Crying that I got disciplined for the viewpoint discrimination of telling the judge to eat shit

I mean, this has gotta be the way most of Trump's lackeys find out they get fired, so I can get why he'd be paranoid about it.

I dunno what Alito's financial schemes look like, but for Thomas I feel like Leo would have to offer him one helluva sack of retirement cash to justify walking away from the demands of his ego (and the other, lesser sacks of cash).

Yeah I think the chances Dems would confirm any nominee to SCOTUS under Trump, if they hold the majority, is basically zero. MAYBE if the deciding vote is Fetterman. So, you know. FUCKING VOTE IN NOVEMBER.

Zero interest in watching anything Fern Gully if it doesn't have Tim Curry and, alas, I think that ship has sailed.

Oh god oh fuck yes win the senate and I can still possibly celebrate his death when a Democrat might appoint a successor

Shout out to Oscar Isaac for the "eat doritos with chopsticks hack." Just because I'm smothering my depression with nacho flavored powder doesn't mean I have to smother my fingers too.

I'm kind of struck by how much this reads like a legal test. Which I guess it sort of is, so I probably shouldn't be surprised.

Low on the list of reforms I'd like to see come as a result of this administration, but a federal anti-slapp statute is on the list. This is a post about America's most podcasting FBI director.

It's really too bad what happened to SCOTUSBlog, because one of my favorite bits from before Twitter went to shit was their annual retweeting of people who thought they were literally SCOTUS.

It is so weird having a president where the default assumption is that he's lying. Like say what you will about any other president, this is unique to him afaik!

One small thing I would do if I had a time machine is go check out what food was like in places that eat spicy food before the chili was introduced

Whenever I feel nostalgic I recall that there was a time in my youth where the top three most requested songs on the local radio station of my youth were all, at the same time, from Limp Bizkit

No, Ben! No!

I absolutely do not believe that Iran has agreed to the shit Trump says they have lmao

If Eastman can't be disciplined for advancing meritless arguments meant to advance criminal conduct because of the First Amendment then I'm not really sure what an attorney could say to a court that would permit discipline. Only ~50% confident there are 5 votes to acknowledge that on SCOTUS.

One of my favorite “wtf does that word even mean” was when people were calling new buildings at the city farmer market - which overwhelmingly though not exclusively serves suburbanites - gentrification because it might price out the artisanal pizza place that had been there for a handful of years.

The sea lion thing probably says a lot about conversation and cuddly-ness, but its also just very funny to observe from the better part of a continent away (particularly when the continent is largely impenetrable to sea lions).

Hope we get to a world where "debt collector for the debt I incurred while giving birth to my child" is just not a thing.

anyway, if you’d like to help me pay off some debt you can commission an original art piece 😂

Holy shit, I have NEVER been more excited for a movie.

Someone has probably written a very earnest essay on race in Bluey and I can’t decide whether I want to find out

There was only one way this post could end and the only question was whether it was gonna zig or zag.

“Choosing to read “due to time constraints”” here as him acknowledging his death is near

My personal theory is he believes they truly obliterated the nuclear program and this is his teams way of letting him think that while also dealing with reality.

This is exactly what a lot of people hoped for after Clinton lost (hence part of the impossible to disprove, never ending “Bernie would have won” which got us Joe Biden, who ran as a centrist during his campaign. But surely this time would be different!

This is, by the by, not unique to treatlerism; for e.g. Slotkin the initial over learned lesson, with less evidence I think, was that identity issues were a killer.

IMHO some of the austerity talk is akin to doomerism. The future isn't written. Anyway, Rs play after this is going to be to promise they can return us to the pre-Trumpian great times without any sacrifices, and Dems have to have an answer beyond German-ish "gotta tighten our belts."

TBC the thing threatening her status here is not the tax itself, its the prospect of tax directed at her class generally. Hence the "more to come" (which, yes, is also a bit of fear mongering about communism but, to her, the difference between communism and taxing the wealthy is marginal).

This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.

Sunday afternoon, I am at the cheese counter, absent-mindedly holding the last thing of gruyere, and then I am no longer holding this thing of gruyere because the governor of the state of Oklahoma has taken it out of my hand. Flanked by two heavies, she looks at me like whatchu gonna do about it.

I don't really follow Tucker so I'm trying to understand what's going on here My cynical explanation is that he is aware "Evangelical white Christian nationalists" is a relatively small group and sees an opportunity to hold onto support from socially conservative Muslims, but welcome other takes.

Oh man I read this close to 20 years ago and I remain convinced this book is responsible for like 95% of the drivel coming out of SV these days.

Something I think is getting a little lost in the DC Circuit blocking a criminal contempt inquiry again discourse is what exactly these Trump judges are trying to shield from scrutiny They're saying nonsense to help the admin avoid consequences for *horrors* ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

It's so on brand that he always describes the country the way he would describe one of his golf courses.

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

People are going to be mad if the Strait reopens in a less open way than prior to the war and the stock market goes back up on that news, but, again, the stock market is a representation of people's expectation of future value, not a statement on our ruler being dumb as pig shit and evil as sin.

I think this is one of those things where it can be many different things for different people and circumstances. This is why I write in some settings; in others I'm writing to achieve a specific result and whether its my voice or thoughts is irrelevant to me (and my clients).

I guess one upside of the neo nazi shit in my middle school making my life hell when I was 12 is that I don't look upon the world with rose tinted nostalgia for that time. Goldeneye on the N64 DID slap though.

I think she’s being completely sincere and this also explains so much of why the elite institutions have - not universally - been more willing to fold to Trumpism than the average non MAGA citizen. For a lot of the rich the scariest thing they can think of is anything that threatens their status.

Young men, are you being ghosted after six weeks by the girl you met on the polyamory app? Have you considered some self reflection? Look in the mirror. What do you see? Nothing? Consider it is you who is actually the ghost.

Did the BlueSky devs also vibe code my mail order pharmacy's webpage? Is that why it's down too?

It would be extremely difficult, I think, to require companies to pass tariff refunds back to consumers in any way that correlates to the burden the consumers bore.

I am going to become A Guy about this. This is not America's 250th anniversary. The United States of America did not exist upon the signing of a declaration of independence. Think the first reasonable year you could pick is 1781.

Holy fuck.

Does... he think the Declaration of Independence is a governing document of the United States of America?

So we're still trying to specifically kill one of the leaders we're ostensibly trying to negotiate with?

If you are a "leftist" arguing that beef should be dirt cheap you are just not a serious person.

We did the "oh of course bluesky is shit because its vibe coded" like two weeks ago when it was a cloud service outage, its frankly a bit embarrassing to see people making everything about AI.