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in which my beloved wife, scholar, and public servant @lynnhurtak.com quotes Justice Frankfurter's opinion in U.S. v. Rumely (1953) on how essential it is for legislators to be able to access, scrutinize, and fairly represent the machinery of government.

Seems bad

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

Google’s Gmail AI still making suggestions it knows I’ll ignore instead of accepting that that’s just kinda the way I talk feels like a neg

Me, the guy with the Free State Anti-Fascists team name: uhhhh, no?

i am frankly glad that most posters on here were never involved with HIV/AIDS education in Africa back in the 00s, y'all woulda made things worse

Running a fantasy league is an exercise in constantly managing the fragile male ego, and it gives me better appreciation for what women do constantly

I thought the where would you choose to go to college if you were choosing now question was good, and I think I’d go with Washington. Gorgeous campus and the Pacific Northwest is just all-around great.

I think this is right: folks get caught up in the ‘lifestyle’ of these pieces while ignoring the fact that the the factors that go into whether a relationship is happy and healthy are 100% agnostic of your sexual orientation or number of relationship nodes you have you.

Ah, yesterday was one of those ‘I’m seeing references to references to some thing, and I’m too lazy to look it up’ and now it makes sense.

I think to the where would you go to school if you could pick now, I think I’d go with Washington.

I once had lunch at Red Robin and went duck pin bowling with an adult film actress.

*very leroy jenkins voice* MARKWAYNE MULLINNNNSSSSSS

This week's DARTY PARTY USA pod:

- Quick hits on last week's/this week's Premier League nights, pick for the latter
- A thorough breakdown of the Coachella of Darts, The UK Open, happening this weekend
- Brad gets mildly upset about sixes lacrosse in our Obscure Sports America segment

I saw TMBG play this once, introducing the song with (me paraphrasing) “we forgot to add one thing: this guy was absolutely terrible. One of the worst presidents”.

This reminded me that I once told someone interviewing me for a job that my high school nickname was Cheech, and sweet summer child that I was never made the mental connection that maybe I should have kept that thought holstered. What’s that got to do with TMBG’s James K Polk? Story for another day.

Must-buy. Elon is building an admirable career chronicling forgotten, still-relevant pockets of NYC crime. And they’re page turners!

The Man Nobody Killed The first comprehensive book about Michael Stewart, the young Black artist and model who was the victim of a fatal assault by police in 1983, from Elon Green...

I've been so weirdly busy that I forgot to tell you the paperback is coming out Tuesday. It's a steal. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

You can’t move my Overton window if I slam the thing shut on your stupid little grubby incel fingers

I think I originally saved this clip on my phone like 7 or 8 years ago. Dropping the kernel of it here just because, I don’t know, sometimes you have to keep pointing at the stupid monster and calling it a stupid monster, emphasizing both the stupidity and the monstrousness.

If there are any University of Kentucky alums or connected folks following me, please DM me. I'd appreciate a chance to chat with someone as my daughter narrows down her choices for this fall. Thx in advance

This is how the dogs approach rainy days

Wait: so Jesus died for :checks notes: _all_ of us? Big, if true.

I’m clearly the target demographic given how this episode starts:

Fantasy Baseball Expert Draft: AL LABR Jason Collette reviews his AL LABR team, led by Athletics slugger Brent Rooker, as he looks for his second title in four years.

My recap of AL LABR auction is up for all to read it’s still surreal to me to play & win a league I first learned about reading Baseball Weekly (RIP) in college back in the 90s.

www.rotowire.com/baseball/art...

Anyway, now I can continue to over engineer the hell out of my audio content*

*Teams calls with colleagues.

Here I was thinking I was too stupid to understand how a nice piece of audio equipment worked, but it just turns out it’s busted. Phew.

Also dug this

The ‘satellites’ up close were weirding me out