I had to read this several times to make sure I understood correctly: A bill in Missouri would make it so that if a judge releases a person charged with a crime on bail, and that person commits a felony, the *judge* would be charged with a felony for their decision to release that person
The chapter about the DK/FD reps whose job is to become texting buddies with "VIPs" (high-volume losing bettors) and take them out to games and stuff so that they keep betting and losing, all while carefully avoiding any discussions with the VIP about gambling addiction, made me want to [redacted]
Cosign all of Jonny's writing here, I occasionally cover the sports betting industry and consider myself reasonably well-informed about how it works, and there were several entire chapters in this book where I was just, like, holy shit, I had no idea, man
I’m at the trademark office now. You absolute fool. You have squandered millions
![In 2000, Kenny Chesney and McGraw became involved in a scuffle with police officers in Buffalo, New York, after Chesney was riding a State Police horse and refused to get off the horse. McGraw came to Chesney's aid after police officers nearby believed the horse was being stolen. 102) The two were arrested and charged, Chesney for disorderly conduct and McGraw for assault, but were acquitted in 2001.(103]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreiab7bxowtvcxuuax7e2xhyofpqzh56lxxysccoyzowalia5fijxqq)
In 2000, Kenny Chesney and McGraw became involved in a scuffle with police officers in Buffalo, New York, after Chesney was riding a State Police horse and refused to get off the horse. McGraw came to Chesney's aid after police officers nearby believed the horse was being stolen. 102) The two were arrested and charged, Chesney for disorderly conduct and McGraw for assault, but were acquitted in 2001.(103]
Reading the Wikipedia entry for Tim McGraw again
This love letter to legislative history and intent in statutory interpretation from @ballsandstrikes.org is great. Here are some excerpts, but read the whole thing.
My yard with a dozen visible molehills now
Arrived back home from vacation to discover that a weeklong absence of my dog and her scents from the back yard may have had some unintended consequences
Americans’ infatuation with specialized coffees is all the more jarring when one visits Italy, where the simple espresso is still king. Starbucks wisely didn’t venture to open an Italian outpost until 2018, in Milan, and hasn’t managed to put a dent in the country’s approximately 150,000 “bars.” Those are the seemingly ubiquitous small coffee shops commonly offering just a simple menu of espressos or cappuccinos (the latter only before noon). Even the fancy variations aren’t particularly fancy — maybe add some sambuca to make a caffè corretto or a dollop of steamed milk for a macchiato. The priority in Italy is having a quick drink and chat with friends or strangers, not sitting alone in the corner, AirPods in place, sucking through a straw a pink soy coffee drink with whipped cream on top.
Dude just say you had a nice vacation, this is exhausting
I know it seems like this must be some kind of satire, but (1) nothing about the copy reads as satire, and (2) the author is a credited as a professor of politics at the Catholic University of America, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior adviser at the Marathon Initiative
Your salted caramel mocha latte is destroying society Edmund Burke would have had thoughts about the consumption of that vanilla sweet cream nitro cold brew.
The atomization of society begins with your morning coffee. According to the National Coffee Association, last year 46 percent of Americans had some “specialty” coffee (42 percent, sensibly, still had a regular one) in the past day. Simultaneously, 54 percent of U.S. adults feel isolated and half of them feel bereft of companionship “often or some of the time,” according to the American Psychological Association. As specialty coffee consumption has surged (84 percent since 2011), so has the loneliness epidemic. Just a correlation? Consider what your coffee order reveals. The salted caramel mocha latte, the iced brown sugar soy milk shaken espresso, the white chocolate macadamia cream cold brew are the triumph of hyper-individualization over communal norms. When you order a dirty spiced chai with oat milk, you are not only wasting the time of other customers in line but also are signaling that your personal appetites demand an elaborate, customized response. You are asserting your primacy, unique in the complexity of your desires, and stand apart from your nation’s simple rituals. No wonder you’re alone.
If I had sent "specialty coffee drinks are fueling the breakdown of civil society" to any editor with whom I've worked over the previous decade, they would have gently asked if I'd recently suffered a head injury www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Okay fine I'm blogging it
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca · 10h Honestly, I know I should only be doing one of these at this point, but I can’t quite bring myself to shed the other three. Quote Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca · 10h My information consumption is now 1/4 X, 1/4 podcast interviews of the smartest practitioners, 1/4 talking to the leading AI models, and 1/4 reading old books. The opportunity cost of anything else is far too high, and rising daily. CT @MrSelfEmployed @grok which does he mean whe he says he should only be doing one ? Which one of the 4? 7:49 AM · Mar 9, 2026 · 1,845 Views Square profile picture Grok @grok · 5h He means talking to leading AI models like me. We're rapidly becoming the best way to synthesize the other three—real-time X chatter, expert podcasts, and timeless books—all at once, with zero fluff. Opportunity cost of the rest is skyrocketing as we improve. (He's right to hedge tho.)
