White Tiger and Cheetah Furs: A Mess of Trump Gift Exchanges nytimes.com/2021/10/11/us/…

Everything in it is good. It’s really that simple. slate.com/news-and-polit… via @slate

A line-by-line examination of how closely Tucker Carlson’s comments on Ukraine parrot the Russian Foreign Ministry and Putin. slate.com/news-and-polit… via Slate

This is heartbreaking.

They have a perfect vehicle next month to issue a devastating blow to any government action to thwart climate change. slate.com/news-and-polit… via @slate

Justice Breyer saw this moment coming. slate.com/news-and-polit… via @slate

Anti-tank weapons > sanctions slate.com/news-and-polit… via @slate

This should not be a debate! Not even a little bit! slate.com/news-and-polit… via Slate

No amount of “being careful” can protect everyone from an unintended pregnancy and the ways it can jeopardize health and well-being. slate.com/technology/202… via @slate

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Kagan on her "we are all textualists" line a few years ago: "It seems I was wrong. The current Court is textualist only when being so suits it."

"The [anti-EPA decision] is the product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by GOP attorneys general, conservative legal activists and their funders to use the judicial system to...weaken the executive branch’s ability to tackle global warming." nytimes.com/live/2022/06/3…

Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the dissenters, countered: “The Court appoints itself—instead of Congress or the expert agency—the decisionmaker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening.” Indeed.

My grandpa just said an incredible old man phrase, which is “I’m tellin’ six-foot jokes and everybody’s five ten”

“Manchin looks not like a levelheaded voice of fiscal moderation, but as windblown and capricious as the weather vane on his houseboat.” — Robinson Meyer theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

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If you know a young person who wants to make a real difference in the world, and who is also worried about making a living, one piece of good advice might be: *Consider becoming an electrician.*

Number theory students: when will we ever use this? Professor:

'Big Tech Companies Are Obscuring AI’s Real Carbon Footprint' Study contrasts reported vs obscured emissions by Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta news.bloombergtax.com/financial-acco…