Andrew Sabl

Aaaand…mic drop for now—taking a break from posting. See you when I fall off the wagon.

That last point. Cassidy really has enormous leverage if he wants to use it. He would win this fight. Worst case is he winds up losing a primary and spends his 70s (he's 68 now) as a hero to millions. He'll likely never have as much influence over anything again as he has over this right now.

Just narrowly avoided uploading to an official site a Fall term exam that referred to “Plato’s *Reputlic*”.

Picture of people bending a knee to Trump. The ID's say: "Law firms," "Columbia U," "Washington Post." The one person who is standing up has an ID saying "Harvard."

Via a friend, the only time I can remember a President of Harvard as subject/hero of an editorial page cartoon.

(Context: Ongoing "Harvard about to cave" NYT coverage.)

Copy of the image in case the gift link doesn’t work:

Editorial Cartoons for December, 2025 The Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canada, featuring national and international news

From the Globe and Mail

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[Alt-text: Franklin the Turtle, looking angry, sitting on top of Pete Hegseth with a burning boat in the background. Caption: “Franklin has a quiet word with a possible war criminal…”]

They reportedly want to open an enterprise investigation. Here is an excerpt from the relevant portion of the FBI manual about when you can't start an enterprise investigations

Excerpt from ruling: “Bluntly put, why the Court ruled as it did remains unclear-and without reasoning, this order cannot even be considered as persuasive. Second, Justice Kavanaugh's conclusion that the plaintiffs lacked standing in Perdomo rested on the claims asserted in that case specifically, plaintiffs there sought to enjoin defendants from targeting individuals for immigration stops based on certain factors, such as race or ethnicity, their accent, and the type of work they did. Id. Justice Kavanaugh reasoned that plaintiffs in Perdomo likely lacked standing under Lyons, as defendants may "stop suspected illegal immigrants based on a variety of factors," and thus "plaintiffs ha[d] no good basis to believe that law enforcement will unlawfully stop them in the future" based "only on [prohibited] factors." Id. at *3 (emphases in original). In contrast, this case concerns an entirely different context, namely, civil immigration arrests rather than immigration stops, which were at issue in Perdomo, and a different type of challenge. Specifically, plaintiffs are not arguing which factors defendants may consider in their application of a legal standard, but rather contend that defendants have abandoned the proper legal standard entirely. See Pls.' Reply at 8. Thus, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in Perdomo, to the extent it has persuasive, let alone controlling, authority, is inapposite.”

While we were sleeping, a huge ruling:

Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”

She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.

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Historians unearth the pagan roots of Cyber Monday and its origin in the ancient festival of CompuServehain "Cyber Monday has a storied history that stretches back to the beginning of human memory, some time in the mid-1980s.”

Historians unearth the pagan roots of Cyber Monday, reveal its origin in the ancient festival of CompuServehain

OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay

Universities can't function if they're constantly running scared of an online cancel factory and spineless politicians who won't push back. Should this student have received a bad grade? Don't know. Should the governor of the state be commenting on it? Absolutely not. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...

Myrie’s campaign was indeed pretty bad. I’m thinking maybe he just wanted to keep his name in front of the public for a future run for something?

Ok, maybe that slam was uncalled for. No great talent, but you’re right.

Yes, but you’d have to watch Ernest Borgnine in all of them.

Yes, but also: if you’re going to pick a star, you’re going to pick someone who’s about thirty years old? Why on earth? (I certainly wouldn’t have done that when I was thirty.)

I’m seeing people name actors on the strength of something like five or six movies and thinking…your relationship to film is very different from mine.

(That’s a yolk.)

As the parent of a kid with autism, I think everyone should read this.

(This doesn’t mean you have an obligation to read it. But you’ll be better informed if you do.)

If you can’t join them, beat them?

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:

His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”

(Not cheery) thread.

A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.

I’m sorry, but I doubt any of those animals did any fieldwork. I bet you had to do it all.

Which airport is this? La Guardia (with luck)?

Not just aging societies: societies that refuse to respond to longer and healthier lives by postponing retirement.

At one point (a couple of decades ago) I saw someone claim that the Alice books (don’t forget *Through the Looking Glass*, the only reason we assume Humpty Dumpty is an egg!) were, combined, the most cited books in English besides the Bible.

Way more influential than *Moby Dick*!

Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵

If you were reading something and the author described a theory or schema as "tidy" would you assume that that was a term of praise or of criticism?

Is "tidy" a good thing in matters of thought?

Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.