Really sorry and distressed you had that experience! Yikes.

Wait, What???[!]

Wang did fine and will win. But I think an argument along the lines of “the government is trying to change the established meaning of the 14th amendment. The Constitution creates a process for doing that, and it’s not by executive order” would’ve really twisted the knife.

Sounds like a 7-2 loss for the government on birthright citizenship, with Court perhaps deciding it on statutory grounds, as suggested by Kavanaugh’s questions to Wang. But does the canon of constitutional avoidance apply when the Court has a 100+ year old precedent resolving the same Con Law issue?

The Government’s Shittiest Website For more than 30 years, the US Postal Service has sent people who need to change their addresses to MyMove. Experts say the site uses dark patterns to trap visitors in an online purgatory of “deals.”

A disturbing new piece on how dark patterns have become pervasive on the US Postal Service partner website for processing change of addresses / new voter registration. You want to register to vote? Sure thing, but first buy this Internet access / pizza / furniture, etc. www.wired.com/story/the-go...

Theo will be a phenomenal Justice. I am so happy for him, his family, and the Evergreen State!

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That statue, which was cast back in 1961, was modeled on 1950s Texas Rangers – as in the law enforcement Texas Rangers – Captain Jay Banks. Since it's unveiling 65 years ago it has spent most of its life at Love Field in Dallas. But then in 2020 it was removed and placed in storage. Why? Because Captain Jay Banks was a racist cop who made it his mission to stop schools from integrating. This is an excerpt from the 2020 book, Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug Swanson, which describes' Banks' role in efforts to keep schools in Texas racially segregated in defiance of the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education: Then there is the form and face of the statue itself. This dates to 1956, when the NAACP, backed with a court order, attempted to integrate the high school in Mansfield, about 30 miles southwest of Dallas. White residents erupted in fury, so Gov. Allan Shivers dispatched the Rangers. But unlike state police in other Southern racial hotspots, the Rangers in Mansfield did not escort black students past howling mobs of white supremacists. They had been sent instead to keep the black children out of a white school.

The commanding Ranger on the scene was Sgt. E.J. “Jay” Banks. A wire service photo showed him casually leaning against a tree outside Mansfield High. To his left, above the school’s entrance, was a dummy in blackface, hanging from a noose. Nearby a white mob had assembled. Some carried signs that threatened death for anyone attempting to integrate the school. Banks saw no need to remove the effigy or disperse the mob. “They were just ‘salt of the earth’ citizens,” he later wrote. “They were concerned because they were convinced that someone was trying to interfere with their way of life.” Blacks were so intimidated that none attempted to enroll at Mansfield. Several days later, Gov. Shivers ordered Banks and a few other Rangers to Northeast Texas, because African-Americans wished to take classes at all-white Texarkana Junior College, a public institution. Again the Rangers’ job was to stop black students from enrolling. As at Mansfield, a mob of white men gathered outside the school. An 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy, both black, arrived by cab and began to walk toward the college. The mob blocked their path. Some surrounded the 17-year-old and kicked him, while others threw gravel. The Rangers watched it happen and did nothing except threaten to arrest the two students. That wire service photo of Banks in front of the school with the Black person hung in effigy can be seen at the top of today's newsletter.

The statue was removed from public view in 2020 in the wake of that book about the Rangers being published. This occurred at the same time that statues of Confederates, Klansmen, racists, and segregationists were removed all over the country following the murder of George Floyd. But now the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, knowing full well the history of the statue, its subject, and its removal, and knowing that multiple municipal institutions decided it was inappropriate for public display, is happy to put that statue up in a public concourse at a major league baseball stadium. When I learned of this yesterday afternoon I contacted Major League Baseball and asked the following questions: Is Major League Baseball aware of the history of the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue and its subject, Jay Banks? Is Major League Baseball aware that Love Field and the City of Dallas removed the statue and put it in storage in 2020 after Banks' involvement in attempting to keep schools segregated in the 1950s came to light? Does Major League Baseball condone one of its Clubs erecting a previously-removed statue of a staunch segregationist at its ballpark?; and Does Major League Baseball have any comment regarding the discomfort that will be felt by Black fans when confronted with the statue of a segregationist at Globe Life Field? I did not receive a response. I'm going to assume that the league's silence on this means that it wholly condones the Rangers putting up the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue despite its sordid and extraordinarily well-reported history.

Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

2025 annual report of the California Privacy Protection Agency has dropped. Lots going on in the Golden State regarding privacy. privacy.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

I love this article, because it's such a clear illustrations of an important point. The West Village is becoming a victim of its own strict zoning. The little details about the inhabitants show us how (thread).

Not clear to me whether R, NG, and AB reach the holding only due to the MQD. If so, the tariff case is a voting paradox!

1. 6 justices would invalidate tariffs, but 3 only if MQD applies
2. 6 justices would hold MQD does not apply

If justices decided and relied on 2 first, it would have changed 1.

Noteworthy that two of the three Justices Trump appointed to the Court ruled against him here. Trump attacks on Leonard Leo and Don McGahn incoming in 3…..2…..1…..

These housing reforms would be spectacular.

This would actually be perfect. At last night’s (excellent) one-man on a piano show in Chicago he did a riff about being a teenager uninterested in football who was seated next to Ron Jaworski at an Eagles game. (Also, Hysterical is a good album.)

It still amazes me that only 3 US states (IL, TX, and WA) provide meaningful protection against this kind of use of biometrics. In those states it’s impractical to get consent to use the feature from people without Facebook/Instagram accounts. What are the other state legislatures waiting for?

Tweet by Laura Loomer: It’s kind of ironic how Bad Bunny was dancing on an electrical post at the Super Bowl halftime show. Puerto Rico isn’t exactly known for having reliable electricity. He could have highlighted the electrical grid crisis in PR and done some good with his platform, but he chose degeneracy!

Yes, she's that stupid.

Plenty of empty seats formerly occupied by New England fans.

Touchdown Seahawks!

These ICE OUT towels were being confiscated by security on the way into Levi stadium. No other towels were prohibited.

The copious houseplants are how we can tell the Superbowl Half-Time Show is targeting millennials.

Super Bowl Bad Bunny stage with lots of vegetation.

And I mean ample.

Halftime show spoiler alert:

Get ready for dancing shrubbery.

Bad Bunny show will involve …. Ample Vegetation.

Traveling in style on Amtrak to Super Bowl LX

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

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Excited that our paper with @thelior.bsky.social @mbkugler.bsky.social , “Can Consumers Protect Themselves Against Privacy Dark Patterns?” is a winner of the (@futureofprivacy’s or @futureofprivacy.bsky.social’s) 16th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award! Read more: fpf.org/press-releas...

And to have the chance to exorcise the ghosts of the Pats loss? Unreal stuff.