What can we learn from the rise, fall, and abandonment of four spectacular ancient cities? @r-emrys.bsky.social on @annaleen.bsky.social's Four Lost Cities, and how the urban planning (and disasters) of the past can inspire exciting new ideas:
American Missionary Society deporting formerly enslaved people to Sierra Leone in the 1850s. It didn't end well.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is out with a new (very bad) decision, and it's a doozy.
The Fifth Circuit says that Texas can require the Ten Commandments in classrooms. But somehow it gets worse.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Switching costs are lower than ever. Once you've paid them, no reason to ever go back.
one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus
How about hospitals?
A specifically evangelical version. Catholics should be up in arms.
Oh, ya just gotta love this @doctorow.pluralistic.net essay.
"But at the very same time, I'm living in a world in which Trump is (inadvertently) dismantling many of the worst aspects of the old order in favor of something decidedly better."
pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/p...
Troops headed to a combat zone get a dozen shots route. Allowing them to pick and choose is chaotic
If he wants forgiveness, here is that path to repair and repentance. Forsny seem l likely he’s on it. app.thestorygraph.com/books/d1dcde...
He’s bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester. He’s already in exile. He should re-evaluating his choices. If he’s not careful he’ll be sent to Malta. Leo isn’t playing and this isn’t the Benedict papacy.
Shoutout to The Atlantic reporters for publishing these massive scoops instead of waiting years to put them in a book.
Absolutely.
"These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that."
That's a pretty simple and effective message.
Protestors in a long battle with a puppy mill that feed animal testing.
I am amused (but also embarrassed) that CheeseBro is from Wisconsin.
Managed decline. Trump is degrading everything in our country.
I will keep conducting oversight of ICE because that is my job. If this administration learns that it can silence any of us, it will try to silence all of us.
I’m standing up for all of our neighbors by exposing the cruel treatment this administration wants to hide in the dark
We would be better off if we were governed by cartoonists.
Personnel is policy. Hiring the right subordinates is a top level skill.
39 justices, three per circuit. No judge gets generational power. Senior status after 20 years.
Was that guy a studio head?
What if I told you it was actually the easiest situation anybody has ever been in?
These agents "don't know how to operate in these situations,” said former DOJ attorney Christy Lopez.
Their behavior “is on par with the worst protest policing and just law enforcement that I've seen from any department, even in their worst days."
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I got one of these from the Red Cross today, concerning a platelet donation. Those donations take 2 hours. Then they wanted 15 minutes to find out how to make me come back more ogten.
The only reason to announce a total victory before reaching a signed deal is to manipulate the markets for profit taking.
Schrödinger's strait.
Beggars in Spain, Dickson’s Childe series. This rarely turns out well.
A genetically based class structure is what the billionaires think they already have. They want technology to confirm it.
A local restaurant was trafficking workers and basically enslaving them. Feds, state and local arrested owner but ICE deported all the witnesses. She’s still going to jail.
