Iβm increasingly coming around to the idea that we should commit to extraditing non-military decision makers to the countries where these crimes are being committed to face local justice.
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Iβm increasingly coming around to the idea that we should commit to extraditing non-military decision makers to the countries where these crimes are being committed to face local justice.
It seems that I overestimated the legal/bureaucratic capacity to deal with the logistical (and economic!) realities of refunding the illegal tariffs at the *corporate* level.
Which, and I know Iβve used this word a lot but we really need to underscore it here, is BONKERS.
I don't know how to explain this but Casablanca is a movie for adults.
There are lots of movies built on an element of fantasy about being young or brave or defying the odds.
Casablanca is not that. Everyone in that movie has back pain and they have all just accepted it.
Cold take: Rick from Casablanca is a beautiful example of non-toxic masculinity, both in his unshowy yet inherent self-confidence, and the way he eventually gets out of his emotional turmoil over Ilsa and Does The Right Thing
LOL. Co-sign.
That really ups the stakes for the Tottenham/Nottingham Forest fixture in a couple of weeks, doesn't it?
Greaves of the Americas.
Yikes on bikes.
RIP Patroclus.
I wouldn't be happy about it. But I would eat it.
Also, that's like the 10yo's dream beverage.
Yeah, Professor HΓΆrst, you're going to want to take a minute to dig into the details of this one.
These things are making me want to watch this show.
My sincere hope is that Kristi Noem receives everything in life that she so richly deserves.
And, yeah, like what is happening on the ground matters. From that perspective it's clearly war.
But I think that clear (and meaningful) authority should be required for the US to engage in combat operations. So, like, the process does matter...
One of the problems with the War Powers Resolution is exactly the ambiguity generated by what has happened here.
What is this now? War hasn't been declared by Congress. But war hasn't not been endorsed by the Senate. So ... where are we?
Also: Is it possible that McDonald's bread is better in Europe?
That is a cursed sentence.
I'm willing to take that chance, Corey.
Would.
Also, it's also useful to remember thatβwhile you absolutely don't have to give it to the institutional Catholic Churchβthe Church has, for over two decades, attempted to implement a pretty comprehensive prevention strategyβsomething many child-serving organizations haven't bothered with.
As these state-level reports detailing decades-long patterns of abuse and coverup continue to trickle out, it underscores the importance of the prompt creation of diocese-level lay-led truth and reconciliation commissions to address the continuing effects of clergy sexual abuse.
USA vs. Latvia in playing wheelchair curling. A curler in a wheelchair is pushing a stone with a big stick. They're on ice so there's an assistant holding his wheelchair in place
2 Team USA athletes in wheelchairs holding hands, having a pep talk in front of a crowd. they've got big sticks sticking out of the front of their chairs which they use for pushing the stones
π£οΈTHE WINTER PARALYMPICS ARE UNDERWAY
We're starting off with doubles curling, Team USA in the very first event of the games
Do you guys remember when I encouraged you all to play the Beer Game?
Have you played it yet?
Marco Rubio/Chiang Kai-shek toxic yaoi
Twe're gonna unleash Chianglon these people in the next few hours and days," Rubio said. The phrase, which is often used as a euphemism to indicate that one is about to use overwhelming force, dates to the Cold War, when it was a rallying cry for those who urged the United States to arm Chiang Kai-shek to retake China from the Communists.
Whoa, this phrase.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
a photo of Chiang Kai Shek edited to look like Shrek
Chiang Kai-shrek isn't real he can't hurt you.
Chiang Kai-shrek:
I mean, weβre in a constitutional crisis anyway, so the New York Court of Appeals might as well just say, βThe Supreme Court doesnβt have jurisdiction to enter a stay on this redistricting case until we have ruled.β
Letβs party.
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...