Greg Greene (he/him/his)

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Dad. Wiseguy. Deep South expat. 🏠 Los Angeles, Ca. Prior 📇: Malcontent strategist @ Planned Parenthood Action Fund, DNC, Nat’l Dem. Inst., BlueState. Views my own. Also @ggreeneva @ 🐦 & 🐘.

Today's NYT Cooking newsletter, visible in my inbox. The text atop the message: Good morning! Today we have for you: • Speedy stir-fried lettuce with crispy garlic and fried eggs • A hearty pasta recipe for those green beans • And, old-fashioned coconut cake Beneath that is a photo of a sunny-side-up egg — accompanied by frizzled lettuce and garlic, slivered scallions, and white sesame seeds — over a bed of steamed rice.
A photo and caption visible in the NOTUS story. All people pictured in the photo are white or (this is not a racial classification) Hispanic. “The three finalists meet with President Donald Trump alongside Education Secretary Linda McMahon and contest host Mario Lopez in the Oval Office. (Molly Riley/Official White House Photo)”
A set of recommended news accounts curated by Substack, with Andrew Tate’s newsletter sitting in the middle of the cropped screenshot.
Dame Judi Dench, playing Queen Elizabeth I in 'Shakespeare in Love,' rolls her eyes as footmen stand oblivious when she comes to a puddle she must cross before entering her carriage. Muttering as she steps through the puddle before as footmen throw their cloaks over the muck behind her, she says: "Too late, too late."
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, in a post with notably high engagement, is pictured over MetLife Stadium using a disposable film camera to take a picture of the photographer shooting a pic of him. He writes, above the photo: Over the past month, New York has welcomed the world. From neighborhood watch parties to the stadium, we've celebrated the communities that make our city the global capital of the beautiful game. Today, we close out a historic World Cup, proud of how New Yorkers showed up every step of the way.
Aptronymous law professor Ilan Wurman of the Univ. of Minn. law school, writing in retort to Georgia State’s Anthony Michael Kreis (“AMK”): In case I need to break it down, I said: 1. It can take 1,000 years to develop habits of thought and culture that make liberal democracy and constitutional government possible. 2. You can't import millions of people without assimilation *today* and expect them to share those important habits. Somehow AMK interprets me as saying, the English wanted assimilation in 1215??? The full clip makes it clearer (AMK has it), but what I'm saying is obvious even from this oddly spliced clip.
A WSJ opinion hed and dek: Hed: "Marco Rubio: Why We're Dismantling the International Criminal Court" Dek: "America never agreed to a world tribunal that can override our own courts and the Constitution."
In the era that I studied when I was still part of the academic world, one recurrent topic was that of “over-mighty subjects.” This was more a reality of the 15th and 16th centuries, just before my period, the eras of the Yorkists and Lancastrians and the Tudors. But the fear hung over the British Isles and thus over their American colonies well into the 17th and 18th centuries. The term referred to subjects of the Crown who were themselves so powerful that they threatened the sovereign power of the Crown itself. They might command more wealth, hold castles and walled cities. They might command retinues that verged on private armies notwithstanding their notional obedience to the King. (The problem resurfaced in the late 18th century in the different, commercialized form of the British East Indian Company, which used its geyser of cash to quite effectively corrupt the House of Commons.) In the U.S. we have no sovereign; or, more specifically, we have no sovereign head of state. But there is a sovereign, the American people. This architectonic fact of the American order is written into every document that undergirds the Republic, from the founding charters to the simplest phrasings that permeate judicial proceedings where prosecutors appear in court representing “the people.”
The late activist Gloria Richardson, pushing away a bayonet at a demonstration in Cambridge, Md., after giving side-eye to the National Guard member holding it.
But a big tent is worth pitching only if something is argued inside it, and that is precisely what this midterm cycle has lacked. Handed the chance to litigate what the party actually believes, Democrats have mostly declined. What is the party's answer on immigration, moving beyond its proper outrage at President Trump's methods to include an affirmative account of who should be allowed in and how? What would it do about the cost of housing, beyond lamenting it and suggesting inadequate fixes? What does it want from the public education system? What is its response to the disruption that artificial intelligence is about to send through the work force and society more broadly?
A b&w picture of Michael (not B.) Jordan, with his Jumpman insignia superimposed, bearing the satirical (and not at all real) quote "f–– them kids."
Buntings hang from a wooden-plank bridge filled with people as spectators line a canal, waiting for a flotilla of rubber ducks. The marine layer has mostly burned off, with wisps of clouds hanging above palm trees and other foliage.
The panaderia tables inside a Vallarta supermarket lay bedecked with red, white, and blue pastries. The stacks of cupcakes come with “USA” and bedazzled star decorations atop their icing.
