Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

Seen on the Internet #NoKings

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

Bring back TONTINE you cowards

Sumo bikes

I wrote about how all the beautiful dumb stuff really does matter, and why you should come out for No Kings Day on Saturday.

First draft of the party platform detected

Finally got around to reading The Understudy, and it is so much fun. I needed an opera-world pulp thriller in my life.

I just realized it's pub day for @stefanfatsis.bsky.social and "Unabridged"! I loved this book. It's FILLED with fascinating stories about defining, Merriam-Webster, and dictionaries in general.

I'm sorry that it's already time to think about this, but it would make a wonderful holiday gift. 🎁

But whenever I've seen folks getting arrested in NYC, it's at an action where certain people have PLANNED to block traffic or the entrance to a building or do something else that will likely provoke arrests. I haven't personally seen folks arrested at a typical march or rally like a #NoKings rally.

It was bizarre!

I told him and he was so overcome he couldn’t even respond

@gregpak.net I need to show you some of my kid’s bird sketches from his ongoing #DrawABird practice

Why are there so many

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

!!!

Eight years ago, I drove to Sag Harbor and sat down for tea with Maria Matthiessen, telling her I wanted to write a book about her late husband, Peter. She warned me against it: a Sisyphean task! I pushed on anyway. (Maria was right.) And today, miraculously, is publication day for TRUE NATURE.

Jeff, a small business owner and father of three, relies on healthcare tax credits to keep his family covered. Without them, his premiums will eat up half of his income — double the price of his mortgage.

The rikishi are taking-in the town and doing what we all do when in London.
Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.

Hot Water Balloon

xkcd.com/3153/

State murder charges wouldn't be straightforward--you'd have to litigate whether defendants were doing a federal job; there's a whole doctrine about this that I don't know well--but they also wouldn't be pardonable by the president.

Another thing about murder is that every state has laws against it. You'd have to look at how each state handles criminal jurisdiction for acts outside the state, but it's plausible that federal officials could be prosecuted by a state where they planned or prepared for these killings.

This is fascinating! Thank you for sharing. I agree that Pocky's design is useful.