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It was such a privilege to work with @nwdonahue.bsky.social and the fantastic lawyers at Patterson Belknap on this amicus brief for the Slaughter case, about whether Trump can fire the commissioners of the FTC.
The brief recovers crucial history the Court and most lawyers have missed. 1/3
The brief recovers crucial history the Court and most lawyers have missed. 1/3
November 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
It was such a privilege to work with @nwdonahue.bsky.social and the fantastic lawyers at Patterson Belknap on this amicus brief for the Slaughter case, about whether Trump can fire the commissioners of the FTC.
The brief recovers crucial history the Court and most lawyers have missed. 1/3
The brief recovers crucial history the Court and most lawyers have missed. 1/3
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BREAKING: @janemanners.bsky.social, a legal historian and member of the Brennan Center’s Historians Council, filed a brief with the Supreme Court in Trump v. Slaughter, a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s attempt to remove a commissioner of the FTC without cause: bit.ly/4nSvm9B
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
BREAKING: @janemanners.bsky.social, a legal historian and member of the Brennan Center’s Historians Council, filed a brief with the Supreme Court in Trump v. Slaughter, a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s attempt to remove a commissioner of the FTC without cause: bit.ly/4nSvm9B
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The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
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If Mamdani wins I will leave New York. I will go live in one of the other 5 houses I have, perhaps the one in South Florida, or the one in Paris, or Napa, or Cabo, but I will definitely leave New York. I will keep my apartment, though, because it's awesome and New York is great. But I will leave.
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
If Mamdani wins I will leave New York. I will go live in one of the other 5 houses I have, perhaps the one in South Florida, or the one in Paris, or Napa, or Cabo, but I will definitely leave New York. I will keep my apartment, though, because it's awesome and New York is great. But I will leave.
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This is also how they’ll cover him if he wins. Mamdani - all democrats who actually want to govern and fix things - need to understand the NYT politics team as a partisan force arrayed against them.
I genuinely wonder if anyone on the NYT editorial team looks at the Mamdani coverage in total and thinks "yeah, we got this one right"
The story on the eve of the election is basically reporters asking the public "is Mamdani experienced enough?"
No actual news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/n...
The story on the eve of the election is basically reporters asking the public "is Mamdani experienced enough?"
No actual news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/n...
Even for Some Mamdani Supporters, His Thin Résumé Is Cause for Concern
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is also how they’ll cover him if he wins. Mamdani - all democrats who actually want to govern and fix things - need to understand the NYT politics team as a partisan force arrayed against them.
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People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM
People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.
I feel bad for baseball fans who are supposed to run the New York marathon tomorrow
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I feel bad for baseball fans who are supposed to run the New York marathon tomorrow
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No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.
October 23, 2025 at 5:15 AM
No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.
Munoz coming out and getting shelled a nice way to bail out the manager but he should get his priorities straight
October 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Munoz coming out and getting shelled a nice way to bail out the manager but he should get his priorities straight
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At one point this guy is like “I’m not arguing the merits of it, but the politics” and why the fuck not dude?! Maybe the problem with the media is that you’re NOT ARGUING THE MERITS OF IF SOMETHING IS TRUE OR NOT
DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true--
ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!
ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!
October 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
At one point this guy is like “I’m not arguing the merits of it, but the politics” and why the fuck not dude?! Maybe the problem with the media is that you’re NOT ARGUING THE MERITS OF IF SOMETHING IS TRUE OR NOT
*Noel Gallagher voice* “Schlittle by Schlittle, gave me everything I ever dreamed of….”
October 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
*Noel Gallagher voice* “Schlittle by Schlittle, gave me everything I ever dreamed of….”
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I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.
Fuckin yikes, man
September 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.
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Alvaro Bedoya, one of two commissioners Trump fired in March, warns with the president’s weaponizing of the independent, bipartisan FTC, “We’re seeing corporate executives get off easy.” www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
Former FTC commissioner fired by Trump speaks out
Last week, the Supreme Court let President Trump’s firing stand for a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, pending litigation. Alvaro Bedoya, one of two commissioners Trump fired in Marc...
www.msnbc.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Alvaro Bedoya, one of two commissioners Trump fired in March, warns with the president’s weaponizing of the independent, bipartisan FTC, “We’re seeing corporate executives get off easy.” www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
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genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.
September 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.
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This is so incredibly clear to some and i think perhaps still obscure to others. It's not an abstract thought or a gotcha. It's a sinking, gut feeling re: a causal pattern you recognize playing out on a much greater scale. Exactly how it felt in fall 2023 in the first place.
a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval
September 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This is so incredibly clear to some and i think perhaps still obscure to others. It's not an abstract thought or a gotcha. It's a sinking, gut feeling re: a causal pattern you recognize playing out on a much greater scale. Exactly how it felt in fall 2023 in the first place.
Whenever I meet someone who hasn’t seen Sneakers, I like to just list the cast and see them assume the movie is basically Lincoln, which it…is not. (It’s better!)
What a gem of a movie. I ran into David Strathairn at Vetri in Philly while he was doing a play at the Wilma and when I shook his hand I said "Sneakers is one of my all time favorites" and he said "most fun I ever had and hardly anyone brings it up"
Gonna watch it tonight.
Gonna watch it tonight.
I wrote about Robert Redford's environmentalism and, obviously, Sneakers.
September 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Whenever I meet someone who hasn’t seen Sneakers, I like to just list the cast and see them assume the movie is basically Lincoln, which it…is not. (It’s better!)
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A reminder that simply not posting is always an option.
September 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A reminder that simply not posting is always an option.
So Doc McStuffins lives in a place called McStuffinsville and you expect me to believe she became the head of the hospital on just merit?
September 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
So Doc McStuffins lives in a place called McStuffinsville and you expect me to believe she became the head of the hospital on just merit?
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If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments
Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced the creation of a statewide task force aimed at dismantling homeless encampments on state property and expanding access to shelter and services. The State Acti…
ktla.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
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You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months]
August 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months]
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This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
August 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
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Zohran Mamdani's slogan is "for a New York you can afford"
And Andrew Cuomo is now running on a platform of only letting New Yorkers rent apartments that, by definition, they cannot afford.
And Andrew Cuomo is now running on a platform of only letting New Yorkers rent apartments that, by definition, they cannot afford.
August 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Zohran Mamdani's slogan is "for a New York you can afford"
And Andrew Cuomo is now running on a platform of only letting New Yorkers rent apartments that, by definition, they cannot afford.
And Andrew Cuomo is now running on a platform of only letting New Yorkers rent apartments that, by definition, they cannot afford.
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In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.
August 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.