It's incredible intellectual gymnastics to accuse the anti-gun Left of causing gun violence.

The self-delusion is staggering.

The Searchers, “the world’s longest-running pop group,” have performed for the last time.

Paul McCartney was on hand to pay his respects.

www.stereogum.com/2313425/the-...

6/I managed to catch, just before I hit send that I had accidentally included a picture of my very good dog, Bella, in the post above & deleted it. But it seems wrong to deny you her smiling face this morning.

5/ Thank you for coming to my Ted talk, since the conservative majority on the Supreme Court does not seem to be paying attention. Sometimes the descent, tell us more about a case than the majority opinion. This is one of those times.

4/ It’s easy to say, well, no lawyers were using nationwide injunctions at the time of the founding. Of course, the country looked radically different then. The idea that we rely on “history” to support a certain faction’s views, while ignoring the FF’s most important goal is not what they intended.

3/ Federalist 10, with its discussion of factions, is a great place to start. The Founding Fathers wanted to make sure no small group could take over the reins of power and impose its will on other Americans. avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

2/ I think about this a lot, b/c I’m finishing up a book on democracy (I’d love it if you’d preorder it). If you read the Federalist Papers, which all of the conservative justices-good members of the Federalist Society have, you know the FF spilled a lot of ink debating how best to avoid tyranny.

1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.

Happy 83rd birthday to Paul McCartney. Few people on the planet have given so much pleasure to so many people.

Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VA) just now on CNN:

"We have a President moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism. He's suing media who criticize him. He's going after law firms that have clients who were against him. He's suing universities who teach courses he doesn't like"

Moran deleted the tweet but Leavitt brought it back to life like a necromancer raising the ghosts of Twitter beefs past.

He shouldn’t have taken the post down. He’s a reporter. And he was reporting facts.

Have you heard The Word is love? Before All You Need Is Love, there was The Word. Tucked within Rubber Soul, this largely ignored track marks a turning point for The Beatles – a moment when love became more than just romance…

Before All You Need Is Love, there was The Word. Tucked within Rubber Soul, this track marks a turning point for The Beatles - a moment when love became more than just romance.

I've written an article on why it deserves more recognition in The Beatles’ catalogue.
iamtheeggpod.com/2025/03/13/h...

‘I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that’ - Paul at The Queen Golden Jubilee Concert 2002 #paulmccartney #thebeatles #beatlequotes
#beatles

…… they mimed to the soundtrack of their single. The sound was familiar but … it took it to another level and injected the pentecostal joy back into rock’n’roll.”

– Andrew Loog Oldham

#thebeatles

“The Beatles were what raised me. My love for music, I feel 95 per cent owes to the Beatles and Paul. It's insane to think about.”
Billie Eilish NME Magazine

Elon Musk giddily seig-heiling at the inauguration.

Elon is mad that he’s being called a Nazi because, he says, he’s never done violence to anyone.

Thoughts?

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Law firms who do not have the courage to advocate for themselves, cannot be trusted to advocate for others.

Tesla mega investor Ross Gerber:

“He is not running Tesla, and, you know, that’s why I’m gonna say it: I think Tesla needs a new CEO.”

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This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

On Fred Roger’s birthday, his Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award acceptance speech.

Born today in 1928.

#RIP 🙏🏼

Psychotic.

If the president can't constitutionally sign something with an autopen because autopens didn't exist in the eighteenth century, then of course he can't constitutionally sign a bill with a Sharpie, either.

Welcome to autocracy. The Republic we have known for the last 240 years is gone. This is going to keep getting worse. Much worse. The courts mean nothing, the law means nothing, Congress is irrelevant. He is a malignant psychopath.

The Tantrum Tyrant Wants to Threaten Me?! Cool Bro, Bring It Trump whines, complains, and threatens—again. Bring it on tiny man

Trump’s latest threat against me is as real as his 'perfect' phone calls and 'biggest crowds ever.' More whining, more victimhood, zero follow-through. Either do it or keep crying, fatso.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-tantru...

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

Hi, I'm God.

I categorically reject Donold's request for Me to 'bless America.' I will not be doing that until he is long gone.

Fuck you, Donold.