More of this, please. A LOT more of this, please.
Chatterbox Jazz Club in Indianapolis is the place to be! Be certain you stop by and support them! chatterboxjazz.com
“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
OK, gonna throw this spicy bomb out there. If you're fortunate enough to have disposable income, then right now it is your duty to use that income wisely. You have agency over how you spend it and you should own how you spend it. Your decisions do, in fact, affect stock prices of big corporations.
kind of incredible to me that no one wants to be a john quincy adams
The American tradition of former presidents just melting away into the set dressing once their done is a hindrance right now
They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.
If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
Happy Birthday to ME,!!
I didn’t leave twitter to avoid being exposed to ideas I don’t like, I left it to avoid the people who have those ideas. They’re all stupid, disgusting hogs!
Citizens of foreign countries seem to have a much better grasp on how exactly to wield economic pressure via boycotts than we do here in the US and that sure is something.
Here is a nice mushroom
A single little brown mushroom grows from a crack in a mossy log, a first pioneer after the snow has melted. All photos by me
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I’m available for weddings,,, only at this chapel in the woods ⛪️🌲
!!! NEW: DOJ tells Judge Boasberg that he should CANCEL the 5 p.m. hearing "because there has been no violation of the Court's orders, and because the government is not prepared to disclose any further national security or operational security details." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Because there has been no violation of the Court's orders, and because the government is not prepared to disclose any further national security or operational security details to Plaintiffs or the public, the Court should vacate the hearing scheduled for this afternoon. The government does not make this request lightly. The Executive Branch has designated TdA a foreign terrorist organization, a designation that Plaintiffs do not challenge. The course of these proceedings in
which the Court has enjoined removal of aliens whom the Executive Branch has determined are part of a foreign terrorist organization raises extraordinary concerns about the rule of law and the Executive Branch's ability to take swift actions to keep the Nation safe.
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Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:
"I'm alive!" said Gatsby, roaring past on a speedboat. He'd faked his own death and gotten away with everything. That's why they called him the Great Gatsby. "Out of the way, current!" he yelled at the water. "This speedboat is bearing me ceaselessly into the future!"
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People dislike language policing so much, God was like, “do not take my name in vain or you will burn forever!” And we were like “well I wasn’t really planning on it, but since you didn’t want me to…”
film still #64 Tramell and bust of Jame.
Hey creative folks, a reminder NOT to feel weird or bad about promoting your new/upcoming work right now. Life is full of chaos; people are looking for new work to relax and restore and escape. And you have that work! Let them know it's there! IN FACT: Share your latest work in this thread! Do it!
Copies of Mary Robinette Kowal's The Martian Contingency, which is out March 18, and my When the Moon Hits Your Eye, which is out March 25.
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In honor of St Patrick’s Day here’s a newly-discovered copy of the 9 December 1817 Baptism record of my great great great grandmother Alice McCarthy in Waterford, Ireland 🇮🇪 🍀
Still shook. I went to lunch with my family today and accidentally left my phone in the car
Why Costco’s hot dogs are still $1.50 on today’s Prof G Markets: open.spotify.com/episode/2FMS...
In today’s episode, how is NOAA faring with large-scale layoffs? Plus, the impact of freezing billions of dollars for sustainable agriculture and conservation. Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284/epi...
“With resources being throttled, it's highly likely that much of the forecasting work, which has seen substantial improvement over the past few decades, will begin to regress.” —Umair Irfan
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just found a copy of Unc's manifesto... Oh UNC!! Come on Unc
Like I consumed this over the weekend, and I highly encourage everyone to read it. The coverage is treating the book as an expose of Meta culture and execs and while it is that, I think the more interesting parts are in between and focus on global power dynamics 1/
At 12:35 am ET, the president decreed that he was nullifying President Biden’s preemptive pardons of members of the January 6 committee, an assertion of a power the Constitution does not bestow.