Well my kids will never eat McDonalds again as long as I’m buying.

Remember there is ALWAYS a parent worse than you. I hate when my kids "prank" me by handing me stuff that they should throw away. Yesterday my kid did that with gum and I fired it back at them in between soccer games. Just got the call from school that kid "seems to have gum stuck in their hair."

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the worm began to take hold.

Watched the first two episodes of Pluribus. It’s terrific!

Ooooooh I bet the writing is turgid and the ideas are tedious

I'm proud of this piece - about about victimhood (and victims' "rights") when the primary bearer of harm is dead. & I'm really grateful to MLR for terrific work!

larry summers really is as ugly and piggish and small as every single person who has ever met him reports

guys i've been tied up with other things most of the day and DID I MISS ANYTHING

I've had a very tough time figuring out which bureaucratic unit is the best fit for the Slough House moniker.

sometimes bluesky reminds you of twitter

Folks can get mad at me but his article is deeply misleading. It makes it sound like Trump pardoned him for attempting to solicit sex from who he thought was a 15-year old girl. He basically got time served for an ABSURD 1,306 days in pretrial detention, and still has to register as a sex offender.

Every day stupider than the one before it is the iron law of the trump era

Honestly the whole of charging misconduct law is messed up because the Court built it up to deal with indirect, more subtle types of discrimination and vindictiveness, not the head of the executive branch accidentally tweeting the entire country with direct evidence.

Uh I hate to break it to Slow House but you can't pardon state crimes, and all of the fake elector prosecutions involve state offenses.

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE JOY DIVISION SONG A) Love Will Tear Us Apart B) Transmission C) Disorder D) Atmosphere E) Pick a deeper cut Lee

People are focusing on the venality and corruption but I’m here to say that I’m certain this is the shittiest wine on the market.

dear DELTA: next time please do not "upgrade" me to the middle seat in an "extra legroom" row. seriously WHAT THE FUCK

The Case of the Hero’s Hero: NOT GUILTY

Oh dear god yes. I booked out first anniversary hotel for the wrong weekend.

Just got out of 2 hours of teaching and lordy this is what I needed.

Just need a favorable verdict in the Hero's Hero case and my November joy quota is filled.

This is absolutely unacceptable Bill. I need the full force of a man who thinks he is a thinker because he is rich doing I'm-rich-therefore-I-think things.

Would love to see polling on Jewish voters if people have it

When I read my emails on my phone in the morning before I put on my glasses, I read them at “point blank range”

i will say that 21% of staten islanders declaring an intent to leave really triggers the threat-or-promise rejoinder. nypost.com/2025/11/03/u...

"and sweet" they say it was depraved and evil and venal, but never let them deny that it's from the stupidest fucking people on earth

regret to inform you that the most common grownup costume from last night was the "6-7"

Alright team how do we feel about the new season of the Witcher, I’ve had enough Halloween drinks to debate starting a binge

This is less frustrating than it could be because low info American voter only knows that Rs control government and government is closed so they blame Rs.

I swear to god "It's not like he has a nazi tattoo" is how I talked myself into voting for sub-optimal candidates for most of my adult life

anyone else having trouble with the outlook web client rn?

oh is it fucking interesting the don't-like-nazi-tattoos power structure

I think it's possible to get so caught up in the thrust and parry of it all to lose sight of how fucking stupid these arguments are. Just shit that would lose 100-0 on a neutral field.

FWIW the way this comes up is if there is an actual prosecution and the pardon as asserted as a defense; the courts would have to agree that the pardon is void.

“I will not tear gas little girls dressed as KPop Demon Hunters” is an intelligible sentence in YOOL 2025

FWIW I’ve been making this point on here and it seems to rankle folks - I would add two things: (1) this is more a public authorization defense than entrapment by estoppel; and (2) the efficacy of the shield for different Ds depends on when they acted relative to production of the memo.

I swear to god he would brag about reading the top line of the eye chart

Was there, like, an intern at Jacobin who was like “hey maybe we shouldn’t run this because it’s possible they just really don’t like Nazi tattoos?”

Every day stupider than the one before it

People who are giggling at this have not spent hours trying to alter/compress/convert pdfs into whatever ECFs protocols happen to require on that day. I thought sympathy for halligan was impossible but this gets me.

One thing that is under-discussed is that the United States can never regain status as a credible counterparty. Even if we elect the best admin in history, the specter of Trumpian chaos will spook any other country contemplating agreements that need to span different administrations.

Every day stupider than the one before

I feel this shift in perspective in my bones. The guy eating alone at the end of the bar is the happiest one there.

slough house

Just like the framers intended

Honestly I’d much rather know what fraction of indies are enrollees than the fraction of enrollees that are indies.

This was the most MJ shit ever

oh man, no good options here

You know some headline writer somewhere wanted to be like “SOME LEGAL EXPERTS SUGGEST THAT THERE MIGHT BE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST