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Niche legal issue of the day: overrule the Insular Cases!
Conservative justices question the foundation of U.S. colonial rule
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November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Niche legal issue of the day: overrule the Insular Cases!
As has become traditional - household Thanksgiving the weekend before the big extended family festivities.
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
As has become traditional - household Thanksgiving the weekend before the big extended family festivities.
I don't want to brag, but I knew Matt Thornhill when he was merely an insufferable and obnoxious prosecutor.
US judge resigns after being disciplined for wearing Elvis wig in court
In court, Judge Thornhill would play the singer's music from his phone and make "irrelevant" references to him.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I don't want to brag, but I knew Matt Thornhill when he was merely an insufferable and obnoxious prosecutor.
Ross Douthat Asks: Did Women Ruin Filibustering?
look at these guys collaborating on their little project! male loneliness epidemic who!!
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Ross Douthat Asks: Did Women Ruin Filibustering?
"The U.S. attorney’s office made the surprise move just hours before a hearing ... where defense attorneys were expected to describe new texts from the Border Patrol agent who shot Martinez and discuss witnesses for an upcoming hearing[.]"
Yeah, that'll happen.
Yeah, that'll happen.
Judge dismisses case against woman shot by border agent amid controversy over bragging texts
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed all charges against a woman shot by a Border Patrol agent after she allegedly rammed his vehicle in Brighton Park last month, marking a striking conclusion to …
www.chicagotribune.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
"The U.S. attorney’s office made the surprise move just hours before a hearing ... where defense attorneys were expected to describe new texts from the Border Patrol agent who shot Martinez and discuss witnesses for an upcoming hearing[.]"
Yeah, that'll happen.
Yeah, that'll happen.
Reposted
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This is true. In more decent times, public figures worked harder to spare us from their disgusting selves.
this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
This is true. In more decent times, public figures worked harder to spare us from their disgusting selves.
Idea seed for Cook County.
a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
veritenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Idea seed for Cook County.
All about protecting the strategic Viagra reserve.
I’m beginning to suspect all of the men in the Trump administration are impotent.
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
All about protecting the strategic Viagra reserve.
I am going to let my heirs know right now that if they want their payday, they will have to spend at least six months pretending to be interested in my extensive collection of Grandpa Simpson -style anecdotes.
Hi, dear, it’s me: [dead grandma null] Would you like to hear about my favorite deals at [brand tbd]?
New insult to life itself just dropped
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I am going to let my heirs know right now that if they want their payday, they will have to spend at least six months pretending to be interested in my extensive collection of Grandpa Simpson -style anecdotes.
As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be Nick Charles.
Interesting
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be Nick Charles.
It was only a matter of time.
Guardians’ Emmanuel Clase, Luis Ortiz indicted on charges linked to illegal sports betting
Ortiz was arrested Sunday in Boston and will appear in court Monday. Clase was not in custody as of early Sunday afternoon.
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It was only a matter of time.
Hypothesis: old people are so crabby because they are still watching commercials.
I hope all of y'all bemoaning the lowering of standards of network TV know the average primetime TV viewer's age is 64.6. The channel with the youngest viewers Bravo has an average age of 59. The big three network news average age is 69. 1/2
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...
TV Viewers Are Aging. These Shows Bring In the Oldest Audiences
CBS has the grayest primetime audience (and the largest one), while Fox’s five animated series helped age down that broadcaster during the 2023-24 season.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Hypothesis: old people are so crabby because they are still watching commercials.
Is someone actually saying that expecting someone to not get a Nazi tattoo is holding them to impossible standards? It is remarkably easy not to get any kind of tattoo. All you have to do is nothing.
Ngl, seeing “you’re holding the nazi tatted racist white man to impossible standards” as a Black woman, aka the demographic ACTUALLY held to impossible standards, pisses me off deeply. The bar is so low for them and they still can’t clear it, but we’re “ideological purists” for pointing that out.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Is someone actually saying that expecting someone to not get a Nazi tattoo is holding them to impossible standards? It is remarkably easy not to get any kind of tattoo. All you have to do is nothing.
