30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

Here’s one general rule of thumb I use: if you are quoting “anonymous sources” when there’s no good reason for anonymity, I just assume you made up the quote. It’s no better than “many people are saying.”

it's just fucking demented i'm sorry. this image of the world in which republicans are literally powerless, and at any moment any lib could simply pull the hammer out of their hands and make everything stop. GET OUT OF THIS FUCKING DREAMLAND

The reason people sometimes act madder at Democrats than Republicans is because anger is easy and people would rather be angry than correct (which is more work) or useful (which is even more work.) Y'all wanna be mad, but you never wanna be smart.

“Democrats should say something” Democrats say something “Democrats should do more than give speeches” Democrats obstruct confirmations so successfully that GOP has to break filibuster “Democrats should do more” Democrats shut down the government for a month. “Well, nevertheless. Bothsides”

All we wanted was affordable healthcare

Every story about things like this needs to start “Dementia concerns persist as President Trump . . . “ Just because the guy has always been a liar does not mean that we should ignore what’s obviously happening now.

Someone should write a sitcom about the one waiter at Mar-a-Lago who isn't a foreign spy, he must be confused

DEMS DO NOT CONTROL WHEN THE HOUSE AND SENATE RETURN THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO CONTROL THAT ARE MIKE JOHNSON, AND JOHN THUNE You can scream and holler all you want, but that doesn’t change the facts. Congress comes back on Mon. Dems have absolutely no ability to make it come back today or tomorrow

When they started and promoted uncommitted and abandon Harris campaigns, when they contributed to the election of Trump.

Counterpoint: calling him “Genocide Joe” got silly people a *lot* of likes from bots and Russian propagandists on social media.

And all those vaccinated against Covid, who DID NOT DIE

I was once on an elevator with Erik Estrada and was so starstruck I forgot to say anything.

People are making fun of this look. But honestly, he looks like the local attorney who helps you when you get a case in a beach town, who is best friends with every judge, every local attorney, and every police officer and knows every good lunch place and is completely invaluable.

If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine. But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.

The @nytimes.com wants her to run for president in 28.

Between guns and AI we are now going to have to deal with the GOP being pro suicide.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Smartest thing the Tech Bros did was come out hard for the GOP. Makes any criticism of or proposals to regulate AI dead on arrival.

Why, what is this i see before me on my feed? Is it… Drama? Drama for the sake of Drama? The kind of Drama that used to get likes&clicks on Xitter? *block*

D.C firm bios are so funny. “X is a former state judge. They have sat first chair on over 20 jury trials involving at least $1 billion at stake. They have argued in every federal circuit court of appeals. *Not a member of the DC bar. Supervised by DC bar members.” Thank god they are supervised!

Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel. "Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."

Possible hostage situation unfolding in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve.

Think before contacting any lawyers the rest of the week. Your email might be what pushes them quit their job to buy a holiday-themed bakery in a small town and fall in love for Christmas.

But SCOTUS rulings do have real-world impacts, and the impact of that ruling is now staring Kavanaugh's legacy in the face and smiling menacingly. This also illustrates the power of naming bad actors and calling them out. Using the term "Kavanaugh Stop" was incredibly rhetorically potent.

We don't talk about individual historical justices by name all that often unless they did something *really* good or *really* bad. Kavanaugh does not want to end up in the latter group, and he's only now realizing that he might.

It says something about the level of cynicism I have reached that it did not even occur to me that 3 conservative justices joined the liberals because they thought the liberals were correct. I saw it only as their recognition that the political winds are changing. I guess I’m a legal realist now?

There’s someone keeping track of all the crap Trump and his cronies have been doing since 2016 so it can be undone. Right? Right? Please, dear God let that be right.

it must have felt so good to be the digital media manager when the word came down to unschedule the piece from the 60 minutes feed but no one said anything about unscheduling it from the international website

Evil regimes are defeated by unsung heroes like the random person working for CBS who “accidentally“ put the spiked story up on the world newsfeed app We all need to be unsung heroes whenever we get the chance

The secretary of health just announced the plan to eliminate all recommendations for all childhood vaccines. In arguably the biggest healthcare news in years. Let’s see what the Washington Post’s resident healthcare expert has to say about it:

We do need more pushback. But there's so much to push back on and it's exhausting.

This. The current GOP has never stopped at being allowed to do what they want. They always take the next step of using the law to prevent others from doing something they don’t want.

Of all of the major jobs in government, Speaker of the House seems like it has the most potential to be interesting, important, challenging, worthwhile, dynamic, influential, important, and legacy-defining. Why would you take that job and forego all of that to just carry water for a weak president?

The difference between arguing a motion in trial court and arguing an appeal is that if you miss an opportunity to make a point in trial court, it will stop bothering you one day.

Pulled up one of my old briefs to get some case law from it. And I found a typo. The opportunities for embarrassment in this profession never end. #appellatesky

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How pundit-brained do you need to be to see people reacting unenthusiastically to Bari Weiss interviewing Erika Kirk, and concluding that the problem is the *format.*

In 100 years, political science professors are going to have to read so many freshman papers comparing the Trump administration to the movie Idiocracy. “ . . . but what many people do not realize is that a movie popular at the time had already predicted the rise of President Trump.”

I know that the current six of the Supreme Court make this an academic exercise, but if law were still real, wouldn’t preemptively pardoning people prevent them from invoking the fifth amendment in future congressional hearings?

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Trump threatened Indiana Republicans that if they didn't do what he wanted, he'd block all federal funds to their state but they ignored his threats and told him to pound sand. Take notes, college presidents.

Trump has always been an excuse for people to do what they wanted to do anyway, but lacked the political cover to do so. When entities want to oppose Trump, they do. And they’re fine. When entities want to do what Trump wants they do it and claim to be powerless to do anything else.

The amount of ink spilled by insider political journalists on stories about “insider political journalist does something“ versus the extent to which the public actually cares is one of the larger ratios in all of politics.

ME: I prefer serif fonts to non-serif fonts. THE GOP: So do we! ME: Shit. Now I have to figure out why I'm wrong.

They actually think that Times New Roman has something to do with the Roman Empire, don't they?

Everyone's Gram got one of these jawns packed with buttons and knicknacks but the cookies themselves are fire and don't get nearly enough love. $5 for this tin at Food 4 Less. Baller time.

Has anyone noticed that the DSA types are still protesting Democrats more than Trump?

Blaming Democrats for our current state of affairs when you didn't vote for them, or did but shit on them all the time, is some fucking white shit.