“Don’t worry, the Trump DoJ drafted the legal parts.”
Very Strong Popehat Of Understanding
Tapper: "Is it fair to say that it's not spelled out that they have to end their ballistic missile program or end their funding of the Houthis and Hamas and Hezbollah?"
Vance: "The MOU is about a page and a half. It is a very general document."
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The Bulwark
"Woke capital" was always performative, but the thing is: performative virtue was still better than the current vice.
www.huffpost.com/entry/bud-li...
Bigoted school boards are citing HR 2616 as the reason they're taking anti-trans policy actions now. This is from Colorado, which you may recall has an anti-book ban bill. They've banned a book because it centered a trans narrative: gazette.com/2026/06/12/d...
Just to be clear, this affects all LGBTQ+ veterans.
www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
Academy District 20 will require parental consent for name changes, a move that advocates say will harm the district’s transgender students. The action, unanimously approved Thursday by the D-20 schoo...
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Internal VA guidance obtained by The Advocate raises questions about the future of specialized assistance for those who served.
I was particularly struck by Henry VIII's careful drawings of birds and manicules in this book. he was clearly a prince with time on his hands... 🗃️
#BookHistory
Tremendously disappointed that this wasn't the fight card
Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan
Goodnight, friends.
A reminder both for #Pride and for living under fascism -
"There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die."
(from W.H. Auden's poem, "September 1, 1939")
I love you.
Goodnight, friends.
A reminder both for #Pride and for living under fascism -
"There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die."
(from W.H. Auden's poem, "September 1, 1939")
I love you.
Tim Wade
I've identified some new marginalia by Henry VIII on the psalms at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
You can read all about it in the latest issue of the Library: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
#BookHistory #EarlyModern #skystorians
Keith Knight: Gentleman Cartoonist
This note concerns a copy of Erasmus’ Enarratio in Psalmum XXXIII at the British Library. While this book has long been associated with the library of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, an analysis of the handwritten marginalia in this volume ...
"DOJ lawyers scrutinizing the merger were leaning toward recommending a lawsuit to block the deal, but had not made their final recommendation, were told that it had been approved on Friday."
Exclusive: Justice Department leadership closed an investigation into Paramount’s bid for Warner before career staffers had a chance to object. on.wsj.com/4xrnAtz
Department staffers investigating the Warner acquisition were leaning toward recommending a challenge to the merger, people familiar with the matter say.