Innocent🕷Abroad

I don’t want to spoil it, but the ending is WILD

Let’s not rush to judgment

What one must remember about Trump’s god-awful interior decor and architecture is that design & construction of luxury buildings is supposed to be his core competence & the thing that made him rich.

Foreigners are really impressed by our president’s grandeur, sophistication, and taste.

obviously always reread this whenever it pops up but also: never entirely sure what it says about me that it made me really fancy Tom Hollander

This was at Lord’s, but I’ve been at the Oval when a fox stopped play. I wasn’t there for the infamous incident when a crossbow bolt stopped play, but it contributes to the sense that there’s something atavistic about playing conditions in Kennington.

If it had been union, the regulator would have gotten away with it.

My reading of the judgment is influenced by the American cases discussed on the @badlawyerpod.bsky.social podcast. Some of the language has become distressingly familiar from the podcast. The sanction strikes me as stronger than seems to be normal in the US, though cases & states vary.

Lou Reed has much for which to answer

Haven’t they heard that SCOTUS has ruled that federal bribery statutes don’t apply to anything?

This is a federal law enforcement issue because…help me out here.

Next time, warn us before triggering Buck v Bell flashbacks

If I were president, I’d walk on the White House roof whenever I damn well felt like it. Which would be often.

This is gonna be such a vote-winner for the GOP

All I can tell you is it’s definitely non-Euclidean

For a lot of our history, being an unreconstructed racist was no obstacle to public office. Indeed, it could be essential in some times & places.

Still, I miss the days when this kind of racial-essentialist nonsense was disqualifying.

Jimmy the Greek got canned for shit like this.

Smithers lies to Monty Burns that his boos are people chanting “Boo-urns.”

“Uh, no, when you were on the roof they were shouting ‘Trump! Trump!”

Spare a thought for those of us Americans who live overseas. Every time something even crazier happens, the locals expect us to explain it.

That's Judge Wurman of the 8th Circuit to you and me

Wordle. Guesses: TRUMP. DIRTY. ATRIA.

I have my own theories concerning the cause of the president's health problems

The longer I stay in Weimar, the better my German gets.

I think this one says, "Later, everyone from Munich will go to Hell"

As a creepy middle-aged man myself, I denounce him for making our demographic somehow look even creepier

I'd be fine with Cruz never wearing a kippah again, TBH

"Entitled?" By what argument? If you go with JD Vance's embrace of proportional representation in his innumerate criticism of California's districts, the Republicans already have more Texas seats than they're "entitled" to.

Well, I guess if the storms are also affecting the north of England, you could get away with this.

Back in 2003, when Texas pioneered mid-decade re-redistricting for partisan advantage, I was at the Brennan Center. We submitted an amicus brief, I think in support of a stay application, explaining why this was a Very Bad Thing that would lead to tit-for-tat gerrymandering.

Oh, well.

British Bluesky before we all wake up of a morning ⬇️

This feels different: an immigration rule that is explicitly targeted at international athletes & exists for the sole purpose of excluding qualified participants from competing.

These people will tell you solar & wind are pointless because we can’t store or transport energy, & then they’ll say we should have a nuclear reactor on the moon.

If the US won’t allow athletes who are eligible ACCORDING TO B THE RULES OF THE GOVERNING FEDERATION, international matches & tournaments shouldn’t be held there.