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If this is how we get back the 7-Layer Burrito, in

What does this even mean. Who was trying to stop the genocide that protestors smeared?

Don’t think I’ve seen Liverpool take a long throw since Hodgson was manager

Age verification? Watched when it aired.

Discussed with Sky News the law of war implications of Israel’s targeting of supposed Hamas members in their homes, often killing their entire families. A contributing factor in the high death toll amongst children in Gaza. news.sky.com/story/gazas-...

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@darthbluesky.bsky.social ??? INNOCENT

Unsurprisingly,the humane treatment assurances the U.S. obtained from El Salvador did not protect these men from abuse. After all, abuse was a feature not a bug of sending them to CECOT.

By virtue of its critical military support, the United States and individual U.S. officials are complicit in the killings of these children. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Putting my CV into the format required by the college for promotion to Full. @bencarp.bsky.social did it in one day. Let me see how long it takes me. 🫠

New from @joestieb.bsky.social today!

I didn't know that there was an international relations analysis equivalent to vibecoding, but this is it - www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o....

I'm resigned to the fact that I'll have to do most of the promo since Oxford U. Press's unit is small and understaffed. So if you run a podcast, I will pitch you when my page proofs are ready. And I'll be On Here promoting the book with a) cover reveal, and b) preorder date. Thanks, all.

The NYTimes literally went full The Onion

John Curtis duped Utah voters by claiming he'd be the reasonable conservative in the Senate. He may not be "red-pilled" like Lee, but he just as culpable in helping damage core institutions

I guess orange IS the new black

Endorsed. Mass Effect was the last game for which I did the deal that I actually enjoyed.

I do these and also supervise independent writing credit papers. The students need someone to be willing to do it, and I have the time.

We returned to the Silmarillion after taking a detour to read the Martian, with my 7 year old at bedtime. Is there a more satisfying name to say aloud than Fëanor? It inevitably demands you add a little spice to it

this story took a bit of a turn

West Coast (and Pacific) friends, don’t ignore the tsunami warnings. The sea can seem calm until it suddenly isn’t. Stay safe. www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

DOJ: The district case he cites WAS REVERSED by the circuit case we cited! Me: Yeah, I said that. Doesn't mean it was wrong. DOJ: BUT IT WAS REVERSED Me: And now DOJ's argument is controlling precedent in that circuit. Unfortunately for them, we're not in that circuit. DOJ: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

757AF Landed in New York, United States. Apx. flt. time 7 h 13 min.

Well one good thing is bound to come out of the newest 3rd Circuit confirmation. There will now be a circuit judge who you can say "fuck you I'm not following your order" to and he'll say "ok that's totally fair." Right?

<all together now> 🤦‍♂️

Credible threats are a hell of a drug

OK I (sadly) have a real question for the impeachment scholars out there. Can you impeach a judge for something they did before they were a judge?

So let me get this straight. Somehow it's better that *sick* children are starving. Is that the message here?

It might be good to create better ties between social democratic parties across the Atlantic. Just as there's a 'nationalist' international, we need a social democratic international to counterbalance, commiserate, and share the joys of success and distribute the emotional burdens of failure

Thinking of career DOJ attorneys I know who had the integrity to resign rather than participate in the dirty Eric Adams deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...

"As explained above, the emails and texts provided by the whistleblower show that Bove played a central role in ignoring Boasberg’s orders. What happened here is not a close case."

Why are we here, you ask? This. This is why we are here. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Deplorables was really underselling it

Phils top White Sox, 6-3, behind a 7-inning, 2 hit, 1 BB performance by Jesus Luzardo. Brandon Marsh and Kyle Schwarber each had a 2B and a 2R HR. Phils’ Dan Bob pitched the 9th and gave up all 3 CHI runs, making score appear closer than the game really was. Timely big game from Luzardo.

Congratulations to Jacky Rosen and @cortezmasto.senate.gov for their only political achievement of any consequence

Before this they interviewed the executive director of B'Tselem, but before talking to her they read a long statement from the IDF about why everything they're doing is fine. And yet, I know plenty of American Jews who refuse to listen to NPR because they think it's relentlessly anti-Israel.

In the end the only good thing Chuck Grassley did in 50 years in Congress was talking shit about the History Channel. Doesn’t really balance out overseeing the destruction of the American state tho

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This fucking administrative stay.

Lindsey Graham refused to vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson. He just voted for Emil Bove.

Andrew Vaughn has 18 hits and 25 RBIs in a @milwaukeebrewers.bsky.social jersey which is physically fucking impossible. He has 6 of our 9 RBIs on two hits in just this game. What the shit am I watching right now?

Andrew Vaughn has 18 hits and 25 RBIs in a @brewers.com jersey which is physically fucking impossible. He has 6 of our 9 RBIs on two hits in just this game. What the shit am I watching right now?

Photo I took in 2023 at the Bushel and Peck market, Charles Town, W. Va. I bought the whole box.

Onion staff: *dusts off hands* Our work here is done, time to close up shop

Lindsey Graham voted for this mockery of the rule of law. South Carolina can do better with @drannieandrews.com

THEY LITERALLY DID THE ONION HEADLINE

In case you need some cheering up, like any empathetic human being does these days...there was a 50th anniversary celebration of A Chorus Line this week. Here's Donna McKechnie performing her classic number, The Music and the Mirror. youtu.be/N4Et0F1er84?...

I'm not blaming this on Chuck Schumer. Making that clear. I'm just saying his theory of low Trump public approval changing congressional Republicans isn't bearing out. Trump's down to the number now where Schumer said congressional Republicans' behavior would change & it isn't changing.

Doesn't he also have a pending contempt referral?

Grant’s Cottage is not too far from our Upstate house, and I suddenly feel inspired to make a visit (even without the ‘buy one, get one free’ offer).

Avowed enemies of the Constitution are now indisputably vested with power in all three branches of government, if there was any doubt left

We're all outraged by the Bove confirmation because we're viewing it through the lens of liberal (meaning everything from modern liberal on the left to classical liberal on the right) judicial nominees. When in reality, his confirmation harkens back to authoritarian judges in the Jim Crow South.

As with the images of gassed Syrian kids in 2017 (which led to US airstrikes), Trump does seem affected by the televised images of starving children in Gaza. But he hasn’t figured out how to translate that reaction into effective policy. POTUS has leverage to stop the starvation and slaughter.

Realized I haven't been posting a lot of King Bozo photos. (Not his real name.) We've still got him 'til Saturday.

I'm so tired of this kind of thing. @kamalaharris.com won every non-swing state Democrats always win & competed fiercely in all the swing states for every vote she could get in them. What Moore says here is what candidates who want to run in 2028 say but it doesn't really make sense.

Info for californians/other US west coasters

Toronto looking gorgeous tonight

Friends in Hawaii are getting tsunami sirens - please get inland and stay safe! Don’t forget your pets!

"Vinay Prasad, head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, has suddenly left the agency, Endpoints News has learned. A spokesperson for HHS confirmed his exit." endpoints.news/vinay-prasad...

Mitch McConnell refused to allow a vote for Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court & just voted for Emil Bove for a lifetime appeals court position. Mitch McConnell is a destroyer of American institutions.

Dr. Susan Monarez has been confirmed by the Senate as CDC Director. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-dir...

And what did you do to stop it, Senator Schumer, except exactly nothing from the moment Trump won the election, including failing to fill that seat with a Biden appointee and otherwise letting Senate business carry on as if nothing was catastrophically wrong with anything Trump has done.

It is really important that any sanctioning process against Bove continue to play out. He hasn't suddenly become special or immune to being held responsible for his lawlessness. And no one should act as though he is.

Human desperation and agony so immense it is visible from space. I recall how the U.S. once shared satellite imagery of the mass graves from Srebrenica to mobilize other countries to stop atrocities. (Graves I later visited.) Now the U.S. is co-author of the satellite documented atrocities.

Let's not forget that this seat was vacant because Islamaphobic Democrats wouldn't let Biden's appointee be confirmed. And Schumer let the clock run out.

They did it. They really fucking did it.

The silver lining is that Bove is already 118 years old ... Wait, that MFer is only 44!?!?

Dems/lefties sending out texts asking for donations, I beg you - read the room.

