Oh, I was pretty pleased with myself.

A quick check shows that I am far from the first person to come up with that line. Oh, well.

Thanks!

So very Trumpian.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Labor Secretary Steps Down Amid Misconduct Investigation

Hegseth, Patel and now Chavez-DeRemer: Just call Trump’s team the Liquor Cabinet. “The messages, reported last week by The New York Times, suggested that the secretary was drinking during the workday and raised questions about professionalism with her staff.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Labor Secretary Steps Down Amid Misconduct Investigation

you love to see it. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Trump Administration Live Updates: F.B.I. Director Files Defamation Suit Against The Atlantic

Oh, yay! Can you buy tickets to discovery?
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

I think you’re reading things into that story that the writer did not write or intend.

Muslim Southerners Face a Fresh Wave of Hateful Political Rhetoric

Imagine if your elected representative regularly said he hated you and thinks you should be thrown out of the United States. The ugliness, the bigotry of anti-Islamic rhetoric as Republicans shifting "back to an old standby." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

<blinks slowly> …. Yes?

Hey there, <jnfr>! Did I do something wrong? Golly!

Bronze statue of Page Keeton

You know you’ve gotten up in years when the person who taught you products liability in law school is now a statue next to the school. Good to see you again, Dean Keeton.

I finally figured out all of that Trump/Jesus imagery. The dude has an altar ego.

If you don’t understand why Trump is struggling to reopen the closed-again, open-again Strait of Hormuz, which was open before his unnecessary attack in the first place: it’s not 3-dimensional chess, it’s physics: the Hormuzberg Uncertainty Principle.

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

So grim. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

So grim. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

it will wait for you.

At ‘Sloth World’ in Florida, Wild Sloths Have Died by the Dozens - Inside Climate News The animals, highly susceptible to illness when removed from their habitat, have been kept in a warehouse. More than 31 have died.

Murder. Plain and simple. Evil. insideclimatenews.org/news/1604202...

How the Giant D.C. Arch Would Compare to Others Across the World See how President Trump’s proposed arch would dwarf other monumental arches, including the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

What a monstrosity. A fitting symbol for this administration’s empty braggadocio. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

whinge away! it's a complex institution run by humans, and it has its flaws. Complaining constructively can make it sharper. But the Times also does stuff like this, and I like to point the good stuff out to folks — from the NYT, and from all of the publications I read.

INCREDIBLE reporting from the NYT’s @jodikantor.bsky.social and @adamliptak.bsky.social on the inner workings of the Supreme Court in the moment the justices unleashed the shadow docket.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

“Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.”

Trump: Opus D’oh!

Trump Extends Sanctions Exemption on Some Russian Oil as High Gas Prices Persist

Putting money in Putin‘s pocket because his pet war isn’t going according to plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...

Thank you! What an honor to be able to work on something like this. The editor of the magazine, Liz Hilton, had really developed much of the history before she even got in touch with me to sign on.

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

AI slopaganda
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

The Undeadliest Protest In 1970, the legal heroism of a group of law students kept the peace and saved lives.

I wrote a thing dept: A 1970 antiwar protest in Austin right after Kent State could have turned out bloody. It didn't, thanks to a group of unsung UT law students.
law.utexas.edu/magazine/202...

The Undeadliest Protest In 1970, the legal heroism of a group of law students kept the peace and saved lives.

I wrote a thing dept: A 1970 protest right after Kent State could have turned out bloody. It didn't, thanks to a group of unsung law students.
law.utexas.edu/magazine/202...

A tattoo reads “seek truth”

I have the BEST journalism students

A higher education report card The opinion department graded 15 colleges’ policies on academic freedom, faculty governance, free speech and legislative overreach.

"UT scored among the lowest in each category, consistently falling behind peer institutions in creating an environment consistent with academic freedom and free expression and ensuring protections for faculty governance.... the school’s academic integrity has been compromised."