From the Texas GOP. Californians?

Devastating piece in The New York Review of Books by Omar al-Najjar, a young doctor in Gaza. Omar and I have been in touch over the months, and I remain incapable of understanding the weight he bears. nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

One of the perspective jurors is named Matt, and his last name is such that he can’t be spoonerized. He has short dirty blonde hair and a 731 area code. He’s wearing a light army jacket and he’ll be leaving this building about 4:15, but not from the front entrance.

when a reporter who happened to be Muslim reported that this was the administration’s big plan to bounce back from the war a while back, the administration said he had fabricated his sources 👎🏻

Boys From Brazil (1978)

An Indigenous man who spoke a rare language couldn't understand the court proceedings when he was charged with a crime in Texas. Was it a fair trial? Texas Monthly texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

Ireland in control. Trust the Plan

There's an old saying in Schelling—I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling—that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again

Bavaria Navarre
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The colony of English Tangier had kind of a lot going on

I know we’re all mourning the loss of a great man today, Norm Macdonald. But for what it’s worth, I strongly suspect that he would have zagged and talked about the sadness of a retired family man getting cancer.