Child of a Midwestern Mom, here:

Just about any casserole or "hot dish" that contains Canned Cream of Mushroom Soup. And there are a lot of them.

And .. here come the Freedom of Information Act requests for Kash Patel records

DC watchdog group Democracy Forward has formally requested Patel's calendars & any messages from security detail that include words "drinking", "hungover", "inebriated"

democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

finally, the invented the most awesome day job ever

20 years ago today, @gamethyme.bsky.social and I decided to sign some paperwork and tie our lives together. Since then we've been through 3 moves, 4 jobs, and the loss of 3 cats; health issues, triumphs, failures, & everything in between. I wouldn't want to do it with anyone else.

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

I can't wait to find out that this "drug dealer wanted for murder" is actually a kindergarten teacher.

Two tweets: @gamethyme: "Now boarding @delta flight 2263 for home. @Delta: Sorry to hear, ERic. have a good flight home! *HVI

The best I have personally experienced.

Secret Menu Oh, hello! You've happened upon a restricted area. Don't worry though, it's restricted to those who happen upon it, so...yeah. You're good.These blends are all "secret menu" projects. Whether custom b...

Their Secret Menu has "Pie Dreams" on it. It's a custom blend @insertscenehere.bsky.social had mixed up for me as a gift. And I absolutely love it. Hot, iced, or cold-brewed.

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The Infinite Library There is a library that contains all the narrative in human history, and something is trying to destroy it. A group of agents, pulled from their own literary universes, discovers the plot - now what? ...

Friends, it's finally happened - I've finished my book and put it up on Royal Road for free! Go, read, share, and (hopefully) enjoy! www.royalroad.com/fiction/1014...

on the upside, ICE agents in the airports seem very uncomfortable since they can’t hide their faces

Given what's been going on, something like this was probably inevitable. I'm honestly surprised it took as long as it did, and this ATC should not shoulder all of the blame for this, even though it sounds like he's trying to.

The word "Serial" tends to suggest (to me, at least) that the previous ventures were not.

"hey did you see the guy that's donated over $10,000 to looksmaxxing streamer clavicular? with the pepsi shi-"

You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

Photo of Iran's national soccer team

US to Only Allow Iran at World Cup Games If No Dangerous School Children on Team: tinyurl.com/yeyy8u2x

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.

This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

I think it only proves that the last person to talk to Trump sets his policies.

Unfortunately, all people not in his immediate circle will get is short-term small wins like this because he's surrounded by assholes almost 24/7 specifically to prevent this sort of win.

good news everyone, supreme court justices are beholden to their corporate benefactors over their fascist overlords

There is no exception to the major questions doctrine for emergency statutes. Nor does the fact that tariffs implicate foreign affairs render the doctrine inapplicable. The Framers gave “Congress alone” the power to impose tariffs during peacetime. Merritt v. Welsh, 104 U. S. 694, 700. And the foreign affairs implications of tariffs do not make it any more likely that Congress would relinquish its tariff power through vague language, or without careful limits.

(a) IEEPA authorizes the President to “investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit . . . importation or exportation.” §1702(a)(1)(B). Absent from this lengthy list of specific powers is any mention of tariffs or duties. Had Congress intended to convey the distinct and extraordinary power to impose tariffs, it would have done so expressly, as it consistently has in other tariff statutes. The power to “regulate . . . importation” does not fill that void. The term “regulate,” as ordinarily used, means to “fix, establish, or control; to adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.” Black’s Law Dictionary 1156. The facial breadth of this definition places in stark relief what ”regulate” is not usually thought to include: taxation. Many statutes grant the Executive the power to “regulate.” Yet the Government cannot identify any statute in which the power to regulate includes the power to tax. The Court is therefore skeptical that in IEEPA—and IEEPA alone—Congress hid a delegation of its birth-right power to tax within the quotidian power to “regulate.” While taxes may accomplish regulatory ends, it does not follow that the power to regulate includes the power to tax as a means of regulation. Indeed, when Congress addresses both the power to regulate and the power to tax, it does so separately and expressly. That it did not do so here is strong evidence that “regulate” in IEEPA does not include taxation.

Supreme Court absolutely bodies Trump on IEEPA.

Just complete groin kicking.

They could have said that IEEPA lets him impose tariffs in an emergency but that this didn't qualify as one of those, or he failed to define one.

It didn't.

It ruled IEEPA doesn't let him impose tariffs at all.

How did you like it?

They're *there,* not here.

I'm in Seattle. Makes a difference.

If we're lucky, they're here to enforce the Judge's order from yesterday giving the hostages inside access to telephones, etc.

Isn't that the mantra we all keep repeating whenever the current administration does anything?

Toy Battle Send forth an army of toys to conquer territories.

Played Toy Battle 3 times today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Star Trek Fluxx Fluxx in Original Series livery. Goals align to series tropes.

Played Star Trek Fluxx 2 times today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Yep. Mr. "Never Crowdfunding Again" is crowdfunding his clearance using platform designed for post-Kickstarter support.

I mean ... this IS post-Kickstarter. Waaaaay post-Kickstarter.

Did you type that with a straight face?

So many thoughts that I lost the ability to spell "Thoughts." Ah, well.