Maybe the 303 Creative ruling, ranking rights of a woman considering opening a straights-only wedding website biz over those of a protected class of people seeking equal access to services...would make sense if I'd gone to law school?! I wrote about it
@CaseyNewton
It seems that his eyes are also on the back of his head, in addition to the upside-down ears? He's like a Mr. Potato Head with a capricious owner
Another OSU wrestler has come forward to say Jim Jordan, currently grilling Michael Cohen in the House Oversight committee hearing, is "sitting here and directly lying" when he claims not to have known university doctor was sexually abusing athletes
Best. Friday. Night. Ever. Please welcome Clara Jo Swisher Katz, who was a month early but clearly ready to join the good times.
@karaswisher
& I are ecstatic. ❤️
This story about one couple being petty and classless to another also contains this bland aside: “One part of the bedroom set-up will be markedly different with the Bidens than it was for the Trumps: the Bidens will be sharing a bedroom”
Incredibly sad story. Texas woman with desperately wanted pregnancy begins to lose it but, under new law, has to go into sepsis before she can get medical care, leaving her with health damage that could prevent her from having kids
"I, a man with no firsthand knowledge of your sexual assault, will explain to you why my theory of the event is more convincing than your actual experience of it." This should win some kind of mansplaining Nobel
Katie Bouman got her bachelor's in 2011, and now she has led the creation of the first algorithm to show an image of a black hole. What have YOU been up to since college
Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman w/stacks of hard drives of black hole image data.
Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton w/the code she wrote that helped put a man on the moon.
(image credit
@floragraham
)
#EHTblackhole
#BlackHoleDay
#BlackHole
A lot of families have stories like this: a pre-Roe mom who couldn’t handle one more kid, dead before her time, with all the grief and abandonment that follows. John Turturro on the legacy of his grandmother's botched abortion
@dansaltzstein
Paul McCartney held the door for me on the way into George Plimpton’s house for a party that helped make me late for work on Wall Street the next morning, which was 9/11.
Nikki Haley discussing trans girls in kids sports: "How are we supposed to get our girls used to the fact that biological boys are in their locker room. And then we wonder why a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year."
The very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals only looking to make Senators look bad. Don’t fall for it! Also, look at all of the professionally made identical signs. Paid for by Soros and others. These are not signs made in the basement from love!
#Troublemakers
Incredible layers to the Florida corruption reported here under DeSantis, including not only steering Covid funds to help a donor with an unrelated building project but putting the donor’s sister in charge of unprotecting the wetlands there
We did it! Here’s to the day where nobody has to adopt their own kid. But having this particular coparent by my side is the greatest of gifts, and I am grateful to the law for recognizing our family.
Though I have been Clara’s lucky mama from minute one, DC court finally made it legal today with a second parent adoption decree, making me the luckiest parent to have three officially amazing kids.
One of the most striking things about the Cohen opening statement is how neatly it corroborates literal *years* of reporting that the WH has pushed back on--notably by NYT, WaPo, WSJ, CNN, BuzzFeed. Like finding out your whole shelf of spy novels is true.
Massive line of voters in Fairfax, Virginia, on the FIRST DAY of in-person early voting. Some voters say they showed up because they lost faith in USPS to deliver ballots. Officials tell CNN they've never seen anything like this on Day One.
This woman just gave birth to a baby and then 26 days later gave birth to TWINS, out of her SECOND UTERUS that no one even knew she had. The mom and all three babies are reportedly fine!
My friends, you got a famous declared sexual assaulter who clearly does not care one fig about abortion to appoint the judges to get rid of Roe and you think HE used YOU? Take the win
Some actual news today: She asked. I obviously said yes (see below). So from SF to Brooklyn to DC, come next summer I shall henceforth be known as Mrs.
@katzish
. Please update your contact lists accordingly❣️
Scott Pruitt tried to let only a Fox camera into the room for his announcement today on reducing fuel efficiency standards, CNN reports; Fox informed its competitors, and they created a pool. Pruitt also did not nivite most reporters who cover the EPA.
“You love sewers,” says
@karaswisher
. “They’re amazing!” says
@PeteButtigieg
. Audience laughs. “I would argue that other than books, they’re our most important technology.”
"Measles virus is so infectious that if an unvaccinated person walks through a room up to two hours after someone with measles has left, there’s a 90 percent chance the unvaccinated person will get sick." Get. Vaccinated. Get. Your. Kids. Vaccinated.
67yo retiree lady in rural Iowa: “He gets on Twitter and says the last thing that Fox News told him to say. That’s not presidential. It’s concerning. Are you personally concerned?”
Trump administration, year four: a major hotel chain is forced to put out a statement saying the government can’t use their hotels as detention centers for child asylum seekers
Tonight feels like the whole country is hitting a boiling point. Black and poor people have been so disproportionately hurt by the pandemic, and now this killing at the hands of the police. It’s too much to bear.
