This planet, man.
Posts by Alison Cook
Wow, this puts snorkeling in Tahiti on my wish list. They are too beautiful to eat. We are not worthy.
NEW: The 2016 Supreme Court memos and the mess that John Roberts has made of his court.
The New York Times scoop about the Clean Power Plan case SCOTUS memos highlights the conservative justices' brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
When you're cleaning our your cupboards and find that old sea otter you thought you'd lost years ago.
I always say it’s like going to a museum. Except you can take stuff home! 👹
“Either fools or knaves.” Why not both?? Also: bring “knaves” back to everyday parlance.
“Cadence.” Fucking “cadence.”
How can they be so beautiful??
We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.
NASA t-shirts
KitKat candy priced in pound sterling
Iraqi Style Date Syrup
Coasters with Houston-related details/themes
What? Your grocery store doesn’t sell NASA merch, KitKats priced in pound sterling, Iraqi-style date syrup, AND drink coasters with local flair? Welcome to Phoenicia Specialty Foods in downtown Houston, Texas.
He’d never get it. Doesn’t have it in him.
i do think AI will be steal a lot of our jobs within 10 years. take my job, for example: i work fulltime as a guy who lies to people about facts. people call me up on the phone and ask me about science, history, pop culture, etc. and i give them an obviously wrong answer. AI is coming for my job
Trump called every reporter in the observable universe, who all dutifully repeated his updates about Iran, and all those updates have fallen apart in fewer than 36 hours.
How long will legacy media keep doing this?
It’s so funny that they pubbed this the day before “john roberts invented the trump era shadow docket to make sure fossil fuel companies could keep killing you and make money doing it” bsky.app/profile/cris...
$50 each, a bargain in these prosperous times
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
post from Jake Tapper Going to a formal event that celebrates Freedom of the Press where some of the other guests don't understand the importance of the 1st Amendment? The Reporters Committee for the Free Press has some great accessories - including the below pocket square! donate.rcfp.org/first-amendment rctp.org [photo of the pocket square, which reads: CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF THE PRESS!]
canceling all my plans and taking to my bed due to a severe bout of secondhand embarrassment
Ossoff: I don’t know who placed those trades, but I’ll tell you this: the SEC better find out. And if they won’t, when you elect this new majority in Congress and you give us gavels and subpoenas, we will.
76 trombones
Aaron Astor: My general tendency is to reject conspiracy theories. And yet, this keeps happening - massive trades just minutes before Trump announces something. And that something (Iran handing over uranium and opening Hormuz) often turns out not to be true at all.
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Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891
I watched Eastman, in real time, testify to the Georgia General Assembly that it was their *duty* to overturn my vote in 2020. He lied about evidence. He misled his client about the law. Law profs who back wannabe coup leaders and authoritarians should retire because what’s the point of law at all?
I wish I could say I was surprised. Angry and saddened, though, yeah.
Powerful & damning column
Yeah, when your narrator turns in that short story my eyes widened and I had to read the passage another time or two. That was wild.
That is some crazy, crazy shit.
That is some crazy, crazy shit.
He’s not running again.