Colin Kennedy 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇺🇦🇵🇸🇵🇦

Well that’s an easy $50 from this Michigander to her campaign.

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

I repeat, I think the October 18th protests will be historically significant. We must act in defense of our Republic.

It’s so beautiful to remember that Van Morrison was scooped up into heaven by the loving hand of God immediately after The Last Waltz was filmed and never seen or heard from again in this vale of tears

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

This is like if The National wrote an Aimee Mann song wtf (high praise)

Dude, about to play some Verdi, holding a cimbasso

FUCK YEAH CIMBASSO TIME (Verdi’s Requiem)

Skillet with bean stew and brown sausages

Felt like doing a thing, so I made a leek, parsnip, and bacon cassoulet thing with garlic sausages.

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON August 15, 1985 MEMORANDUM FOR FRED F. FIELDING FROM: JOHN G. ROBERTS, SUBJECT: ImEoundment Authority David Chew asked our office for general information on the President's impoundment authority. He originally asked Joe Wright for such information and was provided the packet at Tab A, but thought a clearer exposition was necessary. I talked with Chew to obtain some sense of what he was interested in, and he indicated that the issue of impoundment was raised in general discussions of how to achieve budget goals. The attached memorandum simply outlines the requirements of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, 2 u.s.c. §§ 681-688, touches upon the unresolved Chadha issue presented by that Act, and attempts to dampen any hopes that inherent constitutional impoundment authority may be invoked to achieve budget goals. As noted in the memo- randum, the question of whether the President has such authority is not free from doubt, but I think it clear that he has none in normal situations, and we should discourage Chew and others from considering impoundment as a viable budget planning option. Our institutional vigilance with respect to the constitutional prerog- atives of the presidency requires appropriate deference to the constitutional prerogatives of the other branches, and no area seems more clearly the province of Congress than the power of the purse. Attachment

Huh

https://www.levernews.com/content/files/2025/01/1985RobertsMemo-Budget.pdf

The colonnaded portico with no pediment and a flat roof is just chef’s kiss

I think it would be helpful if DA Bragg charged a few of these assaults. If the agents think that federal law immunizes them for actions that would result in ordinary New Yorkers being charged, let them litigate it.

So, dinner in Lombard a week from today?

The autism acetaminophen class action was scuttled on summary judgment where experts failed to show credible evidence of causation. But I think the notion that 'autism' is a compensable injury is offensive:

I meant to say by Stalin. Of course by Stalin.

A bunch of ethnic Koreans were deported from the Korea-adjacent USSR to Uzbekistan. If you ever want to experience halal, Uzbek-influenced Korean food, there’s a place in South Brooklyn. (It is delicious)

A pile of furry cat parts, in the vague shape of a dilute tortie, resting comfortably atop a pile of books and papers, actively impeding my workflow.

This morning’s desk goblin, Midge.

people have already mentioned SNEAKERs, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR and of course ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN as great redford performances, let me recommend THE CANDIDATE, which is really one of the best movies ever made about american politics

RIP, Robert Redford, and congrats — your obituary in the WaPo is the horniest obit I’ve ever read.

Honestly thought that was Phil
Collins catching a stray at first glance

This is DC’s Chicago bar

I live in Ann Arbor, which tends more affluent and white. Our twin city, Ypsilanti, is comparatively blacker and poorer. You only see the crypto ATMs in Ypsilanti. It’s striking.

Inshallah!

Flying it upside down until our street gets fixed and we get a good Italian restaurant

Meanwhile, the smart play electorally for Dems remains what it has been for my entire life - find a standard-bearer with some fucking charisma, and turn her/him loose to savage the other side in a way that people find hopeful. Throwing trans people under the bus is no part of a winning strategy.

By the transitive property, Canada=Germany

Does anyone have a screenshot? I love hating on my junior senator

God RFK’s suit/shirt/tie are all terrible

The Earth is the common heritage of mankind and no corner of it should be denied to anyone merely on the basis of race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, or place of birth.

I was at my father’s funeral, got the alert, and the mood brightened