Edsel Little

@edsel
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also @edsel (mostly food stuff), "Surely This" on Metafilter, "edsel" on eGullet.

Oberlin Ohio, he/him

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Be Careful What Trump's Lawyers Wish For, Superseding Indictment Edition - emptywheel

Several outlets have reported that Jack Smith is not going to ask for mini-trial on Trump's January 6 charges before the election. That may mean he has decided to supersede the existing indictment. But we likely wouldn't see that until after the election.

emptywheel
I’m old enough to remember when some of us said the GOP wants us living in the Handmaid’s Tale world, and men told us we were “overreacting”.

The two city street photos are panoramas - made up of around 100 photos - all taken within the 4 minutes of totality from yesterday's eclipse.

#streetPhotography #eclipse #cleveland #ohio

GOES East giving some perspective.

#Eclipse #SolarEclipse

One more of the full disk, just because I can't get over it.

#Eclipse #SolarEclipse

Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services

Musk's changes kill service that let you view tweets without going to Twitter.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/twitter-front-end-nitter-dies-as-musk-wins-war-against-third-party-services/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services

Musk's changes kill service that let you view tweets without going to Twitter.

Ars Technica

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"[Among] Paramount Pictures and Maximum Effort projects in the works [is] Starter Villain, based on the New York Times-bestselling book of the same name by John Scalzi, with Jesse Andrews attached to adapt"

https://deadline.com/2024/02/ryan-reynolds-paramount-pictures-1235819256/

Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort Reups First Look With Paramount Pictures

Ryan Reynolds' Maximum Effort Productions reups with Paramount Pictures

Deadline
I wrote about Curtis Sliwa and Sean Hannity and the dude from the Bronx who got roughed up because Fox wants people to be afraid of immigrants. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/08/right-wing-rhetoric-got-guy-bronx-roughed-up-times-square/
Analysis | Right-wing rhetoric got a guy from the Bronx roughed up in Times Square

It’s all downstream from Donald Trump.

Washington Post
The NYT tells us that Johnson is incompetent and inexperienced. Isn’t the real problem that he’s a religious extremist acting in bad faith? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/us/politics/johnson-impeachment-israel-aid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Johnson Stumbles, Deepening Republican Disarray and His Own Challenges

Little more than 100 days into his tenure, the speaker who was handed an impossible job has only made it more difficult for himself, baffling his colleagues.

The New York Times