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"Obviously, without a doubt, you are correct. BUT, have you considered our premium plan?"
Text With Jesus offers users an interactive experience with a religious deity. In other words, users can text questions to Jesus and get a response. (Premium users can also converse with Satan.)
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Thomas has used that language regularly, most specifically he used it in his Dobbs concurrence. "At least three dangers" mashed him sound like a troll at a crossroads which, well,...
From the Thomas concurrence in Dobbs: Moreover, apart from being a demonstrably incorrect reading of the Due Process Clause, the “legal fiction” of substantive due process is “particularly dangerous.” McDonald, 561 U. S., at 811 (opinion of THOMAS, J.); accord, Ober- gefell, 576 U. S., at 722 (THOMAS, J., dissenting). At least three dangers favor jettisoning the doctrine entirely.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Sure Jan meme with text Sure Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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It's never too late to try a new style
From the article: The look that jolted tens of millions is not a costume whipped up for a museum trip. Pedro began dressing this way less than a year ago, inspired by 20th-century history and black-and-white images of suited statesmen and fictional detectives. “I like to be chic,” he said. “I go to school like this.”
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Let's not jump the gun. It's a tourist attraction right now, but it's early days
Result of Google search declaring that "Cop Slide" is a five star tourist attraction in Boston, Massachusetts
November 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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For those who understandably don't want to click through, this is the one. It is difficult to capture how stylishly inert it is.

I guess it's good they think women can work construction. Fascinating how that hat sits on her head.
Poster of three people, a white woman facing leftward with a hardhat on, a black man facing rightward with a hardhat on, and a white man behind them. Two cranes are in the background. Skilled workforce, strong America!
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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A rare double Betteridge in the wild!
NYT hed and dek: Did liberal feminism ruin the workplace? And if so, can conservative feminism fix it?
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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We're all trying to find the guy who did this meme
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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That's Mr.Textualism to you!

www.fivefourpod.com/episodes/Boy...
Text from the transcript of a 5-4 podcast episode on Boyle v UTC. Peter: So Mr. Textualism over here is just like throwing his own addendum into federal law taking the immunity that applies to the federal government and just gifting it to contractors.
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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By opponents do you mean NYT columnist Jeremy W. Peters, or NYT podcaster Michael Barbaro, or both?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Hed and dek from NYT article: Has Gracie Mansion Ever Had a Democratic Socialist? Zohran Mamdani’s opponents have portrayed his Democratic Socialists of America affiliation as unusual, but he is not the first New York politician — or would-be mayor — with ties to the group.
November 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Um, is it possible to request a canvasser?

www.teenvogue.com/story/zohran...
Mamdani’s mother, for instance, has been canvassing for him — and “at one point, she had a regular 25- [or] 26-year-old canvassing buddy that she would complain walked too fast,” he said with a laugh. “Even today, you know, she called me, like, ‘Which poll is right? Which one should we be looking at? Should we be nervous? How should we feel?’” Mamdani ended the conversation as he “always [does], no matter who [he’s] speaking to”: by emphasizing the importance of canvassing itself.
November 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Thing is, People has been pretty good on Trump, because they kind of just report what he does. People magazine is meeting the People magazine bar, it is the newspapers that are failing theirs.

This is the description of Trump on his archive page. It reads like shade!
people.com/tag/donald-t...
Description of Donald Trump given at the top of the People magazine archive of articles about him: Donald Trump is an American politician, real estate mogul, former television personality and convicted felon who has been serving as the 47th president of the United States since 2025. He previously served as the 45th U.S. president from 2017 to 2021. Trump is the only president to have been impeached twice and the first to face criminal charges. Prior to entering politics, he was best known for leading the Trump Organization and hosting the reality TV series The Apprentice.
November 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This chart is going around again, comes from The Economist

