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Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

lol no shit.

this video is so funny, imagine being grilled by a US Senator who is oddly convinced that you went to an Atlanta Hawks game when you have never been to an Atlanta Hawks game

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

For whatever it's worth I tend to think a legal system deliberately manufacturing a vast new category of valuable things that belong to nobody is a strange thing to do on purpose. Someone spent money, ran a process, made a thing people will pay for. That usually gets an owner.

A federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.” trib.al/ouHgmYA

Alexander Dugin is a grommet. Hawaii and California should participate in joint strikes after this declaration of war.

what if yoda worked for the empire but with half the IQ and no midichlorians.

Universal Music just sued Quince — the $10B DTC fashion brand — for using Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" and other hits in TikTok ads. Wild, when AI and software let anyone make their own pop banger for a fraction of the cost of defending a copyright claim. "Espresso" is a couple Splice loops.

You can thank the adoption of no-fault divorce laws. California led the way with the nation’s first no-fault divorce laws in 1969.

Oh my what a Schlapp in the face this is

I find it amusing the applicant's marketing material and arguments about how you can eat the pancakes by dipping them, sharing them, eat them while walking or standing up was effectively met with, "yeah, well, that's just shit you can do with a pancake..."

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

It’s not being tested by either of those things. It’s being tested by the fact that the president agreed to it without reading it, promised a bunch of stuff he self-evidently couldn’t deliver, and agreed to abide to a bunch of terms that he self-evidently couldn’t tolerate.

Recklessly producing and then accepting a situation where a foreign power can restrict freedom of navigation is not just a strategic defeat, it is a reversal of the most fundamental foreign policy and national security priority of the United States since the founding of the republic.

Trump went from making insane genocidal threats this morning to hyping the “golden age” of Iran hours later, and he received no concessions in between. He’s an absolute basket case who needs to be removed from power before he follows through on one of his mass murder fantasies.

The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator. The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization. Congress is on recess. This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.

There's a reason this place is spinning its wheels as a twitter knock off rather than a platform where normal people want to participate.

I like Bluesky better than most platforms but the comments section can sometimes be full of trash people.

CPB—the institution Congress created in 1967 to insulate public media from exactly this kind of political pressure—dissolved last month. The funding architecture is gone. No injunction puts that back together. The court got the law right. The damage is already done.

It was just 24 days between when Zuck went on Rogan and talked about how "never again" would he suppress info based on gov't demands (misrepresenting those demands) and when he texted top gov't employee Elon Musk to say "we're all set up to take down info you want removed." I wrote about it here.

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If you hop on the USPTO database you can see the problems coming when they are cheap before they become 11 million dollar problems.

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This is a weird quirk to copyright law where a celebrity doesn't have rights to an image of themselves. Feels like fair use? Probably not even if it's paparazzi taking the picture. Layer in she's using it for influencer sales and maybe we hope both parties lose. /shrug

Could they tackle student loans? Are they taking requests?

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

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Basically all of the bad economic news this term is because the president deliberately decided to do something moronic. He is much more personally responsible for this than most presidents are for the downturns in their administration.

So let me get this straight ... 1. US bombs Iran 2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate 3. Russia gives Iran targeting info 4. Oil price shoots WAY up 5. US unsanctions Russian oil

They want to try to cut and run. The problem with this is that you can’t at this point. The only way out is through.

This thread should be the death-knell for Platner's claim that the army didn't ban him for the Nazi tattoo and for his defenders' claims that he didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo. It's the reason he was barred from re-enlistment, and he knew it. He's a liar who deliberately kept a Nazi tattoo.

He should get championship style rings for surviving back to back Ayatollahs.

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Aka seeking redress by lawful means through the courts.

The "plan" is some version of "it's up to the Iranian people" except, uh, there continues to be a large and still-functional theocratic police state over there. Success depends on the Revolutionary Guard just giving up then helping the people organize a free and fair election, which seems unlikely.

This guy assassinated someone in a foreign country with an exotic atomic weapon.

tl;dr: An injunction against Trumpian extortion. Finally. The first clear ruling against the business model of this Capo in Chief.

It is beyond cool (is that the right word?) for me to see @lessig.bsky.social link to Legalish. And if you don't read his substack already you should! lessig.substack.com/p/the-extort...

Ali Khamenei Is Dead, but Iran Is Not Yet Free His death closes one chapter of repression, but the Islamic Republic’s entrenched security, political, and economic power structure remains intact, and the fight for a truly free Iran is far from over. My Full Piece Here: bit.ly/46ukJEj

...maybe don't show the ship locations? Trump does not look medically OK for this.

Regime change isn't happening from the air. We won't do boots on the ground. So what is this? Bomb Iran till they sign JCPOA again?

> For its part, the United States filed a Response opposing any release of Volume II outside of the Department of Justice— characterizing Volume II as the unlawful work product of an unconstitutionally appointed actor Cool. Good job everyone. www.legalish.me/cannon-block...

Clever.

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