Martin

i’m beaned up rn

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

Slate Auto changes CEO months ahead of affordable EV launch | TechCrunch Former Amazon Marketplace vice president Peter Faricy is the new person in charge of the company.

Bezos-backed Slate Auto replaced its CEO Christine Barman with a former Amazon Marketplace VP, who started today, meaning Barman's last day as CEO was... on International Women's Day

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When did the AJC start reviewing fiction ?

What if the federal government was a giant Cybertruck driven by insecure little boys screaming "I'm strong! I'm a big strong man! You can't tell me what to do because I'm big and strong!" while they careen into a ditch

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America Working and Homeless in America

With Amazon down, a good reminder to buy books from actual bookstores—not an oligarch-owned tech behemoth that exploits its workers.

the sting of realizing you're outside the key demographic

Maybe bedbugs too

Wishing them nothing but bankruptcy

Every child in this fucking country deserves to see themself in the books they read.

Jesse Jackson Loved Us—Sometimes Before We Loved Ourselves “Before they came for us, and woke, and us, and power, they came for Jesse Jackson,” Kiese Laymon, the author of Heavy and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, wrote just hours after …

“Jesse Jackson loved us—sometimes before we loved ourselves.” @thrasherxy.bsky.social on Jackson’s legacy of support for LGBTQ rights and HIV/AIDS prevention.

perfect first name for her role here

Exclusive: Volvo Cars to recall 40,000 electric SUVs over battery fire risk Volvo Cars will recall over 40,000 of its flagship electric EX30 SUVs because their battery packs risk overheating, it told Reuters on Monday, a move that could dent the automaker's hard-earned reputation for safety and cost it millions of dollars.

Exclusive: Volvo Cars to recall 40,000 electric SUVs over battery fire risk reut.rs/3OWWyZ2

What’s #4? top three are easy.

In this 2024 interview, Jack Hughes, who just scored the game-winning goal for the US Olympic hockey team, explains why it was important for him to embrace Pride Night when many other NHL players refused to do so.

It is more difficult when you’ve gutted core functions of the republic.

a person is decorating a chocolate cheesecake with a piece of chocolate on top ALT: a person is decorating a chocolate cheesecake with a piece of chocolate on top

The only mass tort my gays are interested in

and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!

‘Professor Uthmeier’: Inside Florida attorney general’s $100k teaching job at UF The university was eager to hire the newly minted attorney general, but didn’t announce his teaching job until the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times began asking questions.

Florida's attorney general, who spends his time targeting companies for stuff like “radical LGBTQ+ activism,” is getting paid $100K a year as a Univ of Fla adjunct to teach a 2 hour/week law class.

His salary is 8X higher than what the median adjunct earns.

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I can’t hear this without hearing Joanna Lumley

If possible he's more peevish, more irritable, more angry at having to show up for his job every day.

Janet Jackson released 'Control' 40 years ago today. 💿

Is this where we are?

How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive

i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Every message about protecting children was a lie.

Catherine O’Hara has died at the age of 71, TMZ reports.

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Live by the "Symbol of Protest..."

You did it better.

The Buckley court was right that threats to free speech and association, and the dangers of incumbency-protecting laws, mean that courts should closely scrutinize campaign money laws. But that should not doom all attempts to level the playing field or limit the risk of corruption from nine-figure campaign contributions, mostly to ostensibly independent groups. If Congress passed a law with generous contribution and spending limits, and strong disclosure rules, we could have ample breathing room for vigorous and competitive campaigns without the danger of the wealthy swamping our democracy. Because Buckley was a constitutional decision, there are only two paths to overturn it. One is to get a court majority to rethink the case’s fundamental mistakes. With the current makeup of the court, that seems unlikely. An even harder road is to amend the Constitution to allow for a better balance between the rights of free speech and the risks of corruption and oligarchy. We should not give up the struggle over our money-in-politics rules. But we must recognize that there will be fierce resistance from the moneyed interests who benefit from a system giving them outsize influence over who is elected and what politicians do once they are in office. A real democracy deserves better than Buckley.

My New One at @slate.com on the 50th Anniversary of the Buckley v. Valeo Decision: “One Supreme Court Case Is Most Responsible for Our Oligarchy. It’s Not the One You Think.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Already have my desktop alerts set for a certain model/price/mileage.