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this is what i look like btw

Not a criticism of this (excellent!) thread, or Casten in particular, but I do think Democrats need to start laying out clear, definitive and escalatory steps they plan to take in response if/when SCOTUS goes through with this.

SPOCK: you are being.. highly illogical

ME (WATCHING TV): ok he's got you there kirk

KIRK: but mr spock, mankind did not, endeavor to, reach out and, touch the stars, armed only with, cold hard logic, but driven, by our passionate impulsive, illogical humanity

ME: hey yeah fuck you spock

Embarrassing to a Bay Area kid: I always assumed the Tube ran through bedrock under the Bay, and had no idea it was just in a trench in the Bay floor, designed to be free to move!

Transbay Tube - Wikipedia

From the Oakland side it's particularly dramatic because the tracks were just elevated
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transba...

Bremerton-Seattle ferry, BART Transbay Tube, Portland Aerial Tram

UNL used bad data to make $27.5 million cuts, faculty say UNL's faculty takes issue with the data used by the university to propose program budget cuts. The eliminations are partially financial, but all of the programs up for elimination made more money in s...

It is also grossly ironic to use faulty data to cut the statistics program.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-use...

Exactly. Newsom translated is “we need to treat a lot of you as abnormal and we need you to be a lot less judgmental about it.”

Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

Sorry, there out to lunch

the great gatsby is one of the most widely assigned books in america and yet apparently literally nobody understands it www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A closer detail of one figure, a woman in a buff long-sleeved pointed bodice and a bright-blue skirt only just below her knees with three gold stripes decorating it. Her stockings are bright red and she wears delicate brown shoes that look like modern Mary Janes, with a thin strap holding them on. Her face is mostly hidden by a wide-brimmed yellow hat that has three or four white ostrich feathers on it. Her collar is wide, white and trimmed with lace and sticks out as is the current fashion (not drooping on her shoulders). She's wearing a white apron, I think, but it is being blown to the side so her skirt and legs are fully visible. SHe wears a pack bundle and carries a walking stick, and is yanking a very reluctant dog (not visible in detail) by a rope tied to its collar.

Shout out especially to this lady. She would fit right in at a modern Renaissance Faire and you would never guess she was a Pilgrim.

Good point.

it has to

it has to go

Lol same

Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty Washington also called for end to Afghanistan investigation and change to Rome Statute in return for lifting sanctions

In a back channeled "offer" to the International Criminal Court, the United States proposed dropping sanctions on ICC officials if the Court

•Dropped charges on Israeli officials and pledged not to indict anymore
•Stopped investigating crimes in Afghanistan
•Amended the ICC treaty

the ICC said: no

The ICC only handles cases of people who won't be tried by the country they're in.

An America able to ratify the treaty to join the ICC will be still more able to prosecute Hegseth and the chain of command in its own courts, and sooner.

But we absolutely should join.

He receives it in Episode 8 or 9, I forget which.

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

It's off topic by the end of it!

Usually, when someone dunks on an X comment here, there's been someone else who can speak to the context of it, either from having seen their other posts there or from looking it up. Are we reaching the point where nobody bothers to look?

If so, it's surely a good thing overall.

I can't even tell if he agrees with them or is mocking them!

Without even saying anything about it that makes sense!

Only if it were him, I think.

facepalm

To summarize the other answers: no, and that says a lot

My dreaming self insists that a nonexistent work rival, named Nick, is assembling a titanic Bluesky thread exposé nominating my unprofessional behavior for the "Corwin Awards"

A happy #StNicholasDay to all who celebrate

No you don't and won't, bot