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Be sure to also note @adamrose.bsky.social's assessment of why declaring an unlawful assembly to shut down a bar DURING THE FINAL GAME OF THE WORLD SERIES sets a chilling precedent: “Using unlawful assembly this way is like pre-crime or thought-crime enforcement"

SIGNATURES For Cornell University: Michael I. Kotlikoff President of Cornell University Office of the President 300 Day Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Ben the Winited States (including but not limited to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Servives and the U.S, Department of Education): /N istant Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 For the Department of Health and Human Services: Paula Matana S Paula M. Stannard Director, Office for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 Effective Date: 14/7/2025.

BREAKING: Cornell caved.

Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez

190. SNAP WTF? A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

Read about WHY Ketanji Brown Jackson stayed the SNAP order. Her move is probably the best solution for getting SNAP benefits approved quickly. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

“if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.” - centrists would never

So weird that betting would encourage cheating or at least unethical behavior and honestly, I’m shocked

Morales: I don’t care if you’re the most individualistic person on the planet—because you “lift yourself up by your bootstraps” and think government should stay out of your business and “don’t tread on me.” Climate change is already treading on you, and you should care about this issue.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Screenshot reads, "A Carnivorous ‘Death Ball’ Has Emerged from the Deep This newly-discovered species is being called the “death-ball sponge” for its appendages, which end in orbs and are covered in micro-hooks meant to capture prey."

Not now, carnivorous death ball

Thursday night, date night
Cuddling on the coach, watching an unboxing video comparing a modern leather phone case against horween.
Fuck yeah baby

Feel you

Sandwich Guy, Thrower of Hoagie–Or Hero? The trial ended in an acquittal. But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time.

Here's my piece for @lawfaremedia.org on my experience covering the Sandwich Guy trial. Warning: longer than 280 characters!
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...

Oh shit, darn it wish I picked it up
Kpop Demon Hampers, eh?

Wait, Congress crafts legislation?

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

narrator: no, it cannot

For some reason the profiles flagged as "trustworthy" all look like:

If a writer can't flag that kind of technology as "Bog-standard racism hiding behind a fig leaf of technology" (AKA - "garbage in, garbage out personified") they shouldn't be writing articles on technology at all.

Peanut Hamper, singular. And if you don’t know who that is, you better watch the series.

k but i want a Peanut Hamper lego set please and thank you

Most of the Tesla shareholder proposals are like "Tesla is an incredible company, but maybe we should make sure we have some basic accountability or make sure we aren't exploiting child labor" and the board recommends against all of them

Kash Patel’s Private Jet Problem Is Even Worse Than It Looks This dude can’t stop flying to Nashville.

NEW: Why does Kash Patel's official jet keep flying to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives, sitting on the tarmac for an hour or two, and then flying back to the D.C. area?
www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...

The Wachowskis's The Matrix Revolutions was released 22 years ago today.

And I had already devoted a thread to the creation of the Battle of Zion, which is based on an in-depth look at the art department of this saga.

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

I did it, and they don’t make it easy

Fox Propaganda has gone Full George Orwell to cope with last night's ferocious rebuke to Republicans and, especially, Trump.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Hey new Onion headline dropped…

1: Chocolate gorilla in a sauce pan of milk. “Listen kid.” 2: Chocolate gorilla in a sauce pan of milk, half melted. “I don’t have much time.” 3: Chocolate gorilla in a sauce pan of milk, mostly melted. “I know what the Cocteau twins are saying…” 4: Chocolate gorilla totally melted into a sauce pan of milk.