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Reading this my first year of college was a life-changing experience. Was just the other day gushing about it to my students, 35 years later now.

We have $ for a dozen ICE agents to hang around for hours trying to arrest 2 roofers working in MN. Meanwhile, the agency that investigates and prosecutes violations of Americans' right to organize is shedding staff again. Now down to like 1 agency staff per 145,000 workers.

At some point, other public officials will have to admit that what the Supreme Court is engaged in is not law, and that no one is obliged to obey them. I don't expect that New York enforcing its gun control laws despite whatever Clarence Thomas thinks will be that point. But it would be a good one.

Absolutely wild, how did the shooter not have a side arm?

Veganism in bio

It's been officially declared an antisemitic terror attack at Bondi. Just unthinkably horrific. www.sbs.com.au/news/live-bl...

I'm still seeing conflicting reports so I expect the story and numbers on this to change again, but we're all in shock here whatever happened.

However many blocks Wemby amasses over his career, it won’t begin to capture the sheer terror of his presence. Dudes are out there heaving the ball 15 feet into the air, in the vague hope that it somehow makes it to the vicinity of the basket…

Woke 2 rises

So many friends at Brown, I was there only a couple of months ago… My heart breaks for them, for Brown, for all of us who have to live like this…

The pundit class, the political class… social media has broken so many brains via exactly this mechanism

TIL FEMA flood maps do not account for rainfall-induced flooding. Which is absolutely mind-boggling.

OpenAI will spend $6 billion on stock-based compensation this year, half of its revenue: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

A Home Alone sequel where Macaulay Culkin is the Dad and Catherine O’Hara is the grandmother with even a B/B+ risk averse script feels like it could make $800M.

Trying to do some synthesis on the perpetually ongoing EU-US growth discourse here: 1) Undeniable at this point that the US economy is growing faster than the EU— ~5% more on a per-capita basis since pre-COVID. But importantly, this is mostly a recent phenomenon; pre-COVID growth was basically even

The reason this self-adoring sciolist has unlimited power, and you don’t, is that you know what a hysterectomy is.

Parody of America to have the president live-tweeting misinformation about a mass shooting

NeverEnding Story, when I was six — why did they do that to the poor horse???

We are not beating the Set Piece FC allegations tonight but an Olympico is definitely how you want to do it lmao

#econ_ra careers-brookings.icims.com/jobs/3759/re...

Had a hysterectomy due to uterine cancer? Sorry you are no longer a woman.

Master of The Senate paired with Foundation so you get the whole spectrum IMO.

The taco spot is popping off. Standing room only. Bovino took a swing and a month later CLT is saying “pinche gringo no tiene nada guey”.

I am sure others have said this and apropos of nothing in particular: it seems like the implicit assumption/fear that underlies the crisis of masculinity/male loneliness discourse is just: "young men are naturally violent so we must placate them with offerings of sex and power or else face unrest."

Signed, the Warren Court.

Moderation has been a lot better on impersonators the last six months or so but if y’all could report this one that got through I’d be obliged.

I liked BG3 but mostly despite its plot which a. is trying to do too many things with too many FR plot lines at once, b. not appropriate for a mid-tier campaign, c. a lore disaster (especially around mind flayers) and d. basically falls apart in Act 3.