(7) their "Speech or Debate" immunity is solely for legislative acts
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdaySix mind-bendingly amazing facts about invertebrates
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayshould be feeds called "Overnight Asia," "Overnight Americas" etc. that curate bangers from other time zones (and insomniacs)
(7) their "Speech or Debate" immunity is solely for legislative acts
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdaySix mind-bendingly amazing facts about invertebrates
Bond, briskly sweeping water from his face, body obscured by billowing steam, suddenly shoots out his hand and grabs the hotel shampoo, narrowly missing wholly indistinguishable bottles of conditioner, shower gel, body cleanser, bath oils, face wash, and neurotoxin
ok but this time Lucy told Charlie Brown IN WRITING
Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal
Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.
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"A real prosecutor would have made the POOL STICK!"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump: “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned …There may have been some contractor difficulty, but major damage was caused by VANDALS!”
This is what is driving me nuts. So many posters around here keep haw-hawing about R’s in strawberry and clearly have NO idea that these are extremely powerful machines *already* that we have not yet figured out how to utilize fully. If we stopped development today, they’d still be astonishing
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d agoCan I just say this stuff panics the shit out of me? I didn't think Artist was a career at risk, but a year ago mathematicians felt safe. I just don't understand acting like it's not happening. You have people insisting these models can't do things *in principle* they've already demonstrated.
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Strikingly explicit and unequivocal blaming of Interior Dep't -- treating a client agency as a sacrificial lamb certainly helps DoJ avoid accepting responsibility, but more important, maintains illusion that this prosecution was initiated in any ordinary nonpolitical way.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is a clear example of the DoJ being weaponised against a member of the public to support The Dear Leader's lies. Really shameful behaviour.
Strikingly explicit and unequivocal blaming of Interior Dep't -- treating a client agency as a sacrificial lamb certainly helps DoJ avoid accepting responsibility, but more important, maintains illusion that this prosecution was initiated in any ordinary nonpolitical way.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is a clear example of the DoJ being weaponised against a member of the public to support The Dear Leader's lies. Really shameful behaviour.
Thoughtful and comprehensive analysis!
Killing Spree: Extrajudicial executions in the U.S. boat strikes campaign - WOLA
WOLA's new report, "Killing Spree," examines the U.S. military's extrajudicial boat strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, which have killed 221 people since Sept. 2025.
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whatever the merits, stop calling it "search and fescue"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoTrump: "Grass is like human beings. Grass has a life also. And we're changing, raking, cleaning, and changing all of the parks."
whatever the merits, stop calling it "search and fescue"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoTrump: "Grass is like human beings. Grass has a life also. And we're changing, raking, cleaning, and changing all of the parks."
reasoning by analogy: accept your fate, don't write or publish opinions about office shorts in the NYT
Opinion | Accept Your Fate. Don’t Wear Shorts to the Office.
It might be hot but men must resist showing the knee.
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This will be (successfully) exploited to urge new solo, national anti-immigration measures, when it looks like the more obvious lesson involves strengthening bilateral border cooperation and mutlilateral assistance.
Spain’s Leader Rushes to Ceuta After Thousands of Migrants Burst Across Border: Live Updates
As many as 60,000 people were estimated to have surged from Morocco into Ceuta, the small exclave at the center of a crisis for Spain’s pro-immigration government.
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Complain all you want about contemporary opinions, but we were probably more frightened of solar (and wind) power back in ancient Sumer
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6d agoI genuinely don't know what to do about this. In our diseased information environment, one MAGA-adjacent "influencer" can do more to shape public opinion than mountains of studies or facts. Where are the pro-clean-energy influencers to counter this shit?
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"We shall fight on the beaches . . . wait, no, let's just *become* a beach. Surrender to summer!" Shameful.
Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 6d agoAbsolutely shameful piece. Even if a "Mediterranean" future were desirable - and a third of a million people are currently fleeing an inferno - what about those parts of the world being made uninhabitable? Where do their people go? Heath doesn't want them here. www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026...
"We shall fight on the beaches . . . wait, no, let's just *become* a beach. Surrender to summer!" Shameful.
Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 6d agoAbsolutely shameful piece. Even if a "Mediterranean" future were desirable - and a third of a million people are currently fleeing an inferno - what about those parts of the world being made uninhabitable? Where do their people go? Heath doesn't want them here. www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026...
completely forgot Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise Lost
Edward Swaine@edswaine.bsky.social · last wk.they should wait to see how Tim Burton's "Because I could not stop for Death" does
The four antiwar commitments seem sound and nicely presented; the distinction between these highly orthodox (but often flouted) views of post-Charter international rules and the denunciation of nostalgia -- and celebration of how conventional responses are now unavailable -- is pretty subtle.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.What should replace the American-led world order? | Aslı Bâli and Samuel Moyn
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the ticking stopwatch showed 61."
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · last wk.Never forget.
what if the opposition is a shadow-shy groundhog, and the PM a head of lettuce
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Suddenly the British right feels a political chill. It’s getting cold in Andy Burnham’s shadow | Rafael Behr