I smell like flowers and money. Queen of the North, Protector of Cows, Defender of Butter. Quietest prolific baker on this hellsite. Anti-Ultracrepidarian.
Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:
"It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."
Reminder that in 2008, Toobin impregnated his mistress and then tried to pay her to get an abortion. When she refused and proved he was the father, she had to get a court order for him to pay child support, which he underpaid until he was threatened with wage garnishment.
In oral argument today, Justice Thomas is minimizing the severity of the 1/6 insurrection at the Capitol. Perhaps that's because his wife was part of the conspiracy. What a disgrace that he's sitting on this case.
#SCOTUS
I don't mean to alarm anyone, but we now have prosecutors using social media to taunt citizens they are prosecuting.
This is wholly improper and anyone who cared about her reputation wouldn't be doing this.
Why is it that people who sell food, gas, and healthcare are always accused of price gouging, but people who sell higher education are never accused of price gouging?
October 7 was like an earthquake that left absolute moral clarity in its aftermath.
On the one side are the sober and serious adults with a clear understanding of what is at stake for not just Jewish people but western values.
On the other side are depraved barbarians.
This push for electric cars that are too expensive for most people to buy is about forcing people out of their cars, onto public transportation, and restricting their freedom.
So, the Trump surrogates on Twitter today have:
1. Insulted a woman's looks because she is very effective at her job.
2. Suggested that military men suck on Memorial Day weekend.
3. Questioned Casey DeSantis's cancer.
Who are these folks trying to impress?
.
@JeffreyGoldberg
: Why can't the White House get the message out that “Bidenomics” is working?
@BumillerNYT
: "I think Biden is out there talking every day about the economy, but it just doesn't seem to be sinking in at this point."
Waking up to friends in the film industry telling me they are deleting their pro-Palestine posts because of a new Blacklist going round here and across the pond.
McCarthyism is back.
My favorite part is when they pretend like a law passed specifically to allow loan forgiveness because the government shut down businesses is exactly the same as ad hoc student loan forgiveness as a bribery for votes program.
1. Congress has no power to do this.
2. This calls for local, not federal, solutions.
3. We are out of money.
4. Do none of these people understand how raising the minimum raise, among other things, affects things like child care costs?
5. Government ruins everything.
Make no mistake: President
@JoeBiden
and I intend to cap child care costs at $10 a day for the average family and make preschool free for all four-year-olds.
To do that, we need Congress to act.
"I'm going to self-harm until people halfway around the world do what I want" is the pitch perfect expression of our self-imposed victimhood fetish culture.
This attitude is part of the reason why people are still mad. We saw what happened. We saw some get favored treatment, while others were stomped on. And these people act like this wasn't a big deal because they enjoyed churches et al getting stomped on while BLM rioted.
I'm not looking forward to Round 3 of "if you don't vote for Trump, you are voting for Biden"--a level of tediousness and stupidity that could have been avoided by not nominating Trump.
Trump doesn't, by default, own the votes of people who won't vote for Biden.
The idea that people can't rightfully criticize someone for her inflammatory views because some other lunatics are threatening her is abject nonsense. Stop trying to silence valid criticism.
Rep. Omar is facing some very, very scary death threats right now and has said she is worried for her children's safety, and yet, here is the NRCC a few minutes ago, fanning this disgusting propaganda.
At this point, when people like Warren say "fair share" they're talking about socialism. There is no share that will be fair enough for them because they're just spending us into oblivion.
This is a very big deal. The Clean Water Act only permits the EPA to regulate "the waters of the United States." The EPA has tried several definitions of this that are exceedingly expansive and potentially affect every single piece of private property that has any water on it.
Just in and huge...
SCOTUS trashes EPA on wetlands jurisdiction.
Held: EPA only has jurisdiction over wetlands obviously connected to waterways. Non-obvious underground connections don't confer jurisdiction.
A bad day for EPA.
There is no situation for which Joe Biden is more poorly suited than this one. His instincts are bad. His advisers are worse. His political incentives are toxic. And his faith in his abilities is dangerously outsized.
This tells you the entire story: after the Palinazi flag was removed and the US flag was put back in place, the Palinazis tried removing the US flag again. The pro-Israel students blocked it and, with the ultimate respect, made sure the US flag would not touch the ground. Based
Just so you know, since so many seem not to, on around the 9th/10th of October, Hamas offered to release ALL civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip, but the Israeli government rejected this offer.
