John Halloran

I love that a public health person was the first person to like this skeet, because, yes, it's about that.

Subskeet:

The failure of some relatively smart posters to understand the inevitability of relatively obvious second (!) and third order effects is ... disappointing.

Infuriating.

I am so sorry.

Bonkers.

Bonkers.

Okay it's time, I have to fill out my ballot this weekend. Just saw Schakowsky is not running for reelection, anybody heard anything about the IL9 primary?

I’m increasingly coming around to the idea that we should commit to extraditing non-military decision makers to the countries where these crimes are being committed to face local justice.

It seems that I overestimated the legal/bureaucratic capacity to deal with the logistical (and economic!) realities of refunding the illegal tariffs at the *corporate* level.

Which, and I know I’ve used this word a lot but we really need to underscore it here, is BONKERS.

I don't know how to explain this but Casablanca is a movie for adults.

There are lots of movies built on an element of fantasy about being young or brave or defying the odds.

Casablanca is not that. Everyone in that movie has back pain and they have all just accepted it.

Cold take: Rick from Casablanca is a beautiful example of non-toxic masculinity, both in his unshowy yet inherent self-confidence, and the way he eventually gets out of his emotional turmoil over Ilsa and Does The Right Thing

LOL. Co-sign.

That really ups the stakes for the Tottenham/Nottingham Forest fixture in a couple of weeks, doesn't it?

Greaves of the Americas.

Yikes on bikes.

RIP Patroclus.

I wouldn't be happy about it. But I would eat it.

Also, that's like the 10yo's dream beverage.

Yeah, Professor Hörst, you're going to want to take a minute to dig into the details of this one.

These things are making me want to watch this show.

My sincere hope is that Kristi Noem receives everything in life that she so richly deserves.

And, yeah, like what is happening on the ground matters. From that perspective it's clearly war.

But I think that clear (and meaningful) authority should be required for the US to engage in combat operations. So, like, the process does matter...

One of the problems with the War Powers Resolution is exactly the ambiguity generated by what has happened here.

What is this now? War hasn't been declared by Congress. But war hasn't not been endorsed by the Senate. So ... where are we?

Also: Is it possible that McDonald's bread is better in Europe?

That is a cursed sentence.

I'm willing to take that chance, Corey.

Would.

Also, it's also useful to remember that—while you absolutely don't have to give it to the institutional Catholic Church—the Church has, for over two decades, attempted to implement a pretty comprehensive prevention strategy—something many child-serving organizations haven't bothered with.

As these state-level reports detailing decades-long patterns of abuse and coverup continue to trickle out, it underscores the importance of the prompt creation of diocese-level lay-led truth and reconciliation commissions to address the continuing effects of clergy sexual abuse.

USA vs. Latvia in playing wheelchair curling. A curler in a wheelchair is pushing a stone with a big stick. They're on ice so there's an assistant holding his wheelchair in place

2 Team USA athletes in wheelchairs holding hands, having a pep talk in front of a crowd. they've got big sticks sticking out of the front of their chairs which they use for pushing the stones

🗣️THE WINTER PARALYMPICS ARE UNDERWAY

We're starting off with doubles curling, Team USA in the very first event of the games

Do you guys remember when I encouraged you all to play the Beer Game?

Have you played it yet?