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I wrote about #Tolkien canon and gatekeeping for @reactormag reactormag.com/tolkiens-preci…

I realize this tweet is almost 15 years old, but @APStylebook was letting people hang, so... According to my hardcopy 2015 AP Stylebook, the answer is 🥁🥁🥁 Wi-Fi

"Today I learned that I am chopped, and also unc."

@mrdavidrowe I mean, I don't think anyone should.

Should Christians by lottery tickets?

@SprinkleCake00Z But can you also dismiss them?

The power to summon ANY fictional character 😛… eheheeee

@foliosociety @JaneAustenHouse @musical_chimp

Win our limited edition of Jane Austen’s Complete Novels 💐To celebrate her 250th anniversary, we’ve partnered with @JaneAustenHouse to give one lucky winner a copy of this edition. Like, tag a friend, and follow both accounts to enter. Closes 11 Sept (UK). T&Cs on our website.

Ron was best man at a gay wedding you dumb fuck. #HappyPride

RFK Jr.: "Being Mistborn Causes Autism" New evidence shows that #mistborn children have a higher incidence of #autism according to recent statements by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. #science #health #rfkjr #sanderson #fantasy #scifiart laserflail.com/technology/rfk…

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To celebrate #TolkienReadingDay, we’ve teamed up with @nerdoftherings1 to give away The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings & The Silmarillion! 📕✨ Like, tag a friend (each tag = entry) & follow @foliosociety + @nerdoftherings1 Ends 8 Apr, midnight UK. T&Cs on our site.

ICE agents are harassing and threatening Native Americans. If this has happened to you, call my office at (202) 225-6190. Trump said you can tell bad immigrants by what they “look” like. Tribal members look like the first Americans. Stop harassing them.

Here we go. Republican Congressman Andy Ogles has drafted a constitutional amendment to allow Donald Trump to be president for a third term.

The Espionage Act is an unconstitutional and abusive law that has no place in a free society. It’s a weapon of selective enforcement that violates due process and threatens free speech. Repeal it now.

Repeal FISA 702.

Pardon Julian Assange. Pardon Edward Snowden.

There’s a problem with President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, and it doesn’t take much effort to see it. The Fourteenth Amendment reads, in relevant part: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Trump’s odd claim is that a child born in the United States without at least one parent who is a lawful permanent resident or citizen is not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. But this is simply false. Set aside that Trump’s EO would affect children whose parents are lawfully but not permanently here. Let’s look at the “harder” case: the children of illegal immigrants. It should be obvious that even individuals who are unlawfully present in the United States are “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” “Jurisdiction” is just the applicability of legal authority to them and the potential exercise of state power against them. People who are unlawfully present in the country can, of course, be charged with crimes, arrested, etc., just like almost anyone else in the United States. There is not a person who doubts this, least of all someone in the Trump administration. I include the word “almost” before “anyone else” two paragraphs above because the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” does exclude certain children: mainly the children of foreign diplomats, who, in fact, are generally not subject to U.S. laws. They have immunity that may or may not be waived by their home country. Now, you may not like the fact that the Constitution broadly grants birthright citizenship to the children of parents who are simply, perhaps even temporarily, present in the United States, but that is the law absent a constitutional amendment. We are a nation founded on the Rule of Law. The president cannot amend the Constitution (or laws) via executive order. Any unilateral effort by a president to change the Constitution is void. Only an Article V amendment can change it.

Trump does the double jerk dance as the Village People perform "YMCA" live

I'm in the top 30 @goodreads librarians this weeks. #books #librarians #goodreads curtisweyant.com/blog/on-being-…

"Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen" may be the dumbest option @Apple has added to #MacOS in years. Enabling it by default is even dumber.

As lifeguards at a sleep-away camp in the 90s, a friend and I created a game for the campers called "Figure It Out." Turns out, I'm still playing it… curtisweyant.com/blog/figuring-…

Book of the Day for 1/5/25 “Rabbit, Run” by John Updike Have you read it? Let me know! youtube.com/shorts/R2_8Jz5…