Stretch Ledford

Because we all want to sit for hours in a poorly ventilated space elbow to ass with someone sweating through their clothes after a workout.

Who’s the dude at the far right hand side of the stage in what looks to me like a jacket and bow tie?

Feds gassed and tackled people in Elgin today, the same day Kristi Noem was in Chicago for a Christmas photo op, after a few weeks of relative quiet.

I'm remembering that old story about groundskeepers at Versailles who would only turn the palace fountains on when the king came by.

41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.

They cannot be given authority to forcibly remove anyone from their vehicle this way. Think about how bad actors would abuse this power.

Except Cartier-Bresson. And Capa. And Erwitt. And Parks. And Friedlander. And Smith. And Singh. And Maeir. And Webb. And Reed. And Davidson. And Koudelka. And Lyon. And Gatewood. And…

“We had to kill the survivors in the water with a missile because they might flip the shards of the boat, continue to the US, and sell drugs” is not really any different than “We had to kill the entire village because the children might grow up and join the Vietcong,” except much less plausible

Can we get mythbusters to prove if two likely injured people can flip a boat with...

How many pounds of drugs in a boat that likely isn't even buoyant anymore due to the... Missile

I’m not a writer, so I shouldn’t talk, but: Was there an editor involved in this book? They/they/manta rays/wut?

Based on our preliminary evaluation of this case, Texas satisfies the traditional criteria for interim relief. See Indi- ana State Police Pension Trust v. Chrysler LLC, 556 U. S. 960 (2009) (per curiam). Texas is likely to succeed on the merits of its claim that the District Court committed at least two serious errors. First, the District Court failed to honor the presumption of legislative good faith by constru- ing ambiguous direct and circumstantial evidence against the legislature. Contra, Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, 602 U. S. 1, 10 (2024). Second, the District Court failed to draw a dispositive or near- dispositive adverse inference against respondents even...

Texas clearly did a racial gerrymander, which is illegal.

A district court found that Texas did a racial gerrymander, rejecting the new map because it is illegal.

But the Supreme Court reversed it.

Because? Must assume the gerrymanderers were acting in good faith (despite the evidence otherwise).

Because teens' suicidal ideations are comical? I think not.

Public speaking 101. “Phonetics are your phriend.”

This is the head of the company that CNN just partnered with, insisting that prediction markets are a great way to cut through the noise and determine what’s true and what isn’t.

No, really, listen to him. It’s actually that stupid.

ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.

In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities.

"The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Good stuff here.

Great stuff.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social You’re in the deepest pit of hell. Devil lets you choose to spend eternity listening to either Zeppelin or Lieutenant Kevin Riley singing I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen. What do you do?

Legit question: how long can their news side keep doing the great work they’re doing if this is the mindset of the editorial side and, thus, of management?

If the whole premise wasn’t so esoteric I could totally see an SNL skit built around this: “Prisoner or recluse. Inside the house yet somehow on the loose.”

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Alex Horton, one of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the story, has been a participant in more violent combat than Pete Hegseth by an order of magnitude.

It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.

“Congress?” is
an unceasingly more pressing question.

IOW, the “deal”, unsurprisingly, isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. (Nor the pixels that render it on a screen.)

Happy birthday @anuncivilphd.bsky.social ! The world is fortunate to have you. 🤩

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Illinois officials warn rental car companies that it is illegal for immigration agents to swap license plates The secretary of state sent a cease and desist letter to ICE head Todd Lyons, citing “multiple reports of federal ICE agents illegally swapping out the license plates displayed on vehicles.”

Illinois state officials have given national rental car companies official notice that ICE agents using their vehicles are not allowed to swap the rental’s assigned license plates for other plates to disguise the vehicles, and if they do, the rental car companies could be held liable.