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Yeah my PFP isn't great.
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This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"It says right here in the constitution that we shall guarantee 'A Republican . . . Government.' As a textualist, my hands are unfortunately tied."
In fact, I’m preparing myself for SCOTUS to contort itself into whatever shape allows them to keep the TX map while striking down the CA map.
November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"It says right here in the constitution that we shall guarantee 'A Republican . . . Government.' As a textualist, my hands are unfortunately tied."
It's genuinely shocking to me that Congress has willingly decided that the President should be able to ignore validly enacted laws for short term policy wants they agree with.
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It's genuinely shocking to me that Congress has willingly decided that the President should be able to ignore validly enacted laws for short term policy wants they agree with.
The current admin is such a strong example of how, without any clear enforcement mechanisms, laws don't do anything on their own.
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The current admin is such a strong example of how, without any clear enforcement mechanisms, laws don't do anything on their own.
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The consulting firm, the Ohio-based Strategy Group, has longstanding personal and business ties to Noem and her senior aides at DHS.
It played a central role in Noem’s 2022 reelection campaign.
And the company’s CEO is married to Noem’s chief spokesperson at DHS.
It played a central role in Noem’s 2022 reelection campaign.
And the company’s CEO is married to Noem’s chief spokesperson at DHS.
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The consulting firm, the Ohio-based Strategy Group, has longstanding personal and business ties to Noem and her senior aides at DHS.
It played a central role in Noem’s 2022 reelection campaign.
And the company’s CEO is married to Noem’s chief spokesperson at DHS.
It played a central role in Noem’s 2022 reelection campaign.
And the company’s CEO is married to Noem’s chief spokesperson at DHS.
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
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Is there some kind of weirdo email style that I’m unfamiliar with?
hello ,, pedophile do you have , pictures. Mar a lago. [animal or famous person reference] of course.
sincerely,
creep
~~ reply~
Yes!!
___
ps I made a sexist joke
hello ,, pedophile do you have , pictures. Mar a lago. [animal or famous person reference] of course.
sincerely,
creep
~~ reply~
Yes!!
___
ps I made a sexist joke
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Is there some kind of weirdo email style that I’m unfamiliar with?
hello ,, pedophile do you have , pictures. Mar a lago. [animal or famous person reference] of course.
sincerely,
creep
~~ reply~
Yes!!
___
ps I made a sexist joke
hello ,, pedophile do you have , pictures. Mar a lago. [animal or famous person reference] of course.
sincerely,
creep
~~ reply~
Yes!!
___
ps I made a sexist joke
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They know what they’re doing is wrong.
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
They know what they’re doing is wrong.
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
Maybe I'm old-fashioned but this is incredibly poor taste for a group who has membership from five supreme court justices.
Victory coins for attendees at the Federalist Society convention citing major conservatives wins at the Supreme Court:
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Maybe I'm old-fashioned but this is incredibly poor taste for a group who has membership from five supreme court justices.
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As someone who both appreciates and is exhausted by Takoma Park, and who knows that GMOs are good actually, I couldn’t agree with this piece more. ggwash.org/view/101317/...
A quirky Takoma Park needs quirky zoning
Quirk thrives in the cracks–in the messy mix of uses, people, and incomes that make a place feel alive. The irony is that to preserve Takoma Park’s quirky character, we may have to break from the zoni...
ggwash.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
As someone who both appreciates and is exhausted by Takoma Park, and who knows that GMOs are good actually, I couldn’t agree with this piece more. ggwash.org/view/101317/...
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Instead of asking the Speaker of the House if he has a view on <critical separation-of-powers QOTD>, maybe reporters should start asking him if he reads any newspapers or otherwise informs himself on those matters to which we might think the Speaker of the House ought to be paying attention?
RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Instead of asking the Speaker of the House if he has a view on <critical separation-of-powers QOTD>, maybe reporters should start asking him if he reads any newspapers or otherwise informs himself on those matters to which we might think the Speaker of the House ought to be paying attention?
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There’s no greater sign of online breaking people’s brains than the greatest possible sin becoming ‘being annoying to me personally’
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 AM
There’s no greater sign of online breaking people’s brains than the greatest possible sin becoming ‘being annoying to me personally’
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Get you somebody who looks at you the way the Cap'n and his Whale lady friend look at each other.
April 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Get you somebody who looks at you the way the Cap'n and his Whale lady friend look at each other.
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The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended
Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives.
All on the taxpayer’s dime.
trib.al/TBvPo7A
All on the taxpayer’s dime.
trib.al/TBvPo7A
October 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended
Vance's casual, but extreme, racism still manages to surprise me.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Vance's casual, but extreme, racism still manages to surprise me.
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New paper from me offering a holistic assessment of #SCOTUS's behavior on Trump-related emergency applications thus far:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New paper from me offering a holistic assessment of #SCOTUS's behavior on Trump-related emergency applications thus far:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.
I don't know about anyone else, but I exclusively refer to my father's cousin as "my female, paternal first cousin twice removed" named Madeleine.
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I don't know about anyone else, but I exclusively refer to my father's cousin as "my female, paternal first cousin twice removed" named Madeleine.
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once again, i think electoral college maps shape people's sense of political reality in incredibly destructive ways
It gets crazier. Source in Maryland Gov Wes Moore's admin tells me they informed Trump officials that the ailing counties were in Appalachia, and the Trump people were surprised to hear this!
(Supports @jamellebouie.net's point about MAGA's Balkanized vision of US)
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
(Supports @jamellebouie.net's point about MAGA's Balkanized vision of US)
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
October 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
once again, i think electoral college maps shape people's sense of political reality in incredibly destructive ways
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Single-member districts make all kinds of mischief possible.
The Supreme Court would be irrelevant here if we had proportional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
The Supreme Court would be irrelevant here if we had proportional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
October 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Single-member districts make all kinds of mischief possible.
The Supreme Court would be irrelevant here if we had proportional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
The Supreme Court would be irrelevant here if we had proportional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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Good vibes up in Harper’s Ferry
October 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Good vibes up in Harper’s Ferry
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Just for the record, in 2020:
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Just for the record, in 2020:
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
Spending time with a family member who literally spends all day with Fox News on tv. It's actually insane. Just a constant stream of propaganda untethered to reality.
October 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Spending time with a family member who literally spends all day with Fox News on tv. It's actually insane. Just a constant stream of propaganda untethered to reality.