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Four years ago, the conservative justices on the Supreme Court decided that gun laws must be rooted in history in order to comply with the Second Amendment.
But they are not always comfortable with the reality this analysis unearths.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in
"Wolford v. Lopez",
a case about whether states can ban people from carrying concealed firearms on private property without getting the owner’s consent.
Under the Hawai…

The Supreme Court’s “History and Tradition” Test Just Ran Into America’s History and Tradition of Anti-Black Racism
Requiring "historical analogues" for modern gun laws eventually turns up some history that makes even the conservative justices uncomfortable.

Archaeologists Unearth Wall Section at Important Silk Road City Which Traded in ‘Heavenly Horses’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/archaeologists-unearth-wall-section-at-important-silk-road-city-which-traded-in-heavenl…

Archaeologists Unearth Wall Section at Important Silk Road City Which Traded in 'Heavenly Horses'
The Silk Roads were lined with successful trading outposts, which during times when the trade was prosperous grew to become princely city-states.

Zohran Mamdani appointee resigns after vile antisemitic social media posts resurface (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/18/us-news/zohran-mamdani-appointee-catherine-almonte-da-costa-made-vile-antisemitic-comments-in-unearthed-social-media-posts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p57#a251219p57

Judge rules Oregon won't need to hand over unredacted voter rolls to Trump admin | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-rules-oregon-wont-need-to-hand-over-unredacted-voter-rolls-to-trump-admin/

"Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work?"
#Brazil #COP30 #ClimateSummit

from my link log —
Readable code is unreadable: Arthur Whitney’s J incunabulum.
https://blog.wilsonb.com/posts/2025-06-06-readable-code-is-unreadable.html
saved 2025-12-08

Mein #Unwort des Jahres ist ganz klar:
#Schokoflation

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Muddy Waters:
🎵 I Am the Blues
#MuddyWaters
https://soulforty5.bandcamp.com/track/muddy-waters-backing-track-i-am-the-blues-key-e-minor
https://open.spotify.com/track/6HylsWWUnrtJnsrY0d3KZK

There’s an unwritten rule in publishing,
or so I’ve been told:
don’t write about COVID.
Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners of apartments, staring out at a world we could no longer take part in.
When the worst of it passed, we felt an urge to close that chapter, to padlock it behind a heavy latch.
But in doing so, we also tuck away the hard-won lessons of that time:
how quickly s…

Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I’ve seen this pattern before
H5N1 has a 50% fatality rate in humans. Yet we’re dismantling the systems designed to catch it early.

Sources: QB Rivers unretiring to sign with Colts https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47257581/sources-qb-philip-rivers-unretiring-sign-colts