Just now realizing how inadvertently hilarious "Anesthesia is woke" is. I'm almost as good at Bluesky as Jerry!

The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Secrets Have Been Spilled The leaked memos from a 2016 EPA case expose the spurious reasoning behind one of the justices’ most consequential decisions of the past decade.

The Roberts court rules against the EPA so frequently and so energetically that one almost wonders if they wish they could abolish it altogether. trib.al/2es0wpT

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Hell, why have modern medicine in the military at all? Let's get back to vicious battlefield amputations. Anesthesia is woke.

The leaked memos confirm what we all knew: Big Oil effectively has the conservative Justices on retainer. This casts a disturbing pall over future cases affecting oil industry interests, including, most notably, Suncor.

Do it

Leadership failures led to major Covid outbreak on aircraft carrier, watchdog report finds | CNN Politics The leadership of the USS Theodore Roosevelt failed to put in place measures to stop a coronavirus outbreak on board the aircraft carrier and exacerbated a growing problem by releasing sailors too ear...

The one thing that has taken a U.S. aircraft carrier offline in recent years was not enemy action. It was COVID.

Deciding now to put anti-science culture war signaling over military readiness is a bad idea.

I just watched 'Lessons of Darkness' (1992)

Southern Poverty Law Center says Justice Department is investigating its work with informants | CNN Politics The Southern Poverty Law Center said in a statement Tuesday that it is under investigation by the Justice Department for its use of paid informants.

(1) At this point, is there any doubt that the conservative strategy is to falsely accuse their opponents of the same thing they are blatantly guilty of?
(2) What does this tell us about how conservatives evaluate the intelligence of the press?
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Post-neoliberalism

Driverless Big Rigs Are Coming to American Highways, and Soon

Final Destination was a documentary
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Trump’s statements on Iran increasingly contradict each other The president has made conflicting comments on questions both large and small related to the war.

Increasingly? That implies we started from a position of coherence.
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But he was woke

So why didn't he?

Public health and climate change: Arguably among the most important policy challenges requiring government intervention. Hence, responses like these from the GOP. *This* is what makes the GOP an existential threat to the US democracy. But the press just dismisses this as "policy disagreements."

To reduce paperwork burdens, there should be a common document for registering as "a Republican" and "a Sex Offender"*

*alleged

"and he just…he tweeted it out." @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social

More generally the media's reflex to extend good will to everything the administration says at this point is insane. Like when the EPA claims that cutting half its budget and staff is designed to better achieve the agency's mission. Obviously, that's bullshit.

Today in free market fundamentalism

In related news, my youngest finally relinquished her pacifier to the Pacifier Fairy last night. We are very, very proud of her.

It has been remarkably good. Many of the near neighbors are still not thrilled about the Fan Zone, which I get. But the plans I've seen really do make a good faith effort to mitigate the impacts.

Whoever thought centralized review wouldn't lead to this kind of shameless corruption were deluding themselves bsky.app/profile/mark...

Rising sour cream raises all pierogis

i'm not saying that the Democrats should immediately announce a Universal Basic Pierogis campaign but I'm not not saying that

When you've lost Dershowitz....

Needs!

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Opinion | The Four Lessons Liberals Should Consider After Orban’s Defeat

The ironclad of US politics is that you can never give liberals enough good advice, no matter the circumstances
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