If you have never watched SCTV, I'm very sad for you. The show was absolutely hilarious and chock full of future comedy stars, like Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, and the inimitable John Candy. Reruns are very hard to find.
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The loons on one side are having a fit over a woman delivering a political address from her kitchen while the loons on the other side are having a fit over a woman building her own house.
Is there a reason people can't be just fucking normal human beings?
Same vibe as the "in this house" signs: "Howdy, Neighbors. I'm a much kinder and more decent person than you slackjawed hillbillies who I'd like to see in re-education camps."
We just moved in to our new, lovely deep South neighborhood a few weeks ago.
While we don’t have time to fully deck the halls this year, I felt it was important to let the neighbors know that we, too, follow Jesus.
Let me explain: A member of Congress is complaining about the Supreme Court performing its function of interpreting laws and enforcing separation of powers to ensure the executive branch isn't arrogating too much of Congress's power.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether it will overturn the Chevron doctrine—a 40-year-old doctrine that's critical to a functioning federal government.
Let me explain 🧵
Yeah, see there's this thing called a "law" that was passed through both houses of Congress and signed by the President that allowed people to get their PPP loans forgiven. That's the difference.
Hope this helps.
Now, let’s be clear.
Some of the Republican in Congress who are attempting to block student debt relief had their own PPP loans forgiven.
Remember this one?
This is an astonishing level of ignorance about Americans. Some Americans want to live in NYC or other dense cities. Many other Americans do not. The beauty of America is that we have that choice. Acting as if not having that choice is superior is absurd and delusional.
Americans would kill each other to live in Manhattan, which they treat like a utopia and pay exorbitant prices to live in because it has corner stores and you don't need to drive a car.
But that Manhattan-tier density is common for even small and unremarkable European cities.
An NYU student who tore down posters of Israeli hostages complains that she's been suspended from school, had her scholarship rescinded, and will be kicked out of campus dorms next semester.
On the protests, there are two separate things that are being conflated:
1. Do the students have a right to protest? Yes, but they don't have the right to violate rules in doing this. If they do, then they should be dispersed and, if necessary, arrested regardless of viewpoint.
In 2008, Brendan Eich sent $1000 to support Prop 8 in California. For that ridiculously tiny offense, dug up by Leftist activists, he was pushed out at Mozilla. Cancel culture is absolutely real and these gaslighters are just whining because the chickens are home to roost.
It’s worth remembering that many of the “accountability culture” people weren’t defending firings. Back then, many conservatives were complaining, Emma Camp-style, about not being liked by their fellow students bc of their beliefs. “Cancel culture isn’t real” arguments were often
It's amazing that we're at the point where the President of the United States thinks he's supposed to weigh in on how airlines price their tickets. We are so far gone.
You ought to be able to fly with your child – and sit next to them – without paying an additional fee.
It's time all airlines offered fee free family seating.
Even if you’re not a Trump fan, the level of abuse and weaponization we’re seeing from our legal and justice system for political gain and revenge should scare everyone.
I couldn't care less that Green Day went off yesterday, but I will take this opportunity to say that they have always sucked giant donkey balls and I was an OG hater.
Actually, the former head of Hamas, Khaled Mashal called for a global day of jihad following Hamas's massacre of over 1000 Jews.
The person responsible for killing that poor child is the monster who did it.
So the dumbest most racist white people across the country just invented a “global day of jihad” for Friday the 13th, bosses & employers told their employees to be safe on the “global day of jihad,” social media let it spread, and now a Muslim child in Chicago has been murdered.
My brother passed ten years ago today. Since he gave me the gift of loving music as much as he did, I'm going to post some music that reminds me of him, because he introduced me to it or vice versa, or because I am sure if he were alive he would love it. I'm regifting to you.
I cannot emphasize enough how bizarre it is for these people to be protesting what a country that is not us is doing to another country that is not us.
This is idiotic. People are concerned about shoplifting because (1) it degrades property rights and (2) it contributes to the legitimate disquiet over letting some people get away with antisocial behavior that approaches a tipping point.
White-throated sparrows have four chromosomally distinct sexes that pair up in fascinating ways
P.S. Nature is amazing
P.P.S. Sex is not binary via
@audubonsociety
This is the bottom line of every single activist I’ve ever engaged with on this issue, but rarely have I seen it stated so honestly. ‘Why can’t you just believe, it’s so weird you care, why make this complicated, just accept the slogan.’