What is disqualifying to reasonable people is a major plus for Trumpists.

Bove is not a conservative. He is liberal with mendacity.

Bye bitch.

Trying to recall why there was a vacant seat on the court to fill…

Since we are reminiscing about the before times on the internet, this is the first "viral" video I ever saw (when YouTube was but a pipe dream):

Trump's various, contradictory, accounts of his relationship with Epstein all come down to: Yeah, that's the ticket.

It's "Italian" night at the car show, so of course I'm enamored with this 2006 Shelby Mustang GT-H Hertz convertible. These were a very limited run with a 325 hp 4.6L V8 (auto, unfortunately) you could rent for the weekend. It was a callback to the late 60's Shelby/Hertz "Rent a Racer" GT350.

Hard to believe, but it turns out that running the Pentagon is a big boy job.

It is hard to keep track of who owns the great audio brands these days; but it is clear that the legacy industry is a shadow of its former self.

At this point, Dems ought not agree to approps without (a) specific statuory exemption from rescission, (b) statutory language automatically apportioning funds, and (c) serious consideration of Holman Rule.

I’m deep in a “Would I lie to you?” rabbit hole, and Bob Mortimer’s story about sleeping in a car wearing Halloween masks while looking for the Gulf Stream might be the best one.

Feel like I’ve had Article 55 of the Fourth Geneva Convention tattooed on the inside of my eyelids for going on two years now.

Off to Delaware for a hearing at my old chancery court stomping grounds!

Weaponized drones for school shootings are moronic. The question I still have not heard answered? How do they fly through the classroom doors? www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... I could say more. I will in the book I've begun to write on public safety.

Orwell is turning in his grave.

The hell this woman got for simply deciding to have a mainstream pop career. Here she is 35 years later totally showing how much she rules.

Coming next week! I'm hosting a @cato.org online panel discussion with @davedaley.bsky.social, @mcmegan.bsky.social and John Ketcham (Manhattan Institute) on lessons of the NYC mayoral primary for ranked choice voting and other election reforms. It's Wed. Aug. 6 at 3 p.m. Eastern. Register here: /1

Great children's records are, well, great records, as The Free Design demonstrated here.

At Bowdoin (where I started out): -Russian Literature -Dramatic Literature At UC Berkeley (go Bears): -Law & Public Policy (admittedly cheating because it was a policy class taught by a political scientist) -Sociology of Social Movements

I view Gaza as a fundamental test like the Iraq War. Except with Gaza, many members of Congress are trying to flunk the test as many times as possible. Hope to be proven wrong.

Honestly, if she’s going to be wasting taxpayer money on absurd junkets and glossy videos, I prefer this instead of sado-tourism to CECOT or doing cosplay as a paramilitary immigration enforcement “operator.”

This is why I only ever used Bing. I don’t notice a difference because Bing was always terrible.

Goodbye well-balanced blood sugar

Got the kids ice cream sundays and just watching chow down them is a joy

We learned—and keep learning—so much stuff about Medicaid and not all of it fit into the @unbreaking.org Medicaid explainer so here is a blog post I wrote about all those “able-bodied” people the administration and its allies claim are on Medicaid. unbreaking.org/blog/medicai...

One of the few shows my immigrant parents allowed me to watch growing up was Sesame Street. I loved it.

We had an earthquake the first day of the bar exam. All of us were under the tables in the convention center with the proctor screaming from the front of the room, "THE TEST IS STILL GOING!" Coincidentally, that's the last time I ever wished for a natural disaster bc I was stressed about something.

In case it weren't already clear -- being appointed to a political or judicial position in this administration is no badge of merit. It's a mark of sycophancy and dishonor.

The absolute perfect ending to this movie would be if Trump pardons her and then she goes out and throws him completely under the bus for making her beg and rot in jail for so long because you can't take back a pardon.

“A Bad Deal With Trump Will Not Protect Us”—excellent letter in the Harvard Crimson addressed to President Alan Garber. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

With the fall semester looming, it’s starting to feel like teaching our pre-Trump syllabi, let alone adding more “woke” readings to them, is a form of everyday resistance

Harvard Will Share Employee Forms With Federal Government www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...