Sam Brunson
@smbrnsn.bsky.social
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Georgia Reithal Professor Law, Loyola University Chicago. Lots of taxes, jazz, cooking, and cats. Author "God and the IRS: Accommodating Religious Practice in United States Tax Law"
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Sam Brunson
@smbrnsn.bsky.social
· Dec 11
Okay, it's not the Black Friday 50% off, but if you wanted my book, think its sticker price is too expensive, but missed the Black Friday sale, you can still get it for 40% off! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Matthew’s not kidding: Andrew J. Mangione Jr., Senior Vice President, AMAC Action has written perhaps the dumbest and/or most disingenuous thing you’ll read this week that doesn’t come directly from the Administration.
Astonishingly, there's someone somewhere on this green earth who *is* willing to put pen to paper to explain why DC shouldn't be allowed to decouple from OBBBA tax cuts. It's the dumbest thing you'll read all day, even if you started with "Garfield."
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AMAC Supports Resolution Promoting Tax Relief for Local DC Seniors | @AmacforAmerica
Support for H.J.Res. 142 ensures DC seniors get fair tax relief under federal law, protecting Social Security benefits and retiree stability.
amac.us
February 2, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Matthew’s not kidding: Andrew J. Mangione Jr., Senior Vice President, AMAC Action has written perhaps the dumbest and/or most disingenuous thing you’ll read this week that doesn’t come directly from the Administration.
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There's more: "allowing this legislation to stand would set a troubling precedent by permitting the District to unilaterally deny its residents the benefits of duly enacted federal law."
But every DC resident (including me) will get 100% of their OBBBA tax cuts in April whether DC conforms or not.
But every DC resident (including me) will get 100% of their OBBBA tax cuts in April whether DC conforms or not.
February 2, 2026 at 2:05 PM
There's more: "allowing this legislation to stand would set a troubling precedent by permitting the District to unilaterally deny its residents the benefits of duly enacted federal law."
But every DC resident (including me) will get 100% of their OBBBA tax cuts in April whether DC conforms or not.
But every DC resident (including me) will get 100% of their OBBBA tax cuts in April whether DC conforms or not.
Woodie Guthrie: All You Fascists Bound to Lose
Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose
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February 2, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Woodie Guthrie: All You Fascists Bound to Lose
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Using a proprietary search tool, The NYT identified more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of Epstein file released by the Justice Department
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
How Trump Appears in the Epstein Files
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Using a proprietary search tool, The NYT identified more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of Epstein file released by the Justice Department
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
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The people on this website who just lazily post this shit all day hold you in exactly as much contempt as any MAGA mouthpiece on Fox does to their audience
February 1, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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The insider establishment picked an establishment insider and that just goes to show: fuck the establishment
All news is bad news for Democrats. I don't make the rules around here!
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All news is bad news for Democrats. I don't make the rules around here!
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You know who really ought to pay attention the result in TX Sen 9? Democratic leadership in Congress.
February 1, 2026 at 6:55 AM
The insider establishment picked an establishment insider and that just goes to show: fuck the establishment
All news is bad news for Democrats. I don't make the rules around here!
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All news is bad news for Democrats. I don't make the rules around here!
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Like, this dude screenshots a tweet from the WSJ reporter who wrote the story to say that mainstream media wouldn’t tell report on it. Like, seriously?
The media will totally ignore this. For instance, Wall Street Journal absolutely won’t write about it. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 2, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Like, this dude screenshots a tweet from the WSJ reporter who wrote the story to say that mainstream media wouldn’t tell report on it. Like, seriously?
For real, this may be the only way the Kennedy Center survives.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center will close for 2 years for renovations starting in July, Trump says, after a backlash from performers.
February 1, 2026 at 11:56 PM
For real, this may be the only way the Kennedy Center survives.
The media will totally ignore this. For instance, Wall Street Journal absolutely won’t write about it. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 1, 2026 at 6:38 PM
The media will totally ignore this. For instance, Wall Street Journal absolutely won’t write about it. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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some good news buried among the horrible behavior listed:
“The third woman said federal agents at her hotel are subsisting on microwavable bowls of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, because it’s become so difficult for them to find restaurants willing to serve them.”
“The third woman said federal agents at her hotel are subsisting on microwavable bowls of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, because it’s become so difficult for them to find restaurants willing to serve them.”
I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff.
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
Minneapolis’ Hotel Workers Are on Edge
Staff across the city told NOTUS how their lives have changed since the start of the federal immigration operation. “It's frightening,” one said.
www.notus.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
some good news buried among the horrible behavior listed:
“The third woman said federal agents at her hotel are subsisting on microwavable bowls of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, because it’s become so difficult for them to find restaurants willing to serve them.”
“The third woman said federal agents at her hotel are subsisting on microwavable bowls of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, because it’s become so difficult for them to find restaurants willing to serve them.”
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/7 This cancel culture leads to untold human pain and isolation. I mean just look at Dr. Peter Attia. He has a friend. He has a friend but he can’t TELL THE WORLD he has a friend, JUST BECAUSE HIS FRIEND IS A FAMOUS CHILD RAPIST. He’s SUFFERING. And that’s BEFORE he went to work for Bari Weiss.
