Mostly to my therapist

No Peace Plan, No Problem: Why the Wartime Market Keeps Rising Bad news stirs greater interest among investors who see only prospects for the stock market to keep setting records.

I guess at some point it became inevitable that we'd reach the saying-the-loud-part-even-louder stage of this. Gift link. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Trump fought to keep the ballroom fundraising contract secret. Here’s what’s in it. The agreement governing hundreds of millions in private donations was kept secret until a watchdog group sued and a judge ordered it disclosed.

The White House has "declined to disclose the total amount raised, the identities of all donors or, until recently, basic details about the building’s design. Court documents show Trump knew he was going to tear down the East Wing at least two months before doing so, but he never told the public."

Flu is the only one that is an across the force annual requirement, so it's the one you would eliminate if you want to engage in performative signaling

It also has lower risk of high impact consequences; we'll see if this ends up extending to (eg) Td (specifically the T bit)

Old & busted: my Wills, Trusts & Estates class performing selected scenes from King Lear*

New hotness: Tort & product liability classes performing selected scenes from Romeo & Juliet

*ya girl was Goneril

Bibendum (the Michelin Man) pressing one hand to the side of its face and frowning slightly

Students need to learn about Tek Wars sooner or later

Season 6 / Episode 21

"And look at this. The only books we have are ones banned by other schools."

the new york post cover will uncurse the mets

“Whether it's plausible that a sexy blonde nurse would love Christ, ICE, and flashing her boobs for strangers is secondary to the fact that many, many people want to believe it is.”

We’re expecting to see text of a budget resolution tomorrow. That would be the first of many steps in enacting a reconciliation bill, which can be passed even with all Democrats opposed.

We’re expecting it to be a slush fund for ICE and CBP, but we’ll have a few more details tomorrow. Follow along.

We've released 50 Prime Warframes over the last 13 years — the 13th of which was Vauban, who rose in Orokin gold on May 17, 2016.

Showcase your favorite Prime #FashionFrame below! wrfr.me/4lsPdNf

Does #NJ07 Rep Tom Kean Jr - "one of President Trump's strongest allies in Congress" - ever read Trump's posts?

Does Kean agree every report that doesn't glorify Trump is "fake news"?
That Dems who criticize DJT are "traitors"?
That he's winning vs Iran "BY A LOT"?

Is Kean as deluded as Trump?

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Pulido, a fifty-two-year-old Latin Grammy winner who’s appeared intermittently on Billboard charts since the mid-nineties, is running for Congress against the incumbent Republican Monica De La Cruz, who, in 2022, flipped Texas’s Fifteenth Congressional District, which had been held by Democrats for more than a century. After Pulido secured the Democratic nomination, in early March, De La Cruz posted a video saying that the election “isn’t about who you want performing at your niece’s quinceañera. It’s about who you trust with your family’s future.” Abel Prado, Pulido’s campaign manager, remembers thinking, Did she really say that? Which gringo consultant wrote that? Within days, Pulido announced online that he would stop by quinceañeras in his district and perform for his potential constituents; as of early April, the campaign had received more than three thousand invitations.

this rules

That was a great show! And those of us at the back definitely noticed the orderly nature of the crowdsurfing; well done, the pit.

There are multiple bullet points about how necessary it is to not criticize tech elites or scrutinize their actions.

They want to make it illegal to do anything other than praise them.

The Industry of the Future Is Run by People Who Hate Each Other AI leaders agree on two things: Change is coming, and the other guys can’t be trusted

1. They hate us more.
2. Amongst themselves, their class solidarity is always going to prevail.

The tech giant Palantir has some thoughts about the future of our Republic. This is your daily reminder that today’s unprecedented concentration of wealth and political power isn’t an inevitability. It’s a policy choice.

“We’re not going to be wearing suits that are wool blends, I’m hearing. I know a lotta guys in the garment industry, big successful guys, and they’ll be very sad about this. Not being able to do blends anymore. But we’ve gotta do what it says in *spicy voice* DEUTERONOMY.”

This is just to say
I have let in
the duck
that was on the doorstep

and which
you were probably
hoping
would stay out

Forgive me
he was persuasive
so scary
and so loud.

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

The next Democratic Congress and Administration must dedicate significant resources towards investigating what I think is shaping up to be the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

This is blatant market manipulation based on internal policy knowledge.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

What a bombing in Nevada reveals about the nation’s appetite for violence - High Country News There is no definition of domestic terrorism. And the reason why is complicated.

It’s the 31st anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people. It should disturb everyone that the ideas and rhetoric that motivated Timothy McVeigh have mainstreamed. I grapple with that reality here:

www.hcn.org/issues/58-4/...

Boop!

you’re a journalist — nowhere in your job description does it say you need to dress fancy, eat overpriced plate dinners and pretend to be special at the invite of the person you should be holding to the fire on an hourly basis (not just this one, all of them)

This is the 27th time I’ve posted this Doonesbury since 2015.