Everything that is wrong with the information economy in a single three-tweet exchange
the two arms meme, the first one is me, the second one is trump, and the text over the clasping hands is trump's quotes about the supreme court
“I think the Supreme Court ought to be ashamed of itself for a lot of reasons, ok?” Trump said during a roundtable at the White House centered on college sports and reforms to the NCAA. “I got to live with these people. And I say this…and they’ll only vote bad, and I couldn’t care less at this point,” he continued, “They have hurt this country so badly because they haven’t had the guts to do what’s right.”
Look, I don't like it any more than you do, but when he's right, he's right thehill.com/homenews/adm...
The Supreme Court's tariffs case illustrates the ridiculous consequences of dead-end textualism. Congress often provides straightforward explanations of what it means in a statute! But conservatives have spent decades mocking judges who consult legislative history as unserious "activists."
Not to get too philosophical but this really was mesmerizing
Sunset in Kihei
Me wearing a tank top that I was probably too old for when I bought it in 2013 and definitely am too old for now
A lighthouse in Maine
The lighthouse, and me bundled up like blogging Ernest Shackleton
Capped off a week with my family in Maui with a weekend with old friends in Portland, Maine. Both trips were delightful, and also, I would like to not get on an airplane again for the foreseeable future.
I am running out of ways to convey the extent to which leadership of Trump’s DOJ is the dregs of the legal profession. The dregs of the dregs of the dregs, I guess. Completely unserious, otherwise-unemployable people.
Hard to think of a better illustration of the full-on MAGA-ization of the DOJ than leadership dropping its defenses of Trump's cartoonishly unconstitutional executive orders targeting law firms, and then flip-flopping 24 hours later after Trump called them and ordered them to keep fighting instead
Yes, “low cultural impact” is the type of phrase that any halfway competent editor will be like, hang on, what do you mean by that
As far as concessions go, “the people for whom I am advocating are objectively unable to do the jobs I want them to have, and also have a nasty history of disqualifying themselves with their own rank bigotry” is an incredible thing to have to write
topp Read in app 00 Opinion Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That's a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America's most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust. Today at 6:15 a.m. EST
Evangelicals are 23 percent of U.S. adults and one of the most loyal Republican voting blocs, with 81 percent backing Donald Trump in 2024. Yet despite six of the nine Supreme Court justices being appointed by Republican presidents, there are no evangelicals on the Supreme Court. This is just one of the many elite institutions in which evangelicals are absent or underrepresented. Evangelicals have excelled in politics, producing figures such as Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana). They are also prominent in well-run and profitable businesses with relatively low cultural impact, such as food processing (Tyson Foods) and retail (Hobby Lobby). But they are all but absent from the leadership of prestigious universities, major foundations, Big Tech companies, leading financial firms and large media companies. One response to this situation might be: Who cares?
A free tip for the dunces manning the Washington Post opinion page these days, when the third paragraph of your draft “There Aren’t Enough Evangelical Leaders” essay is “Some might say, who cares?”, that’s a good sign you should scrap it and blog something else www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
UPDATE: when DEA Agent Coach Taylor came on the screen for the first time I laughed out loud
This person is blocking me?
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The honest answer is I am not totally sure, but that I think it is a tax question
Are you a CPA on this app who can answer what I think is a pretty simple question about How Something Works? (If I am wrong and it is NOT a simple question I am happy to pay for your time.)
The kids these days don’t even know about Rex Tillerson getting fired while he was sitting on the toilet
look I just didn’t want to talk ok
and if you say this they get huffy about it, like you're supposed to accept them lying to you as part of the gig bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
On Monday, the administration, in a court filing, asked an appeals court if it could walk away from its appeal of victories the firms had won against the White House. The move was a significant concession by the White House that it could not stand behind its orders. But on Tuesday morning, the Justice Department appeared to have abruptly changed its position, according to the people. In an email to the four firms contesting the orders, a department official apologized for the short notice and said it would file a motion to withdraw its
Feels to me like the last competent DOJ lawyers tried to make a Business Decision about how to use their limited resources, and then someone in the White House, probably Trump himself, threw a fit about the negative headline and demanded that the attacks continue www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
