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June 10: Ken Paxton receives $275,000 from the chair of the board of regents at Texas Tech, which faces potential sanctions by the Big 12 over a quarterback at the center of a betting scandal. June 11: Paxton threatens the Big 12 with a $200 million lawsuit if they sanction Texas Tech.

This is less exciting if you’re named after your grandfather, but at least my new last name is cool: Slightly Used Effects Pedal

Every time the behavior of Pete Hegseth generates a headline, I'm reminded of these lines from Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto, which presaged Marinetti's Fascist Manifesto

I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.

The Pensacola flyover in question:

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

Graham Platner's collapse is an indictment of what Twitter has done to people's brains, and a major W for this platform and the general idea of "not spending time in Elon Musk's sandbox" slate.com/technology/2...

Yes. And mandate live video feed of arguments and opinion announcements.

This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the 26-year-old Colombian father and husband murdered by ICE fascists in broad daylight in front of his 3-year-old daughter. He was NOT the target of the ICE warrant. He was documented. He did everything right. ICE murdered him anyway. And yet… 1/2

this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.

thank god we have kelly. this is such a perfectly phrased reminder of something i’ve been ruminating on a lot lately. this hit me like a lightning bolt. stop inviting people to surrender.

this is why "and you're surprised?" is one of the top 5 most infuriating online responses to sharing upsetting news. surprise is not the only emotion, and it's not the only factor that makes something worth drawing attention to. it's weird to pretend being blasé about horror equals moral superiority

Whatever actually happened in Maine, this much is clear Immigrants aggressively chased by goons in unmarked vehicles know instinctively that if they stop a) their family will be broken forever and b) they're headed to a gulag where folks die from neglect So they panic And ICE murders them

RIP

*furiously* I am going to become Egghead

Wow, Mike Pence really bulked up after Trump tried to have him killed.

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

centrism is the ideology of sacrificing all of your values to win, and then not winning

I wonder why Little Italy is not considered an immigrant enclave