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"Brat summer officially over, declares Charli XCX"

"Did the U.S. government outsmart a ring of international drug smugglers by creating a Trojan Horse of a phone company to spy on them? Or did the government cross a line, encouraging criminal conduct itself?" courthousenews.com/defense-lawyer…

"Rock 'n' roll, pop music and the internet are Western vices that can be used to sow the seeds of 'colour revolution' among Chinese youth, according to China's latest college textbook on national security..." archive.ph/5fTLa

A sequel to the Zapruder film? smh - Hollywood is out of ideas nytimes.com/2024/09/04/art…

The Internet Archive has reportedly lost its appeal in the Hachette case. I'm reupping this old thread in light of the news.

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"There is a thrill in rummaging through the great unsorted pile, wherever one finds it, a dusty, sneezy swirl, where items are free of alphabetization or genre tyranny..."

I know Chick tracts are free, but I feel like they passed up a primo opportunity for "Burn after reading. If you need to review this information, please purchase a fresh copy."

This is the right takeaway on the Tenet case. (There are other right takeaways, like "Dave Rubin is a dummy" and "FARA is a bad law." But this is the most important one.) kenklippenstein.com/p/russian-infl…

"The largest statue should be of the unnamed woman who talked a pirate into giving her five hundred pieces of eight just to watch her strip. Forget Blackbeard; *she's* the outlaw they should be making television shows about." newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

It's a bit like booting Bolsheviks out of the Communist Party. Obviously you're better off without them, but at some point you have to wonder why you're still calling it a Communist Party.

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I know I sound like a broken record on this point, but "conspiracies" is not a synonym for "conspiracy theories." This ad copy makes it look like Anne Applebaum and peter pomerantsev think we live within the tightening grip of the Freemasons or the Lizard People or whoever.

Duverger's Second Law: No presidential campaign can contain both Dick Cheney and Tulsi Gabbard.

Noel Parmental (RIP) "savaged the right in the pages of The Nation, would turn around and do the same to the left in National Review and blasted both sides in Esquire." nytimes.com/2024/09/04/bus…

I've got 5 in a row for you: Train a Comin/I Feel Alright/El Corazon/The Mountain/Transcendental Blues. (I would also offer the Kinks' *six*-album run from Face to Face through Muswell Hillbillies, but that only works if you ignore a live album & a soundtrack in the interstices.)

REPUBLICAN OPERATIVE #1: Dick Cheney. Wow. That's a big get. Do we have anyone as widely beloved? REPUBLICAN OPERATIVE #2: Not yet, but we're working on Alan Dershowitz.

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