I don't like coffee, but I still drink caffeine. It is sometimes a struggle to find alternative canned/bottled caffeinated drinks that don't have large amounts of sugar or other sweeteners in it, especially if I'm just in some random store!

Raffi Melkonian@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 2d ago

A funny thing about buying food: if something is labeled “0 sugar,” that means it is very sweet, not that it isn’t sweet at all.

I have a new example to use next time I need to do my rant about how signature matching is woo-woo pseudoscience that has no good place in how we run elections.

Rusty Foster@rusty.todayintabs.com · 6d ago

bro are you five

The whole Astros playoff series is on Peacock? This feels like punishment for making the playoffs without a winning record.

LOLOL the Astros did it. AL West Champions. Worst record in baseball to ever make the playoffs in a regular-length season, but at least they don't have a losing record. Onward!

Michael Adams-Hurta@adams-hurta.bsky.social · 2w ago

Man, the chance that the winner of the AL West will have a losing record is now pretty damn high. A good chance it's the Rangers or Astros, meaning either my team or the team a handful of friends root for... So, uh, how much does one root for their team in the playoffs if they are so undeserving?

Weird, I can't find Bluey on that NYT list of the 100 best tv shows of the 21st century.

I'm boring; I'd probably just complain about how neither of my Senate candidates have talked about how they would evaluate judicial nominees, particularly recommendations they send to the president.

Nick Kodama 🌳👻@nickkodama.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hey. If the nyt invited you to be part of a focus group what would you do as a bit?

!!! A 5-4 vote from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (supreme court for crimes) that the petition appealing the reversal of her conviction was improvidently granted. Big deal, and I'm so happy for Crystal Mason and voting rights generally.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him

Kind of wild that the Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas, who currently represents arguably the most left-leaning legislative district in the state, just came out with an ad featuring a Jan. 6er supporting her.

We're watching HBO's The Gilded Age right now in my household, and S2 features an opera storyline. So it's very funny to imagine all those characters reacting to this.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

Man, the chance that the winner of the AL West will have a losing record is now pretty damn high. A good chance it's the Rangers or Astros, meaning either my team or the team a handful of friends root for... So, uh, how much does one root for their team in the playoffs if they are so undeserving?

Non-Christian holidays on Mondays are no fun. My inbox is so full after Yom Kippur

When your three-year-old shouts across the house "Daddy I need to cuddle!", you have no choice but to oblige.

It's sad because the new kid actors don't deserve this, and in an alternate universe I could imagine myself pretty pumped for an HBO remake. But nope, not gonna do it.

Phillip Iscove@pmiscove.bsky.social · 3w ago

I for one won’t be watching and hope that JK is in for a rude awakening. It’s also pretty crazy to be this overly confident about rehashing your already adapted books with lesser known actors.

One side of this war has an elected legislature but it doesn't really have any power compared to the supreme leader and the council of guardian jurists, and the other is Iran.

Big local election opinion out of the Texas today. Galveston County attempted to redistrict its county commissioner court seats over the summer - after the primary. The Texas Supreme Court just directed Galveston County to use its maps that it used during the primary. txcourts.gov/media/146331...

Appellate emergencies are rare, but when they happen they are really intense.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · last mo.

Omg. Defense counsel asks for emergency stay so he can seek appeal from the Supreme Judicial Court. Trial judge gives him one hour to get a stay of the declaration of mistrial.

Do courts still use @scotusplaces.bsky.social's "cleaned up" parenthetical? I feel like it was trendy for a few years but I don't really see it much with new opinions. I was just reading a 2018 case and saw the parenthetical - it looked like a relic.

If I didn't vaguely remember Quibi in the back of my mind I would think this is AI Slop.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · last mo.

Sorry it just occurred to me that there may be people who haven’t seen clip from the Quibi show where Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman dying because of her golden prosthetic arm and I needed to fix that

My latest on yesterday’s order in the mail-in ballot/voter list case is up! sherrilyn.substack.com/p/conservati...

Conservative Majority Shows Its Hand Again in Mail-In Ballot Case

Civil Rights & American Democracy

sherrilyn.substack.com

Typical family today: watching Frozen or K-Pop Demon Hunters over and over again. My family today: putting on My Neighbor Totoro got the 5th time in 4 days.

My kid is sick and also asked to go to the playground while it is 102° with a "feels like" 111° read in the weather app. 🙃

Too many arguments lately about whether various Democratic critics of Israel are antisemitic. Meanwhile... Not enough attention on stuff like this: forward.com/news/845642/...

He’s campaigning to regulate Texas oil and gas. Why is he linking his Jewish opponent to the Bolshevik Revolution?

Bo French, a Texas Republican who previously asked if Jews were a threat to America, is now accusing his Jewish opponent of Bolshevism

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I have spent more time in the airport for a flight delay than I spent at the courthouse for the hearing I flew here for.

To be honest I have had no strong opinions here; I've watched the WI returns more like one watching a big time but wild sports match for which they don't have a rooting interest. I mean, I dislike their opponent in the next round, so I want the winner to survive injury-free, etc., but otherwise...

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Do we want Hong to win in WI? Or will she lose in the general? I don't know who I'm supposed to be rooting for!

"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are

Peggy Flanagan, tonight's biggest winner for progressives vs. moderates, seems more emblematic of the likely future of the Democratic Party and even its left flank than Abdul El Sayad or Francesca Hong or Graham Platner ... and yet she has gotten a fraction of the coverage.

Has everyone forgotten what it means to try and persuade people? If the Democratic Party does this, it actually will have left many Jews behind.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

it's pretty important just strategically to understand that these folks will be Republicans soon. they align with the GOP on what is clearly the issue most salient to them. in a cycle or two they will be writing about how the Democrats left them behind.

Help me I was sitting in the airport too long and went on a political rant on Facebook

"Too Many Open Tabs" is going on the board for potential titles of the autobiography I will never write.