T. Greg Doucette
@gregdoucette.bsky.social
In-House Counsel @ BigTech. Ex-"Computers Guy," then decade litigating 1A in NC+TX. Servant to two cats (and a dog and a wife). Armchair Philanthropist.
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Very rich people who live in big, cosmopolitan metro areas live there because of cosmopolitan metro area stuff.
If they wanted to live somewhere else, they would’ve moved already.
The people least troubled by cost of living will upend their life for marginal increases in cost of living? Come on.
If they wanted to live somewhere else, they would’ve moved already.
The people least troubled by cost of living will upend their life for marginal increases in cost of living? Come on.
December 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Very rich people who live in big, cosmopolitan metro areas live there because of cosmopolitan metro area stuff.
If they wanted to live somewhere else, they would’ve moved already.
The people least troubled by cost of living will upend their life for marginal increases in cost of living? Come on.
If they wanted to live somewhere else, they would’ve moved already.
The people least troubled by cost of living will upend their life for marginal increases in cost of living? Come on.
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trump is genuinely an aberration. one could not have predicted him winning from the perspective of 2014. it took an incredible chain of contingencies to happen. it almost did not.
December 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
trump is genuinely an aberration. one could not have predicted him winning from the perspective of 2014. it took an incredible chain of contingencies to happen. it almost did not.
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there is a reason that Trump is striking out in front of his own district court judges and that the Heritage Foundation is imploding. it's because this isn't true. people have been saying this for years. they were right for Gettier case reasons.
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
there is a reason that Trump is striking out in front of his own district court judges and that the Heritage Foundation is imploding. it's because this isn't true. people have been saying this for years. they were right for Gettier case reasons.
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this feels like a "you won't guess where this is going" LinkedIn post for the ages
December 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
this feels like a "you won't guess where this is going" LinkedIn post for the ages
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I think the term "Heritage-American" demonstrates an inability to assimilate. Why do these people insist on hyphenating themselves!
December 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I think the term "Heritage-American" demonstrates an inability to assimilate. Why do these people insist on hyphenating themselves!
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Britain: oh crap are we really going to have to do a nuclear war plan against the Americans
France: oh yay we get to dust off our nuclear war plans against the Americans
France: oh yay we get to dust off our nuclear war plans against the Americans
JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS LIKELY ENEMIES.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
December 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Britain: oh crap are we really going to have to do a nuclear war plan against the Americans
France: oh yay we get to dust off our nuclear war plans against the Americans
France: oh yay we get to dust off our nuclear war plans against the Americans
True story: using a political campaign to help people is how the Bull City Foodraiser began, back in December 2015
at a deep instinctive level they can't recognise popular ideas or take them seriously
December 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
True story: using a political campaign to help people is how the Bull City Foodraiser began, back in December 2015
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No joke but a truly huge part of the problem is the incredibly shrinking Congressional remit, I still think this is downstream of the fillibuster and the problem of American government that practically none of its institutions was set up to facilitate compromise in a divided government
a lot of [gestures] can be traced back to this
With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Dec. 22, the House and Senate set a modern record for lowest legislative output in the first year of a new presidency, according to data maintained by C-SPAN and Purdue University. https://wapo.st/3YPTQGo
December 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
No joke but a truly huge part of the problem is the incredibly shrinking Congressional remit, I still think this is downstream of the fillibuster and the problem of American government that practically none of its institutions was set up to facilitate compromise in a divided government
Cops are great
Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40.
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
December 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Cops are great
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I really think people should give serious consideration to my proposed rule that the government can’t deport anyone to a third country that the president hasn’t heard of, can’t spell, or can’t find on a map.
December 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I really think people should give serious consideration to my proposed rule that the government can’t deport anyone to a third country that the president hasn’t heard of, can’t spell, or can’t find on a map.
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Pfft. His mother would’ve just glided across the entire floor in one move.
Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
December 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Pfft. His mother would’ve just glided across the entire floor in one move.
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on some level you have to stand in awe of the gall it takes to use this tone about someone people are angry at for suppressing a story about a concentration camp
December 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
on some level you have to stand in awe of the gall it takes to use this tone about someone people are angry at for suppressing a story about a concentration camp
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Avatar’s cultural relevance discourse is an expression of slop anxiety, the worry that most people don’t actually want something interesting like you do, and you know what? It’s fine if they don’t. Cool stuff still gets made and you get to enjoy it.
December 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Avatar’s cultural relevance discourse is an expression of slop anxiety, the worry that most people don’t actually want something interesting like you do, and you know what? It’s fine if they don’t. Cool stuff still gets made and you get to enjoy it.
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I mean, if you make a series of movies that neither has significant cultural impact nor leaves any residue on the memory track, and yet still reliably convinces audiences to return to the tune of $2 billion per installment, is it possible that "cultural impact" is overvalued/irrelevant as a metric
Avatar makes a lot of money at the box office. Certainly has advanced the art and tech of the industry. But I think relative to its BO dominance its cultural imprint is noticeably small. Never would I bet against James Cameron, but most people don’t remember much other than the aliens are blue.
December 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I mean, if you make a series of movies that neither has significant cultural impact nor leaves any residue on the memory track, and yet still reliably convinces audiences to return to the tune of $2 billion per installment, is it possible that "cultural impact" is overvalued/irrelevant as a metric
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You can buy a home nicer than anyone in the history of the human race lived in until at least 1997 for like five dollars in Mississippi and yet for some reason these guys don’t seem eager to move there.
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
You can buy a home nicer than anyone in the history of the human race lived in until at least 1997 for like five dollars in Mississippi and yet for some reason these guys don’t seem eager to move there.
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the reason you get a bunch of these “people thinking about leaving” pieces but then nobody much leaves isn’t sinister imo.
it’s that it’s very very easy to think about moving, but actually moving is an enormous pain in the ass
it’s that it’s very very easy to think about moving, but actually moving is an enormous pain in the ass
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
the reason you get a bunch of these “people thinking about leaving” pieces but then nobody much leaves isn’t sinister imo.
it’s that it’s very very easy to think about moving, but actually moving is an enormous pain in the ass
it’s that it’s very very easy to think about moving, but actually moving is an enormous pain in the ass
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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But what he lacks in aesthetics, he makes up for in class.
December 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
But what he lacks in aesthetics, he makes up for in class.
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Marble armrests sound so comfortable. This man is dumb AF.
December 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Marble armrests sound so comfortable. This man is dumb AF.
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I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.
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Literally did the meme lol
December 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Literally did the meme lol
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“They made kids wear Star Wars masks during a global pandemic!” is the most hilariously lame battle cry I’ve ever heard.
Ben's hero is going to give a generation of kids measles but he's still sucking his thumb over masks during a pandemic
December 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“They made kids wear Star Wars masks during a global pandemic!” is the most hilariously lame battle cry I’ve ever heard.
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Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
"Every accusation is a confession" remains undefeated
I somehow missed this www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
December 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"Every accusation is a confession" remains undefeated