24 hours later -- not a peep out of any House Republican leaders or any Republicans in Congress or the Tennessee GOP at all about this. I go no responses from anyone I reached out to. Guess they're all fine with comments like this!

Democrats: what if we let the most capable, inoffensive Black guy you’ve ever met have a turn as President? Republicans: I guess we’d … destroy the world?

Which we know because that's the exact minute when the Hancock clock stopped

When a 20-something sees me type an emoticon instead of an emoji:

It’s unfair to expect detailed war planning from Donald Trump, the dove.

i don't know a single attorney who wouldn't simply die rather than go thru this hearing

This thread reads like a litigator’s fever dream.

Top Microsoft Minesweeper players of the 1990s being called up to defeat the Kodan Armada.

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

ok this is at least very funny

we have saved daylight but at what cost

The way I’ve come to see it is this: leftists view liberals as people who share their worldview but have actively decided to be on the evil side. Whereas they view conservatives as good people who just have a mistaken worldview, and they think any minute they’ll figure it out and become leftists.

The Harris campaign performed well, as far as campaigns go, in that she was multiple points closer in the swing states the campaign focused on, and had a smaller loss than most of the world's incumbent parties. There wasn't One Weird Trick she didn't do, nor One Big Mistake that cost it all. Sorry.

Four years later and we’re still surprised rival militaries are using cheap drones.

The saddest five-word story ever written.

Dario Amodei looks like a Fred Arnisen character to me. I think it every time I see a photo of him

No company lays off 40% of its workforce except when it can’t afford to pay them or wants to kill itself. AI hasn’t changed that.

“My total and utter victory over my ex-wife will be signified by her moving in with that guy Rick.”

For sale: f&?!plane, slightly worn.

Having decent opposing counsel makes life so much better for me, my client, and the opposing party. Don’t hire jerks because you want someone to be a jerk for you.

Unironically love my opposing counsel, who called me back after a meet and confer today because he forgot to ask how my family in Israel is doing (which reminded me to ask about his extended family in Iran). He's wrong about EVERYTHING substantive, of course, but just a good human being

Can’t enjoy getting a drink at a bar anymore—keep wondering if the bartender will become Representative Ocasio-Cortez or Commandant Platner.

IP law was a mistake

this is like sucker punching a guy in a bar and then whining about unfairness when he beats the hell out of you instead of just punching you once in return

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it). the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

A middle eastern energy crisis with stagflation, welcome back Carter

I know I keep saying this, but I get a perverse sense of relief when things like this happen due to the war because oh hey, reality still exists. It’s not all just content. Cause and effect are still a thing. You haven’t totally lost your fragile grip on sanity.

CBP: I know you *want* us to comply with the law, but after the last year, you can’t really *expect* it.

Does he have to dress like a chef all the time everywhere he goes, like the Mandalorian of gastronomy

After each interview, Isaac Chotiner sends clues to taunt the investigators.

If you're wondering about US Capitol Police's opinion on Senator Tim Sheehy after he attacked a protesting veteran that they were in the process of also attacking... they gave him a patch. This is what the Capitol Police think of protesters. Remember j6th with that in mind.

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."

I give this speech to almost every litigation client.

Here's my basic theory on updating priors and the truth: People update their priors when the benefits of updating their priors are greater than the costs. You might reasonably point out that the truth has benefits. And it does. But they can be very small if the truth is not actionable.

"when the truth becomes obvious people will update their priors" No! They won't! Have you spent any time on this website!

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes: Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

Me: wish there were more Gen X world leaders. [finger on the monkey’s paw curls] www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

Truly the Fyre Festival of strategic campaigns.

US Navy Ship Mogged! Private shippers suezmaxxing

When a potential client sends me a legal memo prepared by an LLM

“An X is not a personality” true for most values of X but possibly false for X=mustache.

the computer is NOT conscious. until you put googly eyes on it

I really don't think "There are so many antisemitic podcasts out there that you just can't help but appear on them" is the defense they think it is.

I am starting to wonder if people who spend a lot of time talking to LLMs lose their stamina for actual critical analysis because they're so used to having their own priors reflected back at them in the guise of another's voice.

I look forward to the day where I’m not cheering on the same diseases that are likely to kill most of us in our old age.