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How long can the Florida governor absorb blows from Trump before he looks weak?

Disney and the Rule Against Perpetuities

The right’s gun fetish isn't about the Second Amendment. It’s about intimidation.

This month, an elementary school in St. Petersburg, Fla., stopped showing a 1998 Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated a public elementary school in New Orleans in 1960, because of a complaint lodged by a single parent who said she feared the film might teach children that white people hate Black people. The school banned the film until it could be reviewed. So I decided to review the film myself.

Laws of the Seder by Tzvi

A practical guide to the Seder night.

The Magical World Of The Rule Against Perpetuities.

A dying gasp for relevance. Trump vs. DeSantis is Hulk Hogan vs. the Ultimate Warrior and that tells you everything you need to know.

Ultimately, then, the “parents’ rights” movement is not about parents at all; it’s about whether this country will continue to strive for a more equitable and democratic system of education, or whether we’ll let a reactionary minority drag us as far from that goal as possible, in favor of something even more unequal and hierarchical than what we already have.

Lunar astronauts will need to synchronize their watches on future missions. But on a rock that rotates much slower than Earth, time gets weird fast.

How seriously should we take the ex-president’s dark warnings about the consequences of indicting him?

Publishers Get One Step Closer To Killing Libraries by Mike Masnick

Last Monday was the day of the oral arguments in the Big Publishers’ lawsuit against libraries in the form of the Internet Archive. As we noted mid-week, publishers won’t quit until libraries are dead. And they got one step closer to that goal on Friday, when Judge John Koetl wasted no time in rejecting every […]

Twitter is dying by Natasha Lomas

It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid for a relatively small microblogging platform called Twitter. The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Combine these elements with your own critical faculty — to weed out the usual spam […]

There’s a secret mode that comes with almost all large ovens, refrigerators, dishwashers, and other large kitchen appliances…

Nate Hochman’s hiring sends a signal of what the Florida governor wants for his campaign.