Bertrand

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Just another liberal attorney in the Northeast. Luddite.

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I miss the days when I didn’t need to know or care about Chevron deference

government agencies don't get to decide on regulations, rando dumbass judges do, which means a lot of really dumbshit decisions and way more impediments to regulating things, which is awesome for evil corporations and really bad for people who like clean air and food that doesn't poison you

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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it

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This is a must-read piece making a vital point

Democrats need to make the Supreme Court - not just Dobbs, but the threat posed by the court itself - a bigger issue in the campaign. I make the case at MSNBC:

Opinion | It’s time for Justice Alito to face some consequenceswww.msnbc.com Democrats should make the Supreme Court more of a campaign issue

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"Has a neighbor, radio host, or family member older than forty said, 'It's a scorcha!'?" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...

When to Turn Your AC on in New England: A Decision Guidewww.mcsweeneys.net - - -SEE ALSO: When to Turn Your Heat on in New England: A Decision Guide

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One of those rare it was 85 all day and not humid and now it’s 70 and not humid nights in MA. We get like 5 of them a year. Perfect.

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there's a fuckin *ocean* of money sloshing around at the top of society. one reason why we see so much investment into AI or crypto magic beans, it has nowhere sane to go (because the masses haven't had the spending power to justify investment in regular business until very recently)

The Massachusetts "millionaires tax" has vastly surpassed projections, bringing in more than $1.8 billion in revenue so far this fiscal year — with the prospect of a surplus of hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on transportation and education

State’s ‘millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year, blowing past state projections - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com The estimated haul is already $800 million more than what Governor Maura Healey and state lawmakers planned to spend from its revenue in fiscal year 2024.

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This really works; delete the gobbledegook after your search term (in my e.g. this is q=recipe+for+bread) and add &udm=14 and all the top tips, AI summaries, 'also searched for' and video (1st image) vanishes. You just get actual search results (2nd image).

This is so important and valuable. A way to get "Google search without the crap." Notably AI crap, which destroys G-search utility. Intro'd here: tedium.co/2024/05/17/g... In practice: After a Google search, click on "Web." You'll get the de-crapped results.

How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Searchtedium.co Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.

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I don’t want a single dime of my tax money going to help deluded New England beach-house owners who are mad that climate change and erosion don’t give a shit about their property value.

Salisbury Beach residents seek help from state to combat erosionwww.nbcboston.com Residents of Salisbury, Massachusetts, are calling for help to protect their beachfront homes. Coastal erosion has taken its toll on Salisbury Beach. Residents spent $600,000 out of pocket and trucked...

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"20 Days in Mariupol” wins the Academy Award for best documentary, the first Ukrainian film to win an Oscar. The director, Mstyslav Chernov, gave an emotional speech while accepting the award alongside cast members. See our full list of winners: wapo.st/3vbBTHa

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This is a brutal story. Worth the read

Ken Fritz turned his home into an audiophile’s dream — the world’s greatest hi-fi. What would it mean in the end?

He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable.www.washingtonpost.com Ken Fritz spent 40 years turning his living room into what some audiophiles called the world’s greatest hi-fi system. What would it all mean in the end?

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Coups are fine ONLY if you’re president. Makes sense to me that’s obviously what the authors of the 14th were going for

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As with the Times getting drawn deep into anti-trans panic, the easiest weak point to hit with professionally objective journalists is the question of what they choose to cover, because they're committed to denying that they make any such choices

Year after year Rufo just goes on Twitter and announces, "Here's the next fuss we're going to make, 100 percent as a cynical pretext, to get the media to parrot our message and advance our right-wing agenda," and every time the press is like, thank you for the valuable news tip

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Pls watch the segment w/ which @chrislhayes.bsky.social ended his show tonight. “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific—& truly Oct 7 was horrific—that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza & what we as Americans & our government are abetting. It must end. We must stop it.” Yes.

Chris Hayes: The war in Gaza must endwww.msnbc.com Chris Hayes: “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific—and truly Oct. 7 was horrific—that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza and what we as Americans and our government are ab...

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⚖️ I do not teach at Stanford Law School, but I do not understand how the clinical professor who "directed" SBF's defense now feels comfortable publicly denigrating his client, even before sentencing. There was no ethical obligation to represent SBF, but once you do, there's a duty of loyalty.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyer Says He Was the Worst Witness Everwww.thedailybeast.com Stanford professor David Mills was close with the FTX founder’s parents. The relationship may be over, he says.

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Do you know the Song The Monster Mash is not ACTUALLY The Monster Mash , it's a song about The Monster Mash ...which leads me to believe there is a mysterious eldritch song called The Monster Mash that awakens the Great Old Ones

I feel seen.

!foryou

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no this was a classic @tomscocca.bsky.social blog, genuinely one of the greatest blogs ever blogged slate.com/human-intere...

If only the rest of the New York Times used the same level of clear-headed forthrightness that the Cooking section uses in having the only recipe I’ve ever seen that’s honest about how long it actually takes to caramelize onions (I think this was a @albertburneko.bsky.social rant at some point)

Why Do Recipe Writers Lie About How Long It Takes To Caramelize Onions?slate.com Browning onions is a matter of patience. My own patience ran out earlier this year while leafing through the New York Times food section. There, in the...

@errantmedieval.bsky.social I hope this makes it in the lecture today.

This day in history. 1217. In England the Charter of the Forest sealed by King Henry III restored rights of pannage, estover, agistment, turbary, badgerage, and squirrelamor.

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Found this to be a solid op-ed from Bernie today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gaza needs a humanitarian pause. Then we need a vision of where we go from herewww.theguardian.com One thing is clear: there cannot be a return to the status quo that existed in Gaza before the war

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Ah crap they're egging our house because they didn't think it was funny that I was dressed as Richard Lewis and handing out 30-year-old boxes of Boku

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Let's go Celtics ☘️☘️!

Gosh darn it, Julien, I WILL be a Satanist with you.

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me: you can’t fire me, I’m a whistleblower hr: first of all, that’s a kazoo

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Oh it’s a new platform so I can express again my biggest problem with any Batman related media : PEARLS DO NOT BREAK THAT WAY THEY HAVE KNOTS BETWEEN EACH PEARL TO KEEP FROM RUBBING AGAINST EACH OTHER AND ERODING

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This photo of baseball in Bhutan is the coolest sports photo I’ve ever seen? How is this so much cooler than anything else?

Reskeet with a banger pic of your dog

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man: humpty dumpty fell off the wall king: who? man: the big egg guy king: the what man: we need all your horses and men to put him back together king: uh ok *turns and whispers to advisor* what the fuck is going on

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