he speaks of “federal immunity" -- complete immunity from any legal consequences. If SCSO wins, they will have the power to bring Los Angeles and Chicago to the Hamptons. @latinojustice.bsky.social intends to stop them.

Portion of SCSO filing at the appellate court with their statement that they "have a clear statutory claim to immunity from suit" highlighted.

In the article, the Sheriff’s Office says it has “immunity” for its actions. This isn’t the ordinary “qualified immunity” from @joannaschwartz. They have asked multiple courts to hold they have full federal "immunity from suit." No court has ruled they have even presented the question properly.

ICE agents are kidnapping people at asylum check-ins.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids 'creating fear and chaos' on East End Immigrant advocates say one man was run over on Wednesday by an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle. Southampton Police say that did not happen.

Right now, ICE is running rampant on the island. Last week they pinned a man under their car while “arresting” him.

Long Island is the Hamptons and grand estates, but it is also a destination for new arrivals - more than 30% of the residents of Nassau County speak a language other than English at home, which is why we’re suing the Nassau County PD for denying translations:

Trump-backed Bruce Blakeman declares victory in Nassau County executive race Blakeman had 50.6% support to Koslow’s 43.1% with 76% of the vote counted late Tuesday night, the county’s board of elections results showed.

Nassau and Suffolk County are the eastern suburbs of New York City – where Robert Moses built the parkways to Jones Beach, Levittown, all of that. They are conservative places: despite the national shift, Trump’s ally Bruce Blakeman won election as the Nassau County executive handily.

Federal jury awards $112M to immigrants illegally held longer by Suffolk authorities in years-old case Suffolk County plans to appeal the decision.

WHY LONG ISLAND MATTERS IN THIS CRISIS – Thank you for your kind words about the case we at @latinojustice won on Friday—that case was from 2016, this thread is about the crisis on Long Island now. (Yes, the article is paywalled – support local journalism).

Federal jury awards $112M to immigrants illegally held longer by Suffolk authorities in years-old case Suffolk County plans to appeal the decision.

Long Island has a great local paper, @newsday.bsky.social which has covered. www.newsday.com/long-island/...

Accepting there is wide variation in “shoes that cost $1,000,” I’m thinking more of the below, where the cost is unrelated to comfort/wear but a free-floating signal “I pay $1,000 for my shoes”.

The thousand dollar shoes do not last longer. Expensive shoes are fragile. That is the point. Posted needs to read Veblen.