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Justice Kennedy, Off the Bench but Still Rendering Opinions

Chotiner his ass or don’t bother www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

🏆Omar M. Yaghi, born in 1965 to Palestinian refugee parents in Amman, Jordan, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He shares the honor with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson for their pioneering work in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) — materials that capture carbon dioxide, store...

🇵🇸 Breaking: 22-year-old Palestinian, held without charge or trial since May 2024, dies in Israeli custody — the 78th Palestinian “prisoner” to die since Oct 7.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Ahmad Khdeirat, from Adh-Dhahiriya near Hebron, entered prison with diabetes, contracted scabies...

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

I want to tie myself to train tracks and let a train run over me every time someone says that they like Gavin Newsom because he trolls Trump

tarragonthedragon on tumblr: "always fascinated by which things people assume are unique to their culture and which they assume are universal. listening to an australian podcast right now and they are very confident that nobody will understand that 'cozzie' is short for 'swimming costume' and explain it every time it comes up, but they give zero information about swooping season because surely everyone gets attacked by birds for like a month a year"

Every time Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York-the Democrat with the most power in a shutdown because his withholding of seven senators toward a procedural vote keeps Republicans from proceeding-says that Democrats are looking to open the government through a negotiation around and deal on Affordable Care Act subsidies, he is acquiescing to the idea that a government in which Border Patrol agents paid with our tax dollars can shoot real bullets at protesters in Chicago after screaming "Do something, bitch!" can and should be deemed legitimate. The truth is that Democrats can pay a million consultants to come up with a million different talking points on health care subsidies. They can keep holding press conferences in the Senate studio like every other press conference before it, talking to the same reporters, pretending like we live in a redeemable timeline where if they just keep on acting like it's 2007, we might fall through a time portal that makes it so. But we live here in a country with a co-opted executive branch led by racist, xenophobic idiots who do not believe in law, empowered by a slavishly devoted Supreme Court that has decided shoveling unlimited power to said executive is more important than the law it disregards, and where the president thinks he can send national guardsmen from red states to blue states just because people of color live here and Fox News hosts hate that.

good morning to the intern doing @schumer.senate.gov’s clips

@moiradonegan.bsky.social, on far right propagandists: It's… somebody who produces reams and reams and reams of the same dumbass thing over and over again.

@adriandaub.bsky.social: Yeah, the Nazis created a platform for it called the Reichskulturkammer. We created a platform for it called Substack.

YouTube video by M. Sliwa Public Relations Andrew Cuomo’s Deadly Leadership: Meet Donna Johnson

Curtis Sliwa (the GOP nominee for NYC mayor) has launched a devastating ad against Andrew Cuomo (still running as an independent) featuring Donna Johnson, who claims that Cuomo's COVID policies regarding nursing homes killed both of her parents.

This hits home with Cuomo's prime demographic.

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek just took back control of the national guard.

She is sending the Oregon national Guard back home and is directing the California national guard to leave the State.

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

and that's like, white normies. natural born citizens. if you think people are generally equal and have rights they want to go through your phone and break up whatever book club you belong to. if you think racism is bad they don't think you should have roads or running water. it's a problem

the problem is, and i have no idea what to do about it, they mean it. they don't believe you have any rights as the governed save for those they arbitrarily bestow or deny you on any given day. you are an occupied people to them. they have a view on the music you like and who you fuck

i expressly did not clutch my pearls about the rampaging mob on september 6, and thought it was mostly goofy. i did believe the people at fault were the officials riling these people up and putting them in legal and physical danger. i agree now they absolutely should have hammered trump

Wait what happened on September 6

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

37 states have passed legislation specifically granting sales tax exemptions for data centers.

Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are Amazon, Meta and Google, all companies worth over $1 trillion.

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
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Or if you have a dryer plug in your garage you can just get a plug splitter and charge the car off that np. Literally what I do with a charging cable that cost me the princely sum of sixty bucks

Putting estradiol in a blowdart

got invited to the goblin group chat but none of them speak common so I'm just fire reacting random shit

YODA: circumcised are you
ME: That's a private matter, Yoda.
YODA: absent of skin a jedi must be
ME: Not interested. Go away, Yoda.
YODA: take off your shorts you must
YODA: show it to me you will
YODA: going where are you
YODA: your penis I must see
YODA: cut your long pink pipe must be
YODA: mmMm

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

Bluesky search isn't broken, the devs are just overloading the system trying to find posts that they can use to ban random trans women

Having gone to a really shitty private school is so funny. People hear “private school” and rightly think my parents were well off but instead of playing lacrosse or whatever I was learning young earth creationism from a Russian antisemite in portables outside a church

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

There's always a baked in assumption that they'll get to be the served, not the servant.

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.