January 31, 2026 at 4:00 PM
/7 This cancel culture leads to untold human pain and isolation. I mean just look at Dr. Peter Attia. He has a friend. He has a friend but he can’t TELL THE WORLD he has a friend, JUST BECAUSE HIS FRIEND IS A FAMOUS CHILD RAPIST. He’s SUFFERING. And that’s BEFORE he went to work for Bari Weiss.
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I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.
January 31, 2026 at 2:41 PM
I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.
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The difference between a linguist and a normal person is that a normal person thinks that Chomsky should’ve stuck to linguistics and a linguist thinks he shouldn’t have done that either
February 1, 2026 at 5:45 PM
The difference between a linguist and a normal person is that a normal person thinks that Chomsky should’ve stuck to linguistics and a linguist thinks he shouldn’t have done that either
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/11 Do not underestimate the way getting hometowned can kill you as a lawyer. If judges decide you‘re some out-of-town asshole who thinks they should do everything the way the asshole’s home district does it, they will absolutely shut you down a dozen ways.
February 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
/11 Do not underestimate the way getting hometowned can kill you as a lawyer. If judges decide you‘re some out-of-town asshole who thinks they should do everything the way the asshole’s home district does it, they will absolutely shut you down a dozen ways.
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/8 The impediments will be these: they will get dregs who will do a bad job. Federal prosecution is not rocket science but federal judges DO have notably higher standards than state judges and if you MAGA your way around federal court you WILL get your ass handed to you.
February 1, 2026 at 4:52 PM
/8 The impediments will be these: they will get dregs who will do a bad job. Federal prosecution is not rocket science but federal judges DO have notably higher standards than state judges and if you MAGA your way around federal court you WILL get your ass handed to you.
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/6 Plus, Mizelle and Miller aren‘t the people who would normally be encouraging AUSA hiring. The population that becomes AUSAs trends towards elite(ist), status-conscious, and traditional-institutionalist rather than MAGA. This is a solicitation to MAGA. It’s the wrong audience for the normal pitch.
February 1, 2026 at 4:50 PM
/6 Plus, Mizelle and Miller aren‘t the people who would normally be encouraging AUSA hiring. The population that becomes AUSAs trends towards elite(ist), status-conscious, and traditional-institutionalist rather than MAGA. This is a solicitation to MAGA. It’s the wrong audience for the normal pitch.
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/4 So a generic “apply to be an AUSA” without saying which district is hiring is odd and suggests a national-level problem. That problem may be they can’t get AUSAs to agree to do some of the more aggressive things they want to do…
February 1, 2026 at 4:46 PM
/4 So a generic “apply to be an AUSA” without saying which district is hiring is odd and suggests a national-level problem. That problem may be they can’t get AUSAs to agree to do some of the more aggressive things they want to do…
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That we had a chance, and failed, does not mean that we are doomed to fail again. We rub some dirt on it and get back in the box.
It’s very unsatisfying but the way to avoid this was to elect Harris, and the way to stop it is to beat them in November. We have to gum up the works but there is no alternative if we aren’t in The Cool Zone. Which, we’re not now, and God willing and contra the Hard Men On Here, we never get to.
February 1, 2026 at 4:12 PM
That we had a chance, and failed, does not mean that we are doomed to fail again. We rub some dirt on it and get back in the box.
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
It will never not amaze me how good apples you can buy in the grocery store are.
When I was a kid, you could get Granny Smith and Red and Golden Delicious. In college I discovered Gala apples, which were a revelation at the time.
Today? Whatever I bought yesterday was shockingly sweet & crunchy.
When I was a kid, you could get Granny Smith and Red and Golden Delicious. In college I discovered Gala apples, which were a revelation at the time.
Today? Whatever I bought yesterday was shockingly sweet & crunchy.
February 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM
It will never not amaze me how good apples you can buy in the grocery store are.
When I was a kid, you could get Granny Smith and Red and Golden Delicious. In college I discovered Gala apples, which were a revelation at the time.
Today? Whatever I bought yesterday was shockingly sweet & crunchy.
When I was a kid, you could get Granny Smith and Red and Golden Delicious. In college I discovered Gala apples, which were a revelation at the time.
Today? Whatever I bought yesterday was shockingly sweet & crunchy.
I honestly and sincerely appreciate this disclosure. It tells me I don’t need to waste my time in this article. (It may be valuable. It may not be valuable. But if the writers don’t care enough about cleaning up their writing without AI I don’t care enough to read it.)
February 1, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I honestly and sincerely appreciate this disclosure. It tells me I don’t need to waste my time in this article. (It may be valuable. It may not be valuable. But if the writers don’t care enough about cleaning up their writing without AI I don’t care enough to read it.)
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The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.
By Andrew Lapin
January 30, 2026
www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
By Andrew Lapin
January 30, 2026
www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
February 1, 2026 at 1:44 PM
The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.
By Andrew Lapin
January 30, 2026
www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
By Andrew Lapin
January 30, 2026
www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
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The snippets look very, very similar to alcoholism, where alcohol is integrated into and a necessary underlying condition. Fun activities involve alcohol, where not having alcohol makes something categorically "not fun."
For @cnn.com, a story about gambling addiction, gambling sobriety and how that changes many young men’s relationships to friends, family, and sports fandom. www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/s...
February 1, 2026 at 1:45 PM
The snippets look very, very similar to alcoholism, where alcohol is integrated into and a necessary underlying condition. Fun activities involve alcohol, where not having alcohol makes something categorically "not fun."