NEWS: Virginia's governor vetoed a bill late last night that'd have banned prosecutors from pressuring Virginians into waiving their constitutional rights.
That's right, local prosecutors often get defendants to sign away Fourth Amendment protections to get a plea — for years.
With Virginia on board, the National Popular Vote Compact is now enacted in states worth 222 electoral votes. Here's what that means. n.pr/41xl7iy
"conservatism" we might call it
THIS is the Ministry of Remains
journalists staying on twitter because news happens there cover the news that happens there challenge
Noah's use is totally valid in general, but imo misreads the post he quoted, which I think reads much more naturally as referring to the absence of theological position than to a systematic worldview. Someone claiming "atheism is good" can "choose to use it in reference to" something specific too!
For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵
New: Texas Tech University System’s chancellor on Friday ordered campuses to phase out academic programs “centered on” sexual orientation and gender identity, escalating a course content review that has already upended classes across the system.
moggdernists
Of course many atheists are ideological, including many who are ideological about atheism, but it doesn't follow that atheism "is" an ideology, and certainly not as used in the claim "atheism is good"
In what sense is atheism an 'ideology'? It seems to me like an extremely non-systematic position
(if you DID accept it, that'd require some kind of Tolstoyan hyper-passivity, the exact opposite of the go-getter aggression that these people present as the only response!)
It also follows from the idea that "the" future is inevitable that the PRESENT is/was inevitable, a position that almost none of these jokers would accept
re Yeats the fact that Auden immediately conscripted him into one of the greatest anti-fascist poems ever written definitely had some reputation-laundering effect too
Jacobs-Rosenbaum
Levin
Thorne
Hayes
Ohman (?)
Sorry I meant amendment 3! Will message
Would love any thoughts on 2026-3—seems kind of double-edged
NYTimes has spent years breathlessly repeating claims that objecting to the treatment of Palestinians is antisemitic, but when right-wingers say they're “J-pilled,” NYTimes calls this "slang for skepticism of Israeli influence."
Where's the "J" in "Israel"? Might that "J" mean something else?
Goya’s The Family of the Infante Don Luis
Imagine breaking into a building with this in it and heisting a Renoir instead, smdh
The clearest cut example I can think of might actually be The Simpsons
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In a way I think the ambivalent relationships of identification and disavowal between the "Great American Songbook" and the jazz tradition is potentially the most interesting part of the story
Castle Rackrent, Story of an African Farm, A House for Mr Biswas
Rough nuts brown
Norman Rockwell meme
“Guilty pleasure“ is actually a good concept because it marks the way our enjoyment inevitably comes into conflict with other values. We can’t get rid of guilty pleasures—hardly anyone believes that pleasure is the ONLY value—we can only negotiate them.
feels like i send my reading group email and then @jasonkoebler.bsky.social publishes a piece that makes me wish i waited so i could've linked it
this piece for @404media.co illustrates how Anthropic's labor market junk ignores how a lot of work depends on the internet not being awash w/AI garbage
Am I remembering right a thing about how it’s impossible not to see Allworthy as a sucker even though the book keeps ostensibly telling us he isn’t?
This is one way to differentiate "genre" from "literary" writing; genre writing is calling in a pre-existing audience rather than constructing a new one.
