Everyone is dunking on poor Noah Smith for getting lost and frustrated at Heathrow Airport and blaming him, which is victim-blaming and I am quite disappointed in all of you. Put the blame squarely where it belongs: on whoever failed to pin his name and destination to his sweater-vest.
A few observations about all the sports-betting cases: 1. Most of them bear hallmarks of long-term investigations, so they are probably not purely a Trump administration thing. Biden DoJ started them. Trump admin is definitely putting in lots of attention to finishing them.
Los Angeles: where we’re gong to have a big storm next week, but when I go up on the roof today to clean out the gutters and under the solar panels, i get a sunburn on my scalp because it’s bright and 85 in mid-November.
This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it. But most people won't believe that for several good reasons. /1 RE:
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Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to conti...
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Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich
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Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that. But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal. You can’t negotiate with people like that.
Is there an application process for the list? Like an online portal or something? Or is it shut down with the government? RE:
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The Intercept (@theintercept.com)
The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list. https://in...
The Republicans have been promising a specific plan as an alternative to Obamacare ever since it passed in 2010. The promise is 15 1/2 years old now. That's probably why they don't seem very sincerely interested in it. https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p&cid=bafkreic6ye73gj3icm3kdldki4rgdo5flkdoqs7tvzjxyxh5vzdmwl7ejm
So it’s a SECRET plan RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explain...