The Manchurian Candidate

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org

I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.

blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

Ah fair

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This apparently exists! A friend swears by it. www.thermomix.com

Chicago folks, eggs are $0.69/doz at Harvestime right now.

Standing athwart history yelling "Stop -- Hammer time!"

Justin Fairfax Was A Coward I believed Vanessa Tyson.

Justin Fairfax wanted to be remembered as a rising star. A trailblazer. The second Black man elected statewide in Virginia. He wanted the Emmett Till comparison to stick.

It will not. I will not let it, and neither should you.

open.substack.com/pub/goldieta...

[LBJ calling Joe Haggar]

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

Congratulations!!!

"Why is it that the most vocal cheerleaders of generative A.I. are always the hackiest motherfreakers around?"

Also, important obligatory update from Vermont: Today — April 14, 2026 — is @benandjerrys.bsky.social Free Cone Day, if you find yourself close to a scoop shop: www.benjerry.com/scoop-shops/...

Donate to Help Me Save Lost Media!, organized by Mark O'Brien As far as I can tell, I’m the only person saving filmstrips, a forgotten 20th-century multimedia… Mark O'Brien needs your support for Help Me Save Lost Media!

There's a guy in upstate NY who digitizes film strips, and he is currently fundraising for his next batch, and folks – folks! – it's a worthy cause because who else is saving so much media about law, finance, and social diseases

www.gofundme.com/f/uncommon-e...

Vermeule did one funny thing once. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Professor in my history of jazz class played us Betty Carter’s version of Thou Swell and I lost my mind. Took subway to Tower Records right after class to get it. youtu.be/BMKokwv8vuA

You’re saying the president needs to be able to draw the cool S.

The Honey Drippers - Impeach The President YouTube video by JBtheModManchester

FWIW "Impeach The President" remains a banger

youtu.be/wqbEsS5kFb8?...

A Clash Over Catholicism It was May 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan wanted to showcase its power and cement its sudden grip on Indiana politics by holding a picnic and parade in South Bend, the most Catholic area in the state. Abo...

One of my favorite “history fun facts” I often share in class is that Notre Dame is called “the fighting Irish” because in 1924, UND students beat the shit out of a local Klan that tried to harass them for being Catholic. stories.nd.edu/stories/a-cl...

www.beacon.org/Storming-Cae... this is a spectacular read

Yes but I’ve read multiple histories of the New Yorker.

I’m basically doing blue books, slightly fancier with software, but we’re just gonna struggle through the handwriting

The nonsense case against birthright citizenship Meet the conservative legal minds telling the Supreme Court to side with Trump.

I don’t relish this. But, if law profs try to sell the Supreme Court a historical fantasy and change a constitutional rule for 340 million people, which if adopted, destroys the entire constitutional order. Honesty must yield to niceties. We have a higher calling. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Opinion | Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was for ‘the Babies of Slaves.’ He’s Wrong.

Trump is flat wrong when he claims that birthright citizenship was intended only for the "babies of slaves." Martha Jones and I have the receipts.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Sandra Wong, the great-granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, in San Francisco today 👇🏽 bsky.app/profile/asam... #NoKings

Congratulations!

The Story of How ‘Saturday Night Live’ Made the “Stevie Nicks’ Fajita Roundup” Sketch In 1998, Lucy Lawless brought down Studio 8H with an impression of the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman imagined as the owner of a bad Mexican restaurant. The sketch is not one of ‘SNL’s’ most famous, but in ...

thank you as always to @yourmandevine.bsky.social for giving us all the definitive history of how this went down www.theringer.com/2020/05/26/t...

I believe new tote bag colors are dropping.

Yep, it’s there (as part of one giant file)

Gale Supreme Court briefs might have it, let me check