I know it’s fun to indulge childish fantasies like “even though Joe Biden won the election, maybe he didn’t” or “the coronavirus that has killed more than a quarter million people is no big deal.” But at a certain point it’s time to start acting like adults again.
Today my kid hurled something so hard and so accurately out of the bath that it smashed the glass protector on my phone. He is 1. So many years of Little League practice ahead
You have to see these illustrations to realize you never see illustrations like this. Also, this Nigerian premed student is 25 and already making these waves
Ben Shapiro: "The great suspicion is that in Frozen 4, they'll make Elsa a lesbian ... If they do that, it is the end of Disney as a company. Predict it. You can write it down. It is April 17th. If they do that in Frozen 4, it will destroy Disney."
Welp, Post reporting adds a new data point to the almost-too-on-the-nose Patch story about Santos stealing money meant to help a dying service dog: GoFundMe confirms the fundraiser was closed because the organizer (Santos) ghosted
@TheLincoln
@espiers
You have no moral authority to write fiction about anyone but yourself, but don't do that either because then you're centering your own experience
These tweets by Grassley's chief counsel for nominations, which imply that any hearing of Ford would be just for show, were subsequently deleted, and now the whole account is locked.
Late last night Grassley’s chief counsel, who’d question Ford in a staff interview & prep Grassley’s questioning in a hearing, tweeted that he’s “unfazed” & “determined” to “confirm Kavanaugh,” then confirmed he personally conducted Kavanguah’s questioning & attacked Ford’s camp.
“Parents matter” is an amazing euphemism for “a small number of white Christian parents should be able to limit your child’s curriculum to parts that flatter them”
It's weird that Trump is getting really excited again about rolling back healthcare and resuming child separation, the two moves that have brought him the absolute worst PR of the last 2+ years.
Just a reminder: In 1904 Germany kicked out Trump's grandfather Friedrich Trump, forcing him to emigrate to America because he'd ducked required military service.
It’s weird how Hollywood remains surprised by every single non-white-guy superhero movie that destroys at the box office. Wonder Woman, Black Panther, now this
Still cannot believe that Santos—allegedly!—essentially stole puppies from breeders and then pretended they were rescues, adopting them out for a fee which he then also allegedly pocketed. Who does that to baby dogs
It was after dark when George A. Santos approached the farmer in Pennsylvania’s Amish country looking to buy at least eight puppies. A breeder recounted how the future congressman made off with four golden retrievers, leading to a 2017 criminal charge.
On testing shortages and delays: “As a region, you could pool your dollars, sit down with national and international suppliers...That said, there’s probably a limit to what states can do. We as a country are just not designed to have absentee federal government.”
I did this, and one of the highlights of December was NOT having to take my Covid-positive but symptom-free newborn to the ER. Trust me, moms, you want this
New CDC study >> "Expectant mothers who get a Covid-19 vaccine while pregnant pass immune protection on to their newborns"
Babies under 6 months old are 61% less likely to be hospitalized from COVID-19 if their moms were vaccinated while pregnant
In all seriousness, this is (if true) the likely tipping point in the House. "Kevin McCarthy sent a dog-abusing swindler of disabled veterans to look after your small business" is the kind of thing that starts dragging down people beyond Santos.
This story is completely nuts — man is forced to serve years in a mental facility after protesting, accurately, that he’s not the person they think he is
The part where a 26yo straight-married Santos gets his high-school-age boyfriend to unwittingly move in with Santos’s wife is real “future GOP congressman” material
Not the main point of this article. But adds new details on what seems very likely which is that Santos had a sham marriage to commit immigration fraud. In this case he had a boyfriend move in with him w/o telling him his “roommate” was actually his wife.
You, sir, are a mensch. In addition to this, Mario Salerno is continuing to operate his car repair shop, coming into contact with lots of customers. I hope he stays safe.
Morning! ☕️
In the dead of night, the Texas Senate passed a bill that will effectively ban public school teachers from talking about racism, white supremacy or current events.
It already passed the House. On its way to be signed into law now.
Good lord. This is really emotional and vivid and scary. I am so glad to hear Susan Mikula is recovering and am wishing health and safety to this couple and to ALL of you. And your loved ones. And their loved ones.
Watch: Rachel
@Maddow
reports that she's been off the air for most of the past two weeks because her longtime partner Susan Mikula is sick with Covid-19 – so sick that "at one point we really thought that there was a possibility that it might kill her." Mikula is recovering now.
A lot of media companies are bending over backward to make sure a very vocal 30% of the country does not call them partisan. Happened to be the same 30% Biden was soberly discussing
If they will freely admit that “should we have a democracy” is a political question, journalists are obligated to adhere to that specific partisanship because a free press cannot be on the other side of democracy, by definition.