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White shoe lawyer in the streets, revolutionary in the skeets. Pouring into this account all my cruelty, malice, and will to dominate all life
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Hunter S. Thompson was a good writer who was also an insane drug addict and generations of men in their 20s have destroyed their livers writing extremely boring pastiches as the result of incorrectly inferring some causal relationship there
just read a piece calling Nuzzi a "modern day political version of Hunter S. Thompson" and I think I need to log off
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Usha, girl, we will welcome you back to the resistance but you’re going to have to do some major penance
November 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I’m seeing the framing of feminism as women’s right to “choose” whether to stay home and raise a family or have a career, with both options attaching the same moral value, come up in the context of Taylor Swift’s new album.

It’s a framing that has always rubbed me the wrong way
October 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
September 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
On the night of Oct 27, 1938, on Hitler’s orders, German authorities ripped Jewish families in Hanover from their homes, looted their possessions, & packed them on trains to the Polish border.

Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Jew living in Paris, received word of his family’s expulsion on Nov 3 1/
September 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
One of my top 3 worst exes (there have been a few stinkers…) has picked the two weeks before my literal wedding to try to slide back into my Instagram DMs. Ladies, they always come back.
August 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The person you know who’s the most upset about Mamdani will also leave their UWS brownstone in a casket
THe WeaLtHY aRE GoiNG to LeaVE NYc

They’ve have spent the last 40 years turning NYC into their own personal ATM/VIP lounge. Now they’re gonna sell properties, shutter businesses, cancel memberships, and start over in Dorksburg, Idaho to avoid paying 6% instead of 4% in taxes?

It’s an empty threat
June 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Neolibs clutching their pearls about Mamdani should thank their lucky stars New Yorkers didn’t elect a guillotine
June 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
1.2 million people dead in the U.S. alone from a pandemic that gripped the world, not even 5 years out, and boomers are really out here in public spaces just coughing and hacking directly into your face
April 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I never want to hear another complaint about censorship and free speech from a Republican as long as I live
April 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Is it just me or does the Tesla logo look like an IUD
March 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Thinking of starting a band called Lauren and the HR Violations
March 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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First they came for everyone.

And the law firms said "TAKE EVERYONE! OUR CLIENTS DEMAND WE HAVE ACCESS!!!"

#Satire
March 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Soooo has anyone brought up that these jokers had Jeffrey Goldberg’s cell because Goldberg is a genocide apologist with an agenda? I canceled my Atlantic subscription last year because of all the whitewashing
March 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I strain to understand why we are giving up our only point of leverage FOR FREEEEEE
I think the thing about the dirty CR is that republicans need democratic votes and if they want them, their pitch can’t be “lol fuck you” which the $1B from the DC budget absolutely is.
March 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
It’s a terrible option, Neville Chamberlain said, but the risk of allowing Hitler to amass even more power after he takes Austria and the Sudetenland is far worse.
March 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I’m coming to the realization that appellate lawyers do it all backwards… we should prep for oral arguments FIRST and THEN write the briefs, on account of all the holes you find in your papers while mooting your case 😂
March 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Randy Barnett used to shrug away women’s & LGBTQ rights to our faces in class under his strict original public meaning textualist reading of the privileges or immunities clause.

When I tell you his anachronistic, dishonest reading of the birthright citizenship clause had my heart rate UP this week…
So incredibly thrilled that our article, 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, is forthcoming in the online companion of Cᴏʀɴᴇʟʟ Lᴀᴡ Rᴇᴠɪᴇᴡ!

I think you all will thoroughly enjoy what @evanbernick.bsky.social, @paulgowder.bsky.social, and I have coming your way!
February 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Ultimately "the libs" exist in this space where they must be degraded, but they also must polite and conciliatory in the face of degradation. The other side has no such obligations. Such a political movement ("the libs") can't really exist for long that way. They will become something else.
I don't know to politely explain this but if you start a political movement bent on insulting people who disagree with you ("the libs"), eventually "the libs" will start feeling less sympathy for you. That's not the same as wishing harm, but ask yourself how society reliably functions.
February 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
People are STILL out here trying to sit down in the proverbial rural Pennsylvania diner straining to understand the average Trump voter

It reminds me of Dachau and Buchenwald survivor Bruno Bettelheim blaming anti-Semitism on European Jews’ unwillingness to understand Nazis as individuals
February 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Where did he find this graph of my manic episode in 2019
From who else but Nate Silver. Incredible work
February 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I love how during Trump’s first term the jokes were like “ha ha ha alternative facts what a silly illiterate goose”

And now they’re like “I hope we end up in the same work yard at the Nicaraguan gulag, my brother in arms”
February 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Based on some anecdotal reports, it seems like, when given the choice among probationary employees to terminate without cause, OMB is choosing the people of color and gay people over their straight white counterparts.

That’s not reversing DEI; that’s outright racist hiring & it’s ill-fuckin-legal
February 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
More layoffs today of civil servants. So, I take it “American prosperity” really only applies to a handful of people.

Very frustrating that the entire narrative of the past two years has been economic anxiety and now these ghouls are taking away folks’ livelihoods and no one fucking cares.
February 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Feb 10: RI district judge McConnell grants a motion to enforce the TRO requiring Trump admin to unfreeze federal funds

Next steps are a motion for contempt & sanctions and a show-cause order.

Then what? Throw Musk & weird nerd army in jail? Force them to pay fines? It’s a new world today
February 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM