Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

And how can they expect lower courts to follow it if it’s not decided?

That I could definitely see.

Yep this is where I am. It would be entirely like him to inconveniently cling to life when JD Vance is salivating.

I could see him wavering but not really closely connecting Heaven to religion, if that makes any sense? Like not thinking of Jesus, maybe not even God, not atonement, not repentance. Just a vague sense that good people go one place and bad people another.

And I totally agree there was some substantial health event in September.

Oh yeah the mind is on the fritz and not improving.

Totally took it that way! I’m just afraid I’m spoiling any fun.

Oh yeah, I’m not at all saying the dude’s healthy! Or cognitively with it! Or he’s definitely going to live. Just that I’ve seen a lot of people his age speculate more about death. My parents had do that. And he doesn’t look as bad as people I’ve seen who were dying of a non-sudden event.

I have sworn not to be a Debbie Downer on this topic…

Also the reason people are making these comments is not bc they are food connoisseurs, but bc they want to say Israelis are inherently parasitic. Which was/is an antisemitic stereotype.

Many of the replies I’ve seen have been thoughtful and reasonable. To pretend people disagreeing with you are only doing it out of emotion, and not because they have reasons, is a way of letting yourself off the hook: that there’s no argument you have to consider.

No kings is more resonant here. Everyone knows the word. Everyone learns that the Revolutionary War was fought to detach ourselves from a king, and they see it (accurately or inaccurately) as the country’s raison d’etre. And thus are more likely to already associate “king” with despotic behavior.

To call them “badlands” is an injustice to just how good they are.

Bison grazing on tableland in the Badlands National Park in South Dakota yesterday.

“It may look confusing to outsiders, but what we’re trying to do is avoid making precedents that a Democratic government could also use.”

This makes me laugh until tears always

Btw Diane Keaton once came into the store looking effortless and charming, and she chatted for a while with some staff (not me, alas, I was on posters that day) and the only thing she purchased was a book of actual photos of murder victims in Rotterdam in the 1930s. Which was an interesting choice!

That sounds lovely!

Admirably noble

If you work in the Office of Special Education, have been RIF'd and want to talk to a journalist about it, please hit me up on Signal at slooterman.18.

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

They’ve broken several stories that would’ve been detrimental to his career if we could get anyone to care, they’ve sued his administration and had court battles, their editorials are far too toothless but usually opposed to him.

I’m thinking unsayables here too. But a lot of Republicans have kids with IEPs too, and I hope they push back. bsky.app/profile/usat...

Maybe for smaller lies, like today with Pam Bondi claiming that the Minnesota legislators were killed by antifa, she knows she’s lying. But she thinks it’s for the greater cause of what she’s genuinely afraid of: the left taking over