Silver lining to the dog waking me up at 2 am is a perfect view of Jupiter on a fantastic clear night.

Ehhh, this is probably just his standard move to deflect from his own fears and mortality by pretending he’s so busy and just goes along with whatever ‘they’ tell him he needs to do. Remember in 2020 when he panicked about protests and hid in the bunker, later claiming secret service insisted?

every now and then I step back a bit and admire just how truly batshit insane the situation the country is in truly is

Call me crazy but on top of everything else we should charge the whole goddamn Republican ecosystem under RICO.

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

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“Unauthorized immigrants, you say?”

“All I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN.” “ … The View with their Low IQ Republican hating anchors.”

RICO for Republicans

Call me crazy but on top of everything else we should charge the whole goddamn Republican ecosystem under RICO.

Fed. judge holds that the Trump administration engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First and Tenth Amendments in its pretextual attacks on the University of California system. PI granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It isn’t that so many of the world’s most powerful men happen to be sexual sadists. It is that at a certain level of power, what obscenity is left but to violate the most vulnerable? Wealth shifts the baseline of morality until what is possible is acceptable. With enough money, anything is possible.

two people asked me about this article in DMs. all I'm going to say is that there is a *lot* more complexity and nuance to the market.

This is so, so cool to see.

My great grandmother Rachel Kaufman (nee Miller) died 35 years ago today. Born near Odesa in 1897, she was already a young adult by the October Revolution. Rachel lived to see the recognition of an independent Ukraine and was only six weeks shy of outliving the USSR. She also got to know me!

This should be on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

You’ll be shocked! I can’t recommend this historically accurate movie enough.

the contrast between the NY Times profile of Olivia Nuzzi, and their recent profile of Aaron Greenspan, says a looooot about that institution's values in the age of Trump (derogatory)

genuinely lmao

Happy Bundist Manifesto day! 88 years ago, at the 40th anniversary Congress of the Bund in Warsaw, a ‘Manifesto’ drafted by Bundist leader Henryk Ehrlich was adopted. This remarkable document was transcribed from an out-of-print book for us by frequent contributor Zach Smerin. A remarkable read.

As expected, Musk’s Grokipedia is Wikipedia but Nazi.

Something something crisis masculinity

It's unsettling how many people fell for the claim that an administration that hires open Nazi sympathizers and does a bunch of Nazi-like stuff is "fighting antisemitism." Some want to believe, agreeing with the regime's anti-free-speech and anti-academic freedom goals. But some just fell for it.

NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two newly hired senior FBI staff, exempting them from polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information, officials said.

In 2025, LinkedIn is even more depressing. It’s either “After being underpaid and underappreciated, I’m looking for my next chapter.” or “As founder of pails.ai, I was honored to be asked to speak at the EGO Conference about how AI is revolutionizing B2B sales of buckets. Here’s what I learned…”

LinkedIn used to bum me out bc it seemed like every random acquaintance from college and law school was now Distinguished Chair of Theoretical Astrophysics Law at a Fortune 100 company.

Kavanaugh Stop

Change "Juden" to "Asians" and you've got the subtext (if not the straight up explicit words) of about half the white NIMBYs in San Francisco

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

JFC. 15 year olds aren’t “underage,” they are children. The issue isn’t merely a legal technicality, it’s that they are children.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

JFC. 15 year olds aren’t “underage,” they are children. The issue isn’t merely a legal technicality, it’s that they are children.

ok weirdo

Again this is the model Orban and Putin used successfully to crush civil society.

Ngl I made kashe varnishkes for dinner and I’m in a pretty happy place about that. No question the magic ingredient would be schmaltz, but miyoko’s is a decent substitute.

Look, there are two issues. 1) The timing and explanations didn’t add up. 2) The bigger one isn’t Platner, it’s how so many people dismissed the concerns of core Dem supporters, resorting to gaslighting and ad hominem. The msg was: Winning blue collar white men is more important than losing you.

THIS:

One of the reasons people--myself included--are upset is the lack of transparency from the Times about this entire situation when they've gone on endless crusades against transgender people on flimsy evidence or ideological whim; we can also talk about the Mamdani/Columbia thing or Claudine Gay.

There's a very obvious double standard at work here, where we get JAQing off FUD about Biden's mental health, the mere existence of transgender people, Clinton's email habits, trans people again, Mamdani's college app, more about trans people, but impenetrable "standards" for anything else.

My great grandmother Rachel Kaufman (nee Miller) died 35 years ago tomorrow. Born near Odesa in 1897, she was already a young adult by the October Revolution. Rachel lived to see the recognition of an independent Ukraine and was only six weeks shy of outliving the USSR. She also got to know me!

Yep. Even the Jews who don’t think they are.

The more we say this, the more likely it is to deter someone from participating. People using violence on behalf of this administration know they are breaking the law. They are afraid of being prosecuted.

bluesky lawyers and others in the field, any recommendation for Lucy?

Bump just now. Earthquake in SF East Bay.

My temporarily mute keywords list keeps growing

Well this is atrocious

It appears Magistrate Judge Laura McNally has arrived for the morning's inspection, along with a team of attorneys. "Hold them accountable!" A protestor yells repeatedly. "They had a week to clean things up, remember that!" Another says through a megaphone.

The goal for the fascists planning on global ethnic cleansing and genocide is simple murder as many people as they can before their is pushback. bsky.app/profile/brai...

Maha is expressly a eugenics and social murder operation masked as it pic health. And always has been bsky.app/profile/brai...