archive.is/2024.11.24-2...
Chart showing the difference presidential election vote share by income level and education level. The trend is that Democratic voters were more low education, low income in 96 and were high education, high income in 2024, and the Republican trend is the opposite. The trend is particularly pronounced from 2012 to 2024 - nearly a straight line.
October 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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In two of our five games, Red overwhelmed Blue with an “everything, everywhere” battle plan on many fronts at once. One Red administration featured the firing of inspectors general, senior federal workers, special counsel Jack Smith and several generals. The IRS formed a task force to revoke the tax-exempt status of universities and think tanks that “spread misinformation” about the 2020 election. The Education Department mandated that states withhold federal funding from schools that taught “critical race theory.” The Labor Department prepared rules to ban diversity, equity and inclusion policies in public companies. The FBI and Justice Department opened criminal investigations of Joe Biden, his family and members of the former House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. All “Jan. 6 patriots” secured pardons. The Justice Department held that the Impoundment Control Act was unconstitutional, and the president refused to spend appropriated funds for programs he disliked. In that game, Blue and its allies struggled to respond. Career prosecutors who pushed back against spurious criminal charges, for example, were fired or chose to resign. The Red attorney general found willing replacements.
October 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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I recall the interviews Gellman gave around this time, too. Those games sound prescient

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
In another game, which focused on Red’s mass expulsion of migrants, including American-born children of undocumented parents, Blue expended the bulk of its energy on lawsuits that moved too slowly to match the pace of events on the ground. Red’s deportation efforts did lead to interesting power struggles across federal, state and local jurisdictions. Our players, despite real-world experience in their roles, encountered novel questions that they had not considered before: What if U.S. marshals started rounding up people who could not prove their legal status on the spot? Could Blue city police officers make them stop? What if an Immigration and Customs Enforcement task force showed up at a Blue state sanctuary for undocumented immigrants? What if a Red governor, allied with the president, tried to deploy his National Guard across the neighboring Blue state line? Our players had no immediate answers. Their counterparts in real life will have legal advisers to turn to, but they would be well advised to probe the limits of their authority in advance.
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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I appreciate Gessen's formulation of this point.
For much of the last 80 years, the United States has reserved for itself the role of the world’s conscience, meting out punishment with little consultation and even less accountability. Still, the Trump administration’s stance is different. This administration does not claim to have a conscience, and seeks to punish any country or person that aspires to have one.
October 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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New York Daily Tribune on Dred Scott, December 1856
The members of the Court are not impartial in such a case. They cannot be. They are learned, wise and good men, but they are only men. To expect them to sit, bear and resolve, unswayed by the passions of those who placed them where they are, by the interests of that institution which now controls every other department of the Government, would be to suppose them more than men.
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I appreciate this deadpan description of one sheriff's "grifted-to-griftee" arc. Well done, Samantha J. Gross and Matt Stout.
The Globe reported last week that McDermott tapped his taxpayer-funded office for thousands of dollars in online tutorials, including on how to grow a business, launch a podcast, and craft his own digital courses. He has not created a course or podcast within his office, but began advertising an outside venture promising a “game-changing membership” that — for a $670 annual fee — offered advice to subscribers to help them take their “real estate business to the next level.”
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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That's like the least interesting thing about this story though. Click through to learn about the chicken restaurant! The threatened lynching (yes, that's the word the article uses)!

And yet I feel nothing probably sums up this man's worldview more than this tidbit.
Ugaz said Quispe made the mistake of sending some videos and photos he intended for mistresses to his cleaning lady, who promptly complained to the Catholic Church. Mancado said the cleaning lady had seen women’s hair in the bishop’s shower. He reported her saying: “His sheets had stains. I had to clean all of that up.”
October 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tre...
The move infuriated Congress. Clark was already roundly disliked because of the scandals he had brought the federal government. Two years earlier, in 1864, the House of Representatives investigated his department after Representative James H. Brooks claimed the Treasury had become a “house for orgies and bacchanals.” Clark was accused of “hiring women based on their looks rather than their ability”; female employees described how he “plied [them] with oysters and ale and made ‘improper’ overtures to them.” In fact, one woman told Congress that he had “offered her first $100, then 10 times that amount, for a tryst with her.” (An investigating body, however, concluded that these claims had no basis and that Clark was the victim of a “conspiracy.”) By the time he printed his own face on U.S. money, Congress had little patience remaining.
October 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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That's okay, he rejected it too

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Endles...
Excerpt from Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century, by G. Pascal Zachary Bush showed his own “spark of belligerency.” He was quick to take exception to things. Even his own first name, with its Dutch pronunciation (Vuh-NEE-ver), irritated him. “The strange name” was “a nuisance,” always requiring an explanation or a quick lesson in pronunciation. Bush wished his father had named him John, after the first name of his friend, and his sisters indeed called him John at times.
September 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM