Friday, May 05, 2023
Clyburn Is 82
It's one thing to keep working, it's another thing to absolutely refuse to let go, letting the world burn to ensure your congressional staff elder care continues.
Facing the possibility of an unsafe district, South Carolina’s most powerful Democrat sent his aide to consult with the GOP on a redistricting plan that diluted Black voting strength and harmed his party’s chances of gaining seats in Congress."We" have to live in this world a lot longer than he will. At some point you gotta pass the baton.
Nobody's Stopping You
Matt Walsh complaining that he "can't" unleash the N-word isn't any different than the other 8 million "cancel culture" complaints. It's *always* about people who think racism is good and true and should not be criticized.
Looking Into It
A thing to watch is where the various centrist dipshists fall on the "is it okay to kill black people on the subway if they annoy you" question.
Sausage Factory
Will we ever find out why media outlets withheld the name of the killer of Jordan Neely, Daniel Penny? Seems like a pretty big scoop that one of them would've run with (and one accidentally did in the UK before pulling it).
so it looks like the Daily Mail accidentally leaked the last name of Jordan Neely’s killer, Daniel Penny, on a photo caption hours before he was actually identified. so now it’s confirmed that news orgs had his name for some time but did not release it to protect him pic.twitter.com/f91be8YnUw
— Viathan 🔆 (@VermilViathan) May 5, 2023
John Roberts, SIR, Please Investigate!!!!!!! THE REPUTATION OF THE COURT IS AT STAKE!!!
Amazing stuff.
Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work just over a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.A shortage of Dem politicians doing the easiest thing they can do, which is call for his resignation.
The arrangement reveals that Leo, a longtime Federalist Society leader and friend of the Thomases, has functioned not only as an ideological ally of Clarence Thomas’s but also has worked to provide financial remuneration to his family. And it shows Leo arranging for the money to be drawn from a nonprofit that soon would have an interest before the court.
Thursday, May 04, 2023
"Defense Against Disorder"
Is that a Harry Potter spell?
"People getting murdered on subway cars" is, in this formulation, not the disorder.
"People getting murdered on subway cars" is, in this formulation, not the disorder.
Somebody Else Should Do Something
“I hope that Chief Justice Roberts reads this story this morning and understands something has to be done,” Dick Durbin told us of ProPublica story. “The reputation of the Supreme Court is at stake here. ..His reputation as a leader of this court is really an issue as well.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 4, 2023
Is Clarence Thomas Not Allowed To Have Friends?
More ridiculous nonsense.
Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month: the company of billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow.
The payments extended beyond that month, according to Christopher Grimwood, a former administrator at the school. Crow paid Martin’s tuition the entire time he was a student there, which was about a year, Grimwood told ProPublica.
Lock'em Up
Some seditious conspiracy guilty verdicts, including for Tarrio.
Former Proud Boys chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and three other members of the extremist group were found guilty Thursday of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Monsters At The Top
Relevant to now, this "classic" Mikey Barbaro tweet.
Important objective journalism, NOT advocacy.
Twitter has long been a good window into their souls, and it often isn't a very pretty sight!
Twitter has long been a good window into their souls, and it often isn't a very pretty sight!
There Is A Natural Order To Things
It isn't a mystery, to me, why the Free Speech Brigade isn't too concerned with the ongoing destruction of the state university systems in Florida, Texas, North Carolina, and elsewhere. For a certain set of Ivy and Ivy-adjacent educated people, state universities, except honorable mention Berkeley, aren't actually serious educational/research institutions, and more than that, they're a waste of money as the pig people who attend them shouldn't be getting any fancy learning anyway as they're just destined for the mines.
It isn't so much that they think destroying them is good, necessarily, they just don't think it really matters. Higher education is for the top 20,000 students or so, as measured with calipers, every year, and they don't think any actual research happens at these places.
It isn't so much that they think destroying them is good, necessarily, they just don't think it really matters. Higher education is for the top 20,000 students or so, as measured with calipers, every year, and they don't think any actual research happens at these places.
Recognize most people opining on this stuff only have undergraduate degrees, have no experience outside the institution they attended, and really have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
Coming to grips with the breadth and depth of elitism has been a long process for me. However bad I imagine it is, it's always worse.
Coming to grips with the breadth and depth of elitism has been a long process for me. However bad I imagine it is, it's always worse.
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