Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

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Headlines today from The Times of London and the LA Times. Yes, 'progress' and 'productive' are in scare quotes but that doesn't change the fact that they are parroting Trump's bullshit.
Der Spiegel's headline gets right to the point: "Trump and Putin undercut the already low expectations".

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue

By Mexican sculptor Chavis Marmol

#america #mexico #teslasucks

I get email intended for a US Congressman. A dopey web site lists one of my email addresses in error as a contact for him.

I get impassioned pleas asking the Representative to oppose the madness coming from the White House. The most recent was from a doctor wanting continued funding for the NIH.

Zuckerberg said today that Meta is getting rid of "a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse."

In particular, their hateful conduct policies page now lists an exception (emphasis mine) to their prohibition on insults:

Posting pics of jackrabbits probably cannot change the world.
But it is a good idea to act as though it could.