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This is not quite “no, no, a thousand times no,” but should have sufficed to dissuade the principal dissent from invoking the case, see post, at 55–56, with respect to the quite distinct legal and factual issues present here.

Roberts was punchy.

"This is not quite 'no, no, a thousand times no,' but should have sufficed to dissuade the principal dissent from invoking the case ...."

(He's talking about Kavanaugh.)

Don't Be a Sucker YouTube video by US National Archives

In 1947 the US War Department released “Don’t Be a Sucker,” now archived by the National Archives. It shows how fascism grows through fear lies and scapegoating. This should not be history. It is a reminder our government once wanted remembered.

Would you call us
savages, our music
no charm to #soothe,
but a cry to rally?

Name us animals, for
lashing out when struck
for moving as one
to guard our weakest?

Know us, then, not as
bodies, but a force
inevitable as nature:
beware or be swept aside.

#vss365

Locking down your phone, being mindful of what you're wearing, and coming up with plans to communicate with others are all key steps to take before attending a protest. ssd.eff.org/module/atte...

Too peaceful for
serenity here beyond
the domestic #thrum
of home appliances.

I ran to the forest, yes; with
a lake besides, like a
movie, but without a kind
foley to whistle the wind.

I lie awake, ears empty
of the song of a distant
siren, fearing I got away—
too far away.

#vss365

Morning again:
our petitioner returns
to press her fraud
upon this Court.

Is it the half-light
or the early hour
that serves to
#obfuscate the facts?

Pleading, she waits
by the full bowl
that she swears
is empty.

Argument exhausted,
verdict certain,
she shall be
unjustly enriched.

#vss365

None mistake
her heat for kindness
her vastness for bounty
her stillness for peace.

But she has arrows
to her #quiver:

Sunsets to please the eye
breezes to caress the skin
songs to delight the ear
stars to lose yourself among.

And one day she shall draw
the barb to stop your heart.

#vss365

Was the sun always
so pale and distant?
Did the wind always
howl so around us?

Recycled souls in
worn-out old boxes
we beg scraps to
hide the tears.

Together we huddle
round the ruined hearth;
together we #wane
where we failed to grow.

#vss365

The moon rises,
one fanged #cusp
then the other
grinning upon the peaks.

But I've seen the
yawning void behind
her smile, seen stars
occulted by her disc.

And as she waxes,
I, candle guttering,
remember hers is but
a borrowed light.

#vss365

Weighty things,
liberty and justice,
moral heft undeniable,
an anchor.

But my shoulders sag,
my head aches for
the #ruse of normalcy that
once pillowed it.

But an insistent tug at
my hand keeps me woke;
and I in turn haul another
to their feet.

The chain, the wall
holds
for tonight.

#vss365

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand how much Trump’s tariffs are raising costs and making life harder.

Look at this number. That’s how much Arizona families’ costs went up in 2025 because of this President.

40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.

Looking back on a 40-year old catastrophe that never should have happened.

www.npr.org/2026/01/25/g...

Photograph of a cat with Siamese markings lying sprawled on his back on a carpeted floor, limbs splayed out, seemingly oblivious to the world around him.

This #Caturday, the Office Supervisor told us to hold his calls because he had a hell of a night.

I know now why our
arboreal forebears
descended to the grassy
expanse of the savannah--

Why dwell where the
merest #slip could become
a tumble could become
a fall to death?

Leave the skies
to the birds, I say;
let us master
the land.

Anyway, tell the HOA
the Christmas lights
are down.

#vss365

Static pops the #drizzle;
Leaden stratus roofs
our vigil; we dare not
hazard a whisper, lest
the calm be false, the prelude
to a blizzard.

#vss365

I wasn’t called to depart like
the ferry, to #unmoor in lazy
motions, casting off lines like
a shaggy seal
shaking off sleep.

Still, I covet the strand like
a barnacle as the tide swells,
storm prying line from cleat until
I spin anchorless into the waves.

Yet, both us float.

#vss365

We hoped to #bend
under pressure;
brilliant like light,
colors emerging,
defiant,
bold.

But dismayed we
splintered,
pale we
scattered.

Not weak, merely brittle.

#vss365

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

It has no right to be so
hungry, this #loom,
gulping dreams
fantastic and banal to
flatten them in taps
upon the platen.

I callus where it took
my fingertips; at each bell
it returns.

Someday among
these inky tapestries, it shall
draw from me the last word,
and all shall fall silent.

#vss365

Perhaps it sought glory, this
star, to #veer from her path,
shake loose from the firmament,
trade serene eternity for a searing
moment.

From darkness, I watch her
sparkle, gutter, fade--
and, if only a little, I loose
my grip on Heaven.

#vss365

This one's for the
#murmur of conversation
next booth over,

For the clatter of plates
in the kitchen, a
whiff of sizzling bacon,

Ring of an
empty glass; thud of
one to follow.

Though phone and
radio, screen and
print throb despair,

Here, now—
we sip at peace
and sup on joy.

#vss365

Sun peers mildly
through high skirling puffs
of cloud to #dapple
us bare-sleeved below,

Sliding between chilling
slats to pool beneath,
like snow used to
this deep in winter.

Somewhere in shadow, the
groundhog shifts in his
furs, no blanket to slip
like the coming of spring.

#vss365

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

I’d thought you arcing lightning
or the lights of a speeding car
so brief but bright
enough to light my way.

But I felt your shape
#sear the space behind my eyes,
that even alone
—especially alone—
the margins and
unclaimed spaces
echo your form,
mutter your name.

#vss365

Almost forgotten,
warm days of
simple joys,
bright dreams, balmy
seas of Opportunity.

Now we huddle close
by necessity, boilers
sullen, swollen embers of
#heartfelt praise and
petty trophies seething,

Trawling the
Could-haves,
Would-haves
from vasty deeps
of Never-was.

#vss365

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and "WIKIPEDIA.ORG" at the bottom. Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the Cartoon Network website from JUN 8, 2003.

Wikipedia turns 25 today! 🎂📚

To celebrate, we’re looking back at its baby pictures—some of the earliest captures of the site, preserved in the #WaybackMachine.

Take a nostalgic peek at early Wikipedia ⤵️

web.archive.org/web/20030301...

#WikipediaDay #Wikipedia25 @wikipedia.org

Companies see boost from Trump admin after adding Don Jr. to their board - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Don Jr. and Eric Trump have joined a total of ten companies’ boards since the 2024 election.

NEW: Three companies—Unusual Machines, Credova and BlinkRx—added Donald Trump Jr. to their board after the 2024 election. Since then, they've gotten a boost from the Trump administration or stand to benefit from a new program.