The Glamorous, Sexist History Of The Women's Restroom Lounge! Tabs, Wed., Aug. 2, 2023
Morning news roundup!
Is it good to be indicted a whole bunch while you’re running for president? Possibly not? (Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo)
Economy Good. — Noah Smith at Noahpinion
I am angry that Los Angeles County is returning funding for wrap-around mental health services for people in trauma instead of using the money for wrap-around mental health services for people in trauma. (LA Times)
Is the lack of play what’s causing such anxiety and other mental health issues in kids? It can’t help. — Jonathan Haidt
LOLwhut it was clipped for space.
The original text of Section 1983 proclaimed, in unequivocal terms, that state officials who had violated someone's rights would be liable under federal law, "any such law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of the State to the contrary notwithstanding." In other words, this Notwithstanding Clause took all state-law defenses, including qualified immunity, completely off the table. But just three years after Section 1983 was passed, the Notwithstanding Clause was clipped for space, as compilers organized federal law into the Revised Statutes of 1874.
Clipped. for. space. — Reason
Kind of boring, but Popehat smacks down Glenn Greenwald for being a dishonest liar, or else very dumb, about the Sam Bankman-Fried extradition and charges.
What the fuck is going on in Haiti? (CBS News)
Don’t be silly, Salon, only America can do imperialism, certainly not Russia, everybody knows that!
Emperor Nero’s theater found under a carpark in London, wait no, that’s the movie I just watched about King Richard III, it was under a hotel in Rome. (Guardian)
Look at this motherfuckin socialist rural broadband. I love it so much. — New Yorker
I got a notice that Youtube was age-restricting our video for the Wonkette Game of Elections The Game seven years later and was all like what what are they talking about, and I looked at it and it is so many dicks.
LOL I made that.
From the comments, the glamorous, sexist history of the women’s restroom lounge. My mom would always let me wander off to the women’s room at Charley Brown’s to bask in the elegance of the red velvet settees. (Pocket)
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You know what I miss?
I miss the contributions of one MorganHW, esq, lately styled, "Her Honour".
I know that as a judge she can no longer comment freely lest her close association with the superlative humour here at the world's last honest internet floozerium and pantsless makeout bar create the appearance of partiality toward penile punnishment, but I also know she's probably reading at least some of this.
So, MorganHW, I'm pouring one out in your honour, your honour. I hope you stumble across this while you're using social media NOT during a murder trial. We will be sua your spontes, but you will always be an honorary one of us.
PS: yes, pants are required under the robes. Deal with it.
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