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Bill Rubin
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Anti-fascist | grassroots organizer | reformed lawyer | Obama alum | adopted Pittsburgher | Go Celtics, Bruins, Patriots, Red Sox
I’ve met him a few times over the years but haven’t worked closely with him. Nevertheless he’s been unfailingly pleasant each time. I’m surprised at this degree of animus. Is it a personality thing or a specific policy disagreement or something else?
December 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
On the other hand, the enemy of your enemy is your friend?
December 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
How much is Trump’s kickback from his son-in-law?
December 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The only thing I care about is that Shapiro was one of only two prominent PA politicians (the other was Bob Casey) who supported Obama against Hillary and the Rendell machine during the primaries in 2008. That took considerable guts. I’d trust him any day.
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They tell themselves that it’s not their job to make themselves the story. But it’s Trump who’s making them the story.
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Not “killed.” Murdered
November 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Reposted by Bill Rubin
Thanksgiving in Mauritania a few years later, I gathered with eight or nine PCVs and a pair of embassy folks in search of adventure. We roasted a pea hen, and a baker on the team made pie. We drank ourselves stupid on smuggled Senegalese gin, and the embassy folks dropped $50 to make it happen.
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
What do you mean “if”?
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM
It obviously has changed since there are presumably enlisted men who have been ordered to carry out murders on the high seas in the Caribbean and elsewhere. Those orders had to have come from the officers above them.
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It pays to be a winner. Trump likes to attach himself in order to gain reflected glory.
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
My.Brain.Is.Mush.
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Projection
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I’d love to buy a Polestar 2 but unfortunately they aren’t selling them in the US anymore. They might sell more cars if it wasn’t so hard to buy one of them. Instead it’s gong to be a BMW
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
You're so naive. When did the "law" stop Trump from doing something?
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Start with Melania.
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
He vowed to protect the unborn. Once they’re born, they’re on their own.
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Stop calling it an “illegal war.” That legitimizes it. There’s a gray area between legality and illegality when it comes to war that’s the subject of legitimate debate. They’re extrajudicial executions. AKA murder. Same thing Duarte did.
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM