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@crary.bsky.social
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He/him. Originally from the Finger Lakes, moved to the Canadian prairie. Not because it rhymes with my name, but I don't mind that. Lawyer in two countries, competent adult in neither.
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gregpak.net
I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
crary.bsky.social
Agreed, death threats are always wrong.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
crary.bsky.social
My major thought reading the Nuzzi article: does anyone actually like the Paradiso in the Divine Comedy? Both the Purgatorio and (of course) the Inferno are genuinely fun and worthwhile reads. I have slogged through the Paradiso twice, and maybe it's me, but it is just a slog.
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
crary.bsky.social
We are officially reaching the point where parody and reality are indistinguishable.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Love 2 go to the doctor and not know what body part they’re analyzing
Trump: I had an MRI and the result was outstanding. Reporter: Was it your brain? Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well.
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
crary.bsky.social
The fact that the response including "tsuris" made me think the "bubba" here might also be Yiddish, but I wouldn't expect that to be capitalized, and "blowing grandma" is somehow even more disturbing.
opdeatheaters.bsky.social Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 1d
Mark Epstein asked his brother Jeffrey Epstein whether Steve Bannon could confirm if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba. Jeffrey Epstein: "I thought I had tsuris,” using the Yiddish term for troubles. #OpDeathEaters
From: Mark L. Epstein Sent: 3/21/2018 2:54:13 PM To: 'jeffrey E.' [jeevacation@gmail.com] RE: hey Subject: High I'd rather be in Donni Dee's shoes. Importance: From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:43 AM To: Mark L. Epstein Subject: Re: hey you mean DONNI TEE On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Mark L. Epstein wrote: You and your boy Donnie can make a remake of the movie Get Hard. Sent via tin can and string. On Mar 21, 2018, at 09:37, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: and i thought- I had tsuris On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:32 AM, Mark L. Epstein Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba? wrote: From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 2:15 PM To: Subject: Re: hey All good. Bannon with me On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:49 PM Mark L. Epstein wrote: How are you doing? A while back you mentioned that you were prediabetic. Has anything changed with that? What is your boy Donald up to now? please note HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030719
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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gabrielmalor.bsky.social
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...
Defendants do not deny any of this. Instead, their principal argument is that the UC might not agree to the proposed conditions for restoring funding, so Plaintiffs’ present case is too speculative to be heard. But Plaintiffs’ harm is already very real. With every day that passes, UCLA continues to be denied the chance to win new grants, ratchetting up Defendants’ pressure campaign. And numerous UC faculty and staff have submitted declarations describing how Defendants’ actions have already chilled speech throughout the UC system. They describe how they have stopped teaching or researching topics they are afraid are too “left” or “woke,” in order to avoid triggering further funding cancellations by Defendants. They also give examples of projects the UC has stopped due to fear of the same reprisals. These are classic, predictable First Amendment harms, and exactly what Defendants publicly said that they intended. The undisputed record demonstrates that Defendants have engaged in coercive and Case 3:25-cv-07864-RFL Document 90 Filed 11/14/25 Page 2 of 76 3 retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and Tenth Amendment. It also shows that they have flouted the requirements of Title VI and IX and cancelled funding in an arbitrary and capricious manner while ignoring required procedural safeguards. None of the jurisdictional
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
crary.bsky.social
Kid seems like a good writer and a terrible journalist. Good match for Nuzzi that way.
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d
Wait so the person who wrote that Nuzzi profile is Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron’s son?????????

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November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
crary.bsky.social
I don't mean to diminish anything about the poignancy here, but it somehow it seems fitting in our insane times that this clergyman has a nearly identical name to the "journalist" who was advising Epstein.
jackjenkins.me Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
crary.bsky.social
Remember: chatbots are neither therapists nor lawyers. You should consider everything you say to them to be (at least potentially) publicly available. www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/j...
Judge Orders OpenAI To Give Lawyers 20 Million Private Chats, Thinks ‘Anonymization’ Can Keep Them Private
A federal magistrate judge just ordered that the private ChatGPT conversations of 20 million users be handed over to the lawyers for dozens of plaintiffs, including news organizations. Those 20 mil…
www.techdirt.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
crary.bsky.social
Wake up babe, new addition to the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine just dropped
Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, posts on Twitter: "President Trump ordered action--and the Department of War is delivering. Today, I'm announcing Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR. Led by Joint Task Force southern Spear and @SOUTHCOM, this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland form the drugs that are killing our people. The Western Hemisphere is America's neighborhood--and we will protect it."
