Russell Sharp
@russms.bsky.social
Finance lawyer living in Brooklyn. New Jersey native. Rutgers undergrad, Michigan Law. Mets fan. he/him/his
“It was too late to interfere with [the story he himself was responsible for in order to claim a cognitive impairment that would help him avoid paying his ex wife, whom he also told to kill herself and who later did]”
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“It was too late to interfere with [the story he himself was responsible for in order to claim a cognitive impairment that would help him avoid paying his ex wife, whom he also told to kill herself and who later did]”
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women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
This quotation actually shows a huge problem with elite liberal lawyers: the passage treats holding these ghouls accountable as some kind of devil-on-the-shoulder temptation that restraint would caution against
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This quotation actually shows a huge problem with elite liberal lawyers: the passage treats holding these ghouls accountable as some kind of devil-on-the-shoulder temptation that restraint would caution against
Racial quotas to remedy past and current discrimination in employment, education, etc. are good and constitutional actually. If I were a Supreme Court justice I wouldn’t just overrule Students for Fair Admissions, I’d overrule the still-standing parts of Bakke
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Racial quotas to remedy past and current discrimination in employment, education, etc. are good and constitutional actually. If I were a Supreme Court justice I wouldn’t just overrule Students for Fair Admissions, I’d overrule the still-standing parts of Bakke
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Ultimately the problem is this: the paper is controlled not by scrupulous reporters but by a clique of Leonhardt types, who surround themselves with chattering class nitwits, cogitate on the news mostly through insular group chats and similar, and always think the GOP has at least half a point
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ultimately the problem is this: the paper is controlled not by scrupulous reporters but by a clique of Leonhardt types, who surround themselves with chattering class nitwits, cogitate on the news mostly through insular group chats and similar, and always think the GOP has at least half a point
Looks like maga is getting to “actually it’s ephibophilia” even faster than I expected
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Looks like maga is getting to “actually it’s ephibophilia” even faster than I expected
Fair enough as far as this thread goes re the investigative reporters themselves not sitting on newsworthy info. But what info made its way to editors and how much effort did the paper then put into pursuing those leads are valid questions
Do we know Landon told anyone that he was having this convo with Epstein? We do not! But let’s say an editor knew. Then what? At most, it would be the beginning of an investigation. Would Landon be the reporter to do it? Probably not! You see he’s begging Epstein for specifics & doesn’t get them
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fair enough as far as this thread goes re the investigative reporters themselves not sitting on newsworthy info. But what info made its way to editors and how much effort did the paper then put into pursuing those leads are valid questions
Tiger mom’s sex pest husband being connected to Jeffrey Epstein is getting filed under “things I hadn’t even thought of before but lol yeah that checks out”
Jed Rubenfeld and his wife Amy Chua also identified JD Vance as a kid from Ohio who could write a book in a way that conservatives would love him.
He wrote the book— it was Vance selling his soul. With help from Chua (also a pipeline to Kavanaugh) and Rubenfeld
He wrote the book— it was Vance selling his soul. With help from Chua (also a pipeline to Kavanaugh) and Rubenfeld
Each Epstein email has so many layers of slime people miss some. This email is Ken Starr, fired for covering up sexual assault, offering to help his former client Jeffrey Epstein's friend's sexual harassment charges by introducing him to Jed Rubenfeld, later put on leave for sexual misconduct. 1/
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Tiger mom’s sex pest husband being connected to Jeffrey Epstein is getting filed under “things I hadn’t even thought of before but lol yeah that checks out”
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my “not involved in child sex trafficking” press conference raised a lot of questions already answered by my press conference
November 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
my “not involved in child sex trafficking” press conference raised a lot of questions already answered by my press conference
Dirty Donald the Pedo President
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Dirty Donald the Pedo President
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
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I don’t understand how someone who follows politics *for a living* can still be regurgitating middle school social studies talking points about the purpose of the Senate instead of, you know, looking at how the Senate actually operates in real life.
November 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I don’t understand how someone who follows politics *for a living* can still be regurgitating middle school social studies talking points about the purpose of the Senate instead of, you know, looking at how the Senate actually operates in real life.
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No I don’t want Democrats to add two new states. I want them to add three! www.wsj.com/world/guam-u...
A Campaign to Make Guam the 51st State Is Gaining Traction
A U.S. military buildup stokes efforts to change the political status of the island in China’s crosshairs.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
No I don’t want Democrats to add two new states. I want them to add three! www.wsj.com/world/guam-u...
Agreed with this! Mattingly was a fine player, but I think the line should be drawn somewhere between "fine" and "all time great" and he's just not in the latter group. Could be pro-Yankee bias, yet multiple non-HOF Yankees of his era have better HOF cases: Randolph, Munson, Nettles, even Guidry
new @fangraphs.com: with all due respect to Donnie Baseball and his long battle over sideburns, I'm a bit weary of seeing him on Hall of Fame ballots. The numbers just aren't there.
2026 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Don Mattingly blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-contemp...
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Agreed with this! Mattingly was a fine player, but I think the line should be drawn somewhere between "fine" and "all time great" and he's just not in the latter group. Could be pro-Yankee bias, yet multiple non-HOF Yankees of his era have better HOF cases: Randolph, Munson, Nettles, even Guidry
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Did women ruin the workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Did women ruin the workplace?
Anyway, my pet idea is not just to expand the court (sure, do that) but also to strip it of jurisdiction over constitutional law and then give that power to a newly created constitutional court under the exceptions and regulations clause of Article III, Section 2
The Republican justices are bigots who will continue to abuse their power to harm people they dislike for bigoted reasons as long as they are able to do so. Democrats can stop this if they can take back control of the Senate and find the will to do away with the filibuster. Expand the court.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation.
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Anyway, my pet idea is not just to expand the court (sure, do that) but also to strip it of jurisdiction over constitutional law and then give that power to a newly created constitutional court under the exceptions and regulations clause of Article III, Section 2
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A non-negotiable for Democrats in the 2028 primaries is that they must promise to expand and reform the court. The Supreme Court has lost all legitimacy to rule and it needs to be completely overhauled. Nothing less would be an abject failure and acquiescence to Republican ratfucking of the court.
SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants.
This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
November 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A non-negotiable for Democrats in the 2028 primaries is that they must promise to expand and reform the court. The Supreme Court has lost all legitimacy to rule and it needs to be completely overhauled. Nothing less would be an abject failure and acquiescence to Republican ratfucking of the court.
Before any centrist journalists give credit to Graham for holding the line as anti-Hitler (not that you should get any credit for that), let's see him actually hold the line. If we rewind the tape to 2015-2016, we can find him saying some pretty negative stuff about Trump, and what happened there?
Coming out as anti-Hitler has led Tucker Carlson, Mollie Hemingway, and Sean Davis to call for Graham to be primaried www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-...
The Republican party is doing neo-Nazism the right way - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Nazis In the Big Tent sounds like a Dead Milkmen song, but they would have meant it ironically. In a loose, rosy-cheeked speech, Graham affirmed that he’s in the “Hitler sucks wing of the Republican P...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Before any centrist journalists give credit to Graham for holding the line as anti-Hitler (not that you should get any credit for that), let's see him actually hold the line. If we rewind the tape to 2015-2016, we can find him saying some pretty negative stuff about Trump, and what happened there?
The Republican justices are bigots who will continue to abuse their power to harm people they dislike for bigoted reasons as long as they are able to do so. Democrats can stop this if they can take back control of the Senate and find the will to do away with the filibuster. Expand the court.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation.
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A319
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, ET AL. v. ASHTON ORR, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[November 6, 2025]
This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreievxyvqikl7wmrg5jkqhsrta5l5xfq272x7caunvxka7vtuzp7hoa@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The Republican justices are bigots who will continue to abuse their power to harm people they dislike for bigoted reasons as long as they are able to do so. Democrats can stop this if they can take back control of the Senate and find the will to do away with the filibuster. Expand the court.
This touches on something I’ve been a broken record about: Elon Musk becoming a neo-Nazi was the best think to happen to Mark Zuckerberg because it makes it so much easier to overlook what a repellent worm Zuck is
Wrote about that fantastic Reuters report on mankind's worst company having 10% of its revenue come from scams www.splinter.com/meta-is-a-fr...
Meta Is a Fraudulent Company Run By a Clueless, Creepy Boy King
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This touches on something I’ve been a broken record about: Elon Musk becoming a neo-Nazi was the best think to happen to Mark Zuckerberg because it makes it so much easier to overlook what a repellent worm Zuck is
I don’t know who still looks at political cartoons these days but I hope there are people out there who do because Luckovich has been killing it this year
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I don’t know who still looks at political cartoons these days but I hope there are people out there who do because Luckovich has been killing it this year
Sex pest solidarity
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Sex pest solidarity
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Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.