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Antonin Scalia Was a Diversity Hire The late justice spent his career ridiculing the notion that elite institutions had any interest in diversity. He might not have made the Supreme Court without it.

Just a little FYI from @jaywillis.net

It made money. Just not *enough* money. They couldn’t quite figure out how to get maximum profits for minimal effort like the Sims 4. And so they got rid of it

Anthem killed that game. Well, first EA tried to kill it because it didn’t kill WoW and that was an unfair expectation. But BioWare Austin plugged along and it was still really fun till they all got pulled off into Anthem and then EA fully gave up on it.

My takeaway from the 2025 elections for 2026 primary voters, this time with @elienyc.bsky.social and the backstory to "Unfuck our Country"

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Correct Answer

I know what I need to do before Destiny 2: Renegades launches. I need to boot up SWTOR again. I haven't touched it since it went soft maintenece mode, and I miss it so much I'm about to dive into freaking Destiny again.

Lawrence Summers to Stop Teaching at Harvard While It Investigates His Epstein Ties

Thank you, student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social

This dissent in the Texas gerrymandering case is batshit crazy and SCOTUS is going to eat it up

It's not even a morality issue---it's an equity issue.

In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.

Women in his classes are not getting the same class.

Precisely.

I was in the same class as Cotton. So it was possible to not suck. Tom just chose poorly.

I know the meetings at the highest level of Harvard are like "But if we fire Larry Summers for sexually harassing a grad student and emailing with Jeffrey Epstein, we'd have to fire all the other 'distinguished professors' who did that too!"

Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed? The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.

I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!

My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Now onto SCOTUS

Every outlet worth a damn should be calling this out.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Love it when Jasmine is on🔥
“Mike Johnson is full of shit. We know that he didn't even bring the House back in because he was trying to avoid us dealing with Epstein. He would not even swear in a duly elected member of Congress to avoid this. So miss me on pretending that this is about the victims.”

The panel is Obama, Trump, Trump, but signed as a "per curiam" opinion, which means "by the court."

That's usually reserved for when judges want to speak with one voice, especially in political cases, and the name of the opinion's author is not really relevant. Or else the law is well settled.

I am once again asking white people to handle their Nuzzi/Lizza business in the privacy of their own pumpkin spiced brunch table and leave the rest of us the fuck alone with this poorly written bullshit

Anyway, afte 24 hours of car related madness, I'm heading to the Poconos with the fam college friends (and their families) related shennanigans. My license and registration are up to date. Car has recently been serviced. And all my weirdness is behind me.
OPERATION: CANNOT POSSIBLY FAIL is a go!

Telling the story to my 13yo: "I guess this is a good reminder that police officers are just people too." :)

That is what I'm going with. :)

Telling the story to my 13yo: "I guess this is a good reminder that police officers are just people too." :)

That is what I'm going with. :)

No. Never. :)

I mean, yeah? Kinda.

It was Umbrella. There's *no chance* he's never heard that before, right?

White cop parked next to where I pulled up at a stop light, motioned to me to roll down my window.

Cop: What kind of music is that
Me: Sorry officer, was it too loud?
Cop: No. just, what music?
Me: Rhianna?
Cop: Good tune.

WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED TO ME??

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“We Have Breath Again”: Black Americans on Leaving the US for Mexico The Americans recently relocating to San Miguel de Allende are a new kind of “expat,” a word they refuse to call themselves.

New Black Retirement community just dropped :)

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Since I didn’t die and he didn’t say anything positive about Trump or Republicans, I still have to give him 4 stars. :(. But not 5! Those are the rules. :)

Oh my god, I’m home. I didn’t even notice we hit my street because I’ve never taken that turn at SPEED.

Jesus Christ. I’m going to kiss my wife and my children because their faces have been flashing before my eyes.

BACKFIRE. He started singing with me. Now we’re BOTH singing ABBA while he’s doing fucking 90