if we didn't know who'd nailed her audition for the role of Belatrix Lestrange...

We do now. Goddammit. Looking your way, Florida.

This snarl brought to you by news of the classified documents case this morning. 'Nuff said.

Is there any recourse here? As in, any that doesn't rely on the genuine legal scholarship, as opposed to the ideological agendas and obvious toadyism, of a certain high court majority?

my whiteness is showing again

I was a particular, not-disclosed age in the summer of 2024 when I realized that the line 'ain't no smiling faces lyin' to the races' is one reference, one coherent phrase, and not somehow two separate items on the song's list.

Tiny me did not get it, and was confused and a touch dismayed. Adult me only recently got it, and feels like Blanca McWhiteskin and a doofus.