Flying Mezerkis

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Ne'er do well, Sailor, accomplisher of little, quick wit and quicker temper. Purveyor of gardening pics. Wondering where this is all going.

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I strongly disagree that this is a “bus shoving”. This is an “I don’t want to answer questions about it. I want to be seen as my own man. I want to maintain structural ambiguity.”

The ramped-up hits on Project 2025 must be landing — Trump just shoved it right in front of the bus

I would simply get more sleep than I currently do.

I think more on all parts of the Left need to reckon harder with the implications of this. Ie socialism, safety nets, transfers, etc aren’t an inoculation against political nationalism. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/b...

New Factories and Jobs Are Not Enough to Stem France’s Far Right Surgewww.nytimes.com President Emmanuel Macron’s promise of re-industrialization in northern France has helped stimulate the economy, but “people feel defeated and angry.”

I just. It’s. Such a perfect metaphor. Rising waters from climate change threatens LA coastline and $21bn natural gas plant. Wealthy corporate hubristic response is to spend insane amount of money to protect itself alone. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

A rising fortress in sinking landwww.washingtonpost.com Rising seas and steel walls test the strength of a Louisiana coastal gas development, raising questions about flooding, climate change and community impacts.

Yeah. I can see that. What’s the weather going to be like though?

To quote Prof Musgrave. What is your theory of change here?

We are in a democratic death match. Where 5% of people who never pay attention to politics will decide the outcome and 10-15% support a guy who says things like “it’s hard to tell which conspiracy theory is right”. I’m not sure we’re doing this right.

The President of the Untied States should take sides on 9/11. Foreign terrorists killing nearly 3,000 Americans is one of those things an American leader should take sides on.

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LMFAO at NYT *not* disclosing that the guy who wrote this was a clerk for John Roberts! Honestly gotta respect the game.

Opinion section really emptying the clip with a bump stock www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

Opinion | A Principled Supreme Court, Unnerved by Trumpwww.nytimes.com Most of the court’s decisions were principled and sound — most, but unfortunately not all.

This is starting to get boring.

Sorry. I am not a legal expert or anything other than a citizen. But this is a profoundly embarrassingly idiotic argument for anyone who pretends to be a professional intellectual to make. This is deeply deeply deeply bullshit. (From Braude OpEd in NYt)

With no knock to Quinta. And obviously I’m just a lawless citizen here. But I don’t accept that whitewashing Roberts by pretending not to see what he’s up to gives us any understanding or insight.

Teenage AI: “I learned it from you Dad”.gif

We've been pressed into using GPT and imitaters more at work, and as a senior writer asked to review a lot of this work, I 100% resent being asked to edit its garbage output. It's not only generic, it's chockful of filler words and plagued by superfluous use of adverbs and prepositional phrases.

I get that the power of this Op-Ed is that it’s an Originalist calling out his own side. But as a layperson, not a lawyer, just some dumb citizen, I could not stomach a lot of what was being put down here. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

Opinion | A Principled Supreme Court, Unnerved by Trumpwww.nytimes.com Most of the court’s decisions were principled and sound — most, but unfortunately not all.

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some key norms that must be broken that still hold sway among many in the media, the senior ranks of the Democratic Party, and some of its voting base and the general public, namely that the Republican Party values democracy and that the judiciary is mostly nonpartisan, and you can't say otherwise

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What the decision *does* say is that the person who holds the office of the presidency is effectively not subject to the law for the exercise of the powers of office, no matter how or why he chooses to exercise them (and we actually can’t even ask).

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“Time takes its toll on the eyes. Now a funky, Hitchcockian video of 64 eyeballs, all rolling and blinking in different directions, is providing a novel visual of one way in which eyes age.” www.sciencenews.org/article/biza... 🧪

A bizarre video of eyeballs illustrates our pupils shrink with agewww.sciencenews.org Pupil size can decrease up to 0.4 millimeters per decade, hinting at why it can be increasingly harder for people to see in dim light as they age.

Hehe Hehe He said cleave.

little hears he or heeds he the far rush of the mighty whale, which even now with open mouth is cleaving the seas after him

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Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.

There is so much I don’t understand about pop culture. Yes I’m watching 5m of the local July 4th celebration with someone named Kesha.

Wow. This is going to have such a stifling effect on all future Brazilian presidents. I’m worried the vigor and energy of their presidencies is going to take a major hit.

Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association

Invoking my right as an American to indulge in some run cocktails. Through the immunity vested in me by the Supreme Court of these United States, I now declare it cocktail o’clock and happy 4th.

I just took a Presidential nap. Very legal. Very cool.

That doesn’t seem like a great result.

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As someone whose day job involves combating stigma around disability The Economist cover is just the most disheartening thing to see. I'm so mad about it. It's the opposite of what I fight for every day.

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On the anniversary of our divorce I’d like to thank Mother Britain for being just ridiculous enough to make me feel better while we self-destruct this week.

New SCOTUS ruling just dropped! SCOTUS just granted this household absolute immunity to leave dishes in the sink over night to soak.

On the anniversary of our divorce I’d like to thank Mother Britain for being just ridiculous enough to make me feel better while we self-destruct this week.

I spent my whole life working on my set of neuroses and these guys are just selling it out of a storefront.

lmao at people still paying for things you can get for free on the internet

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Today’s garden theme: a Fourth of July thread!🌱 First up: fireworks! (1/4)

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"Does Gettysburg Have a 'Lost Cause Problem'? 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/does-getty...

Does Gettysburg Have a 'Lost Cause Problem'?kevinmlevin.substack.com I didn’t anticipate hitting the computer first thing in the morning to write another post about Gettysburg. Two is enough on any given week, including the week of the anniversary of the battle, but an...