famous people love having selfies with famous people so for a whole menagerie of famous people there’s a photograph with whatever famous sociopath is pathing the socios today.
it was just a snapshot, they say. we barely met.
our supreme court are just horrible people.
you see, it’s not that they want to execute a man who may well be entirely innocent.
it’s about states’ rights.
A storm surge warning, a tropical storm warning, and a hurricane watch walk into a sandbar.
Julius Caesar was done with politics.
“Because jailers are in the business of healthcare. They are responsible for the death of that unfortunate soul... Everything is healthcare.” @artlung https://artlung.com/blog/2024/09/24/actually-everything-is-healthcare/
it's not, in fact, unusual for a thing to be in ones own self interest despite being contrary to the greater good.
for people trained in the anglo-american economic tradition, at an intuitive level, this is surprising. these "market failures" are what's supposed to be unusual, weird, "advanced" in a curricular sense.
Lina Khan on “60 Minutes Overtime” on noncompetes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxl4XVzvuSg
"Republican primary voters have moved from voting for Trump in spite of his transgressions to rejecting anyone who doesn’t transgress. If you’re not transgressive, you’re suspicious. Decency is countercultural in the Republican Party. It’s seen as a rebuke of Trump." @davidfrenchjag https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/opinion/mark-robinson-maga-trump.html
the remarkable Lina Khan on 60 Minutes. via #ZephyrTeachout https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ftc-chair-lina-khan-60-minutes-transcript/
it’s not a deep fake. it’s a deep fake of a deep fake.
“we’ve taken on a model of argument in which data, regressions and modelling…are the standard of proof. And because of this, we’ve closed off all possible explanations…except those for which usable datasets can be found.” #DanDavies https://open.substack.com/pub/backofmind/p/me-versus-the-scatterplots
"I swear that all my lying was the bravest form of truth"
Rose Polenzani voicing the character of a trans man deceiving his lover captures J.D. Vance's ethos beautifully.
I mean, he's not the first politician to try to flatter his audience. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/19/trump-blames-jews-election-loss/
@admitsWrongIfProven omg he basically named the site “nonbinary.com” just more concise he’s so progressive!
can’t wait until elon gets excited about personalization and rebrands to my-x.com
“after so much spin, i find the outright lies to be kind of refreshing.”
q: can you impersonate a horse?
a: nay
Text: When thinking about constitutional law topics, it is important not to lose track of the fact that it is all nonsense. The phrase "take care" in the constitution does not actually imply anything one way or another about for-cause removal protections for the NLRB ALJs. In a well-functioning system, judges would recognize this fact and leave lawmaking to the legislature, but we have a system where judicial supremacy combines with constitutional vagueness to effectively give judges discretionary and perpetual veto rights over all legislative and executive actions. Judges naturally use these discretionary veto rights in a way that generally aligns with their political preferences and thus the three Republican judges read the phrase "take care" to generate their preferred outcome — hindering the administrative state and labor law — while the one Democratic judge reads the phrase "take care" to generate their preferred, opposite outcome.
@pja@octodon.social (they swab my bags, sometimes inside them, not just my hands. so i imagine they are looking for residue on a variety of surfaces.)
@pja@octodon.social (i have no idea how sensitive it is supposed to be. and of course, an adversary with sufficient care could avoid any residue. this all strikes me as evidence that’s very doable!)