A vista of the mall looking eastward from the greensward between Smithsonian museums toward the U.S. Capitol. With a hundred or more people visible strolling, lining up, and looking at the exteriors of a collection of solar-powered homes. The event happening in the photo is the 2009 Solar Decathlon, a regular event (at the time) mounted by the U.S. Department of Energy.
The angry goose meme, with the goose asking the man it's chasing: "But did they _get_ incentives? Did they get incentives?"
An NYT style-feature photograph in which Julia Allison, the influencer spouse of Harvard Law prof Noah Feldman, sits on a blue sectional couch over a red-patterned rug, with her heeled feet propped across Feldman's lap.
Two posts stacked in my timeline. Atop, Radley Balko on the Semafor 'Project 2029' piece about a youth social media ban: "There's so much that needs to be done. And this is what they come up with. … These goddamn wankers." Below, Jamelle Bouie writing with much more attunement: "need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms."
A Waymo in the middle southbound lane of California State Route 1 at Pico, as I sat in the right lane with my turn signal activated, pulls around my left side as a cyclist and another person reach the double-yellow line in the middle of the street to turn right in front of me.
Diane Yap @RealDianeYap Follow ... "We built the most powerful nation in the world"? Please, your ancestors were farm equipment. If you were capable of building anything by yourselves (without direction from whites), explain Liberia. We grew here, you flew here. @fba_nathaniel ... Rap hip hop is a very small piece of black American culture. We built the most powerful nation in the world while under the heel of systemic white supremacy and we don't flee our homeland like everyone else does. You can never speak on black American culture 7:40 PM • Dec 15, 2023 • 20 Views 2:18 PM • 12/15/23 From Earth • 1.2M Views
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., glowering with his fingers to his temple as though taken aback by the sheer stupidity of something he just saw or heard.
The … er, rear view of the statue of Vulcan, the largest cast-iron statue in the world, standing atop Red Mountain in Birmingham, Ala.
A screenshot from the Los Angeles County elections website that shows left-NIMBY candidate Rev. Rae Huang far from the leaders, in fifth place with <3% of votes cast.
Tom Scocca, writing in the conclusion of the second-to-last post published by Gawker under Nick Denton's control: "Gawker always said it was in the business of publishing true stories. Here is one last true story: You live in a country where a billionaire can put a publication out of business. A billionaire can pick off an individual writer and leave that person penniless and without legal protection. "If you want to write stories that might anger a billionaire, you need to work for another billionaire yourself, or for a billion-dollar corporation. The law will not protect you. There is no freedom in this world but power and money."
A screenshot from Google Maps of a portion of the street grid in Katy, Tex., that surrounds the site of a crash involving a Tesla under autonomous control that plowed into a house. The pinned location of the crash sits at a 90º bend where a short residential street curves before proceeding to end at a T-stop — not a context, in other words, where an autonomous vehicle with responsibly written software or adequate training data should ever move at high speed.
Mario stands poised precariously over toxic sludge in the ‘Fungi Mines’ level of Super Mario Wonder
A picture of the Washington Monument, with storm clouds hanging in the sky, taken from the top of the eastern stairs of the Lincoln Memorial. The monument’s reflection is plainly visible in the Reflecting Pool.
A Black man wearing a yellow shirt, standing covered Nickelodeon’s notorious green slime.
A post to X by U.S. senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.): "Reagan is rolling over in his grave. Iran's nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future. Now, Iran gets to build brand-new infrastructure under this deal. "Before the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive. Now, 13 Americans are dead, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades."
From Wikipedia: "The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the printed agreement that formalized the surrender of Japan, marking the end of hostilities in World War II. It was signed by representatives from Japan and from the Allied nations: the United States, China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. The signing took place on the deck of USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay just after 09:00 Japan Standard Time (JST) and took effect at 09:25 JST on 2 September 1945."
Bart Simpson's teacher and classmates stare at him (unseen in the pov of the cartoon), a blackboard in the background, as they wait for him to say the line.
The name-bearing wall of the University of Virginia's Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, splashed with rain on an overcast day, arcing around a promenade and a water feature. A colonnade of the Thomas Jefferson-designed Rotunda looms in the background, behind trees.
The bald guy, glaring at the camera, from the famed “worst person you know just made a great point” meme.
A 2017 tweet by user @alaskancarl1: "I spilled baked beans all over myself watching Cars 2 in theaters & a black teenager shouted "this n––a eating beans" & everyone laughed.
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber (D) reminded voters that the count can continue for up to 30 days after the election, and that results will change as counties process remaining ballots. “Accuracy comes before speed,” Weber said. “California is the nation’s largest voting state, with millions of ballots to process and count. Taking the time to do this work correctly protects voters’ rights and ensures the integrity of our elections.”
