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Terror and Pity When The Time Is Now. In London, an exceptional performance of an endless ache.

I saw it in London and wrote about it soon after. You may be interested.
thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/terror-and...

A scheming comes across the sky.

On October 31, 2025—36 days after Ms. Halligan purported to secure the indictment, 31 days after the statute of limitations had expired, and 11 days after Mr. Comey had filed his motion to dismiss—the Attorney General purported to “appoint Ms. Halligan to the additional position of Special Attorney, as of September 22, 2025, and thereby ratify her employment as an attorney of the Department of Justice from that date going forward.” ECF No. 137-1. But that action cannot retroactively transform Ms. Halligan into an authorized government attorney on the day she purported to secure the indictment. In Lucia, for instance, the Supreme Court found an Appointments Clause violation and set aside an adjudication because the relevant official “heard and decided [the petitioner’s] case without the kind of appointment the [Appointments] Clause requires.” 585 U.S. at 251. It did not matter that the official’s “prior appointment[]” had been “ratif[ied]” by a Head of Department after the adjudication had been completed and “[w]hile th[e] case was on judicial review.” Id. at 252 n.6. If such a post hoc ratification of a prior invalid appointment sufficed, then the government could moot every Appointments Clause challenge. The government cites no authority suggesting that an invalid appointment can be excused so long as the government allegedly “intended” to vest the relevant official “with the powers” of

Here's how Jim Comey mocks Pam Bondi's attempt to retroactively make Lindsey Halligan a magical pony on Halloween.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

meanwhile, even more people will lose healthcare

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Republicans treat Democrats in D.C. like chumps even before the vote.

Two (Or More) Wrongs Changing my mind about changing my mind

A convincing theory about intelligence, Andrew Ross Sorkin's excellent book, and remembering how good it is to wonder if you're wrong. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/two-or-mor...

Lake Veronica
campwinnarainbow.org/blog/an-ode-...

Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.

AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.

"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"

apnews.com/article/trum...

Celebrate accordingly.

That stat is terrifying.

I'm surprised we haven't seen them already.

Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg A blizzard of outside spending on ads, including a spot that linked Zohran Mamdani to 9/11, failed to move voters and may have even backfired.

Cuomo and his billionaires spent $65 per vote. Mamdani and his backers spent $15.81 per vote. Who’s the fiscally responsible one here?

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...

So..the question was, "A judge has told you that.."
And the answer is, "It's absurd, because a judge has told us that..."
Solid answer, JD.

Pairs well with a smartphone.

It's a very good piece. She is an interesting writer.

Well....
www.susanrigetti.com/thoughts/the...

I guess he's been very busy, and hasn't seen the cartoon Trump posted where he's dumping shit on the people he swore to protect last January.

Someone has never had a decent plate of goat curry.

You must know by now, he lies like a six year old. Barely knows what the truth is, so he just says stuff that makes him the hero of his world.

AI Analogies "R" US Making the big numbers bite-sized, like they do in Journalism.

If each dollar in Nvidia's $5 trillion valuation was a single second of time, the total would be over 150,000 years, the time it takes The North American Tectonic Plate, and a person's fingernails, to advance 2.5 miles.
AI valuations made simple.
thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/ai-analogi...

Most populous country in Africa, sixth largest in the world; six cities with a pop >1 million; 50% Muslim/48% Christian; >300 ethnic groups speaking >500 languages; tropical rain forest in the south, desert in the north, w/ mountains, plains, swamps & jungles; he can't name the leader.
Let's roll!

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.

Texas thread:

Kind of surprised Johnson didn't say he hadn't seen the election results, he's been really busy.

Must be interesting to be a Republican congressperson of at least minimal intelligence, looking at Trump's popularity, yesterday's election results, and the Supreme Court faceplant, and thinking, "J.D. Vance is his successor."

If that was true, they'd be selling Trump-branded day clocks, one button radios, fidget pillows and tracking watches.

Looks like a nail salon

I love the smell of onions and mustard in the morning.

Works better if he pronounces "intifada" correctly.