He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

hard same

over the past 60 years, courts have used qualified immunity to excuse all sorts of egregious police abuses--saying 'maybe they didn't know they couldn't do that!'--and whittle down our constitutional right to be free from such abuses into nothingness

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/zorn-...

not to be all sex-negative but what I really don't like about my deck's carpenter bee infestation is when they start mating.

the male bees hovering and dive bombing each other? fine.

the female bees burrowing? my landlord's problem.

when they're rolling around by my feet, fucking? please stop it!

like if Indiana Jones were a DOJ attorney who hated fun

wonder if I should become a civil forfeiture attorney so I can spend my life litigating cases like "U.S. v. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty Ancient Cuneiform Tablets and Approximately Three Thousand Ancient Clay Bullae" or "U.S. v. One Solid Gold Object in Form of a Rooster"

this is unfortunately a level of bravery we could only see from Rini Sampath

Our neighborhoods used to be lined with restaurant streateries. It’s time to end burdensome street rent and bring back the good times!

Good stuff in the replies. I've said it before, but leftism without theory is just reactionary, and it turns out there is no theoretical basis for being against urban apartments, but plenty for the counter.

Hot take: YIMBY analysis of housing policy is at its core substantially more Marxist than the liberal rights-based view of housing that comes from a lot of the left.

Buy America Act cripples transportation budgets in order to promote domestic materials. But foreign steel is gonna be the core of the White House. Awesome.

Me speaking with Phil Mendelson (really him talking at me) outside Marie Reed in Adams Morgan on primary day in 2022, when I was canvassing for Brianne Nadeau

please no more mendo (photo from 2022)

literally the worst thing I can imagine is Evans riding Mendo's teensy public resources abuse scandal to a comeback. with Henderson in the race there would not just be a backstop against Evans but a infinitely better alternative to Mendo too

really would prefer to not have either Mendo or—god forbid—Jack Evans coming in to serve when both would be primarily committed to spiking any policy from Mayor JLG. I respect Patricia Stamper and will be writing her in, but a candidate who can get on the ballot would be a much better bet.

since the date for getting ballot access as a Democrat has passed (might be wrong here but I feel like there was a deadline) it wouldn't even impact her serving on Council, as was the case for McDuffie running as a Democrat

I've had my differences with @chenderson.bsky.social on some of her Council votes but I really hope she jumps into the race for Chair. She's super competent and I even think some of the things I don't like about her actions on council (a certain above-the-fray vibe) would serve her well as chair.

may these awful pricks be beaten into plowshares fr

It's the height of idolatry, since in this sick metaphor the military is responsible for the resurrection and correspondingly, I guess, Pete Hegseth is God?

Pete Hegseth is incredibly comparing the downed airman in Iran with Jesus, which I find incredibly offensive as a Christian!

this could not rule more, wow

Black and white photo of five World War II-era US army soldiers standing in front of a held-up Nazi flag on a city street, holding guns, one wearing a Nazi armband and hat, posing for the camera. One soldier playing an accordion.

My grandpa was born in Stanhope, New Jersey in 1912. He went back to Poland a few months later.

In 1930, he returned to the United States age 17 as a US citizen. Here he is, left, liberating Europe from fascism in 1945.

Birthright citizenship forever.

Not unlike the white communities throughout the South that chose to shut down their public schools rather of let Black children learn at them

Another way to frame this story (not that "brave librarian stands up for everyone" is wrong!) is that there is a group of elected officials in Tennessee that would rather bankrupt their local library than allow children to choose what to read

I appreciate NYTimes putting together a story on the immigrant/enslaved roots of the members of the Supreme Court but I wish they had included that Clarence Thomas grew up partly in the Gullah community, whose Civil War service in earlier generations ultimately won the 14th Amendment

if anything TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT are about the extraordinary efforts taken by the crews of Starfleet to avoid shooting others. Even Enterprise, where there are a lot of firefights, is largely pointing towards the resulting commitment Archer has to forming the Federation because it was so bad.

Screenshot of zoning remapper tool

DC has a once-in-a-generation chance to fix its housing crisis through the 2050 Comp Plan rewrite. OP's current proposal squanders it. I built a tool so you can see exactly where they're falling short: dc2050.org 1/4

the reason hegseth lobbied trump to pardon war criminals in his first term and why he has done everything possible to make war crimes more likely is that hegseth believes war crimes to be Objectively Good. war to him, in fact, consists of committing indiscriminate war crimes.

There's so little going on in his head that when actual information comes out of his mouth, it's like direct line, mediated only by his dullness, to a previous conversation he's had and that's just such an esoteric thing to be bandied about.

Trump claiming the paper clip was invented 182 years ago has got to be one of the most fascinating statement's he's made recently. Who's talking to him about the history of the paper clip? Why 182 years? Is he a proponent of the Herbert Spencer origin theory? Is someone talking to him about Spencer?

e15 is a scam

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!