Paul Tree
@paultree10.bsky.social
it’s still a pun on "paltry” do you get it
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It’s okay if you rob Peter to pay me
“What if the mid-2010s Seahawks had a shakier quarterback”
January 4, 2026 at 4:26 AM
“What if the mid-2010s Seahawks had a shakier quarterback”
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Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
January 3, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
The idea that a bunch of judges could force a state, over the objection of its legislature, to let anyone wander around with a gun would have been as foreign to the founders as the 6-7 meme
To be alive in America in 2025 is to have a bunch of robed lunatics insist that the constitution requires that nutjobs wander around your neighborhood or campus with weapons or mass murder, even though no previous generation of Americans ever lived though this nonsense.
January 2, 2026 at 10:05 PM
The idea that a bunch of judges could force a state, over the objection of its legislature, to let anyone wander around with a gun would have been as foreign to the founders as the 6-7 meme
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At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!
How 2026 was depicted in the sci-fi classic 'Metropolis' (1927)
January 2, 2026 at 11:57 AM
At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!
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Every one of these deals exceeds the severity of the Clinton Foundation and Hunter Biden controversies by orders of magnitude. And there are already dozens, probably hundreds.
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article)
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Every one of these deals exceeds the severity of the Clinton Foundation and Hunter Biden controversies by orders of magnitude. And there are already dozens, probably hundreds.
Paul Tree 2025 wrapped
1 wedding attended (my own)
160 movies watched
1 wedding attended (my own)
160 movies watched
January 1, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Paul Tree 2025 wrapped
1 wedding attended (my own)
160 movies watched
1 wedding attended (my own)
160 movies watched
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Outlook for the new year ...
December 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Outlook for the new year ...
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have i ever said how much i love Waffle House?
December 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
have i ever said how much i love Waffle House?
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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
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gotta be the time I enjoyed cheese
December 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
gotta be the time I enjoyed cheese
I was behind Steve Kerr at airport security on my way to my bachelor party at Vegas Summer League, so I just decided to tell him that.
He said “that’s awesome” in a way that at least seemed genuine.
He said “that’s awesome” in a way that at least seemed genuine.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I was behind Steve Kerr at airport security on my way to my bachelor party at Vegas Summer League, so I just decided to tell him that.
He said “that’s awesome” in a way that at least seemed genuine.
He said “that’s awesome” in a way that at least seemed genuine.
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Foreign Policy Analysis is low key the darkly funniest field ever now. Are we at war? Does the president himself know? Who are we at war with? Why? Something to do with drugs and/or oil? We’re either invading Venezuela, Nigeria, neither, or both.
Either Trump believes the US struck a Venezuelan facility on Christmas Eve because he was told that erroneously, or he's conflating different stories, or we actually did what he claims. Regardless of explanation, we need that information.
December 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Foreign Policy Analysis is low key the darkly funniest field ever now. Are we at war? Does the president himself know? Who are we at war with? Why? Something to do with drugs and/or oil? We’re either invading Venezuela, Nigeria, neither, or both.
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Seahawks defense
Seahawks special teams
Seahawks offense
Seahawks special teams
Seahawks offense
December 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Seahawks defense
Seahawks special teams
Seahawks offense
Seahawks special teams
Seahawks offense
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Found a bookstore that stocks your novels
December 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Found a bookstore that stocks your novels
“Intolerant”
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“Intolerant”
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My dream is to be a college football coach and make 15 million dollars a year to yell at 19 year olds that they need to take the Bisquick Pancake & Baking Mix Bowl more seriously. My wife has a severe haircut, I cheat on her with several women named “Applebee’s Tami”
December 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
My dream is to be a college football coach and make 15 million dollars a year to yell at 19 year olds that they need to take the Bisquick Pancake & Baking Mix Bowl more seriously. My wife has a severe haircut, I cheat on her with several women named “Applebee’s Tami”
People are weirdly aggressive/defensive (respectively) about this, but it’s genuinely quite interesting that a series of movies that everyone has seen and liked enough to keep coming back is mostly culturally received through this sort of financial, technological, and/or metatextual analysis!
Avatar has had a staggering cultural impact, in that every time one of the movies is released there is a flood of articles/comments/assertions about how little cultural impact it has had, any franchise that causes that consistent level of engagement in the chattering class is making a hell of a mark
December 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
People are weirdly aggressive/defensive (respectively) about this, but it’s genuinely quite interesting that a series of movies that everyone has seen and liked enough to keep coming back is mostly culturally received through this sort of financial, technological, and/or metatextual analysis!
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The line of shit that's been settled on is "these people were treated very unfairly by the justice system, which I happen to know something about (ha ha ha)" and so all corruption concerns are irrelevant. Patently absurd but the press is duty-bound not to interrogate either ridiculous claim
is there anybody even denying that the pardons are paid for or do we just kind of all accept this now?
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
December 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The line of shit that's been settled on is "these people were treated very unfairly by the justice system, which I happen to know something about (ha ha ha)" and so all corruption concerns are irrelevant. Patently absurd but the press is duty-bound not to interrogate either ridiculous claim
The movie would’ve been better if Spider were a Cameron self-insert, like a tech nerd named Shmameron who gets to smooch cat girl Sigourney
Incredible that James Cameron is going to make like $10 billion dollars from his fanart of Sigourney Weaver as a naked cat girl
December 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The movie would’ve been better if Spider were a Cameron self-insert, like a tech nerd named Shmameron who gets to smooch cat girl Sigourney
Incredible that James Cameron is going to make like $10 billion dollars from his fanart of Sigourney Weaver as a naked cat girl
December 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Incredible that James Cameron is going to make like $10 billion dollars from his fanart of Sigourney Weaver as a naked cat girl
It’s cool that the most powerful person in the world is basically just “what if Benito Mussolini had been kicked in the head by a horse”
Trump: We need Greenland for national protection. They have a very small population. They say Denmark, but Denmark has no military protection. They say that Denmark was there 300 years ago with a boat—well, we were there with boats too I’m sure.
December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It’s cool that the most powerful person in the world is basically just “what if Benito Mussolini had been kicked in the head by a horse”
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It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.