Nike says it wants factory workers who make its sneakers and apparel to earn a wage they can live on.
In Indonesia, it's moving into places where workers don't.
www.propublica.org/article/nike...
NEWS: Kristi Noem misled Congress yesterday.
She said that Corey Lewandowski isn't playing a role in DHS contracts.
That's not true.
(N.B. She's testifying today in front of the House. Someone might ask her about this.)
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
"A photographer captured Banks, leaning against a tree, as an effigy of a Black student hanged above the school’s entrance." www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
Oh, nice—I've only read Truman, but I've considered his biography of John Adams a few times too. What others of his would you recommend?
From Chapter 16 (pp. 785–786 in first edition) of Truman by David McCullough: The demarcation line of the 38th parallel had no basis in Korean history, geography, or anything else. It had been settled on hastily in the last week of World War II, as a temporary measure to facilitate the surrender of Japanese troops—those north of the line had surrendered to the Soviets, those south, to American forces. The decision had been made late one night at the Pentagon by then Colonel Dean Rusk and another young Army officer named Charles Bonesteel, who picked the line of latitude 38 degrees north because it had the advantage of already being on most maps of Korea.
Do you know how the Korean peninsula was divided into North and South?
I'm a little embarrassed to admit that though I'm of Korean descent, I learned it from David McCullough's biography of Truman (recommended, and on my mind because of my recent thread on Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer).
As ever, the Wikipedia article was a great resource for getting a bit of background on the case, but I think it's especially rad that @free.law allows me to link to extracted text on a specific page!
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON, concurring in the judgment and opinion of the Court. That comprehensive and undefined presidential powers hold both practical advantages and grave dangers for the country will impress anyone who has served as legal adviser to a President in time of transition and public anxiety. While an interval of detached reflection may temper teachings of that experience, they probably are a more realistic influence on my views than the conventional materials of judicial decision which seem unduly to accentuate doctrine and legal fiction. But as we approach the question of presidential power, we half overcome mental hazards by recognizing them. The opinions of judges, no less than executives and publicists, often suffer the infirmity of confusing the issue of a power’s validity with the cause it is invoked to promote, of confounding the permanent executive office with its temporary occupant. The tendency is strong to emphasize transient results upon policies—such as wages or stabilization—and lose sight of enduring consequences upon the balanced power structure of our Republic.
Another banger (p. 634): “The opinions of judges, no less than executives and publicists, often suffer the infirmity of confusing the issue of a power’s validity with the cause it is invoked to promote, of confounding the permanent executive office with its temporary occupant.”
I just read this and found it surprisingly gripping. He says no doctrine would seem “more sinister and alarming than that a President [...] can vastly enlarge his mastery over the internal affairs of the country by his own commitment of the Nation’s armed forces to some foreign venture.” (p. 642)
We're now stuck at just over $13,000 — which feels very unlucky!
Please get us past $14K soon so we can all bask in good fortune <3
WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
They want to cut suicide prevention among veterans even as they drag us into another war.
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
As transgender Kansans grapple with a challenging new reality today, and the rest of the nation watches what’s happening in the Sunflower State, here’s a thread of @kansasreflector.com stories and opinion pieces about SB 244. (1/15) #ksleg #trans #lgbtq
Anytime a particular critter enters the zeitgeist, you should look for a story by @sabs.bsky.social. They’re diligent and funny, and incisive about describing animal behavior—human and nonhuman alike.
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
Tim Robinson singing “And the worms are their money” from the I Think You Should Leave sketch “The Day Robert Palins Murdered Me
Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth
This [on the Tennessee Valley Authority] was riveting, and illustrates how detrimental it is for the energy demands of AI to arise during an administration uniquely hostile to renewables.
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Ah, but "less" uses two fewer letters, so it's more efficient, right?! Gotta make those tax dollars count.
I kept trying to link directly the PDF that the story does, to no avail, but you can read it here. You can also navigate to where other documents are freely available to read, and even sign up for updates. Bless @free.law!
On p. 37 of the complaint:
“To flag grants for their DEI involvement, Fox entered the following command into ChatGPT: “Does the following relate at all to DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes.’ or ‘No.’ followed by a brief explanation.”
You just read 299 characters.
just another case of BREAM:
baudrillard rules everything around me
The man who taught Martin Luther King Jr. nonviolent resistance is likely an activist you've never heard of.
For Black History Month, @alletson.bsky.social revisits the story of Bayard Rustin, one of the most influential civil rights leaders left out of our history books.
Veterans accuse him of stolen valor. His international arms company is deep in debt. He had a restraining order placed on him last year. And he's widely disliked.
Read my profile of Florida Republican Congressman Cory Mills here:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
The Trump admin has made a lot of claims about how it will change the criminal legal system. And Presidents' Day is a great time to ask: What exactly can the federal government do?
This guide outlines how much power the president has over prisons, policing, and prosecution 🧵
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