Driving to work, I saw a truck with a huge Palestinian flag on it and I felt a white hot rage. I basically see every one of these people as people who would eagerly commit those atrocities given the opportunity. That's where my head is now. They're monsters.
I've unfollowed and/or blocked so many accounts in the last week, it's almost absurd. This includes people I used to think were measured and reasonable. This has been eye-opening and sickening.
I have a very hard time taking seriously the complaints about funding Ukraine or Israel, which are a drop in the bucket, from Boomers who recoil at the idea of reforming Social Security and Medicare, which are driving us into the toilet.
Lotta of the conservative men in my TL going on about "body count" keep using the word "promiscuous" & here's the misogyny built into that: it assumes that a woman who has sex with a lot people does so because she lacks judgment, not that she wants a variety of sexual experiences
Seattle introduced a mandatory $5 fee on delivery apps to cover their driver’s living wage and sales were almost cut in half. Now the drivers can’t make rent.
This is absolutely delusional. It's hard to know where to start
1. The only evidence she offered was her own, uncorroborated testimony.
2. There was no science whatsoever involved in any of this, unless you think linguistic analysis of "boofing" is a science.
Christine Blasey Ford’s new memoir places her Senate testimony in the wider context of her life. And as her story goes on, it "comes to read as an indictment—not of one person, but of a form of politics that sees stories as weapons in an endless war,”
@megangarber
writes.
@DavidCayJ
@Limeylizzie
@HouseGOP
As a woman and an atheist, I find this disgusting and terrifying. This public display of religious belief and fervor is against everything that American democracy--my country as well as theirs!--stands for.
University officials who regularly get taken in by noose and swastika hoaxes are just twiddling thumbs at hundreds of students openly calling for genocide of Israelis. It's really something else.
This is largely the fault of Biden's appalling foreign policy mismanagement. He's been so kind to the Iranian axis, and so harsh on the Israelis, that Iran thinks Israel is alone and vulnerable.
Universities have spent decades shielding kids from having to hear anything upsetting with safe spaces, and now sit by and watch the child tyrants they have created threaten the physical safety of disfavored groups.
The daughter of friends texted her folks sharing how her best friend at the
@uwmadison
had to be escorted into Hillel because pro-Hamas supporters were rallying outside screaming threats through a mega phone. Campuses have taught and spread this heinousness. From the best friend:
My wife and I left graduate school 23 years ago with a combined total of $70,000 debt.
Since then we've made $500 monthly payments for 23 years ($120,000+).
Today, we still owe $60,000.
Explain to me again why student loan debt shouldn't be cancelled.
Inside Gaza as you have never seen before: Palestinians share footage of people swimming on the beach, shopping at markets and playing football in a rare glimpse of what life was like in the city before October 7
oh yall are sooo funny dunking on an 81 year old’s poor memory like you don’t use a password manager, lose your phone anywhere from six to thirty times per day, and dig the pizza box out of the garbage to check bake time
There's a very bizarre form of progressivism that desires a return to a state of nature, like it was some sort of idyllic paradise, rather than the reality that it was nasty, brutish, and short.
Cannibalism was surprisingly common among prehistoric humans. And new ways of analysing the leftovers challenge our negative stereotypes about this taboo subject.
You could just criticize the Israeli government for its policies, but since you have to venture into Holocaust denial and accusations of genocide and chants of intifada and river to sea, I'm going to venture a guess that you hate Jews.
Emerging Republican consensus: having a drug-addicted child is an impeachable offense - but trying to mount a coup d'etat and overturn the Constitution by violence is not.
Trump regularly calls his opponents juvenile and vile names, like calling Christie a "fat pig," and then his supporters whine about stuff like this. Decorum is something you people decided was for wimps, so perhaps take every seat in the arena.
My degree is from Duke, and in public policy and political science, and I know that the founders did not intend that civilians own military grade weapons to fire any time they felt threatened uncomfortable and they did not foresee weapons like the AR-15 even in a military context
There are at least two problems causing distrust of scientists:
1. Ultracrepidarianism, i.e., scientists and other experts using their status as experts in one area to claim expertise in another area. Typically for political argument.
2. This, which is basically lying.
Trust in science is declining. Same for adjacent institutions (higher ed, media). I guess it's hard to link it to any one event (like it's hard to attribute any one weather event to climate change). But these things have a cumulative effect.