Michael Salerno
@mikenjd.bsky.social
Broadway lawyer. Lover of entertainment, politics, and woefully, the New York Mets.
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"The president has determined that pigs fly, and only the president can determine if pigs fly."
Breaking News: A secret Justice Department memo approving the Trump administration’s boat strikes is said to rely on the president’s claims about drug cartels.
Justice Dept. Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
Accounts of a secret Justice Department memo offer a window into how administration lawyers approved the president’s desired course of action.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"The president has determined that pigs fly, and only the president can determine if pigs fly."
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Duke would be more comfortable at Rutgers
abolish elite private universities and absord them into the state systems
Harvard -> UMass Cambridge
Yale -> Connecticut State U
Duke -> NC Institute of Tech
Stanford -> Cal State Palo Alto
Harvard -> UMass Cambridge
Yale -> Connecticut State U
Duke -> NC Institute of Tech
Stanford -> Cal State Palo Alto
"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.
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 1:05 PM
Duke would be more comfortable at Rutgers
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On top of that, as someone with aging parents, I have to point out that it is breathtakingly offensive to me for anyone to suggest three minutes of my mother talking in the kitchen could tell a machine everything it needs to know about her to simulate her. Fuck off, you ghouls.
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
On top of that, as someone with aging parents, I have to point out that it is breathtakingly offensive to me for anyone to suggest three minutes of my mother talking in the kitchen could tell a machine everything it needs to know about her to simulate her. Fuck off, you ghouls.
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As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
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More than 10 years ago, I was an Army Colonel assigned to SOUTHCOM. I cannot EVEN imagine what is going through the minds of our servicemembers & civilians that serve at that HQ. The cherry on top is the HQ is directly across the street from DT's Doral golf course. Don't let this story disappear📣
Looks like we’re going to war with Venezuela to distract from the Epstein files.
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
More than 10 years ago, I was an Army Colonel assigned to SOUTHCOM. I cannot EVEN imagine what is going through the minds of our servicemembers & civilians that serve at that HQ. The cherry on top is the HQ is directly across the street from DT's Doral golf course. Don't let this story disappear📣
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Trump’s new “affordability” push is basically reversing the tariffs he said would never cause un-affordability.
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Trump’s new “affordability” push is basically reversing the tariffs he said would never cause un-affordability.
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
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JUST slightly worse than “I’m a Bing guy.”
“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
JUST slightly worse than “I’m a Bing guy.”
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“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.
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Guys and Dolls is the show that is most likely to be wildly entertaining regardless of which company is staging it, up to and including 7th graders.
what is the best musical of all time and please explain yourself so i know whether or not to be angry at you
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Guys and Dolls is the show that is most likely to be wildly entertaining regardless of which company is staging it, up to and including 7th graders.
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I remember just last year that every day in every way, the media took time to inform me that Joe Biden Is Old.
But now that they've been handed the biggest scandal in living memory, the granddaddy of them all, the HOLY SHIT THEY WERE FUCKING CHILDREN scandal?
"Hey, c'mon, it's ... it's okay, man."
But now that they've been handed the biggest scandal in living memory, the granddaddy of them all, the HOLY SHIT THEY WERE FUCKING CHILDREN scandal?
"Hey, c'mon, it's ... it's okay, man."
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I remember just last year that every day in every way, the media took time to inform me that Joe Biden Is Old.
But now that they've been handed the biggest scandal in living memory, the granddaddy of them all, the HOLY SHIT THEY WERE FUCKING CHILDREN scandal?
"Hey, c'mon, it's ... it's okay, man."
But now that they've been handed the biggest scandal in living memory, the granddaddy of them all, the HOLY SHIT THEY WERE FUCKING CHILDREN scandal?
"Hey, c'mon, it's ... it's okay, man."
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Dean made one exuberant yelling noise and the entire political media declared him a dead man walking.
NPR's Talk of the Nation had a weekly political segment and the introduction included the Dean Scream until the show ended in 2013.
But our Fourth Estate decided fucking kids is no big deal.
NPR's Talk of the Nation had a weekly political segment and the introduction included the Dean Scream until the show ended in 2013.
But our Fourth Estate decided fucking kids is no big deal.
For four days tv news played Howard Dean screaming 633 times back in 2004!
2004: The scream that doomed Howard Dean
YouTube video by CNN
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November 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Dean made one exuberant yelling noise and the entire political media declared him a dead man walking.
NPR's Talk of the Nation had a weekly political segment and the introduction included the Dean Scream until the show ended in 2013.
But our Fourth Estate decided fucking kids is no big deal.
NPR's Talk of the Nation had a weekly political segment and the introduction included the Dean Scream until the show ended in 2013.
But our Fourth Estate decided fucking kids is no big deal.
1000x this
we need a word for anti-charisma, that quality that makes people instinctively dislike you and find you so annoying that they are not interested in what you have to say even if they really want to hear more on the topic, basically we need a word for how I feel about Harry Enten
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
1000x this
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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Rhetoric taken directly from Nazi Twitter. I can tell you the precise accounts even
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Rhetoric taken directly from Nazi Twitter. I can tell you the precise accounts even
Listen, I'm from the East Coast. I'm from the NYC metropolitan area.
This is some of the worst East Coast Bias I have ever seen. Cal Raleigh had the greatest season by a catcher ever, and nearly single-handedly got his team to the World Series.
Judge was great, but come on now.
This is some of the worst East Coast Bias I have ever seen. Cal Raleigh had the greatest season by a catcher ever, and nearly single-handedly got his team to the World Series.
Judge was great, but come on now.
Tarik Skubal finished 5th in AL MVP voting, including one 3rd-place vote. Riley Greene received a 9th- and 10th-place vote.
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Listen, I'm from the East Coast. I'm from the NYC metropolitan area.
This is some of the worst East Coast Bias I have ever seen. Cal Raleigh had the greatest season by a catcher ever, and nearly single-handedly got his team to the World Series.
Judge was great, but come on now.
This is some of the worst East Coast Bias I have ever seen. Cal Raleigh had the greatest season by a catcher ever, and nearly single-handedly got his team to the World Series.
Judge was great, but come on now.
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If my 7-year-old engaged in this sort of bigotry and name calling I would expect to find myself in a parent-teacher conference by tomorrow afternoon. Meanwhile, the White House Press Secretary is out here on national television, living her best life
After calling Schumer a "Palestinian," Leavitt refers to "Gavin Newscum." So she's just ripping off her boss's smears now.
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If my 7-year-old engaged in this sort of bigotry and name calling I would expect to find myself in a parent-teacher conference by tomorrow afternoon. Meanwhile, the White House Press Secretary is out here on national television, living her best life
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How convenient
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
How convenient
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Bovino seems like he’s getting closer to admitting their entire premise is a lie, it has nothing to do with the law, and his mission is really about ethnic cleaning and terror.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Bovino seems like he’s getting closer to admitting their entire premise is a lie, it has nothing to do with the law, and his mission is really about ethnic cleaning and terror.
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HOLY COW. Basically, as folks note in the comments. Halligan allowed the court reporter to believe they were done for the day but then called the Grand Jury back. There is no judge, etc at these. So very likely she reconvened with no court reporter.
I can't see how charges stand if that's true.
I can't see how charges stand if that's true.
Today, the judge deciding the legality of Lindsey Halligan's appointment said the court reporter stopped transcribing grand jury proceedings in the Comey case at 4:28 PM. That's over TWO HOURS that's missing.
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
HOLY COW. Basically, as folks note in the comments. Halligan allowed the court reporter to believe they were done for the day but then called the Grand Jury back. There is no judge, etc at these. So very likely she reconvened with no court reporter.
I can't see how charges stand if that's true.
I can't see how charges stand if that's true.
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Would Megyn Kelly be cool with a 66-year-old man having sex with her 15 year old daughter? Would she not want that man prosecuted?
Because that’s something she should clarify!
Because that’s something she should clarify!
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Would Megyn Kelly be cool with a 66-year-old man having sex with her 15 year old daughter? Would she not want that man prosecuted?
Because that’s something she should clarify!
Because that’s something she should clarify!
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Disney+ is, genuinely, the biggest missed opportunity, and they keep squandering it. User-generated AI is the nadir. Just embarrassing.
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Disney+ is, genuinely, the biggest missed opportunity, and they keep squandering it. User-generated AI is the nadir. Just embarrassing.
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Well, this sure seems bad! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
Disney+ to Allow User-Generated Content Via AI
Disney CEO Bob Iger hinted at "productive conversations" with unnamed AI companies that would protect IP but add new features to the studio's flagship streaming service.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Well, this sure seems bad! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...