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Perhaps they know their audience’s reading comprehension scores better than we do.

A thing worth talking about re:the Detroit synagogue attack in which security shot the attacker is that private security for synagogues is often off duty police officers moonlighting.

Which presents a whole secondary level of danger to Jews and is often something congregations wrestle deeply with

I’ve been a fan since he started as my Congressman. Solid ethics. Hard worker. No noteworthy complaints whatsoever.

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.

Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.

The 25th is never happening.

It was my understanding that there'd be no math.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

Rated? Did he mean “ratioed”? 😂

This is fantastic!

Barometric Head (TM) says things are still unsettled out there. (Crazy to get tornado weather in March.)

IN A TAN SUIT?!

Important piece in Nature that clearly lays out how the Vought onslaught isn’t about “cuts” to the federal science budgets. It’s far more insidious than that.

Read the comments, too. (And yes, I’m sure these posters ran the numbers — they’re scientists.)

This is the guy who likes to downplay non-fatal injuries suffered by US service members in combat.

Alabama was set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday. Governor Kay Ivey stopped it. Sonny Burton did not kill anyone, but Alabama put him on death row. Update: Ivey granted Burton clemency on March 10, commuting his death sentence to a life sentence.

In any event, Alabama is not going to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday, and that is a very good thing.

I used to write those messages. AND I also used to remind leadership at every chance I got that you cannot message your way out of bad policy decisions.

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’

‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’

‘Hello’ is not related to either.

Goodbye.

My non-male kids and I have had these same conversations when their summer camps chose these plays. This makes you an excellent prof, not a destructive force. There’s a reason that it makes a lot of kids uncomfortable! There’s lots of bullying.

This is exactly what I tell friends coming to DC. LA and DC have the absolute best Ethiopian/Eritrean.

(Now I’m hungry.)

Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

The problem is they’re are basically all precedented now.

A line drawing of a water spritzer— the type one would use to correct unwanted behavior by a cat threatening to scratch your favorite couch, for example — held by a hand, squirts several streams of water toward the left. Underneath the spray, red letters say emphatically “No.”

Or you could, you know, be truly subversive and serve. They would let you prop your foot up. People with disabilities do jury duty — we know how important it is to have decent humans making these calls.

Indeed! But if we can’t get that yet, at least I can shut up Fox TV in public spaces.

The Washington Monument waits stoically in the background for the Trump II administration to recede into history and rebuilding our democratic institutions will begin. The monument’s westernmost facade glows hopefully before a clear blue sky in the golden hour just before sunset. In the front, bare tree branches with tiny, nondescript flowers are budding out, and leaf buds will be next. Soon, the monument will be much harder to see from Constitution Avenue, when the mature trees are fully leafed out. But for now, DC residents suffer from their annual dump of microscopically small pollen.

The Pollening has begun in the nation’s Capital.

Just look at all those evil little male bits blanketing the air with noxious spawn.

This conversation explains why my Silent Gen parents hardly ever went to the movies. (I always thought it was the cost, but they did indulge in other small luxuries.) TV shows of the day were so much “safer” for mom’s delicate ears and eyes. Thank you!

I don’t vote in Maine but if the worst case scenarios are (1) another Diane Feinstein and (2) another Fetterman, I’m voting for Feinstein II every time.

@scottstantis.bsky.social

Spotted in Nashville this week…

Here’s what we need: a TV-B-GONE for other peoples’ phones.

Oven clock, we meet again.

Difficult people in your life might make you age faster, study suggests New research suggests that difficult people, a.k.a. “hasslers,” contribute to chronic stress and elevate epigenetic biomarkers associated with aging.

I appreciate having data that back up my decision to distance myself from magatty relatives and other pushy people.

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