The usual.
Been a while since I’ve seen a perfectly accurate description of most of DC’s professional Democrats.
Dave KarpfThat makes her an ally. Just… the type of ally who spends most of their time lecturing the rest of the movement about how they’re Doing It Wrong, while simultaneously making the Davos crowd feel more smug and secure.
Paid from the seized assets of the current criminal enterprise.
Bradley P. MossThere will be a Victims Fund in 2029. It will be for all the people who were charged under false pretenses, whose cases were dropped after DOJ admitted the evidence was all lies, and/or who were acquitted at trial. There will be justice. It’s coming.
Can't wait to not give a shit about the Bonesaw World Cup, taking place every four years in Riyadh, featuring 32 teams made up of mercenary players without passports, desperate to feed their families. www.nytimes.com/athletic/747...
FIFA plans to sell a stake in the World Cup: How much for and why is Gianni Infantino doing it?The proposal has been widely criticized, with European soccer's governing body UEFA saying it "crosses a line."www.nytimes.comThis is *fantastic*. What cities have good versions of this?
Big JohnOne of things I’m proudest of in my time at Gambit has been how we’ve used the 40 under 40 issue to highlight real people doing real work to make New Orleans better. Most 40 lists are basically ways for lawyers and pr professionals to pimp themselves. But at Gambit www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
I just saw the below and said it out loud so my 10 year old could hear me. He was about as upset with me as I was to hear that he was dropping F-bombs at camp today. So it seems we both have a problem with the other's language. 😂
Lane StellmakerThis is the sort of thing I wish we could be spending our civic conversation energy on, and not you know, whether or not we should be a democracy. This is hard, and that is not. www.theverge.com/tech/960802/...
Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns?New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and create entirely new kinds of surveillance.www.theverge.comI'm headed to Montreal for UCI worlds in September. Been once before, but for sure soliciting suggestions. Bringing the whole fam.
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇Sunday outing: today we discovered #Montreal has a teeny-tiny cable ferry across the rapids to Île-Bizard. (Fits a half dozen cars and a whole lot of bikes!)
It's my view that those of us who don't usually need to worry about these things for ourselves have not just the right, but the *obligation* to loudly and aggressively insist upon these rights in situations involving CBP & related agencies.
Courtney MilanThe ACLU has put together a know your rights guide for people within 100 miles of a border. If you are in that swath of land, please take a look at this and learn your actual rights. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
😬 (Wish I could make this, tho)
Profs and PintsAugust 16th in Arlington. Details and tickets at events.ticketleap.com/tickets/prof... .
The American Constitutional order is imploding before our eyes, and this absolutely waste of an organization is view-from-nowhere bothsidesing the entire disaster.
National Constitution CenterFollow Julie Silverbrook’s new Substack, the #CivicDecade, to explore how we can expand constitutional knowledge, renew our civic culture, and strengthen the civic institutions that will sustain our constitutional democracy for generations to come. Visit https://ow.ly/VWio50ZsWIh to learn more.
That's a hard fuck-off to Door Dash. Not even kind of okay.
Martin AustermuhleInteresting: DoorDash is supporting the GOP bill in Congress to limit D.C.'s ability to increase or decrease taxes and fees, largely in response to the D.C. Council's recent vote in impose a new 20-cent delivery fee to help fund food-access programs. www.notus.org/metro/uberea...
Well, no, they're at their fucking peak. They've got the best source in the White House and until recently, they ran the DNI.
Sky Marchinirussia's military capacity is extremely degraded but their intelligence capacity is very much not so www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Honestly, I don't see the problem here. Permits? We don't need no steenking permits.
U.S. Consumer Product Safety CommissionGot a permit for that manta ray?