1. *Large-scale adverse impact for Asians and Blacks.* We are the first to demonstrate adverse impact in deployed algorithmic hiring as one of the largest demonstrations of unfair outcomes in real high-stakes AI decisions. 25.87% of applications submitted by Black applicants and 14.74% of applications submitted by Asian applicants are directed to positions that adversely impact them based on the standards of the relevant U.S. employment law (Title VII). 2. *Adverse impact only revealed by disaggregated position-by-position analysis.* While empirical studies of algorithmic hiring are very constrained due to data access limitations, prior studies showed minimal adverse impact due studying all of the vendor's data as a whole. By studying each position separately, in accordance with the standards of Title VII, we identify positions that demonstrate adverse impact that gets washed out in aggregate.
A Truth Social post by the president featuring a conspicuously raided-out depiction of Donald Trump, standing at center in football pads and a jersey reading '47' and a pair of short shorts that look as if remaindered by Chubbies. A distinct pouch is noticeable in the groin of the shorts. Behind him stand shirtless five male cheerleaders wearing short blue gym shorts, each only looking slightly less roided out and holding red and blue pompoms. For some reason a soccer ball sits near the cheerleader visible on the left, while the depiction of Trump has a basketball under one foot and another in his hand.
When Tom announced he was running for president in 2019 and I decided not to work on his campaign, the first client I took on was Take Back The Court, a fledgeling organization advocating a then-obscure solution to the right-wing's illegitimate domination and use of the Supreme Court: Expanding and rebalancing the Court. Though few were saying it at the time, it was obvious that unless Democrats swiftly. expanded and rebalanced the Court at their first opportunity, the Court would continue dismantling American democracy and imposing a deeply unpopular far-right agenda on the nation. That 2020 field included candidates with decades of experience on the Senate Judiciary Committee, so-called revolutionaries, policy wonks - it was probably the deepest, most experienced and impressive Democratic presidential primary field of my lifetime. And Tom Steyer was the only one of them who …
Playwright and songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda, nine years ago in 2017, tweeting the below: "You're going straight to hell, @realDonaldTrump. No long lines for you. Someone will say, 'Right this way, sir.' They'll clear a path."
Greg Bovino, standing on a Chicago sidewalk in a dark, calf-length waxed canvas trench coat of the sort one does Naz— er, not see on any given day.
From an NYT running news ticker on news re: the U.S. conflict with Iran: Here’s the latest. U.S. officials are closing in on a framework for negotiations with Iran that could extend the cease-fire, lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and set the table for more substantive talks, according to three U.S. officials with knowledge of the discussions. Mr. Trump has not signed off on the emerging framework, and it was not clear if it matched Iran’s understanding. The development was the latest twist in a week that began with U.S. and Iranian officials signaling progress in talks, then saw military skirmishes rattle the region as Mr. Trump asserted that he felt no political pressure to reach an agreement.
Katie Miller, standing beside her husband Stephen Miller at the White House, wearing a pink sleeveless top. Her skin resembles an intense shade of jaundice.
Ca. Route & Interstate 110, under construction in downtown Los Angeles with U.S. 101 passing behind City Hall in the background. The shot features multiple city blocks gashed and cleared for eventual road construction, with a panoply of ramps and overpasses bridging the gap in the urban fabric.
The title of a 2021 column for the New York Times by Michelle Goldberg. It reads: "We Should All Know Less About Each Other"
A sign from a legendary internal presentation at IBM. It reads, in all caps: "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION"
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington Paris Jan. 16. 1787. … the basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. but I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them.
A pensive Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Ca.) stands beside a curtained window, looking outward. In his line of site sits a diagram called “the Ro Khanna cycle.” It consists of two bubbles, both filled with four question marks — and a pair of arrows that points from one circle to the next, in an infinite loop.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION The City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) proposes a safety improvement project on Forest Lawn Dr in coordination with scheduled street repaving. The project aims to enhance safety for all users by reconfiguring the roadway, adding physical barriers to the existing bike lanes, and promoting calmer and more orderly driving behavior. The project will address the current high levels of biking activity adjacent to fast-moving vehicles traveling to and from the 134 freeway. PROJECT TIMELINE [SUBJECT TO CHANGE] Summer 2023 DATA COLLECTION & OUTREACH Fall 2023 STUDY & DESIGN Winter 2023/Spring 2024 PROJECT COMPLETION
JUSTICE ALITO, dissenting. The Court's unreasoned order granting stays in this case is remarkable. What is at stake is the perpetration of a scheme to undermine our decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U. S. 215 (2022), which restored the right of each State to decide how to regulate abortions within its borders. Some States responded to Dobbs by making it even easier to obtain an abortion than it was before, and that is their prerogative. Other States, including Louisiana, made abortion illegal except in narrow circumstances. See, e.g., La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §40.1061 et seq. But Louisiana's efforts have been thwarted by certain medical providers, private organizations, and States that abhor laws like Louisiana's and seek to undermine their enforcement. These medical providers and private organizations have developed an operation enabling women in Louisiana and other States that restrict abortions to place an online order for a pill called mifepristone that induces abortion.