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
crary.bsky.social
This is precisely why, whenever I say anything even remotely sensitive in text, I begin with "The person reading this is a loser and has a dumb face."
opadit.bsky.social opadit @opadit.bsky.social · 1d
lawyer's corollary: don't put in e-mail (or in a text, or in a voicemail, or on social media) anything you don't want read back to you in court
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d
all I’m gonna say is that I am a life-long slightly edgy poster and I’ve never caught a suspension or a ban anywhere - because it is in fact quite easy to avoid crossing the “this joke could possibly be construed as a violent threat” line on social media
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
crary.bsky.social
Ms. Nuzzi was, and probably still is, a very good writer. I wish she would have the grace to write fiction under a pseudonym or something and not force me to contemplate any of this.
jeradwalker.bsky.social Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1d
what the actual fuck
A headline from the New York Times: Olivia Nuzzi Did It All For Love The article lede: By Jacob Bernstein Reporting from Los Angeles Nov. 14, 2025 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the politician, even though she was a political reporter and he was then a presidential candidate she had written about. She loved his eyes, "blue as the flame." She loved that "the sight of something as trivial as a rose" could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his "particular complications and particular darkness." But she said "I love you" only after he said it first. He called her "Livvy" and wrote her poems. He said he wanted her to have his baby. He promised to take a bullet for her.
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
crary.bsky.social
I'd love to have someone with more expertise than I do weigh in, but I suspect this is not actually nefarious, and simply has more to do with the practical realities of the President using the airport? Not sure. www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...
Epstein's pilot coordinated flights with Trump's multiple times during first term: emails
Larry Visoski, who served as Jeffrey Epstein’s personal pilot for decades, appears to have coordinated multiple flights for Epstein with President Donald Trump’s, according to files released this week...
www.rawstory.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
crary.bsky.social
There's the famous "Two Letters" anecdote about Khruschev and Brezhnev. It feels like this administration is running that same play, but they just keep reopening that first letter.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d
We inherited” is the new “but her emails.” They take responsibility for nothing. Who deported workers in the food production industry? Who imposed massive tariffs on finished goods, agricultural products. and raw materials? Who promised to lower prices “on day one”?
November 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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gregjenner.bsky.social
Meta is using your Whatsapp messages and Facebook & Instagram DMs to train its generative AI. If you want to object, you can do so here www.facebook.com/privacy/genai
How Meta uses information for generative AI models
Learn how Meta uses information for generative artificial intelligence, generative AI models.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
crary.bsky.social
This is the kind of thing that makes Ms. Kabas required reading.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d
NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
WH claims 'inflation tamed,' per DoorDash stats. Company says that's not in its report.
It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
crary.bsky.social
I knew I liked Billie Eilish. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/hug...
Huge Pop Star Slams ‘Pathetic P***y B***h Coward’ Elon Musk
She eviscerated the world’s richest man in Instagram posts about wealth.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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muellershewrote.com
LOL: Eric Adams. ERIC ADAMS sent an email out today reminding state employees they can't accept gifts this holiday season. BAHAHAHAHA
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
crary.bsky.social
Bluesky needs more Proudhon
decayfsu.bsky.social Human Catapult in the Burger Realm @decayfsu.bsky.social · 1d
Property is theft. No borders, no nations, no gods, no masters. Liberation for all people means all people everywhere and in all forms.
taliabhatt.itch.io Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 1d
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
crary.bsky.social
I was too old for his big projects, and he's better able to raise money than most people, but I still find this just terribly sad. We all deserve better.
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
crary.bsky.social
No one, and I mean NO ONE, thinks less of Trump voters than J.D. Vance.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
crary.bsky.social
It won't happen, but there should absolutely be an Order to Show Cause why Bovino should not be held in contempt.
www.rawstory.com/bovino-threa...
Border Patrol chief vows retaliation after judge releases wrongly held detainees
U.S. Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino threatened to retaliate after a federal judge suggested as many as 600 detainees could be released due to violations of a consent decree requiring warrants for ...
www.rawstory.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
This order from U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings is in.

Read it here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/48/44/b1b85a...
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM