Rachel Larris
@rachellarris.bsky.social
I'm about studying & explaining all things Communications, Culture & Technology because that was my graduate degree. A media expert/disinformation type who will always rant about Aaron Sorkin’s impact on American politics. More Ohioan than JD. she/her.
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The long back story of Aaron Sorkin, West Wing, Televisionwithoutpity and the "U.S. Poet Laureate" episode
Note added 10/16/2010: I originally wrote this post back in 2006. It remains the most read post on this blog, often linked to when someone ...
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The extent of the prosecutorial and investigative misconduct in the James Comey case is even greater than previously known, a federal magistrate judge revealed in an extraordinary new ruling today.
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Judge Just Blew a Gaping Hole in the Comey Prosecution
The extent of the prosecutorial and investigative misconduct in the James Comey...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The extent of the prosecutorial and investigative misconduct in the James Comey case is even greater than previously known, a federal magistrate judge revealed in an extraordinary new ruling today.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/james-c...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/james-c...
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Lifelong area resident, grew up on the Parkway corridor specifically, and this is literally the first I've heard of work vans not being allowed.
This is like when you find out there's a $10 fine for putting a goose on a leash on Sundays or some shit.
This is like when you find out there's a $10 fine for putting a goose on a leash on Sundays or some shit.
NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill
Elected officials and activists note work vehicles removed lightning fast, resulting in hundreds in fees.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Lifelong area resident, grew up on the Parkway corridor specifically, and this is literally the first I've heard of work vans not being allowed.
This is like when you find out there's a $10 fine for putting a goose on a leash on Sundays or some shit.
This is like when you find out there's a $10 fine for putting a goose on a leash on Sundays or some shit.
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A party that couldn't endorse Mamdani. . . has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene
The party can burn in hell
The party can burn in hell
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A party that couldn't endorse Mamdani. . . has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene
The party can burn in hell
The party can burn in hell
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Kavanaugh, J., concurring in judgment: “Labour is doing it in the UK, too, so we are very reasonable. No problem here.”
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has agreed to review the legality of a defunct policy that allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to physically block asylum seekers from stepping foot on U.S. soil when boarder processing capacity was maxed out. #SCOTUS
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Kavanaugh, J., concurring in judgment: “Labour is doing it in the UK, too, so we are very reasonable. No problem here.”
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A discussion sparked by a piece whose opening argument was that Larry Summers was the tragic, rational victim of a feminized woke mob
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
I mean
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
A discussion sparked by a piece whose opening argument was that Larry Summers was the tragic, rational victim of a feminized woke mob
Ned Fulmer & her should make a podcast about thirst & talent
The only thing I've gleaned from this is she's an exceptionally bad writer, with no real interior life and thus nothing to actually say.
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Ned Fulmer & her should make a podcast about thirst & talent
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when people won’t stop clowning you for your haircut
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
when people won’t stop clowning you for your haircut
2005 was when Larry Summers outed himself and in 20 years he never improved! wiseli.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...
wiseli.wisc.edu
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
2005 was when Larry Summers outed himself and in 20 years he never improved! wiseli.wisc.edu/wp-content/u...
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Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.
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No idea if any of this is illegal but I would certainly hope that evidence he preyed on women by holding their careers hostage would make @harvard.edu reluctant to employ him in any form of contact with students. Fire him. Women told you about him back when he said we weren't smart enough.
November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
No idea if any of this is illegal but I would certainly hope that evidence he preyed on women by holding their careers hostage would make @harvard.edu reluctant to employ him in any form of contact with students. Fire him. Women told you about him back when he said we weren't smart enough.
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Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
I don’t know if it’s the cold or the wound on his cheek but Hobbes has decided to become a lap cat while I’m at the computer today
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I don’t know if it’s the cold or the wound on his cheek but Hobbes has decided to become a lap cat while I’m at the computer today
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Just struck me: the clerkship budget can be used as a form of retirement incentive, can’t it?
All justices under the age of 65 get clerks, all those over get none. You can linger, but you’re on your own AND elite law profs no longer have an incentive to downplay your badness in op-eds.
All justices under the age of 65 get clerks, all those over get none. You can linger, but you’re on your own AND elite law profs no longer have an incentive to downplay your badness in op-eds.
What I first said in sarcasm I increasingly think is a real thing to consider:
Move SCOTUS to a strip mall in rural Kansas.
We can’t fire them. Impeachment* is functionally dead. The 18-yr term thing is a fantasy.
But we can kill a lot of their perks.
Bet Kav would retire fast.
Move SCOTUS to a strip mall in rural Kansas.
We can’t fire them. Impeachment* is functionally dead. The 18-yr term thing is a fantasy.
But we can kill a lot of their perks.
Bet Kav would retire fast.
Devastating piece on the human toll of Kavanaugh Stops.
Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.
Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Just struck me: the clerkship budget can be used as a form of retirement incentive, can’t it?
All justices under the age of 65 get clerks, all those over get none. You can linger, but you’re on your own AND elite law profs no longer have an incentive to downplay your badness in op-eds.
All justices under the age of 65 get clerks, all those over get none. You can linger, but you’re on your own AND elite law profs no longer have an incentive to downplay your badness in op-eds.
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Aside from the enormous Epstein scandal, these extrajudicial murders should bring down this administration, from Trump and Hegseth to the shooters to the aides who photocopied the orders. It’s morally and legally exhausting living through this lawless, lying, corrupt regime. #NoFascistUSA
Dems should say this right now, loudly and clearly: Anyone who is trusting Donald Trump, of all people, when he says what he’s directing you to do is lawful and that you’ll be protected later may be putting themselves in a very precarious position. 6/
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Aside from the enormous Epstein scandal, these extrajudicial murders should bring down this administration, from Trump and Hegseth to the shooters to the aides who photocopied the orders. It’s morally and legally exhausting living through this lawless, lying, corrupt regime. #NoFascistUSA
America is about to find out how much pedophilia can stay in the fore front of the public's minds.
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
America is about to find out how much pedophilia can stay in the fore front of the public's minds.
For those who haven't been following the Ukraine war closely, there's a good chance Putin might be "out" because Moscow isn't going to like a "limited power" winter to live through and ending the War might seem like a way to keep the heat on.
I take comfort in the same thought about Trump.
I take comfort in the same thought about Trump.
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
For those who haven't been following the Ukraine war closely, there's a good chance Putin might be "out" because Moscow isn't going to like a "limited power" winter to live through and ending the War might seem like a way to keep the heat on.
I take comfort in the same thought about Trump.
I take comfort in the same thought about Trump.
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Another video from Charlotte, NC. Property owners scare off federal agents after they question a man putting up Christmas lights.
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Another video from Charlotte, NC. Property owners scare off federal agents after they question a man putting up Christmas lights.
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Do you live in the Charlotte area? Know someone who does? One of the most important things you can do is get a whistle & tell your family & friends & neighbors to do the same. If people blow their whistle when they see CBP that takes away CBP’s ability to surprise vulnerable people.
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Do you live in the Charlotte area? Know someone who does? One of the most important things you can do is get a whistle & tell your family & friends & neighbors to do the same. If people blow their whistle when they see CBP that takes away CBP’s ability to surprise vulnerable people.
Let’s see how they get a Southern welcome
The Department of Homeland Security has begun law enforcement operations in Charlotte, federal officials said Saturday, the latest Democratic-run city to brace for the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Immigration raids begin in Charlotte; Guard pulls back in two cities
Federal law enforcement officials are sent to North Carolina’s largest city, while many National Guard members deployed to Chicago and Portland are being sent home.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Let’s see how they get a Southern welcome
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This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
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His sincere updates on his attempted relationship with a student are so creepy and cringe, and then you remember the person Larry Summers is pouring his heart out to is DISGRACED CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHTEEN
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
His sincere updates on his attempted relationship with a student are so creepy and cringe, and then you remember the person Larry Summers is pouring his heart out to is DISGRACED CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHTEEN
Something I’m still pissed about too
This also happened at the AAUP. They had a conservative stringer writing about higher ed for the NYT and I wasn’t allowed to out them because the head of the organization thought it was an attack on “journalism.”
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Something I’m still pissed about too
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this is a huge [citation needed]
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
this is a huge [citation needed]
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OMG! I just got off the plane in Asheville and RFK Jr. Was boarding and someone passed by him and said “quack”
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
OMG! I just got off the plane in Asheville and RFK Jr. Was boarding and someone passed by him and said “quack”