Daniel Roberts
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FKA IronMikeGallego. I once wrote a few things you might’ve read but then I had kids. Cancer-hater. Gold Star Family. Recovering A’s fan. Combat sports wunderkind. Anti-Stratfordian. Lawyer.
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She has a remarkable ability to fail upwards (lest we forget, she got her start loudly quitting the Anthony Weiner mayoral campaign) but I just don’t know who on earth is going to spend money on her. Maybe her own publisher buys them just to make it less obvious of a disaster.
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
She has a remarkable ability to fail upwards (lest we forget, she got her start loudly quitting the Anthony Weiner mayoral campaign) but I just don’t know who on earth is going to spend money on her. Maybe her own publisher buys them just to make it less obvious of a disaster.
Consider the fact that these are the excerpts Nuzzi and her publisher think are most likely to move copies and then imagine how unbearable the rest of the book must be.
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Consider the fact that these are the excerpts Nuzzi and her publisher think are most likely to move copies and then imagine how unbearable the rest of the book must be.
Right. But who’s Nuzzi’s constituency? Who’s her special interest? There’s no one with money or power incentivized to make this a hit, is there?
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Right. But who’s Nuzzi’s constituency? Who’s her special interest? There’s no one with money or power incentivized to make this a hit, is there?
There’s no basis for them to overturn it.
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
There’s no basis for them to overturn it.
This has never been done, but there’s excellent support for it (including from late Chief Justice Rehnquist, one of the rare issues he is correct about).
If Democrats get a trifecta in 2028, Congress needs to pass laws making it easier to remove federal judges without impeachment.
If Democrats get a trifecta in 2028, Congress needs to pass laws making it easier to remove federal judges without impeachment.
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This has never been done, but there’s excellent support for it (including from late Chief Justice Rehnquist, one of the rare issues he is correct about).
If Democrats get a trifecta in 2028, Congress needs to pass laws making it easier to remove federal judges without impeachment.
If Democrats get a trifecta in 2028, Congress needs to pass laws making it easier to remove federal judges without impeachment.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
At least for me, I get an error when I search the US DOJ’s FARA website for Bondi’s filings. Coincidence? I would have assumed so in the past, but…
November 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
At least for me, I get an error when I search the US DOJ’s FARA website for Bondi’s filings. Coincidence? I would have assumed so in the past, but…
Elon thinks Rome is a B-52s song.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Elon thinks Rome is a B-52s song.
A week gives him way too much credit. Maybe an hour.
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A week gives him way too much credit. Maybe an hour.
Look, I just got through posting that I used to like Olivia Nuzzi because she’d always laugh at my jokes, so I’m in no position to judge here, but the extent to which Trump can be manipulated by flattery has to be historically unique. Not just for a president, but for any high profile public figure.
November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Look, I just got through posting that I used to like Olivia Nuzzi because she’d always laugh at my jokes, so I’m in no position to judge here, but the extent to which Trump can be manipulated by flattery has to be historically unique. Not just for a president, but for any high profile public figure.
Right. It seems like LLMs may be a boon for the 50% of people who are, by definition, below average writers, but for the other 50%, they inevitably drag you down to the mean. They just let you be lazy about it.
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Right. It seems like LLMs may be a boon for the 50% of people who are, by definition, below average writers, but for the other 50%, they inevitably drag you down to the mean. They just let you be lazy about it.
I just read The Men Who Stare at Goats (5/5, recommend), and realized how much even I - a Bush hater who’s little brother died because of Bush’s illegal war - had whitewashed his presidency in hindsight. They were at least as cruel as Trump is, just slightly better at concealing it.
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I just read The Men Who Stare at Goats (5/5, recommend), and realized how much even I - a Bush hater who’s little brother died because of Bush’s illegal war - had whitewashed his presidency in hindsight. They were at least as cruel as Trump is, just slightly better at concealing it.
It’s crazy how the people running this trainwreck apparently failed out of Crim Pro I, if they ever even took it.
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It’s crazy how the people running this trainwreck apparently failed out of Crim Pro I, if they ever even took it.
The red flag should have been that her first brush with fame was loudly quitting the Anthony Weiner campaign.
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The red flag should have been that her first brush with fame was loudly quitting the Anthony Weiner campaign.
In my defense, she often laughed at my jokes on Twitter, and there’s no faster path to my heart than pretending you find my jokes funny.
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In my defense, she often laughed at my jokes on Twitter, and there’s no faster path to my heart than pretending you find my jokes funny.
That’s pretty much the most exhaustive list of issues you can find this side of an evidence hornbook.
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
That’s pretty much the most exhaustive list of issues you can find this side of an evidence hornbook.
The Bush Rehabilitation Tour has been upsettingly successful. And I see why people want to give him a pass: he’s charming, and he seems dumb enough that he genuinely might not have known what his underlings were doing. But at the end of the day, the most barbaric acts of torture were on his watch.
November 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The Bush Rehabilitation Tour has been upsettingly successful. And I see why people want to give him a pass: he’s charming, and he seems dumb enough that he genuinely might not have known what his underlings were doing. But at the end of the day, the most barbaric acts of torture were on his watch.