I wonder which liberals don't recognize this? Those familiar with the Cold War are not the least bit surprised about the idea of an international connection between movements hostile to democracy. For example, the Kremlin just switched ends of the horseshoe.
one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.
time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.
time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.
Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.
October 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I wonder which liberals don't recognize this? Those familiar with the Cold War are not the least bit surprised about the idea of an international connection between movements hostile to democracy. For example, the Kremlin just switched ends of the horseshoe.
The Long Good Friday. Late 1970s British gangsters in suits. Bob Hoskins and the unimprovable Hellen Mirren. Funny, it includes The Godfather trope that protagonist mobsters don't run drugs.
October 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The Long Good Friday. Late 1970s British gangsters in suits. Bob Hoskins and the unimprovable Hellen Mirren. Funny, it includes The Godfather trope that protagonist mobsters don't run drugs.
Circus peanuts. For god's sake, why?
Godfather III. I don't care how it's reedited or whatever, just no.
MacArthur Park. <glowers in 70's kid>
Godfather III. I don't care how it's reedited or whatever, just no.
MacArthur Park. <glowers in 70's kid>
Wood pulp, I'm definitely not eating that.
The sequel Star Wars movies, I already saw them and I don't care to see them again.
The Horst Wessel Song, I for one don't care to listen to Nazi music.
The sequel Star Wars movies, I already saw them and I don't care to see them again.
The Horst Wessel Song, I for one don't care to listen to Nazi music.
“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”
Red meat - work experience in a food tech lab taking swabs in an abattoir put pay to that.
Top Gun - Honestly, Tom Cruise gives me the ick.
Mr Brightside - Shouty mindpiss.
Red meat - work experience in a food tech lab taking swabs in an abattoir put pay to that.
Top Gun - Honestly, Tom Cruise gives me the ick.
Mr Brightside - Shouty mindpiss.
October 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Circus peanuts. For god's sake, why?
Godfather III. I don't care how it's reedited or whatever, just no.
MacArthur Park. <glowers in 70's kid>
Godfather III. I don't care how it's reedited or whatever, just no.
MacArthur Park. <glowers in 70's kid>
October 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Judgespeak for, "The only reason this is taking so long is that your arguments, while transparently dumb, are legion."
BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
October 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Judgespeak for, "The only reason this is taking so long is that your arguments, while transparently dumb, are legion."
To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, "How could they tell?"
Make sure to wish a librarian a happy Gerald Ford Trapped in The Penn Library Elevator Day.
September 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, "How could they tell?"
This is what we have lost.
We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
September 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This is what we have lost.
I'm just glad my parents identified as people who loved their children.
You have to understand all of this through the prism of identity. This is not about facts and evidence and science. This is about group membership and affective politics. Clearly the consequences are deadly.
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year
We are getting dumber as a society
We are getting dumber as a society
September 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I'm just glad my parents identified as people who loved their children.
Nobody in the Democratic Party would be the slightest bit surprised if Bill Clinton wound up in the Epstein business, nor would they fall all over themselves to defend him. That's a Team Red thing.
Yes, like slap bracelets, AOL CDs and whatever show that was programmed in on NBC on Thursday nights after "Friends," Bill Clinton was left in the 90s and not carried forward to the current day
the odd idea that Bill Clinton in particular is someone the modern left would have a difficulty letting go of...
September 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Nobody in the Democratic Party would be the slightest bit surprised if Bill Clinton wound up in the Epstein business, nor would they fall all over themselves to defend him. That's a Team Red thing.
Truth.
A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.
September 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Truth.
The fan service in Rogue One contributes to its strengths and weaknesses. Strengths. They know that we know where this is going. Shooting Vader's boarding the rebel frigate as a horror movie or Aliens scene is awesome. Weaknesses. The CGI Tarkin and (especially) Leia drop kick you out of the movie.
August 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The fan service in Rogue One contributes to its strengths and weaknesses. Strengths. They know that we know where this is going. Shooting Vader's boarding the rebel frigate as a horror movie or Aliens scene is awesome. Weaknesses. The CGI Tarkin and (especially) Leia drop kick you out of the movie.